TagsTagsThe Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has posted a fun new quiz: Who’s nuttier: Michele Bachmann or Sarah Palin? I got a perfect score, which I’m not sure is anything to brag about.
Bob McDonnell, the Republican governor of Virginia, is bringing back a long-running right wing tradition by declaring April 2010 “Confederate History Month” — at the request of the neo-Confederate group “Sons of Confederate Veterans,” described by Civil War historian James M. McPherson as a white supremacist organization. The two previous governors ...
Virginia, Republican Party, Extremism, Neo-Confederate, Bob McDonnell
The creep who spread the “Mark Kirk is gay” rumor in Illinois, Jack Roeser, has been promoted to the finance co-chair of the Illinois Republican party: Illinois GOP Rewards Anti-Gay Bigotry. Portrait of a political party gone insanely off the rails.
GOP, Republican Party, Extremism, Right Wing, Homophobia, Anti-Gay
The latest chapter in the long-running saga of a political party gone off the rails: How the GOP Purged Me.
Teabonics, a new dialect of the English language.
Here’s a disturbing article by Frank Schaeffer on the extreme apocalyptic ideology that drives groups like the “Hutaree” militia; keep in mind as you read that Schaeffer was once part of the inner circle of the religious right, and knew many of these people personally: The Evangelical ‘Mainstream’ Insanity Behind ...
Michigan, Militia, FBI, Hutaree, Extremism, Domestic Terrorism, End Times, Frank Schaeffer
The FBI has issued an intelligence note about a letter received by more than 30 US governors, telling them to resign within three days. Washington (CNN) — A domestic extremist group has sent letters to more than 30 U.S. governors demanding they resign, the Department of Homeland Security and the ...
Jon Stewart rips CNN for hiring right wing blogger Erick Erickson; apparently, calling a Supreme Court justice a “goat-f*cking child molester” is now a good thing to have on your media resumé: CNN Hires Erick Erickson. [Video]
Jon Stewart, Comedy, Erick Erickson, CNN, Right Wing, Extremism, Media, Video
Anti-abortion murderer Scott Roeder is going to spend at least the next 50 years in prison. “The blood of babies is on your hands!” he yelled at prosecutors as bailiffs led him from the courtroom.
George Tiller, Abortion, Crime, Extremism, Hate Speech, Scott Roeder, Murder
Several people have emailed to point out that the recently arrested leader of the “Hutaree” militia was described as a “fanatic Ron Paul supporter.” Imagine my shock. My surprise, if you will. Adam Holland has a good post on David Brian Stone’s attraction to Dr. Paul, the current support Stone is getting ...
Michigan, Militia, FBI, Hutaree, Extremism, Domestic Terrorism, End Times, Ron Paul, Antisemitism
For the first public test of our new embedded slideshow feature, these are photographs found at various sites around the web by LGF reader “simoom,” taken at the recent tea party rally in the desert outside Searchlight, Nevada, at which ex-governor Sarah Palin appeared. Click the picture to start the slideshow. %%SLIDESHOW=/slideshows/sear ...
Tea Party, Demonstration, Searchlight, Nevada, Sarah Palin, Right Wing, Oath Keepers, Extremism
Details are emerging today about the weekend’s FBI/DHS raids on a Christian militia group in Michigan’s Lenawee County. The group, “Hutaree,” was allegedly planning to murder a member of local law enforcement, then attack the resulting funeral procession with improvised explosive devices — earning them federal indictments for seditious conspiracy ...
Michigan, Militia, FBI, Hutaree, Extremism, Domestic Terrorism, End Times
A classic Fox News moment, as SNL alumni Victoria Jackson puts the “nutjob” in right wing nutjob. Steve Doocy brings her on to demonstrate that tea partiers aren’t extremists, but it doesn’t quite work out as planned. “I AM the tea party people,” says Jackson, and “The President’s a Communist.” Media Matters ...
Tea Party, Bad Craziness, Extremism, Victoria Jackson, Obama Derangement Syndrome
A “small army” of FBI and DHS agents descended on Michigan’s Lenawee County yesterday, in an apparent crackdown on militia activity in the area: ADRIAN, Mich. (WXYZ) - The FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and the Joint Terrorism Task Force are all involved in raids around Adrian that may ...
Michigan, Militia, FBI, Hutaree, Extremism, Domestic Terrorism
The Washington Times has an article interviewing several tea party leaders, predictably complaining that the media is falsely accusing them of racism: Movement leaders say bad behavior not their cup of tea. One of the people who says he’s never seen any racial slurs at these right wing demonstrations is the ...
Tea Party, Bad Craziness, Extremism, Washington, Pat Robertson, Racism
A lot of people seem to believe that because I parted ways with the GOP and the right wing, that automatically makes me a left winger or a Democrat now. So here’s an article that shows why I concluded long ago that both parties are full of opportunistic weasels: RNC rejects ...
There is growing tension within the ranks at Fox News over the Glenn Beck Clown Show: Howard Kurtz - The Beck Factor at Fox: Staffers say comments taint their work. (Ya think?) Fox staffers note that veteran producer Gresham Striegel left the network after clashing with Beck and say the ...
Dim bulb wingnut blogger Dan Riehl is increasingly specializing in some of the most vile, ugly commentary on the right; it’s a crowded field, but with posts like this one he manages to stand out: Riehl World View: Isn’t It Time To Euthanize Reid’s Wife? The excuse will be that it’s ...
Right Wing, Harry Reid, Bad Craziness, Far Right, Extremism, Hate Speech
I’ve had serious differences of opinion with Media Matters blogger Eric Boehlert in the past, but his latest piece on the desperately absurd efforts of the right wing blogosphere to label Pentagon shooter John Patrick Bedell as a “left winger” is right on the money: The Pentagon shooter, insurrectionism, and ...
Right Wing, Barack Obama, Bad Craziness, Far Right, Conspiracy Theories, paranoia, Extremism, Pentagon, Libertarian
The wingnut blogosphere is in full shrieking harpy mode over Glenn Beck’s statement about anti-Muslim Dutch MP Geert Wilders (who wants to ban the Koran and make Islam itself illegal). This is one of those Bizarro days, because I actually find myself agreeing with Glenn Beck. Geert Wilders is a far ...
Glenn Beck, kooks, Far Right, Extremism, Geert Wilders, Eurofascism
I posted a link to the audio of Pentagon shooter John Patrick Bedell’s “manifesto” last night, but here’s a summary of what’s on that audio recording: Pentagon Shooter Worshipped Private Property Rights, Denounced Government ‘Schemes’ Like Public Education. The California man who opened fire last night outside the Pentagon was ...
Right Wing, Barack Obama, Bad Craziness, Far Right, Conspiracy Theories, paranoia, Extremism, Pentagon, Libertarian
The Southern Poverty Law Center has a report on the hatred and extremism that has reared its head on the right since the election of Barack Obama: Rage on the Right. And it’s especially relevant after the shootings at the Pentagon yesterday, apparently perpetrated by a virulently anti-government libertarian who drew ...
Right Wing, Barack Obama, Bad Craziness, Far Right, Conspiracy Theories, paranoia, Extremism, Pentagon
I happened to switch my EyeTV to Fox News this afternoon just in time to catch a screenshot of Glenn Beck working his favorite themes, with his favorite subjects pasted on his favorite blackboard: From top to bottom, we have: Mao Zedong, Vladimir Lenin, Fidel Castro, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, some European guy ...
Comedy, Nut Sandwich, Freakazoid, Fanaticism, Extremism, Far Right, kooks, Glenn Beck, Pie
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