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RationalWiki: American Thinker is a Wingnut Publication
americanthinker.com ^ | 11/19/2014 | Paul Austin Murphy

Posted on 11/19/2014 4:53:03 AM PST by rktman

A RationalWiki piece informs its very-intelligent readers that American Thinker is a “wingnut publication”.

In a sub-link which explains the word “wingnut”, moonbat RationalWiki says that “not all conservatives are wingnuts”. Nonetheless, American Thinker is a “wingnut publication”. That must mean that RationalWiki believes that American Thinker isn't even a good kind of conservative publication. Bad conservatives, apparently, are “reactionary” or “radical right”: unlike the good ones.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: 1stamendment; bracken; irrationalwiki; rightwingnuts
CONGRATS to American Thinker for making the big time. LOL! Once you've been recognized by the libfibs and liblogic folks, there's no place to go but down. Did they mention FReeRepublic? Guess I gotta check and see if they have a list of "rightwingnutjob" web sites. Kinda makes you smile don't it?
1 posted on 11/19/2014 4:53:03 AM PST by rktman
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To: rktman

...now if I can just make Olbermann’s “worst person in the world” list one day......


2 posted on 11/19/2014 5:01:35 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

LOL! Does olbermann even have a job anymore?


3 posted on 11/19/2014 5:09:54 AM PST by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect "their" rights so they can now try to infringe on mine. Weird huh?)
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To: rktman

...actually, he’s back on ESPN with some magazine show in the 5-6-7 time range on ESPN 2 I think.

His panties and high heels got all tangled up over Gooddell and Ray Rice.....


4 posted on 11/19/2014 5:11:40 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

And, no doubt, his retirement will be a lot better than mine. Sometimes life just ain’t fair. LOL!


5 posted on 11/19/2014 5:15:23 AM PST by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect "their" rights so they can now try to infringe on mine. Weird huh?)
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To: rktman

RationalWiki must believe that good Republicans: equivocate; rationalize; cave on the superior knowledge of Democrats and their think-tank allies; will do anything to keep their political power as defined by their best friends, the Democrats; look the other way when a Democrat breaks the law; believes that there are moderate muslims, and praises the efforts of CAIR and other peaceful muslim groups == list continues ...


6 posted on 11/19/2014 5:23:35 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: rktman

They don’t like me either.

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Matthew_Bracken

Bracken’s novels are part of a recent glut of self-published apocalypse fiction incorporating libertarian, populist, survivalist, xenophobic and ultra-conservative themes and rhetoric. Bracken is strictly a conservative, although due to the genre he is writing in his books are unfortunately read by the same people who eagerly devour the obscure novels by John Ross, Neo Andersen, Boston T. Party, David Crawford and James Wesley Rawles. The typical reader of this sort of fiction is someone with libertarian leanings who doesn’t entirely “get” libertarianism (especially its non-violent aspects, its liberal positions on social issues, and its wonky roots in Austrian economic theory), and conflates it on several points with militarism, nationalism and nativism.

In short, Mr. Bracken can be called the lobotomized racist’s attempt to mimic Tom Clancy. He knows his audience and knows how to push all their patriotic, flag waving, paranoid, anti-Mexican, anti-Muslim, nationalist, violence-fetishist buttons. A key piece of evidence is in those dumb book titles. “Enemies”, “foreign” and “traitors” are spat out as epithets and the order simply rearranged for each new book.

On the positive side, at least Bracken’s novels give these people something to read other than The Turner Diaries, and giving someone one less reason to read The Turner Diaries is probably doing society a favor, however small.


7 posted on 11/19/2014 5:38:13 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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8 posted on 11/19/2014 5:44:15 AM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: Travis McGee

Ted Turner? LOL! Just kidding........ Who wants to read about him and hanoi jane anyway?


9 posted on 11/19/2014 5:48:01 AM PST by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect "their" rights so they can now try to infringe on mine. Weird huh?)
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To: rktman

Yes, they mention FreeRepublic

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Free_Republic

“Free Republic is a wingnut message board focusing primarily on United States politics. It is particularly known for its regular posters (generally known as freepers, and not to be confused with readers of the Detroit Free Press newspaper), who have a reputation for being bigoted, pseudoconservative, uninformed loudmouths somewhat to the right of Fox News. Free Republic is considered, from a rationalist perspective, to be just about as reliable a news source as WorldNetDaily, and a great deal battier.”


10 posted on 11/19/2014 5:51:17 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: PapaBear3625

Dang good description. Thanks rwiki. Didiots. I guess they would appear on the left wing commie extremist list in that case.


11 posted on 11/19/2014 6:19:01 AM PST by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect "their" rights so they can now try to infringe on mine. Weird huh?)
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To: PapaBear3625

Let me guess. DU is a mainstream blog site where rational, middle of the road democrats exchange ideas about climate, diversity and government.


12 posted on 11/19/2014 6:53:02 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Ebola: Satan's End Game for Humanity.)
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To: Travis McGee

Dripping with crazed venom...so much for being “rational.”


13 posted on 11/19/2014 7:43:09 AM PST by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
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To: Travis McGee

Well done.


14 posted on 11/19/2014 7:56:24 AM PST by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Travis McGee

High praise indeed!


15 posted on 11/19/2014 8:03:36 AM PST by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: Travis McGee

It seems rationalwiki isn’t so rational. Same Dumb@ss Party talking points, same anti-Americanism, same detachment from reality.


16 posted on 11/19/2014 9:25:36 AM PST by darkangel82
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To: Travis McGee

” In short, Mr. Bracken can be called the lobotomized racist’s attempt to mimic Tom Clancy. “

I think they are beginning to like you........


17 posted on 11/19/2014 12:46:57 PM PST by stephenjohnbanker (The only people in the world who fear Obama are American citizens.)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

I love that line.

Check out my handiwork today. Note the top / most liked comments.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/102183389#comment-1701377560

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/224664-will-obama-make-announce-immigration-order-in-vegas#comment-1701346281

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/11/busting-myths-about-obamas-immigration-move-113040.html?ml=m_t1_2h#comment-1702496034


18 posted on 11/19/2014 6:54:32 PM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee

Good comments.........you lobotomized racist you! LOL


19 posted on 11/20/2014 8:37:05 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (The only people in the world who fear Obama are American citizens.)
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