From Macon City Councilman, Peach Pundit main guy, and ‘69th Most Influential U.S. Conservative‘ Erick Erickson:
Just sent fake dog poop to Earl Pomeroy: http://bit.ly/3saIti You should too to protest him betraying his constituents. #TEAPARTY #TCOT #RSabout 2 hours ago from TweetDeck
The Party of Lincoln, Eisenhower and Reagan is now the party of Beck, Palin and plastic poo. Congrats, Erick.
Sad news for people who like to publicly insult others.
Conservative political blog Peach Pundit says he’s changing Peach Pundit’s comments infrastructure to reduce the number of personal attacks.
Bossman Erick Erickson:
For the past few months things in our comment threads have really gotten out of hand [. . .] They have descending into ad hominem chaos.
You know its bad when “goat fucking child molester” guy thinks a website is too ad hominemy.
Don’t despair.
If you’re hell-bent on calling your fellow citizens Nazis, Communists, racists, reverse racists, child molesters or you’re simply irate about President Obama’s plan to euthanize the elderly and Sarah Palin’s babies, you’re in luck:
Rep. Hank Johnson is hosting a town hall meeting tonight to discuss federal healthcare policy.
Correction: The first version of this post incorrectly stated the comments were shut down.
Georgia’s top conservative political blog gets funnier with each passing day. Perhaps not intentionally.
Peach Pundit chief Erick Erickson revoked contributor Andre Walker’s front-page posting privileges Saturday. Erickson says Walker violated one of Peach Pundit’s most important rules:
Says Erickson:
[W]e have never tolerated and won’t tolerate the use of expletives like the F word in front page posts. We may say the word, but we try here to keep the posts family friendly. I’d redacted the word from Andre’s post and apologize to those of you who encountered it in your reading.
What did Walker say that so offended Erickson?
Walker wrote a post Saturday quoting Erickson’s notorious April 30 outburst – the one where Erickson called retiring Supreme Court Justice David Souter “a goat fucking child molester.”
Peach Pundit chief Erick Erickson
In other words, Erick banned himself.
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Erick Erickson, editor of Peach Pundit and RedState, has gotten all Lawnmower Man up in this and rappelled into the darkest depths of the Internet to do some good-ole fashioned sleuthing.
Erick Erickson
For several days, Erickson’s had a sneaking suspicion that someone close to state Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine has been vandalizing Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel’s Wikipedia entry. Handel and Oxendine are considered front runners in the race that’s still more than a year away.
A few readers — some of whom it’s safe to assume are supporters of Das Ox — questioned Erickson’s motives. (It’s worth noting that he’s a fan of Handel.) But now he’s uncovered some more evidence.
So while I realize the Oxendine supporters will use this as a forum to go after me again for daring to speculate based on the circumstantial evidence at the time, as the Oxendine campaign seems intent on doing, the Oxendine campaign is not out of the woods by a long shot.
I now have the IP address from which RomneyGingrich12 made the changes to Karen Handel’s biography.
That IP address is a State of Georgia IP address that, I understand, connects from the Sloppy Floyd building. Unfortunately, it is also my understanding that it is pretty difficult to tell from there which computer, in fact, uses that particular IP address or it may rotate.
Read a list of more clues over at Peach Pundit.
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On Tuesday, Red State/Peach Punditeer Erick Erickson complained the hubbub surrounding Gov. Mark Sanford’s disappearance was a trumped-up phony hit-job non-issue:
First, we need to be clear on the facts — not the media speculation:
- Sanford did tell his staff and family where he was going.
- Because he was traveling without a security detail, it was in his best interests that no one knew he was gone.
- His political enemies — Republicans at that — ginned up the media story.
- When confronted by a pestering media, things went downhill.
- Again though, at all times there was no doubt that Sanford’s staff and family knew where he was.
Now, here is all you need to know about this whole entire story — the reaction from the erstwhile Republicans angry at Sanford for not being a fiscal squish and from the media all go back to their core belief that without Sanford manning the barricades of government at all times, the government will collapse and people will starve, die, and forget how to read and write.
That’s it.
Maybe not quite it.
When is right-wing violent extremism actually left-wing violent extremism?
When defensive, embarrassed right-wingers pretend it is!
From Peach Pundit/Red State blogger Erick Erickson:
Clearly the Erick Ericksons and Michelle Malkins of the world would like you to forget the countless mainstream conservatives who systematically and serially mocked a prescient recent government warning about violent right-wing extremists like Von Brunn and the man accused of gunning down Kansas abortion Dr. George Tiller.
No amount of spin and finger-pointing changes this essential fact. We were warned and they laughed. Don’t forget that.
Erick Erickson at Peach Pundit (who, on Friday, celebrates his fifth consecutive week of not calling anyone a goat-fucking child molester) has called-out Rep. John Lewis for a bizarre quotation appearing in an AJC story about the U.S. Department of Justice’s rejection of a Georgia voter law.
Lewis describes the rejected election law as:
“an attempt to take us back to another dark period in our history when people were denied access to the ballot box simply because of their race or nationality.”
A slight problem, Rep. Lewis.
We’re supposed to discriminate by nationality at the ballot box.
We don’t vote in foreign elections and foreigners don’t vote in ours. The problem with the state law isn’t that Lithuanians should be allowed to vote in Georgia. The problem, according to the DOJ, is that Georgia’s citizenship filter is inaccurate and unreliable.
Erick Erickson
1. Ga. governor candidate hates abortion, loved animals – Thomas Wheatley reminds us of Neal Horsley and his, uhm, passion for all of the dear Lord’s creations.
2. Atlanta mayor race is leading up to fall runoff – Scott Henry drops science on the race for Atlanta mayor, which will presumably be decided amongst three candidates: Council President Lisa Borders, Councilwoman Mary Norwood or state Sen. Kasim Reed.
3. Standard murder: One suspect in custody, three more to go – The top brass at the APD held a news conference last week to announce an arrest in conjunction with John Henderson’s murder case. Scott Henry breaks it all down for you.
4. Erick Erickson calls Souter ‘goat f**cking child molester’ – Andisheh retracts himself from calling Erick Erickson (of Peach Pundit and RedState.com fame) a “bright light in the local blogosphere” after the blogger posted some choice words about retiring Supreme Court Justice David Souter.
5. UGA professor George Zinkhan’s body found, investigators say – Update on the UGA professor-murder case.
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Why did Republican über blogger Erick Erickson repeatedly call soon-to-retire U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter a “goat fucking child molester“?
In an interview yesterday with Macon Telegraph reporter and Lucid Idiocy blogger Travis Fain, Erickson explained his juvenile, slanderous outbursts thusly:
“I felt good at the time saying it.”
Erickson’s Twitter-friendly, 34-character sentence might as well be adopted as the official motto of the right-wing punditocracy and the G.O.P.
They’re a depressed and damaged lot; emotionally wounded by voters who keep rejecting their awful ideas and their awfuller candidates. And the smart ones, like Erick, know it’s probably going to get a lot worse before it gets any better. Palin-Jindal ‘12, anyone? How about Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney? Exactly.
To cope with the rejection, they’re regressing to a child-like state and stroking their ids.
Serious people don’t take Republicans seriously anymore, so they might as well forget all their worries by saying and doing all the stupid shit they want. What difference does it make, man? As long as it feels good.
Republicans are the new hippies and hate is the new Haight.
In Washington State, there are good Cascades, and bad Cascades.
Peach Pundit/Red State maestro Erick Erickson is angry because Washington State just banned dish detergents containing phosphates.
“Angry” doesn’t quite capture it.
At what point do the people tell the politicians to go to hell? At what point do they get off the couch, march down to their state legislator’s house, pull him outside, and beat him to a bloody pulp for being an idiot?
At what point? Probably not this point.
(Hat-tip to Andrew Sullivan)
Jim Galloway, proving yet again that he knows the true secrets of Georgia politics, reveals the identities of the mysterious “8 to 10 industry and government officials” who handpicked a Gold Dome transportation bill’s laundry list of people-moving projects. Damn road elves.
Decatur Metro reports on community gardens in his hamlet and annexation concerns. Also, is Decatur Mayor Bill Floyd thinking about a run for governor?
If you’re a card-carrying Young Republican, Shep at Peach Pundit recommends you not vote for Rachel Hoff to lead your organization. Also, Erick the Editor is jousting via email with one of his fellow Macon City Councilmembers.
Griftdrift gives us the rundown on the most recent episode of GPB’s “Lawmakers.” He reports that Sen. John Wiles, R-Marietta, wants to crack down on novelty ID suppliers who alter the completely innocent and never-used-for-illicit-purposes cards. (Those guys can alter the ID? I had to use nail polish remover.)
Veteran journalist Jim Walls, a 28-year veteran of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution — and the editor behind some of the paper’s finest investigative work — rolls out his new investigative journalism website. Today he’s got more details about a sealed court case involving unfortunately named Gwinnett County businessman Richard Tucker. There’s also some questions about campaign contributions to state Rep. Pam Stephenson, D-Decatur.
There’s much more on the Internetz, buckos. If you came across something local that’s worth scoping out, post it below in the comments.
Opponents of a controversial piece of legislation have a powerful voice on their side.
Erick Erickson, editor of Peach Pundit, sent a message to readers today asking them to tell their lawmakers to vote “no” on Senate Bill 31. That bill, which sailed through the state Senate last week, would allow Georgia Power to charge customers in advance for two new proposed nuclear reactors at Plant Vogtle. He explains the decision here.
That position is sure to catch the attention of many state lawmakers — particularly House members who are now mulling over the legislation.
You can rest assured they won’t miss the post. Seated in the House’s press box, a journalist gets a clear view of lawmakers’ laptops. Throughout the day, you’re bound to see Peach Pundit on several screens.
Erickson’s letter is posted after the jump.
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ERICK ERICKSON: Hitching his sled to Palin's snowmobile
Peach Pundit and Red State poobah Erick Erickson has caused an e-hubbub with a post on Red State titled Operation Leper.
In it, Erickson declares war on McCain campaign staffers who criticize McCain’s running mate Sarah Palin:
We intend to constantly remind the base about these people, monitor who they are working for, and, when 2012 rolls around, see which candidates hire them. Naturally then, you’ll see us go to war against those candidates.
It is our expressed intention to make these few people political lepers.
Since Tuesday’s loss to Obama, several McCain staffers have been doing their darnedest to toss Palin under the wheels of the Straight Talk Express.
The most damning revelation (assuming its true) came yesterday, when Fox reported that Palin thought Africa was a country.
The New Republic’s Christopher Orr suggests Erickson’s militant defense of Palin will drive conservatives away from the G.O.P.:
The tent grows smaller by the day.
Andrew Sullivan, a conservative critic of Palin and her wing of the Republican Party, mocks Erickson:
Let’s have a beer soon, Erick, shall we?
I know Erick and am, frankly, surprised by the carelessness of his attack.
If you turn wayward McCain staffers into lepers, Erick, you’re only gonna make them more popular with the party’s evangelical, WWJD-types.
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Bryan Terry, Sr. filed suit in Fulton County Superior Court, demanding Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel investigate claims that Sen. Barack Obama was neither born in the U.S., nor is he U.S. citizen, therefore he is constitutionally ineligible to serve as President.
“Failing to officially and publically [sic] vet the status of the citizenship claims of Mr. Obama will cast a pall of doubt on the election process and taint the election results themselves.”
-Atlanta resident Bryan T. Terry, Sr., in a memorandum to Fulton County Superior Court.
“. . . there is no basis for this court to issue an injunction or a mandamus or other relief against the Secretary of State. Plaintiffs’ claims are, there, HEREBY DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE.”
-An October 24, 2008 order by Fulton County Superior Court Judge Jerry Baxter in response to Terry’s claim.
“Way to waste your freaking time and my email storage space.”
-Conservative Georgia blogger Erick Erickson, in an October 27 post on Peach Pundit mocking Terry and others who are trying to get him to publicly support their claims.
The Atlanta blogger who got in hot water this morning for taking money from politicians is accusing his accusers of doing much the same thing.
“This just another case of the pot calling the kettle black,” Georgia Politics Unfiltered’s Andre Walker said in an e-mail about Atlanta Progressive News.
APN reported early this morning that Walker received payments from U.S. Rep. David Scott’s campaign (apparently for designing a website) and also ran favorable coverage of Scott. Decaturguy blogged last year that Walker had set up a website for Vernon Jones and also covered Jones’ Senate campaign.
But Walker sent campaign disclosure reports to CL showing that APN received a total of $575 for ads from politicians whom the website endorsed: Angela Moore for Georgia secretary of state in 2006, Able Mable Thomas for the fifth congressional district this year, and Donzella James, who ran against Scott in the 13th congressional district this year. (more…)
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Macon City Council member, RedState.com editor and Peach Pundit Poobah Erick Erickson is collecting cyberscorn for comments he made at the recent CPAC conservative political convention.
Erickson suggested the success of progressive bloggers relative to their conservative counterparts is because progressives have more free time. Conservatives “have families because we don’t abort our kids, and we have jobs because we believe in capitalism,” he said.
Contributors at AtlantaIndignationCouncil.com Blog for Democracy followed DailyKos‘ lead and pounced on Erickson:
“He seriously thinks progressives don’t have families OR jobs?”
“Right wing nutjobs are icky.”
“People like him often need to be knocked off their high horses, but so often aren’t.”
I spoke to Erickson this afternoon and he confirmed something that should have been perfectly obvious to anyone who’s ever read Peach Pundit or spoken to him in person.
He was being sarcastic.
“I was joking,” he said. “I was laughing when I said it. Other people were laughing.”
The only person who didn’t realize he was joking, he said, was the person who posted the comments without noting it was a joke.
I wonder how many minutes will pass before the Indignation Council jumps on me for defending a “right wing nutjob.” My guess is 60-90. At most.
Erick Erickson beats Chuck Norris.
Not in a martial arts death match, perhaps, but on the Telegraph newspaper’s list of the 100 most influential conservatives in the U.S.
The Red State and Peach Pundit blogger is 69 on the list.
Chuck Norris is 71.
Erickson’s outranking of Norris is especially impressive when you consider that, when Norris does a push-up, he isn’t lifting himself up. He’s pushing the Earth down.
Erickson was one of the featured bloggers in CL’s “Bright lights in the blogosphere” story in May.
