Andrew Bolt:

Why is it that whenever you hear of a politician being physically attacked by a protester, you immediately conclude: almost certainly of the Left, and probably a green?

KG (of Teh Right, and definitely not a “green”):

I’m an old man now and have never for a moment thought that the asssassination (sic) of a President would be a good thing for America. Now I’m not so sure… If this man serves… a full term America may not recover from the damage done to her. The traitorous filth – installed by the media and gullible fools looking for salvation via the half-bred fixer – are on course to destroy the Republic. If it takes a bullet to avert that, then so be it.

What is it with Teh Left Teh Right nutbags of any political persuasion and violence?

Anyone who believes Wikipedia has a liberal bias is an idiot. In 2006, one such idiot — lawyer, home-schooling enthusiast and conservative Christian Andrew Schlafly — decided the world needed an alternative to the pernicious, Leftist Wikipedia … a place where other idiots could gather to read about a variety of topics without the terrible inconvenience of truth getting in the way of their backward-arsed ideology.

And so Conservapedia was born.

Nothing — and I mean nothing — demonstrates the rank imbecility of this website more than its entry on Barack Hussein (!!1!) Obama. The whole article is worth reading, just to marvel at how desperate and deranged its authors are — but for your convenience, here are a few highlights:

Obama used his Muslim middle name when sworn in as President,^[7][8] and chose not to use the Bible for his real, private oath. Elected by claiming he’s a Christian, Obama has since avoided attending church on Christmas and Sundays.^[9]

Obama refers to America in the third person, as a foreigner would.

To announce his trip to Berlin in July 2008, Obama used posters which show a marked similarity to posters of Lenin.^[14]

Obama uses the Muslim Pakistani pronunciation for “Pakistan” rather than the common American one.^[36]

Obama has consistently shown himself to be an elitist who looks down on “ordinary” Americans.

Obama’s smears usually fall into two categories: race-baiting and distortions.

Seriously, go and have a look — there’s plenty more gold where the above nuggets came from. And if you have time while you’re there, do yourself a favour and check out the references for the entry’s most outlandish claims (the Lenin poster one is particularly laughable). They make Leon Bertrand QC’s spectacularly inept fumbling for evidence to support his claims seem like the work of a perfectly persuasive genius.

But the last word goes to Wikipedia itself, whose Conservapedia entry lays bare the kind of attitudes that led to its creation:

Conservapedia is an English-language wiki-based web encyclopedia project written from a young Earth creationist, Americentric, right-wing^[2] and Conservative Christian point of view.

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Several articles on the site have had reputations for bias and inaccuracy.^[9][10][11] Conservapedia has also been seen as part of a trend of conservative and Christian-themed Web sites imitating the format of mainstream sites to provide a right-wing antidote or Christian alternative.^[3][12]

Fair dinkum — even if I’d been stupid enough to hitch my wagon to the ideology of the Right all those years ago, I would still be mortally embarrassed by the abortion (pun intended) that is Conservapedia. I wonder how many “conservatives” are.

I spent the recent Christmas break with E and Baby Rogenous in Indonesia — a nation of some 237 million people, of whom close to 90 per cent are Muslim. We went in spite of the usual DFAT warnings about terrorism and in defiance of the Islamophobic idiocy of Francis “Quarantine or Genocide” Porretto and his ilk, because … well, frankly, because we thought we knew better.

Indeed, the government’s warnings and Teh Right’s fears seemed positively ludicrous while we were there. Everywhere we went, smiling locals wanted to chat and have their photos taken with us. Their approaches were never short of being polite, welcoming and perfectly innocent.

Or so we were led to believe…

On close inspection of our holiday snaps, it turns out we were wrong to be so carefree. Pernicious extremists were trying to kill us at every opportunity.

The photo below still sends a shiver down my spine. It was taken at a 1200-year-old Buddhist monument — which should have set off alarm bells immediately because, as we’re told, Muslims hate freedom of religion and therefore couldn’t have been visiting the site for any reason other than to destroy it. Oblivious to the danger and having proceeded to the top of the monument, we were approached by a group whose ostensible desire was to have a photo taken with the handsome Baby.

I’ve noted, for your untrained Leftist eyes, just a few of the ways our lives were put in jeopardy by these bloodthirsty lunatics:

1. Wiener kid has clearly swallowed a large quantity of explosives.
2. “We’ve got two of ’em, Osama!” Phone poised to play lethal Crazy Frog ringtone as soon as bin Laden returns the call.
3. Clove cigarette smells delicious but is killing us slowly with second-hand smoke.
4. Provocative hint of homosexualistism designed to distract me from imminent danger.
5. Anthrax residue.

Honestly, it’s a miracle that we made it back to Australia alive. Next Christmas we’re going to the United States, where no one ever gets murdered at random.

Further to Bridgit Gread’s excellent post demolishing the wingnuts’ desperate and infantile claim that the current financial crisis in the US is the Democrats’ fault, we have the Tardosphere’s most courageous defender of free speech, KG, indulging in some more shameless obfuscation:

The left — those wholly responsible for the subprime crisis — are complaining on every outlet that they “had a deal” that would have passed into law to allow the rescue of the financial industry but for the intercession of John McCain.
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KG, who appears never to have hatched an original idea, is quoting here from fellow right-wing initialism GW of Wolf Howling, who helpfully illustrates his own execrable post with the following diagram:

Cute. But like so many wingtards, GW neglects to tell the whole story.

Here’s the second diagram from the educational Economix 4 Cockhedz series, which illustrates how free-market capitalists can socialise their losses when their avarice catches up with them (and the people they’ve exploited) and everything goes to shit:

See? Let no one say we’re not all about balance here at GrodsCorp.

UPDATE: The $US700 billion ($840 billion) “bailout” package has been approved. I hope you swallowed, free-market capitalism.