CB: In other words, it's rightwing lingo , like "conspiracy theories".
Kevin Robert Dean
----Wikipedia says:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonbats
Moonbat
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Moonbat is a political epithet coined in 2002 by Perry de Havilland of "The
Libertarian Samizdata," a libertarian weblog. It was originally a play on
the last name of George Monbiot, a columnist for The Guardian, but now the
term enjoys great currency in the conservative and libertarian blogosphere
as an all-purpose insult for modern liberals, peace protestors, and other
ideological opponents. It is similar to the epithets Feminazi or Idiotarian.
According to de Haviland, a moonbat is "someone on the extreme edge of whatever their -ism happens to be." Adriana Cronin defines the term as "someone who sacrifices sanity for the sake of consistency." This term has long been used to describe protesters on the political Left, and is sometimes used to describe protesters on the political Right.
Moonbat is frequently used to describe those who believe in conspiracy theories. Examples include those who believe that the terrorist attacks of 9/11 were engineered by George W. Bush, or that the US invaded Iraq to drive up oil prices or under the directions of Israel.
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