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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 ...
Tea Party, Protest, Demonstration, Washington DC, Bad Craziness, Extremism, John Boehner, GOP, Republican Party
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
The jury in Wichita, Kansas, deliberated for just 37 minutes today before finding anti-abortion fanatic Scott Roeder guilty of first degree murder in the killing of Dr. George Tiller. Roeder testified that he shot Tiller in the head May 31 in the foyer of Tiller’s church in Wichita because ...
George Tiller, Abortion, Crime, Extremism, Hate Speech, Scott Roeder, Army of God
The Hatewatch blog has a report on this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), probably the most extreme right wing version of the event ever held, featuring creationists, Birthers, nativists, militias, Glenn Beck, the re-ascendant wackos of the John Birch Society — and many top Republican politicians: Conspiracy Central: Beck, ...
Right Wing, Bad Craziness, Extremism, John Birch Society, Oath Keepers, Phyllis Schlafly, Glenn Beck
Michael Calderone has a good piece on Glenn Beck’s latest fever swamp Hitlerfest — a four-hour “documentary” titled “The Revolutionary Holocaust: Live Free…or Die.” Use the Holocaust to promote your TV show. Classy! Viewers tuning into MSNBC at 5 p.m. on Friday would have seen Chris Matthews riffing on ...
Glenn Beck, kooks, Far Right, Extremism, Fanaticism, Fox News, Freakazoid, Nut Sandwich, Hitler
A former Marine and current member of the Oathkeepers militia group, who was a featured speaker at the July 4th tea party in Oklahoma, has been arrested on suspicion of rape — and when his home was searched, police discovered a grenade launcher stolen from a California Army base: ...
Oklahoma, Tea Party, Terrorism, Domestic Terrorism, Right Wing, Extremism, Bad Craziness
At his victory party, supporters of Scott Brown wave the New Flag of the Second American Revolution. And people tried to tell me Brown wasn’t sailing on the seas of tea. (Hat tip: KT.) UPDATE at 1/20/10 2:38:01 pm: Also see: Scott Brown Held Tea Party Fundraiser Before Professing ...
Massachusetts, Brown, Tea Party, Right Wing, Populism, Extremism
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Abortion, Extremism, Religious Right, Women's Rights, Onion, Humor, Satire, Video
Erick Erickson of RedState.com (of all people) notices that among Sarah Palin’s fan base there are more than a few who are somewhat, uh, overenthusiastic. He was taken aback by the furious reaction to his post criticizing Sarah Palin for her reported $100,000 speech at the First National Tea Party ...
Erick Erickson, RedState.com, Right Wing, Sarah Palin, Extremism, Hate Mail
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Mars) suggests that President Obama or Attorney General Holder advised Al Qaeda leader Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to plead not guilty so he could have a show trial in Manhattan. Sometimes it seems as if right wing politicians are in a contest to see who can uncork the ...
Michele Bachmann, Loopy, Extremism, Lunacy, Right Wing, Guantanamo Bay, Gitmo, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Video
Pat Robertson has never met a disaster, natural or otherwise, that he couldn’t interpret as divine retribution from a vengeful deity, but his latest bizarre fantasy is a real corker: Haiti deserved that earthquake, because they made a deal with the Horned One. His Nibs. True story. [Video] “Something ...
RNC chairman Michael Steele apparently believes that the best way to get young people and minorities to take another look at the Republican Party is to praise a raving freakazoid nut sandwich who gets his talking points from the John Birch Society and calls President Obama a “racist with a ...
GOP, Republican Party, Extremism, Right Wing, Michael Steele, Glenn Beck
The far right creationist wing of the Republican Party is a step closer to taking control of the party in Florida tonight: Florida GOP Chairman Resigns. The resignation of Florida Republican Party Chairman Jim Greer today — a decision that came after weeks of calls for his head from ...
Florida, Evolution, Creationism, Marc Rubio, Charlie Crist, GOP, Far Right, Extremism
RNC chairman Michael Steele says the GOP “screwed up” after Reagan. Of course, just a couple of weeks ago Steele was saying the Republican Party is “a natural home” for tea partiers, so he may still be somewhat unclear on the concept. And also of course, this leads to yet ...
GOP, Republican Party, Extremism, Right Wing, Michael Steele
Loony demagogue Glenn Beck went on a tear today, ranting about all the mean things people have said about him, and I enjoyed hearing him say this quote from yours truly so much I had to save the clip to YouTube. Repeated thrice for three times the wonderfulness. Come on! ...
Glenn Beck, kooks, Far Right, Extremism, Fanaticism, Fox News, Freakazoid, Nut Sandwich
Finally! A group of right wingers is calling for a telephone campaign against Glenn Beck! I’ve been waiting for this to happen … Oh, wait. They’re angry at Beck for not pushing the birth certificate issue. I should have known. Never mind. (Hat tip: Mich-again.)
Glenn Beck, kooks, Far Right, Extremism, Fanaticism, Fox News, birthers, Nirthers
Hateblogger Jim Hoft replies to my post pointing out that he linked to an antisemitic, anti-America Bulgarian conspiracy website, by lashing out and accusing me of “supporting child porn:” A New Low… Charles Johnson Now Supporting Child Porn in Classrooms & Fisting Kits at School Functions. Please note, Mr. Hoft: ...
Right Wing, Bad Craziness, Homophobia, paranoia, Extremism, Hate Speech, Libel
Gateway Pundit (Jim Hoft) is giddy with praise for the “Bulgarian media,” because they picked up on his disgusting homophobic smears of Obama’s education minister Kevin Jennings: The State-Run Media Won’t Touch It… But Bulgarians Not Afraid to Report on Jennings Fistgate Scandal. Hoft thinks the American media are deliberately ...
Conspiracy Theories, Hate Speech, Extremism, paranoia, Homophobia, Bad Craziness, Barack Obama, Right Wing
After bloggers began pointing them out, Minnesota Republican State Senate candidate Mike Parry deleted more than 40 racist and anti-gay comments from his Twitter feed: Senate candidate scrubs racist comments from Twitter. Among the tweets erased by Parry was a May 27 comment about President Obama: “read the exclusive ...
GOP, Republican Party, Extremism, Right Wing, Homophobia, anti-gay, Racism
Illinois Republican Senate candidate Andy Martin tries to get the GOP base on his side by accusing his primary opponent of the dreaded ghey. Here’s the transcript of Martin’s ad: I’m Andy Martin, Republican candidate for United States Senator. I approved this message because Illinois Republicans deserve the truth ...
GOP, Republican Party, Extremism, Right Wing, Homophobia, Fear, anti-gay
This is really going to hurt the Republican Party. Last week I noted that one of the cosponsors for the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in 2010 will be the whacked out John Birch Society, once ostracized by William F. Buckley and other sane conservatives but now brought back into ...
Right Wing, Barack Obama, Bad Craziness, Homophobia, paranoia, Extremism, John Birch Society
Scott Roeder, the fanatical anti-abortion “activist” who confessed to murdering Dr. George Tiller in church, will not be allowed to use the ludicrous “necessity defense” in his trial — which is no surprise. Under a necessity defense, a defendant argues an action was justified because breaking the law was ...
George Tiller, Abortion, Crime, Extremism, Hate Speech, Scott Roeder, Army of God
At wingnut site Hot Air, Ed Morrissey is promoting yet another anti-abortion story, citing a “local investigator” in Virginia who claims that a woman who smothered a newborn infant cannot be charged with a crime because of a statute that says as long as the umbilical cord is still attached ...
Abortion, Extremism, Religious Right, Women's Rights, Crime, Virginia, Fact Checking
All of these videos are from last night’s “prayercast” in Washington DC, posted at Right Wing Watch. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Mars), James Dobson, and the completely insane Lou Engle, praying for health care reform to fail: [Video] Rep. Randy Forbes (R-Va.), Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, and Lou ...
Right Wing, Bad Craziness, Homophobia, paranoia, Extremism, Religious Right, Fanaticism, Theocracy, James Dobson, Tony Perkins, Michele Bachmann, Video
Here’s Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Mars) at meetings of the Living Word Christian Center in 2006, telling the crowd that she receives prophetic visions and divine instructions directly from God, revealing that she got her law degree from the fundamentalist Oral Roberts University — and telling several outright lies about her ...
Michele Bachmann, Loopy, Extremism, Lunacy, Right Wing, Religious Right