Shipping the Autorantic Virtual Moonbat to Britain

Way back in 2004, I invented a humorous Flash application named the Autorantic Virtual Moonbat. It was a chatty hate-filled robot who generated random nonsensical leftist rants, such as “Chimpy McBushitler STOLE the ELECTION by outsourcing transgendered polar bears!!!” Perhaps you saw it. It wasn’t just on my blog, it was on hundreds of others as well, because I let anyone who wanted it embed it. It was very clever and funny, because it aped the style of excitable liberal writers so well.

And then, well, time passed. It still works, but I stopped updating its knowledgebase years ago. The poor dumb thing still thinks George Bush is running the world, and that global warming is a credible theory. Well, okay, so do other liberals, but my larger point is, I was pretty much done with it. And yet I still believe it can have a successful career in politics. That’s why I’m sending it to the United Kingdom.

An English political blogger contacted me, asking if the AVM could be reprogrammed as a crazy British leftist, rather than the American sort, in time for the upcoming U.K. general election in 2010. I answered in the affirmative, and so soon the device will have a new home — and a new name! — and a whole new list of enemies to hate. I will certainly keep you abreast of details as they are made final.