it might get slightly less extreme, but it’ll never stop. such a colossal nation is bound to have a lot more media outlets and be able to cater for a lot more tastes, but i can’t help thinking of this kind of free-for-all wingnut insania, and the way it not only dominates many of hte US news channels and where opposing it brings charges of ‘elitism’, whenever anyone suggests that the UK judiciary should try to change the laws on free speech in the UK to the american system. it doesn’t seem to have generated a more intelligent press.

the hawking thing is utterly hilarious.

an honest question – do Americans really not get taught anything about socialism and the NHS in schools? the amount of totally bogus information over there about it is really quite worrying. i guess not much is taught in our schools about the US healthcare system but still…

That’s the thing about idiocy and ignorance: just when you think what’s being spouted can’t get any more stupid, ill-informed, inaccurate, plain wrong or wholly illogical, along comes someone to out-idiot what’s gone before.It’s an evolution of sorts, not that too many Republicans would acknowledge that…

It appears as though these stories represent the very best of what the Republican Party has to offer right now. They really are a shambles.

Re: Hawking.
Maybe the wingnuts are confused because he speaks with an American accent.
I’ll get my coat…

Peak Wingnut? Never! As Einstein supposedly said: “Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.”

Wingnuts are not merely a renewable resource, they’re an exponentially growing resource. If only we could produce electricity from them…

[5] Indeed. The poll I want to see is the one showing the %age of Americans who believe both that Obama is a Nazi and that he is controlled by a Jewish conspiracy.

I wonder if this sort of lunatic nonsense has always found a welcome home amongst American reactionaries but the internet is making its propagation and exposure easier than ever before.

The sight of Tory MEP Dan Hannan turning up on right-wing American TV shows and telling conservatives over there how terrible our NHS and how lucky they are not to have health system like it is shocking.

Since when did the residents of Wingnutland give a shit about (liberal, left-wing, anti-God, etc.) scientists like Stephen Hawking and their infidel ‘Big Bang’ theories?

BTW: I think peak wingnut will happen; I noticed they went kind of quiet for about a quarter of a year, to regroup their rag-tag army of ideas (hey guys! let’s try postmodernism! nothing is truer than anything else!) for one final, pointless push.

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“the hawking thing is utterly hilarious.”

No, it’s terrifying. Because many Americans will believe it.

Many Americans – thanks to the likes of Bill O’Reilly, Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck – are now under the impression that state-provided healthcare is worse than the mess of an exploitative insurance system in the Americans have at present.

This is despite all the actual facts and evidence. As a result, Obama is now likely to lose his attempt to reform health care because skittish democrats on the hill will not back him for fear they will lose their next elections.

Lies, distortion and scaremongering will thereby deprive the poorest people in America of proper healthcare. And the irony? Many of the poor who need it the most will pressure against there own self interest. And who pushes this through? Millionaires like Limbaugh, O’Reilly and Beck.

It’s so fucked up, it’s untrue.

I have an image of our own dear John Cole with his mac and his mike reporting “Hondootedly, peak wingnut theory Mossis Thotcher, Ean Peesley, Jorry Adams no sorry I was wrong.”

The sight of Tory MEP Dan Hannan turning up on right-wing American TV shows and telling conservatives over there how terrible our NHS and how lucky they are not to have health system like it is shocking.

Anyone see his article in the Washington Times?

Sooner or later the wingnuts from Fox News will sign up Hannan to present the British version of Glenn Beck. Or he could be Hannity’s new sidekick. They all deserve each other.

Hawkings has just come out with a statement saying it’s bullshit and that he loves the NHS. Wonder if Faux News will report that.

Americans scare me.

Don’t fool yourselves, there’s a hell of long way down they could go yet.

The Do psychos like you know how crazy you are? speech Brad Pitt gives to Kevin Spacey at the end of Seven could yet be necessary.

*sigh* Don’t you lot understand economics?

There is no need to worry about peak wingnut, because the market will take care of it. Once the supply of a resource in demand- in this case the wingnut – diminishes, the price of the resource will go up. This creates an incentive for entrepreneurs to find new supplies of wingnut, substitutes for wingnut and technological changes that enable the existing wingnut to last longer.

“[5] Indeed. The poll I want to see is the one showing the %age of Americans who believe both that Obama is a Nazi and that he is controlled by a Jewish conspiracy.”

Mike, there are some conspiracy theorists out there who claim that WW2 and nazism was a Zionist conspiracy in order to get a Jewish state created (i.e. Israel). I’m not sure if such people are crazy or antisemitic or both.

Both. Deffo.