moonbat

plural moonbats

1. derogatoryinformalgovernmentA liberal (someone with a left-wing ideology).

   Your job is to separate the media from the moonbats before some industrious cub reporter starts looking into our land deal.

   2009 October 13, Steve Eubanks, Downforce, New York: Harper, →ISBN, page 255

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   So, what do moonbat professors do when they're not attacking military recruiters, the Bush administration, cameramen, and College Republicans?

   2005, Michele Malkin, Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild, Washington, DC: Regnery, →ISBN, page 108

   As nervous Bush supporters watched the president's approval rating slide, they unleashed their wrath on Sheehan, labeling the mourning mom a “crazy,” “anti-Semite,” “left-wing moonbat,” “crackpot” whose behavior bordered on “treasonous” and who was nothing more than a “hysterical noncombatant.”

   2006 May 11, Eric Boehlert, Lapdogs: How the Press Lay Down for the Bush White House, New York: Free Press, →ISBN, page 216

   Synonyms: leftard, libtard

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1. derogatoryinformalgovernment(of ideas) Absurd or obviously untruthful.

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   20204: The Bulwark Trump, who said last month at the Republican National Convention that he would never again retell the story of the attempt on his life “because it’s too painful to tell,” told that story with relish. He expounded at length on his usual moonbat fables about how countries around the world are emptying their prisons and mental institutions to send their convicts and lunatics to the United States.