sauronThe Citizen Journalists of the Right Blogoshpere have been in quite the tizzy lately. Perhaps they're just giddy with anticipation for Islamofascism Awareness Week -- an event some on the left find "laughable." AS IF! Phila reminds us of the stirring courage these brave Movement Conservatives are once more displaying:

Though Horowitz and Co. have often been accused – with some justice - of cowardice, and opportunism, and dishonesty, and stupidity, and ignorance, and venality, and racism, and silliness, and incoherence, and irrationality, and defamation, and amorality, and fraudulence, and viciousness, and paranoia, and authoritarianism, and stark staring insanity, it’s only fair to point out that fighting a phantasmagorical catch-all enemy is in many respects more difficult - if not more heroic - than fighting a strictly intelligible one.

Who could disagree? If there is one word that sums up the behavior of the the American right wing over the past week, that word would have to be: Courage. Yes, Courage. They did not flinch from facing down a traitorous general who had the audacity to observe (if somewhat self-servingly) that Iraq is one hell of a fucked-up mess, despite the best efforts of our hired help in that country. And they did not hesitate to sneer at the wicked Swedes who gave their trashy Nobel Surprise to Al Gore, The Second Most Evilest Monster in the World Today. (Though, to be scrupulous, here they were perhaps only plagiarizing the Washington Post). Do not those Scandanavian simpletons even care that they shafted the true environmental hero of our generation? (Live video of the Nobel Prize Selection Committee in action here.) [WHOOPS, I meant the Norwegians. Now my name is mud in Oslo...] On these as on other key fronts in The War of Ridiculous Grievances, we look for leadership from America's Wingnuts: Proud. Bold. Courageous.

Would you be so fearless as to spit in the teeth of a 12-Year-Old? Even though you're completely wrong on the facts? And even at the risk of having your friends in high places start to back away from you? Bet you would, you weenie -- you are probably such a wuss, you'd be capable of shame when you're caught making up vicious smears, causing even mild-mannered observers to call what you're doing "fetid trash." But not our wingnut friends. They just keep on keepin' on! Of course, it helps when you have a president who doesn't mind at all being associated with even the most nauseating of your excesses. And it's also comforting, I'm sure, when your racist friends rush to your side to call your critics... racists. Bet that would make you curl into a little ball of weepy self-loathing, you weenie, which just goes to show why you don't have the sheer worm-riddled guts to make a good wingnut.

God, that smearing of the Frosts made me sick and I hope to hell they get left alone. But while it may be too early to say so and I hope I'm not jinxing anything, I think the left blogs did a pretty good job overall of keeping this crap confined to the Stalkersphere and also purely conservative outlets, like talk radio, Fox news, airport bathrooms, and wetsuit supply stores. As far as I can tell, only CNN bit hard (in every sense of the term) on the wingnut bait. Think Progress especially can take a bow. Of course, as Echidne reminds us, the real issue is getting SCHIP passed. Keep up the pressure!

On a closing note, happy fifth blog-a-versary to Roger Ailes, who reports that the publication date of Jonah Goldberg's long awaited book, Hillary Clinton Came to Me in a Sticky Dream Wielding a Riding Crop and Wearing a Latex Mussolini Outfit, has been delayed:

It now comes out on Elvis Presley's birthdate, (and will probably die on the toilet much sooner than did the King).