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  • noun pejorative, Internet Used by the right-wing blogosphere to refer to their ideological opponents.

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moon +‎ bat, coined by Perry de Havilland of “The Libertarian Samizdata”, a right-libertarian weblog. Sometimes wrongly claimed to be a corruption of Monbiot (from George Monbiot, British environmentalist and Guardian columnist)

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