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The New Tribalism

LGF infiltrates the TPM Book Club

CSKapper
February 2011Excellent article, Charles. Well written as usual but your concept of tribalism succinctly hit the proverbial nail on the head. Good job!

Charles

Wingnuts

January 2011Monday, January 31, 2011 at 7:30 pm PST • Views: 33,139

Michael Wolraith’s book Blowing Smoke is an interesting and useful take on right wing “persecution politics,” and he asked me to participate in his Talking Points Memo Book Club discussion. Here’s my contribution:

Chris Matthews Destroys Michele Bachmann’s Revisionist History

The power of ignorance

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RabbitRunner
February 2011I love it when one of those barely literate right wingers comes out with some ritualistic historical factoid slam about all dem slave owners , Klansmen, and Jim Crow supporters in the Democratic Party. The best way to reply is: ...

Charles

Wingnuts

January 2011Monday, January 31, 2011 at 5:43 pm PST • Views: 35,542

Wacky Wingnut Post of the Day

The Muslim Brotherhood is conspiring with Code Pink and Bill Ayers

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Nyet
February 2011re: #604 jamesfirecat Not really, it's (mostly) secular. Officially atheist country is when you have to take "scientific atheism" course in university, like in USSR.

Charles

Wingnuts

January 2011Monday, January 31, 2011 at 1:59 pm PST • Views: 34,560

Egypt Updates: January 31, 2011

Mubarak shuffles cabinet, Israelis upset

324

KindaDifferent
January 2011re: #27 Alouette Thanks for this link. Had a guy come into our store raving about Al Jazeera and the Guardian's reporting of the Palestine Papers and how we in Canada need Al Jazeera...Ugh!

Charles

Middle East

January 2011Monday, January 31, 2011 at 12:33 pm PST • Views: 33,222

‘The Muslim Brotherhood is Much Stronger Than Mohamed ElBaradei’

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Nyet
January 2011re: #57 Charles Uh, what a douche.

Charles

Middle East

January 2011Monday, January 31, 2011 at 11:02 am PST • Views: 34,289

Obama Administration Aligns with Egyptian Protesters

Walking the diplomatic tightrope

33

SanFranciscoZionist
January 2011re: #28 albusteve It's over the crazy left's heads too, but they've figured out which side to back with bad information and a dumb agenda.

Charles

World

January 2011Monday, January 31, 2011 at 10:44 am PST • Views: 27,775

Captain America #107: If the Past Be Not Dead

Published in November, 1968

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Nyet
January 2011re: #632 Charles Yeah, already read in the other thread. I took a peek there and he writes as if he was always there, using all their terms, derisive nicknames, insults... Now I get why one could be pissed off ...

Charles

Arts

January 2011Sunday, January 30, 2011 at 6:21 pm PST • Views: 38,284

LCD Soundsystem: Drunk Girls

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hellointernet
January 2011The panda people are obv. sekret mooslimz

Charles

Music

January 2011Sunday, January 30, 2011 at 5:12 pm PST • Views: 32,038

Onion: Terrorists Planting Normal Hard-Working ‘Decoy Muslims’

It’s a trick

665

(I Stand By What I Said Whatever It Was)
January 2011re: #462 Killgore Trout My point was that the article seemed obviously glossing over the latest decades of history of the MB and focussed almost entirely on the first few decades.

Charles

Humor

January 2011Sunday, January 30, 2011 at 11:56 am PST • Views: 35,212

Egypt Updates: January 30, 2011

Chaos

298

SidewaysQuark
January 2011Is the Muslim Brotherhood like the Taliban, no; that doesn't make them my friends. It's like saying Tabasco Habanero Sauce isn't as hot as Dave's Insanity Sauce.

Charles

Middle East

January 2011Sunday, January 30, 2011 at 10:00 am PST • Views: 34,233

Overnight Open Thread

258

_RememberTonyC
January 2011re: #134 Sergey Romanov I accept your apology :)

Charles

Open

January 2011Saturday, January 29, 2011 at 10:44 pm PST • Views: 35,006

Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA): ‘I Didn’t Come From No Monkey’

What anti-science GOP?

306

califleftyb
January 2011America... turn off your TVs !

Charles

Wingnuts

January 2011Saturday, January 29, 2011 at 6:07 pm PST • Views: 39,063

Tech Note: New-Style Video Embedding in LGF Pages

Now with IFRAMEs

72

Decider
January 2011I love LGF. This makes it even better.

Charles

LGF

January 2011Saturday, January 29, 2011 at 3:00 pm PST • Views: 33,970

Egypt Updates: Mubarak Names VP, Makes Things Worse

Last days of a dictator?

535

ryannon
January 2011AJ commentary: "The army remains the most powerful institution left in Egypt. What it does next will determine the future"

Charles

Middle East

January 2011Saturday, January 29, 2011 at 10:23 am PST • Views: 36,573

Overnight Open Thread

427

Talking Point Detective
January 2011re: #405 Walter L. Newton Typical righting concept of accountability, eh? Feel free to not read any of my comments. If you're all hot and bothered, it's not my fault.

Charles

Open

January 2011Friday, January 28, 2011 at 10:26 pm PST • Views: 35,368

Egypt Uprising - Mubarak Speaks, Makes Things Worse

Mubarak asks his government to resign

900

Ramona
January 2011re: #272 recusancy Yes, Vodaphone was an accomplice. Vodaphone who owns 45% of Verizon (Americans, are we paying attention?), the communications network of choice for despots.

Charles

Middle East

January 2011Friday, January 28, 2011 at 2:38 pm PST • Views: 41,448

Video: Fires in Cairo at Night

The Egyptian uprising

523

drool
January 2011I guess the media hasn't bothered to look at the Egyptian military equipment in the streets while they are focusing on tear gas canisters. Those are M-60 tanks and M113 armored personnel carriers, folks.....made in USA.

Charles

Middle East

January 2011Friday, January 28, 2011 at 12:13 pm PST • Views: 40,361

Jon Stewart on Bill O’Reilly’s Nazi Analogies

Everyone’s a Nazi for 15 minutes

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RabbitRunner
January 2011It is so true, once someone reaches for the N word, they have already lost the debate

Charles

Humor

January 2011Friday, January 28, 2011 at 11:40 am PST • Views: 40,887

House Republicans Plan to Redefine Rape to Cut Abortion Funding

GOP says to raped women: you’re on your own

84

ihateronpaul
January 2011I'm not greedy enough to sweep GARBAGE like this under the rug

Charles

Wingnuts

January 2011Friday, January 28, 2011 at 10:51 am PST • Views: 39,398

Egypt Updates: Military Deployed

328

Flavia
January 2011re: #143 ryannon I'm going to hold you to this. Anyone who wants some first-hand accounts can log onto "Rantings of a Sandmonkey". It's some gripping stuff...

Charles

Middle East

January 2011Friday, January 28, 2011 at 9:35 am PST • Views: 34,555

The New Tribalism

Chris Matthews Destroys Michele Bachmann’s Revisionist History

Wacky Wingnut Post of the Day

Egypt Updates: January 31, 2011

‘The Muslim Brotherhood is Much Stronger Than Mohamed ElBaradei’

Obama Administration Aligns with Egyptian Protesters

Captain America #107: If the Past Be Not Dead

LCD Soundsystem: Drunk Girls

Onion: Terrorists Planting Normal Hard-Working ‘Decoy Muslims’

Egypt Updates: January 30, 2011

Overnight Open Thread

Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA): ‘I Didn’t Come From No Monkey’

Tech Note: New-Style Video Embedding in LGF Pages

Egypt Updates: Mubarak Names VP, Makes Things Worse

Overnight Open Thread

Egypt Uprising - Mubarak Speaks, Makes Things Worse

Video: Fires in Cairo at Night

Jon Stewart on Bill O’Reilly’s Nazi Analogies

House Republicans Plan to Redefine Rape to Cut Abortion Funding

Egypt Updates: Military Deployed

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