TagsTagsTaking right wing fear mongering to an insane new level, here's Rick Santorum's latest web advertisement. Notice at about 39 seconds in: the image of Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad flashes to President Obama for a split second. YouTube Video Also see: Santorum Spokesman Denies Obama-Ahmadinejad Conflation in New Ad
Rick Santorum, President Obama, Fear, Video, Election 2012, Bad Craziness
Here's a second thread for wrap-up comments about this pathetic event they're calling a debate. Brian Williams failed to follow up on a single issue; it was basically a two-hour commercial for the Republican Party agenda. I don't know who "won" the debate, but I know who lost. You, me, and ...
Remember Rep. Louie Gohmert and His Terror Babies From the Future? Well, the most aptly named member of Congress is back, doing that Gohmert thing, accusing President Obama of being a sekrit Muslim sympathizer. GOHMERT: And I know the president made the mistake one day of saying he had visited ...
Louie Gohmert, Texas, Republican Party, GOP, Fear, Anti-Muslim, President Obama, Bad Craziness
What a shame. After all that pandering to the far right by fear mongering about the "end of the free market economy" and "Obama's apology tour," Mitt Romney has to ruin it all by believing in science. His run for President as a Republican is now officially over: The world is ...
Global Warming, Climate Change, Tea Party, Right Wing, Fear, Election 2012, Mitt Romney
For the second day in a row Mitt Romney's pants are ablaze, as he parrots one of the very stupidest claims of the lunatic right: Mitt Romney says Barack Obama 'traveled around the globe to apologize for America” - Pants on Fire! On the substance of Romney’s charge, we believe ...
Mitt Romney's ludicrous statement that the US is "only inches away from ceasing to be a free market economy" has garnered the coveted "Pants on Fire" rating from PolitiFact. How is Romney supposed to get his fear mongering on when people keep fact-checking him? (Not that facts will have any impact ...
The ridiculous right wing quote of the day comes from Mitt Romney, who obviously realizes he's going to have to start ranting about doom and destruction if he wants to get the Tea Party on his side. "We are only inches away from ceasing to be a free market economy." ...
And for an overnight thread, here's raving freakazoid Glenn Beck with a cheerful tale of utter darkness, famine, despair, and the end of the world. Video
Glenn Beck, Freakazoid, Nut Sandwich, Conspiracy Theories, Fox News, Bad Craziness, Fear, End Times, Religious Right
Glenn Beck fired up his radio show this morning and dispensed an extra dose of bad craziness -- including another rant with a sick fantasy about "Marxists" rounding him up and shooting him "in the head." Video In addition to planning to murder Glenn Beck, "Marxists" are also infiltrating churches, probably helped ...
Glenn Beck, Freakazoid, Nut Sandwich, Conspiracy Theories, Fox News, Bad Craziness, Fear
My take on the Peter King hearings: People shouldn't pretend that there are no problems at all with radicalization among Muslims -- clearly, we need to be aware of the extent, and do what we can to defuse it and deal with its causes, while preventing attacks from any fanatics who ...
Peter King, Radical Islam, Congress, Anti-Muslim, Fear, Bigotry
Last week, Tennessee Republican State Senator Bill Ketron became the latest fear-mongering idiot to introduce a bill criminalizing "sharia law." Ketron's bill goes a bit further than other wingnut anti-sharia legislation, though, because he's proposing to make it a felony, punishable by 15 years in jail. And it gets worse, because ...
Pamela Geller, David Yerushalmi, Racism, Bigotry, Anti-Muslim, Fear, Idiocy, Bad Craziness
Fareed Zakaria lays waste to Glenn Beck's fear mongering claim that 10% of the world's Muslims are terrorists. Video
Glenn Beck, kooks, Far Right, Extremism, Freakazoid, Nut Sandwich, Fear, Mathematics, Fareed Zakaria
Stephen Colbert had a funny, pointed bit last night about the TSA's full body scanners, featuring Atlantic correspondent Jeffrey Goldberg. [Video]
In a 2006 Delaware Senate primary debate, anti-wanking Republican candidate Christine O'Donnell boasted that she was "privy to" secret classified information about a Chinese plot to take over the United States. WASHINGTON — Republican Senate nominee Christine O'Donnell of Delaware said in a 2006 debate that China was plotting to ...
Republican Party, RNC, GOP, Extremism, Tea Party, Bad Craziness, Delaware, Christine O'Donnell, China, paranoia, Fear
Stephen Colbert is terrified of Muslim vampires, and you should be too. [Video]
Right wing bloggers and Fox News are freaking out (they always do it in unison) about a quote from President Obama in Bob Woodward's new book "Obama's Wars:" 'We can absorb a terrorist attack. We'll do everything we can to prevent it, but even a 9/11, even the biggest attack ...
Barack Obama, Terrorism, Outrageous Outrage, Fear, Right Wing
Newt Gingrich's trailer for his wacky new film is full of images of 9/11 and terrorism and death and destruction, but the most horrific scene by far is Newt and his latest trophy wife Callista standing rigidly in their power suits like extra-creepy androids from the Fear Dimension. That's gonna ...
It's the new GOP campaigning style: do everything possible to avoid being forced to defend your extreme positions. By dodging the media and opponents they can continue pandering to the far right base, while avoiding the risk of having those extreme positions become common knowledge. It's an implicit admission that ...
Republican Party, RNC, GOP, Fear, Debate, Extremism, Steve King
OK, we have a winner in today's Crazy Dumb Fear-Mongering Sweepstakes: Colorado GOP gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes, who's convinced that the Mayor of Denver's bike-sharing program is only the first step on a slippery slope leading inevitably to a United Nations invasion of Denver. They may look harmless, resting there on ...
Right Wing, Far Right, Bad Craziness, Colorado, Dan Maes, Fear, New World Order, Conspiracy Theories, Bicycling
NPR’s All Things Considered covers the Islamic Center Near Ground Zero. Video
From the National Republican Trust Political Action Committee, this is the advertisement that was rejected by NBC and CBS. [Video] The fear mongering is so completely over the top in this little piece of hate propaganda, there’s not much to say about it. So I’ll just attempt to relay some facts. Contrary to ...
Blatant hypocrisy — it’s spelled P-A-L-I-N: Sarah Palin sees eye-to-eye with Albertans in Calgary speech. The vocal opponent of health-care reform in the U.S. steered largely clear of the topic except to reveal a tidbit about her life growing up not far from Whitehorse. “We used to hustle over the border ...
Sarah Palin, Rogue, Populism, Death Panel, Health Care, Fear
Amazing. Oh, don’t get me wrong; it’s not amazing that people like Tom Delay think like this. It’s amazing that he actually said it in public: Tom Delay: People Are Unemployed Because They Want To Be. “You know,” Delay said, “there is an argument to be made that these extensions, the ...