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October 29, 2007
Moonbats Attempt to Steal the Word "Moonbat"
Urban Dictionary is a great resource for defining slang terms that haven't made it into normal dictionaries. Unfortunately, like Wikipedia, it is subject to abuse by dishonest ideologues who exploit its openness. Users can raise or sink a definition of a term by voting thumbs-up or thumbs-down. Apparently the site is infested with progressives, given the top definitions for "moonbat."
The first definition more or less admits what a moonbat really is, but attempts to spin it as a good thing:
"Bat", of course, refers to members of the order chiroptera (with some contending that the "megachiroptera" ; of South America should be classified as primates), strange and wonderful animals which are beneficial to humanity. Intelligent, well-educated liberals recognize bats as an asset, and seek to encourage them through environmental protection, including the building of bathouses on the outsides of their homes. The ignorant and superstitious hate and fear bats, and can think of no worse insult than to compare people they also hate and fear (out of ignorance) to bats.
"Moon" refers to Earth's primary natural sattelite, which humans visited for a brief period thanks to a massive liberal spending program. The scientific and technological benefits of the Apollo Project were immense, and would have been far greater if the program had not been killed by a right-wing administration that wanted to spend that money on a futile foreign war. Thus, the Moon is, like bats, symbolic of liberalism and all the benefits it brings to a culture, and naturally will be an object of hatred and fear to the Right.
Combine the two and you get "Moonbat"; environmental good sense, scientific curiosity, prosperity for all and the triumph of knowledge over traditional superstition. In short, all the things that enemies of civilization like Osama bin Laden and Pat Robertson hate most.
I support as continued ban on DDT because I am a moonbat.
Note the typical moonbat attempt to equate Islamic terrorists with Christians.
The next definition was provided by a moonbat named snooky b:
term used by those on the extreme political right wing (known as "wingnuts") to describe anyone who disagrees with their bizarre, fascistic world view. Used, despite the fact that it makes absolutely no sense, because they could not come up with a word or phrase as appropriately descriptive as "wingnut."
"What a bunch of moonbats!" cried the hooded Klansman, as the anti-Klan protesters marched down the street.
In total disregard for the truth, some even give the word a definition precisely opposite its actual meaning:
Mentally unstable persons of a decidedly conservative political affiliation.
Ann Coulter is a scarey-eyed, salivating, barking moonbat. She often frightens small children, dogs and occassionally even the cattle.
You have to go all the way down to #7 to get an accurate definition:
An extreme leftist, throwing aside logic for political convenience. A caller to the Howie Carr radio show summed it up as "These people wear winter clothes in the summer". Characterized by men in ponytails, sandals with socks, and 1.20.09 Bush's Last Day bumperstickers. Often seen at global warming marches that take place during snowstorms.
The moonbats were out in full force at the anti-war rally.
A few lines from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass are informative:
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less."
"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."
"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master — that's all."
This quintessentially moonbatty attitude is a crime against language. If you don't want moonbats to be the masters, visit Urban Dictionary and make your voice heard.
Posted by Van Helsing at October 29, 2007 10:43 AM
Comments
I have to say, I never much cared for the "moonbat" moniker (the name of this wonderful site notwithstanding!!!), but as it's stuck, I now use it too. Still, it doesn't surprise me that the people this term refers to have tried to turn it around to their favor!
Posted by: Pam at October 29, 2007 11:58 AM
Note the typical moonbat revisionsim as well - the Apollo program was not ended to fund the war (the U.S. involvement in the war actually ended first) - it was killed primarily by liberal moaning that the money would be better spent on welfare programs. Moonbattery is impossible without willful ignorance.
Posted by: Beef at October 29, 2007 12:06 PM
I looked up "United States of America" on Wikipedia once. It proclaimed:
"A nation founded on liberal principals..."
I has since changed, but goes to show how unresourceful the resource can be.
Posted by: Jimbo at October 29, 2007 12:37 PM
>>...Earth's primary natural sattelite...
I'll give a THOUSAND DOLLARS cash to anyone who can name Earth's secondary "NATURAL sattelite"!
I'm not a linguist, but I believe I know the origines of the word "moonbat".
"Moonie" was used in the sixties for "acting kind of loopy" and came from "moonie-eyed" (Day dreaming, so in love you don't know what's going on around you). SEE: the origines of "lunatic".
"Bat", of course, comes from "batty", or "crazy".
Posted by: KHarn at October 29, 2007 1:08 PM
Revisionism is the cornerstone of leftwing ideology.
I also love the bit about how Osama Bin Laden hates his useful tools the most. His appeasers would be the first to convert.
Its true that he hates their current secularism, but are we really supposed to think that Bin Laden hates Harry "The War is Lost" Reid more than President Bush?
Posted by: Freedom Now at October 29, 2007 1:11 PM
Just another word-theft
from The Left
Their "Peace" is Orwellian
Moonbats buy
what Leftist are sellin' them
Stealing the words
So that Dove or Hawk
now we can't talk
Posted by: The Word-Drum at October 29, 2007 4:59 PM
No logic; no reason; no "common sense," however you want to define it. Check the intentions, but never the results. Liberal; diseased; putresence; a boil on the ass of society.
Ah, that'sa some spicy Moonbattery!
No sweat, we all know what Moonbattery is, and who the genuine Moonbats are, linguistic revisionism or not.
Posted by: jc14 at October 29, 2007 5:24 PM
Kharn, actually the earth has about a dozen natural bodies orbiting it, though most of them are fairly tiny.
None of them are named, though, so your thousand dollars are safe. :)
Posted by: Archonix at October 29, 2007 5:27 PM
Moonbat revisionism over words and history itself. Ah, how remarkably Goreian...
http://scottthong.wordpress.com/2007/10/24/al-gore-high-commander-of-war-peace-hypocrisy/
Posted by: Scott at October 29, 2007 6:21 PM
can they just steal a word from u.s.?
Posted by: nanc at October 29, 2007 8:31 PM
Some new moonbattery!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071030/ap_on_re_us/cathedral_arson_arrest
I'm sure San TrannySicko will turn him into a moonbat hero somehow.
Posted by: Anonymous at October 29, 2007 8:45 PM
Definition of moonbattery? How about walking around in "contant boiling rage" and hitting things until your knuckles bleed because you hate Bush so much.
Posted by: V the K at October 30, 2007 4:37 AM
Here's another gem from dKos: "Before my head began exploding a few years ago in response
to Busharama, I'd exercise a lot... I mean, almost daily, joyous-type exericising. Now I come home with a slight frown on my face and come here to hear the news & be a mojo-mama even if too tired to comment, and hang for hours here and on other blogs, as if the light will shine again and I'll be present to hear the BREAKING news about that.
Bush, I blame you for my new-ish extra 20 pounds...."
Yeah, I'm sure it has everything to do with BushCo nothing to do with you being eight years older and stuffing your face with Hot Pockets.
Posted by: V the K at October 30, 2007 4:42 AM
Apollo was a massive liberal spending program? The program was launched as a response to the perceived Soviet superiority in space in the early 1960's. Most of the astronauts were military oficers, all had some military experience. Much of the administration were also either military or had worked for the military at one time.
Posted by: James F McEnanly at October 30, 2007 7:18 AM
Thanks, Archonix.
It would have taken a while for me to get it in cash.
Posted by: KHarn at October 30, 2007 4:23 PM
Thanks, Archonix.
It would have taken a while for me to get it in cash.
That's okay, I'll take it in fruitloops. And oh look, there's a consignment just arrived at the BBC...
Posted by: Archonix at October 30, 2007 4:37 PM
OK I think I have a definition.
Moonbat: A delicate, airy, flighty being making shrill noises that spends most of its time in dark recesses.
Posted by: IOpian at October 30, 2007 5:54 PM
Urban Dictionary suffers the same problems as wikipedia, except that nobody reins in the idiots on UD, leading to these sorts of abuses of the sustem.
Posted by: Arthur at October 31, 2007 11:55 AM
...the typical moonbat attempt to equate Islamic terrorists with Christians.
Quite right. Christian terrorists are completely different. They take more holidays in Texas.
Posted by: Eight Tons of Geese at November 30, 2007 1:19 PM
