Did you know that Elizabeth Warren is a hermit who lives in her mother’s basement?
by digby
Alex Pareene quotes some very important Politico writer I’ve never heard of doing some very important news analysis on CBS. I’m guessing she’s rushing Village U’s Alpha Sigma Sigma Sorority:
As the use of Twitter has exploded in the 2012 campaign, coupled with more expansive use of Facebook and other social networks, the rumble of extreme partisans propagating strange conspiracy theories is getting louder.
Generally, it’s not the campaigns or their surrogates pushing the most drastic of apocalyptic scenarios. And often one doesn’t have to venture into the bowels of the Internet to find such predictions on low-traffic blogs being run by hermits still living in their mother’s basement.
That hilarity never gets old does it?
Were you wondering what the “conspiracy theories” we hermits still living in our mothers basement are cranking out? Pareene writes:
The conservative “conspiracy theories” are: 1) That (black) Obama supporters will riot nationwide if he loses and that Obama will then declare martial law and refuse to leave office. 2) That Obama is secretly planning to seize all American guns. 3) That Obama will “hand over the sovereignty of the United States to the U.N.”
The liberal “conspiracy theories” are: 1) That the Republican are attempting voter suppression of black citizens on a massive scale. 2) That if Republicans win they will … weaken reproductive rights for women.
I’m sure you will agree that those things are equivalently batshit crazy.
She name checks all the looney tunes bloggers living in their mommy’s basement.
On the right we have: Conservative Daily, and the obscure Western Journalism center along with Drudge. Plus some unknown judge from Lubbock Texas and Wayne LaPierre.
The liberal cheeto-eating basement dwellers? Elizabeth Warren, Eric Holder, Debbie Wasserman Shultz and a Daily Kos diarist.
Village journalism at its finest.
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