Crapweasels

Since I’ve been gone from words mean things, I’ve been banned from two right-wing weblogs: Dean Esmay and Mrs. du Toit.

In some ways I’m sad about this. Going on those sites and calling them on their outrageous statements was a sort of “Fight Club”-esque therapy for me, and I don’t have that anymore. (The links above are to the specific threads where I was finally banned, after they ran out of right-wing talking points to bludgeon me with.) But they’ve proved themselves to be such hate-filled ideologues that maybe it’s best to leave them to congratulate each other on their superior moral fiber and rock-solid patriotism.

One of the things that began to get my goat was the epithet “moonbat” (also “barking moonbat” and “raving moonbat” and others) for anyone to the left of Bill O’Reilly. The Dean Esmay thread where I was finally banned, in fact, dealt with that very subject.

So I’ve decided to coin my own term for those xenophobic, warmongering, violence-addicted, reactionary, Bush-worshipping, anti-gay members of the rabid right currently dominating political discourse in this country: crapweasels. A common specific would be “neocon crapweasel.”

I feel this word exactly captures both their motives and the effect they have on anyone with an ounce of common sense within their shouting distance. And as a word person from way back, I’m pleased with it. I’ve even made it a category on this new site, so you can get my crapweasel updates whenever you want.

Feel free to use “crapweasel” as you see fit.