Gawker's top wingnut stupid memes of 2014
My local wingnuts are so behind; they're still stuck in the "welfare Cadillac" days. And as much as I try to keep tabs on wingnut propaganda, I had only heard of the come-and-take-it, the ebola, and the prayer shawl at the Rio Grande. I'm falling down on the job.
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http://gawker.com/2014-the-year-in-dumb-conservative-memes-1668714865
[font size=5]2014: The Year in Dumb Conservative Memes[/font]
Adam Weinstein
[font size=5]"Molon Labe"[/font]
... Crazy TownHall.com contributor Rachel Alexander explained the crazy phenomenon in a crazy column last March titled "Molon Labe: Connecticut's Terrifying Start Of Gun Confiscation":
... “The phrase originated from Spartan General-King Leonidas, who reportedly responded with "Come and get them!" to Persian Emperor Xerxes' demand that the Spartans surrender their weapons at the Battle of Thermopylae. ...”
That column has been shared 33,000 times. Oh, and Sparta was a fascist slave state whose entire advance force was massacred at Thermopylae after the Persians thoroughly moloned and labed the shit out of them.
[font size=5]#WeAreN and "Nun"[/font]
.... ...mainstream Christian groups and even the Anglican Church adopted ن, the Arabic character "nun," in solidarity with their Iraqi brethren after much of the nation was taken over by the brutish Islamic State. ISIS militants reportedly painted "nun," a stand-in for "Nazarene," on the homes of Christians to stigmatize them as non-Muslims. ...
But once the National Review appropriated the Iraqis' "Christian genocide" narrative, "nun" and the hashtag #WeAreN became a code for solidarity among Islamophobic conservatives with a variety of disparate obsessions. ...
[font size=5]Ebola Is an Obama Conspiracy to Declare Martial Law and Kill Off Dissenters[/font]
Isn't that the simplest explanation for why Obama wouldn't follow Elisabeth Hasselbeck's hunch to shut down U.S. borders to Ebola patients, and no one can answer Gretchen Carlson's babbling accusations of government malfeasance, and you haven't heard anymore about the FEMA coffins and the "fat lesbians" who "got all the Ebola dollars" and the Malthusian environmental fascism of Obama's Ebola czar? Connect the dots, sheeple.
[font size=5]Islamo Messican Terrormongers Left Their Mooslin Prayer Rug Near the Rio Grande[/font]
No media organization has been more steadfast in its opposition of Latin American immigration to the United States than the patriotic cadre at Breitbart.com, ironically named for an aficionado of imported spirits (and, reportedly, other imported substances). ... Somehow, they and their unnamed security "contractors" identified that three-stripe Adidas-style soccer jersey as a Muslim prayer rug. ...
[font size=5]"Thug" Gate[/font]
Again, it's an age-old meme, and that age runs from the British colonial occupation of India to the street execution of Trayvon Martin. But "law and order" conservatives' obsession with nonwhite "thugs" getting their just deserts got big boosts this year in Omaha, Jacksonville, Staten Island, and Ferguson.
[font size=5]"Rolling Coal"[/font]
Rednecks-errant and aspiring peckerwoods have long gotten a kick out of annoying greenies with dirty truck exhausts, but credit Dave Weigel with bringing the trend national notoriety—and tying it to the douchey drivers' anti-Obama, climate-change-hatin' paranoia. Does paying thousands of dollars to piss off libruls with obnoxious trucks really work?
[font size=5]Marine Todd[/font]
It's the story of a man. A man who went to war. And then went to college. And then decked a godless shithead professor. It's a feel-good story!
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