{"id":10564,"date":"2013-09-16T20:33:18","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T03:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=10564"},"modified":"2013-09-17T19:11:21","modified_gmt":"2013-09-18T02:11:21","slug":"ridiculist-the-wingnut-ranking-of-the-most-influential-people-on-the-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=10564","title":{"rendered":"RidicuList: The Wingnut Ranking Of The Most Influential People On The Right"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you have ever wanted an itemization of what’s wrong with contemporary conservatives, your prayers have been answered. The ultra-right-wing web site Townhall has very generously provided the perfect explanation for how a political movement gets corrupted by demagoguery and ignorance, and sinks to the level of its lowest bottom-feeding imbeciles.<\/p>\n

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Townhall has compiled a list<\/a> of what they regard as “The 25 Most Influential People On The Right For 2013.”<\/em> The list could not be more revealing of the moronic mentality that infects the worst of the Teabagging mindset. Their idea of “influential”<\/em> is almost entirely comprised of fringe-dwelling loudmouths who populate the far-right media. Here are just the top 10. In what horror story fantasy land are these people considered to be the most influential?<\/p>\n

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  1. Glenn Beck:<\/strong> Beck is a loser with a video blog and a radio show that doesn’t air in the nation’s biggest markets.<\/li>\n
  2. Ted Cruz:<\/strong> Cruz is a freshman senator who doesn’t even have the respect of his GOP colleagues.<\/li>\n
  3. The Koch Brothers:<\/strong> These guys are actually pretty influential on the basis of the cash they throw around. But their scope of influence is limited to the the Tea Party faithful.<\/li>\n
  4. John Roberts:<\/strong> As the Supreme Court Chief Justice, Roberts is powerful, but not particularly influential. He isn’t out there advocating on policy positions.<\/li>\n
  5. Sean Hannity:<\/strong> Hannity couldn’t influence a drowning man to get out of the water. He is a GOP shill who has never had an original thought, and he just lost his primetime show on Fox. [Update: After this article was posted, Fox announced that Hannity would be moved back an hour to 10:00pm, still primetime].<\/em> He also lost a major radio syndicator.<\/li>\n
  6. John Boehner:<\/strong> If Boehner was influential in the least he wouldn’t be such a laughingstock on Capitol Hill. He can’t control his own caucus, and he is presiding over the most unproductive congress ever.<\/li>\n
  7. Karl Rove:<\/strong> After his numerous losses in 2012, Rove has lost the respect of his establishment cronies, while at the same time earning the distrust of the cantankerous Tea Party flank..<\/li>\n
  8. Sarah Palin:<\/strong> Influential? Are you friggen kidding me? Try incoherent, insubstantial, or intolerable.<\/li>\n
  9. Matt Drudge:<\/strong> Yesterday’s snooze.<\/li>\n
  10. Rush Limbaugh:<\/strong> Bingo! I’ll give ’em this one. Limbaugh is the Gulliver of Republicanism. He towers over the Lilliputians in the party who are too timid to challenge him.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    These are not just some of the right’s players, these are their biggest stars. These are the bright, shining lights about whom they are most proud. Let that sink in a minute. When they brag, they bring up these losers. No wonder the Republican Party is suffering the lowest favorability ratings in history.<\/p>\n

    The top ten features four Fox News critters. The expanded list contains more public embarrassments like Mark Levin (12), Rick Perry (16), Greg Gutfeld (23), and Michelle Malkin (25). And genuine influential types like billionaire Sheldon Adelson, and Fox News CEO Roger Ailes walked away with mere Honorable Mentions. This is not so much a list of influentials as it is a hall of shame. Yet somehow, Ted Nugent, Michelle Bachmann, and Alex Jones didn’t make the cut. Hang in there guys. There’s always next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    If you have ever wanted an itemization of what’s wrong with contemporary conservatives, your prayers have been answered. The ultra-right-wing web site Townhall has very generously provided the perfect explanation for how a political movement gets corrupted by demagoguery and ignorance, and sinks to the level of its lowest bottom-feeding imbeciles. 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