"What confounds me is Rick Moran's position of power and influence at AmericanThinker.com, a site that otherwise seems to have its head on straight."

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Explaining how a person named Rick Moran earned a dubious 2011 blog award. Were Moran normally featured at Daily Kos rather than American Thinker there would have been no need for the award.

12/31/11, "Presenting: the 2011 Fabulous 50 Blog Award Winners! #fab50," Doug Ross @ Journal

Among 50 awards was this:

"The Douglas C. Neidermeyer Award for defending America against right-wing Visigoths:" Rick Moran (The link at Mr. Moran's name takes you to the post that explains the award followed by 10 comments. Comment #9 mentions American Thinker, posted below).

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5/7/2011, "Rick Moran: Keystone Word-Cop," Doug Ross @ Journal

"Rick Moran, proprietor of Right Wing Nuthouse, seems to have designated himself the righteous Ayatollah of diction for the conservative blogosphere. How else to explain this screed, which devotes numerous paragraphs to demonizing moi, your lovable, centrist narrator? ....For a man who prides himself on verbal precision, Moran slings invective with the best of any "right wing Visigoth". But that said, Moran seems to have been in suspended animation since the thirties, when the Democrats launched their first major attack on the Constitution with Wickard v. Filburn."...

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Among comments to above post about Rick Moran is one wondering how Moran holds so much power at American Thinker:

"At 9:29 AM , Anonymous said...

What confounds me is Moran's position of power and influence at AmericanThinker.com, a site that otherwise seems to have its head on straight.

Moran (it should be spelled Moron) is a stealth apologist for-, and enabler of, those who are actively trying to destroy our great country and system (and who seem to be succeeding).

• He does so by trivializing their sins and ridiculing their critics.

What drives Moran? Read enough of his stuff and you'll see that he and Obama appear to be, among other things, brothers in narcissism."

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Ed. note: I also can't imagine why his name ever appears at American Thinker or anyplace for that matter (with the exception of Daily Kos as a commenter mentioned).
I visit AT less frequently since they continue at this late date to feature his poison prominently.


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