James Wigderson: “If Tony Robinson was put away for the time armed robbery should get, he might be alive today.”

Found this on Twitter and thought I’d share, because I’m sure it will provoke a discussion. Here’s what conservative blogger and Waukesha Freeman columnist James Wigderson had to say about the recent shooting death of unarmed teenager Tony Robinson at the hands of a Madison Police officer. If Tony Robinson…

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Educating Mr. Wigderson

Mr. Wigderson assembles an army of straw men just in time for Halloween to march on the Occupy movement.

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More “Hip Musings” From James T. Harris

As first reported by capper over at whallah! and Jay over at folkbum, James T. Harris is up to his old sexist tricks. However, instead of asserting he “owns” his daughters, this time James is talking about the pimping of Chelsea Clinton. Now I know some of us folks in…

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And We Don’t This Either: Confederate Flags Just Don’t Fly

This photo was from the protest in Brookfield last Friday. And before everyone goes nuts, no this isn’t the photo from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that some right wing yahoos claimed was photo shopped. This is a photo from another source that shows two different individuals with Gadsden flags…one mit…

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A terrific moment of irony

So sayeth conservative blogger James Wigderson in his Waukesha Freeman column of last week hilariously titled, ” Free federal money not affordable, Walker health plan right choice.  Wigderson argues that Walker’s refusal to accept federal dollars to expand Badgercare is good policy because federal dollars aren’t really free. He then endorses Walker’s plan…

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That smear mongering Wiggy hard at work again

When Rupert Murdoch’s tabloid rag The New York Post reported that the Manhattan couple found with bomb making materials were involved with Occupy Wall Street, right wing premature proclamator James Wigderson sprung into action, proclaiming, ” That peaceful left hard at work again.”  Trouble is, the police have stated they don’t believe…

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Pavlov’s Dogs Salivate Simultaneously

“Segway” Jeremy Ryan, self styled point man of his own revolution,  pulls another goofy stunt and right wing intellectuals Owen Robinson, Kevin Binversie, and James Wigderson  immediately pop out a blog post about it. Ring a bell and you’ll get some spit.

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Wiggy Extends Contest Submission Deadline

Perhaps embarrassed at having won his own contest, ” Dumbass Connecticut comments of the day ” conservative bombasticist James Wigderson appears to have extended the submission deadline to accommodate new entries.  

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Fox News Makes Stuff Up!

H/T Talking Points Memo: In a recent campaign-trail speech, President Obama delivered a line that was widely construed as a jab at Mitt Romney. But whether it was a direct jab at Romney was at least arguable until a Fox News host pumped it up with three additional words that…

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Something that’s been bugging me

By now I’m sure some of you know about the “difficulties” Lisa and I have had with James Wigderson and Brian Fraley of the right-wing MacIver Institute, and if you haven’t been following, you can get up to speed HERE and HERE. What’s curious about everything that happened this week…

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