TagsTagsThe thing about Rick Santorum is that he's genuine. He really believes that anti-science reactionary bullshit he spouts. He's not just saying it to get elected, unlike Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich. The reactionary Republican base senses this genuineness; they see Santorum as one of them. And this has now catapulted ...
Republican Party, Election 2012, Rick Santorum, Religious Right, Anti-Science, Poll
I commented yesterday that it was almost unbelievable how crazy the right wing rhetoric is getting, and here's yet another example from reactionary candidate Rick Santorum, speaking in Oklahoma and telling the crowd that the science of global warming is a myth, now totally disproven and rotting in the dustbin ...
Rick Santorum, Anti-Science, Global Warming, Climate Change, Fracking, Bad Craziness, Republican Party, Atavism
I just want to make sure Andrew Breitbart's endorsement of the utterly bogus "Climategate" nontroversy doesn't go unnoticed: Did you H8 how EastAnglia emails proved leftists - as in academia, Hollywood, #Occupy - use intimidation to create 'consensus'? @Lizardoid — AndrewBreitbart (@AndrewBreitbart) January 5, 2012 This could serve as a case study ...
Andrew Breitbart, Climategate, Global Warming, Climate Change, Anti-Science
I'm seeing news reports like this nearly every day, as the Republican Party sinks ever deeper into nihilistic science-denial: Pair of NASA studies reaffirm impact of global warming. In recent research, Mr. Hansen and co-author Makiko Sato, also of Goddard Institute for Space Studies, compared the climate of today, the ...
Global Warming, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Methane, glaciers, Anti-Science
In a town hall meeting in Iowa, Rick Perry was confronted by audience members over his support for the environmental disaster of "fracking" and his opposition to gays serving openly in the military. It's a picture of determined right wing ignorance again; Perry completely denied the scientific evidence that fracking can ...
Rick Perry, Republican Party, Election 2012, Bigotry, Religious Right, Anti-Gay, Anti-Science, Fracking, DADT
In order to keep his status as current frontrunner among the GOP candidates, it's vital for Newt Gingrich to convince the right wing base that he's just as ignorant about climate change as the other GOP candidates, despite the fact that in the past he clearly had a grain or ...
newt gingrich, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Dishonesty, Republican Party, Anti-Science
Rick Santorum is infamous as one of the most determined religious fanatics in US politics, an activist who believes Christian creationism should be taught to all American children in science classes, and a persistent Republican advocate for injecting fundamentalist Christian religion into the political process at every level. Speaking at the ...
Rick Santorum, Anti-Science, Republican Party, Homophobia, Right Wing, Religious Right, Bad Craziness
Remember when GOP presidential candidate Jon Huntsman called out his Republican opponents for rejecting the science of evolution and climate change? That was just last August. In the three months since then, he's apparently decided to throw in his lot with the anti-science wing of the GOP. Speaking today at the ...
Jon Huntsman, Climate Change, Global Warming, Climategate, Fake Outrage, Anti-Science, Republican Party, Heritage Foundation
Just to drive home the point that the Republican Party has become the anti-science bad craziness party, Michele Bachmann came out today and joined Rick Santorum in calling for creationism to be taught in public school science classes. BACHMANN: I think what you’re advocating for is censorship on the part ...
Evolution, Creationism, Michele Bachmann, Anti-Science, Bad Craziness, Intelligent Design, Fundamentalism, Establishment Clause
Forget everything you thought you knew about Michele Bachmann. Forget her claim that census data could be used to put people in concentration camps. Forget her crazy claim that Planned Parenthood is setting up "sex clinics" in schools, with free abortions for 13-year old girls. Forget her fanatical fundamentalism, and her bizarre claim ...
Michele Bachmann, Bad Craziness, Creationism, Fanaticism, Far Right, Homophobia, Anti-Science, Anti-Choice
David Frum has a long piece in New York Magazine today, plaintively asking the question: When Did the GOP Lose Touch With Reality? It's an interesting read, a cry for help and a plea for the GOP to return to sanity, but it's also a complete waste of time. The Republican ...
Republican Party, Extremism, Bad Craziness, David Frum, Anti-Science, Anti-Reality
The Republican candidates are performing another debate-like charade today in Iowa, hosted by the extreme religious right group Family Leader. Oddly enough, the two Mormons among the GOP field decided to sit this one out. There's a live video feed here.
Dominionism, Fanaticism, Creationism, Anti-Science, Anti-Gay, Religious Right, Extremism, Iowa, Family Leader, Debate, Republican Party, Anti-Choice
Herman Cain's a godsend to those of us arguing that the modern Republican Party is, at its core, anti-science and anti-intellectual; we couldn't ask for a more direct expression of this contention than Cain's latest slogan: "We Need A Leader, Not A Reader." He goes all the way with this one, ...
Herman Cain, Republican Party, Anti-Intellectualism, Anti-Science, Idiocy
Here's a pretty amazing demonstration of the crude reactionary agenda of Fox News, a compilation of their "coverage" of clean energy technologies. This isn't just ignorance at work; Fox is promoting the interests of the fossil fuel industries, to the detriment of the whole world.
Fox News, clean energy, Renewable Energy, Climate Change, Anti-Science, Propaganda
Despite the numerous scientists and medical professionals who've publicly let Michele Bachmann know that the HPV vaccine has been extensively studied and is not dangerous (beyond the small risks associated with all vaccines), Bachmann is still pushing her false claim that the vaccine "ravages" children: Michele Bachmann: HPV Vaccine 'Ravages' ...
Michele Bachmann, Vaccines, Anti-Vaccine, Anti-Science, Republican Party
Today's story of outstanding right wing cognitive dissonance comes to us from the extreme anti-gay throwback group called the "Family Research Council," where they've given their "True Blue" award for "defending faith, family, and freedom" to Republican Rep. Joe Walsh -- who owes more than $100,000 in child support. “We ...
Anti-Science, Anti-Gay, Joe Walsh, Tony Perkins, Family Research Council, Family Values
Finally, someone other than LGF is paying attention to the GOP's criminally stupid anti-science attitudes and their media enablers. Thank you, Jon Stewart: Video You can find a full transcript of the above segment here. Also a must-see is this Aasif Mandvi piece from the same show in which he interviews disgustingly ...
Aasif Mandvi, Jon Stewart, AGW, Climate Change, Climategate, Anti-Science, Republican Party, Denial, Fox News
As the Republican Party sinks ever deeper into anti-science denialism, two new research papers published in Nature show that time is running out: Warming could exceed safe levels in this lifetime. (Reuters) - Global temperature rise could exceed "safe" levels of two degrees Celsius in some parts of the world ...
Global Warming, Climate Change, Republican Party, Anti-Science, Greenhouse Gases
Watching the debate last night, I was struck by the fact that we've now seen several of these gabfests unfold without a single mention of one of the Republican Party's biggest and most irrational problems -- their total rejection of science in many important areas. In the early debates we saw ...
Republican Party, Debate, Anti-Science, Media, Right Wing, Evolution, Climate Change, Global Warming
An overwhelming majority of the world's environmental scientists are sounding an increasingly desperate alarm about the impending consequences of global warming, but one of the two major US political parties has decided to loudly ignore reality: Whatever Happened to Global Warming? IN 2008, both the Democratic and Republican candidates for ...
Global Warming, Climate Change, Republican Party, Right Wing, Denial, Anti-Science
Professor of oceanography John Anderson was commissioned to write a report on the state of Galveston Bay by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality; but when the TCEQ saw his report they decided to delete all references to human-caused climate change and other human impacts on the environment: Professor says ...
Texas, Global Warming, Climate Change, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Right Wing, Censorship, Anti-Science
Here's a thread to watch the Values Voter Summit freak show, just as Glenn Beck breaks down in tears... [Video removed]
Right Wing, Values Voter Summit, Wingnutosphere, Extremism, Anti-Science, Anti-Choice, Anti-Gay, Republican Party, Glenn Beck
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Right Wing, Values Voter Summit, Wingnutosphere, Extremism, Anti-Science, Anti-Choice, Anti-Gay, Republican Party, Michele Bachmann
Here's the live video feed of the Values Voter Hatefest in Washington DC, featuring a who's who of religious fanatics rubbing shoulders with Republican politicians, right wing pundits, and wingnut bloggers. Now up: a panel of bloggers, discussing why the liberal media is evil. [Video moved to newer thread...]
Right Wing, Values Voter Summit, Wingnutosphere, Extremism, Anti-Science, Anti-Choice, Anti-Gay, Republican Party
If there's one right wing event that sums up the reasons why I ran screaming away from these lunatics more than any other, it's the Values Voter Summit, put on every year by a devil's brew of extreme religious fanatics preaching virulent hatred against everyone who isn't them. At the Values ...
Republican Party, RNC, GOP, Extremism, Anti-Science, Bad Craziness, Family Research Council, Values Voter Summit, Tony Perkins, Fanaticism, Mitt Romney, Bigotry, Robert Jeffress