TagsTagsAdam Holland takes a look through the Campaign for Liberty website (formerly Texas Congressman Ron Paul’s official campaign site, now a Paulian gathering place), and discovers a motherlode of really bad craziness — raving antisemitism, conspiracy theories, and extreme anti-government paranoia: What’s new on Ron Paul’s website?
Ron Paul, Conspiracy Theories, kooks, Antisemitism, Bad Craziness, Hate Speech
I’ve written several times about the striking similarity between the tactics of creationists and climate change deniers, and about the recent efforts by creationists to use the phony controversies over global warming to legitimize their silliness. So this story by Leslie Kaufman in the New York Times comes as no ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Evolution, Creationism, Anti-Science, Bad Craziness
Frank Gaffney’s post at Andrew Breitbart’s “Big Government” blog is titled, “Can This Possibly Be True?” I suggest an alternate title: “Could This Possibly Be Any More Paranoid and Ridiculous?” Now, thanks to an astute observation by Christopher Logan of the Logans Warning blog, we have another possible explanation for behavior ...
Andrew Breitbart, Frank Gaffney, Anti-Muslim, Conspiracy Theories, paranoia, Bad Craziness
Currently one of the top stories at Drudge Report: an anti-John McCain, anti-FDA article at the John Birch Society website. Here’s Google’s cache of the JBS article.
John Birch Society, Extremism, kooks, Drudge Report, Bad Craziness
World Net Daily columnist Molotov Mitchell comes right out and defends Uganda’s bill to make homosexuality a capital offense — because “God created the death penalty” for gays. This caveman even quotes Martin Luther King as some kind of twisted support for his “kill the gays” rant. This has to be ...
Right Wing, Bad Craziness, Homophobia, paranoia, Extremism, Hate Speech, Religious Right, Uganda, Video
At a tea party demonstration in Washington state last week, one of the speakers called for Democratic Senator Patty Murray to be hanged. (AP) SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - A speaker at an eastern Washington “tea party” gathering called for U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., to be hanged, drawing laughter and ...
Tea Party, Bad Craziness, Extremism, Washington, Patty Murray
John Avlon has a piece at The Daily Beast on the appalling rise in conservative circles of the once marginalized John Birch Society, and their co-sponsorship of CPAC: Return of the Fright Wing. When the John Birch Society announced that it would be co-sponsoring CPAC, its press release declared that ...
CPAC, Right Wing, Republican Party, social conservatism, Religious Right, John Birch Society, Conspiracy Theories, Bad Craziness
A few days ago Thom Hartmann interviewed Curtis Coleman, Republican candidate for the US Senate in Arkansas, and asked if Coleman would apologize for his bizarre and ugly comparison of stem cell research to Nazi medical experimentation. Embryonic stem cell research is the concept of taking a life and using ...
Right Wing, Republican Party, Bad Craziness, Extremism, Anti-Science, Embryonic Stem Cells, Holocaust, Curtis Coleman, Video
I’ve been wondering why the mainstream media have been so curiously uninterested in the bad craziness of the tea party movement, but with the release of this New York Times article the grace period may be coming to an end: Tea Party Movement Lights Fuse for Rebellion on Right. This article ...
Tea Party, Bad Craziness, Racism, Birthers, Extremism, John Birch Society, Oath Keepers, Militias
John Avlon, senior political columnist for The Daily Beast and former speechwriter for Rudy Giuliani, has a new book out called Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America — a subject near to my heart, especially recently. (And somewhere in there you’ll even find a paragraph featuring a quote ...
Far Right, Far Left, wingnuts, Moonbats, kooks, Bad Craziness, Extremism
A little slice of tea party life, from the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville. [Video]
Amazingly, Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit) manages to write a puff piece for the Wall Street Journal about the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville without even mentioning Tom Tancredo’s racist call to bring back literacy tests or Joseph Farah’s Birther/theocrat speech and resulting standing ovation. How is it possible to be that ...
Tea Party, Bad Craziness, Racism, Tom Tancredo, Literacy Tests, Joseph Farah, Birthers, Extremism, Glenn Reynolds
The National Post’s Jonathan Kay is not a liberal. He attended the Tea Party Convention in Nashville, Tennessee, and filed this report for Newsweek: Tea Party Movement Is Full of Conspiracy Theories. (I know. I’ve only been trying to point this out for the past year.) After I spent the weekend ...
Tea Party, Tea Party Convention, Birthers, Bad Craziness, Conspiracy Theories, World Net Daily, Andrew Breitbart
On “The View” today, Meghan McCain called out Tom Tancredo for his shocking dog whistle racism speech at the Tea Party Convention in Nashville. McCain: Congressman Tancredo went on TV and he was the first opening speaker and he said, ‘People who could not even spell the word vote or ...
Tea Party, Bad Craziness, Racism, Tom Tancredo, Literacy Tests, Meghan McCain
Orly Taitz, queen bee of the Birther movement at the Nashville Tea Party Convention, uncorks some classic paranoid fantasies in this video clip; Obama has 39 Social Security numbers, according to Taitz, one of them issued to a man born over 100 years ago. “So what,” you might say. “Any random ...
Tea Party, Tea Party Convention, Birthers, Bad Craziness, Conspiracy Theories, World Net Daily, Orly Taitz
Here’s an interesting note on TeaBagCon, from a roundup of the first day’s craziness by Mary C. Curtis at Politics Daily: A funny thing about the break-out session “How to Involve the Youth in the Conservative Movement” – not too many young people showed up. Mishelle Perkins, a 44-year-old mother ...
Tea Party, Bad Craziness, Birthers, Tea Party Convention, Youth
There are reports that the Tea Party Convention organizers are planning a press conference today to denounce Birtherism, after Joseph Farah’s speech last night. It seems a little late to start worrying about it, the day after the keynote speaker unleashed a full-on paranoid Birther rant to a cheering audience and ...
Tea Party, Tea Party Convention, Birthers, Bad Craziness, Conspiracy Theories, World Net Daily, Andrew Breitbart
Here’s a report by Jeff Woods at the Nashville Scene on yet another lunatic speaker at the first National Tea Party Convention, homophobic theocrat Judge Roy Moore: At Tea Party, Gay-Bashing ‘Ten Commandments Judge’ Calls Obama Immoral. Leave it to the “Ten Commandments judge” to inject gay bashing into the ...
Tea Party, Bad Craziness, Homophobia, Theocracy, Judge Roy Moore
Joseph Farah of World Net Daily gives us a preview of his speech to the First National Tea Party Convention: What I’ll say today at 1st Tea Party Convention. Here’s a sneak peak at what I will be talking about in my keynote address to the first National Tea Party ...
Tea Party, Bad Craziness, Birthers, World Net Daily, Tea Party Convention
On the first night of the first National Tea Party Convention the featured speaker, Tom Tancredo, blew the racist dog whistle so loudly they heard it in Alabama. In the 1960s. The opening-night speaker at first ever National Tea Party Convention ripped into President Obama, Sen. John McCain and “the cult ...
Tea Party, Bad Craziness, Racism, Tom Tancredo, Literacy Tests
House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) said today that there is no difference in beliefs between the GOP and tea partiers. “There really is no difference between what Republicans believe in and what the tea party activists believe in,” Boehner said during an appearance on the conservative Mike Gallagher’s radio ...
Tea Party, Protest, Demonstration, Washington DC, Bad Craziness, Extremism, John Boehner, GOP, Republican Party
One of the world’s foremost right wing climate change deniers, Marc Morano, appears on the radio show of one of the world’s foremost raving conspiracy kooks, 9/11 Truther Alex Jones — and it’s exactly where he belongs. Marc Morano on Alex Jones Tv 1/4: NASA Scientist Demands End to Industrial Society! Also ...
Alex Jones, Conspiracy Theories, kooks, Bad Craziness, 9/11 Troofers
Imagine my surprise that linking to a piece about a disturbing Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll of Republicans prompted several hyper-emotional meltdowns in our comments, and three hate mails so far today. Apart from the insult-spewers, though, many readers wanted to know exactly which questions were asked, and where the samples came ...
Poll, Republicans, GOP, Birthers, Sarah Palin, Homophobia, Bad Craziness, Creationism
Redstate.com, home to some of the most extreme far right bloggers on the web, the site whose CEO infamously called Justice Souter a “goat-f*cking child molester,” has announced that they will be in charge of vetting and approving the bloggers for this year’s CPAC, which seems completely appropriate: We’ve got ...
Right Wing, Bad Craziness, Extremism, John Birch Society, Oath Keepers, CPAC
A new poll conducted among 2,000 self-identified Republicans by Daily Kos and Research 2000 shows that the Republican base is possibly even crazier than I previously thought: Poll: Republicans Think Obama Is A Socialist, And Palin More Qualified To Be President. [Item List] Oh brother.
Poll, Republicans, GOP, Birthers, Sarah Palin, Homophobia, Bad Craziness