What is Moonbat?
1.
An unthinking or insane leftist -- in other words, most modern leftists.
Moonbat can also be used as an adjective, e.g. a moonbat professor. According to the Wikipedia entry for moonbat, the word was coined in 2002 by the Editor of Samizdata, Perry de Havilland, and was a variation on the name of radical British activist and columnist George Monbiot.
Originally, the term "moonbat" was intended to be more politically neutral, and described wackos on the left and the right, but it quickly acquired its current usage of being applied almost exclusively to those on the left.
The term also references the moon much in the same way that "lunatic" refers to the insanity-causing powers of the full moon (luna = moon). Bloggers occasionally analyze the behavior patterns of various moonbat "species" as if they were actual animals, and even give them satirical Linnaean taxonomical names, such as "moonbattus berkeleyensis".
The entry in the Samizdata glossary indicates that Perry originally coined the full phrase "barking moonbat"; apparently "moonbat" is just a subsequent shortened version of "barking moonbat," rather than being a pre-existing term that was lengthened to barking moonbat.
Worker #1 "Did you see those moonbats on the news staging another one of their useless protests?"
Worker #2 "Yeah, all eight of them."
Worker #1 "Man, they need to get real jobs."
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2.
Any number of irrational and hysterical individuals whose self-indulgent intellectual indolence has led them to a visceral hatred of all things western. Moonbats tend to frequent anti-globalization and numerous other forms of rallies, demonstrations, sit-ins, and the like, tend to look dirty, and can frequently be heard using terms such as, "imperialism". The mark of a true moonbat is the total lack of perspective (i.e. "if a dictator provides free healthcare, I like that dictator" - actual moonbat quote).
Did you hear that George Galloway has praised yet another Arab dictator? What a moonbat!
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3.
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.
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Someone on the extreme edge of the political left who has long abandoned fact & logic in the pursuit of spewing their scocialist crapaganda. (ie Al Franken, Michael Moore, and Janeane Garafalo, to name but a few.) Ann Coulter is the absolute antithesis of a moonbat.
Al Gore is a raving moonbat in a suit.
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5.
A term used to describe the political far left wing bordering communistic thinking or socialistic thinking. A term which describes an unthinking political left wing. A term used to describe dishonest and dumb people leaning to the political left wing.
Jimmy Carter is the King Moonbat dummy.
Cindy Sheehan is a moonbat donkey goddess.
Howard Dean borders on insanity and being a moonbat.
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6.
A mentally unstable Liberal who tires to hijack the true meaning of a word and turn it to their advantage. Just as they have with History.
The true definition of Moonbat is not a compliment to Liberals. It is a term used to describe their mental instability and lack of knowledge.
If you tell the same lie over and over again eventually people will start to believe it. Moonbats are notorious for telling those lies and for believing them. Look at the actual history of Congressional voting record. The Liberals have a bad voting history. They were the biggest opposition to the abolishment of slavery. Yes the Republicans freed the slaves. Liberals were the biggest opposition to women’s rights and they were the biggest opposition of the Civil Rights Act.
Their Congressional voting history proves it.
Moonbats need to pay attention to the history of the KKK. It was the so called liberals who founded the KKK. Yes that is right, it was founded by so called Democrats and they have a long documented history in the KKK.Liberals seem to have forgotten the KKK was founded in the south and back then the south was all Democrat.
These are all examples of how they have told the same lies for so long that mentally unstable people believe their lies.
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A left wing liberal politician or supporter who is stupid enough to support such a politician.
That dumb Old Jimmy Carter is a real moonbat!
Jeremiah Wright sure is the MacDaddy of Moonbats!
Al Gore is the head moonbat of the ozone.
Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton flap their gums like moonbats.
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