A plaque remaining from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem.

Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.

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Entry from April 27, 2014
Moonbatty (moonbat + batty)

“Moonbatty” (moonbat + batty) is a term for “crazy” that comes usually from the political right and is applied to the political left. “Moonbatty” has been cited in print since at least 2003 and 2004.
 
   
Wiktionary: batty
Adjective
batty
(comparative battier, superlative battiest)
1. (slang) Mad, crazy, silly.
2. (obsolete) Belonging to, or resembling, a bat (mammal)
         
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OT: More Lileks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
RonSonic
3/24/03
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I don’t associate extremity of language with insincerity - in fact the more moonbatty the language, the more I think the speaker’s very marrow vibrates in sympathy to the idea. But the reporter wanted to flip a particular switch that makes right-thinking people nod sagely: the “passionate idealist” cliché
 
Antiwar.com
‘Democracy’ and Mendacity
by Justin Raimondo, November 25, 2004
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Plenty of people believe that already: Kerry had barely finished giving his concession speech before a cyber-subculture based on the premise that George W. Bush “stole” the election – and not only in Ohio – sprouted like mushrooms after a rain. In America, they’re derided as moonbatty conspiracy theorists – in my view, rightly so – but overseas, such people have their uses.
     
MichelleMalkin.com
Nickelodeon goes moonbatty 
By Michelle Malkin •  October 31, 2007 05:01 PM
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Now, Nickelodeon has gone completely moonbatty. Blogger ArmyWifeToddlerMom points to an unbelievable piece of propaganda aired on Nickelodeon and aired by left-winger Linda Ellerbee (hat tip – Rachelle and Spouse Buzz): ...
 
Moonbattery
January 22, 2008
Moonbatty Blast From the Past
Gates of Vienna digs up this nugget of British socialized medicine moonbattery from 2003: ...
 
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Gerry Callahan
‏@GerryCallahan
My friend Margery Eagan thinks plastic bags cause hurricanes. She scares me when she goes all moonbatty http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/columnists/margery_eagan/2013/11/eagan_ban_on_plastic_bags_makes_sense
6:37 PM - 3 Dec 2013
 
LewRockwell.com Blog
The Thought Police and Anti-Speech Totalitarians Are Out There
Scott Lazarowitz
12:59 pm on April 27, 2014
U.S. Sen. Ed Malarkey (D-Moonbatville) and U.S. Congressman Hakeem Jeffries are sponsoring the “Hate Crime Reporting Act of 2014.” And also this past week Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick signed an extended version of the anti-bullying bill that mandates reporting of all “bullying” incidents in the schools, proven or alleged. But for the “Hate Crime Reporting Act,” Sen. Malarkey wants to silence “hateful activity on the Internet that occurs outside of the zone of First Amendment protection.” Here’s some news for Ed Malarkey and his ilk: America is the “First Amendment Zone”! (Well, it used to be, anyway.) And frankly, the Internet would work best as a “First Amendment zone” as well.
 
Now really, in the land of progressivism and leftism, you just can’t say anything anymore. I think that the intolerance of the Left is just plain nutty, or moonbatty.

Posted by Barry Popik
New York CityGovernment/Law/Military/Religion /Health • Sunday, April 27, 2014 • Permalink


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