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Video: Ron Paul's 1998 John Birch Society Documentary on the UN Plot To Take Over the USA

Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 4:49 pm PST

Andrew Kaczynski has dug up yet another buried video, a 1998 John Birch Society documentary starring none other than Ron Paul -- a classic example of far right paranoia and conspiracy theorizing, as Dr. Paul calmly explains that the United Nations is plotting to take over America, create a New ...

Ron Paul, John Birch Society, Far Right, paranoia, Conspiracy Theories, United Nations, New World Order, Bad Craziness

Return of the Anti-Fluoride Right Wing Loons

Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 10:29 am PDT

One of the craziest conspiracy theories pushed by right wing organizations like the John Birch Society is that fluoride in drinking water is a government mind control plot -- and this deranged meme is making a big comeback in the Tea Party Era: Dozens show up at Pinellas County Commission ...

Right Wing, Tea Party, Bad Craziness, Fluoride, John Birch Society

The So Long Raving Freakazoid Open Thread

Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 2:09 pm PDT

Here's a Thursday afternoon open thread, as Glenn Beck launches into the monolog for his final show on Fox News... He's already started crying once, at the mention of Andrew Jackson.

Glenn Beck, Freakazoid, Nut Sandwich, End Times, Religious Right, Conspiracy Theories, John Birch Society, Alex Jones

Video: The Very Best Moments of a Raving Freakazoid

Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 10:09 am PDT

To celebrate Glenn Beck's final show on Fox News, Media Matters compiled this mind-boggling video of the raving freakazoid's "best" moments. Also see: The 50 Worst Things Glenn Beck Said On Fox News

Glenn Beck, Freakazoid, Nut Sandwich, End Times, Religious Right, Conspiracy Theories, John Birch Society, Alex Jones

Frum Forum Asks a Question That Answers Itself

Fri, May 6, 2011 at 10:29 am PDT

At FrumForum, Noah Kristula-Green and Tim Mak ask the poignant question: Why is Pawlenty On Stage With These Crazy People? Their premise is that Tim Pawlenty is the only really electable candidate out of the extremist loons who participated in last night's GOP debate. Which is just ludicrous, of course, because Pawlenty's ...

Republican Party, GOP, Debate, South Carolina, Oath Keepers, John Birch Society, Extremism, Bad Craziness, Ron Paul, Tim Pawlenty

Republican Presidential Debate #1, Ron Paul Edition

Thu, May 5, 2011 at 6:10 pm PDT

The first Republican presidential debate of the 2012 election is now taking place on Fox News, featuring the C-list candidates, and here's a thread to live-blog it... UPDATE at 5/5/11 6:16:35 pm Live stream here.

Republican Party, GOP, Debate, South Carolina, Oath Keepers, John Birch Society, Extremism, Bad Craziness, Ron Paul

GOP Debate Sponsored by Oath Keepers Militia and John Birch Society

Thu, May 5, 2011 at 2:18 pm PDT

Tonight's first GOP presidential primary debate in Greenville, South Carolina, (at 9pm ET, live on Fox News) will be brought to you in part by the Oath Keepers militia and the John Birch Society. It's all the way out in the open now, folks. The extreme paleo-right wing John Birch Society ...

Republican Party, GOP, Debate, South Carolina, Oath Keepers, John Birch Society, Extremism, Bad Craziness

Gallup Poll: Negative Views of Tea Party at All-Time High

Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 10:10 am PDT

The latest Gallup poll shows that the popularity of the atavistic Tea Party movement is at an all-time low. PRINCETON, NJ -- About half of Americans, 47%, now have an unfavorable image of the Tea Party movement, the highest since it emerged on the national scene. Gallup began tracking Americans' views ...

Tea Party, Republican Party, GOP, Bad Craziness, John Birch Society, Racism

Sharron Angle: 'She Has Risen'

Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 9:49 am PDT

This Easter, the right wing Las Vegas Review-Journal is running this crazed editorial by Glenn Cook, comparing Tea Party/John Birch Society lunatic Sharron Angle to ... you guessed it ... Jesus Christ. How appropriate that on this Easter Sunday, Nevada marks yet another political resurrection. And this one, so unexpected and ...

Nevada, Sharron Angle, Loon, Tea Party, John Birch Society, Extremism, Easter

Video: Tea Party Racism, In Your Face

Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 9:28 am PDT

Wow. Here's a mind-blowing video from the April 18th Tea Party rally in Columbia, South Carolina, hosted by Governor Nikki Haley and Michele Bachmann. The Fox News audience lets it all hang out.

Tea Party, Republican Party, GOP, Birthers, Bad Craziness, Bigotry, South Carolina, John Birch Society, Racism

Just When You Thought Sharron Angle Was Gone (or, The Return of the Loon)

Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 2:36 pm PST

Bloggers won't be running out of material any time soon, with the GOP's goofiest right wing extremist, Sharron Angle, forming a new TeaBagger umbrella group called "Patriot Caucus." Former Nevada GOP Senate candidate Sharron Angle is angling to lead the tea party movement heading into 2012. Angle over the weekend unveiled ...

Nevada, Tea Parties, Far Right, Bad Craziness, Sharron Angle, John Birch Society, Republican Party, Xenophobia

Religious Right Groups Call on CPAC to Eject GOProud, Like Buckley Ejected the John Birch Society

Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 10:33 am PST

A coalition of religious right groups has announced that they will boycott the next Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) if the gay conservative group GOProud is allowed to attend. They've posted their letter to the CPAC organizers online, demanding that teh gheys be expelled from their midst -- including this absolutely ...

Ridiculous Hypocrisy, Religious Right, Fundamentalism, Homophobia, Anti-Gay, GOProud, John Birch Society, Fanaticism

Ron Paul Wants to End the Fed, So the GOP Puts Him in Charge of the Fed

Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 3:37 pm PDT

For the past few years I've been watching Ron Paul's rise to power with a gut-wrenching sense of inevitability; despite his overtly racist newsletters, insane economic theories, and associations with extremists and conspiracy wackos of all kinds, from the John Birch Society to Alex Jones, his star just keeps rising ...

Ron Paul, Rand Paul, Extremism, libertarianism, Constitution Party, John Birch Society, Alex Jones, Far Right, Conspiracy Theories, Bad Craziness, Federal Reserve

Latino Voters Overwhelmingly Rejected Sharron Angle

Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 11:23 am PDT

Sharron Angle's overtly racist ads featuring images of menacing Latinos seriously backfired on her; she garnered just 8% of the Latino vote, compared to Harry Reid's 90%. In this election, the Tea Party GOP made a calculation to pander to the racist and xenophobic elements of their base, and this is ...

Nevada, Tea Parties, Far Right, Bad Craziness, Sharron Angle, John Birch Society, Republican Party, Xenophobia

Quote of the Day

Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 2:46 pm PDT

Nevada Tea Party loon Sharron Angle gives us our quote for the day: "You know, the two wars that we're in right now is exactly what we're in." [Video]

Nevada, Tea Parties, Far Right, Bad Craziness, Sharron Angle, John Birch Society, Republican Party, Dimmitude

Sharron Angle to Hispanic Kids: 'Some of You Look Asian to Me'

Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:43 am PDT

Jon Ralston has more video of Sharron Angle's speech to Hispanic high school students, and it's getting even weirder: Angle to Hispanic children: 'Some of you look a little more Asian to me'. "So that’s what we want is a secure and sovereign nation and, you know, I don’t know ...

Nevada, Tea Parties, Far Right, Bad Craziness, Sharron Angle, John Birch Society, Republican Party, Immigration

Sharron Angle to Hispanic Kids: 'I'm Not Sure Those Are Latinos' in Her Campaign Ad

Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 3:23 pm PDT

Sharron Angle proved yesterday that she'll lie shamelessly to anyone, telling a group of Hispanic high school students that those images of threatening Latinos in her campaign ad may not be Latinos at all. Then she went on to make an even more outrageous claim, in a campaign dedicated to race-baiting ...

Nevada, Tea Parties, Far Right, Bad Craziness, Sharron Angle, John Birch Society, Republican Party, Immigration

Sarah Palin, Phony Feminist

Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 6:38 pm PDT

Sarah Palin pretends to be a feminist while supporting a candidate who wants to force women to carry rapists' babies to term, even if it kills them. She is Woman,Hear Her Roar :) www.weeklystandard.com "Man Up" Sharron Angle exhorts Reid(w all due respect) no wimping around real problems Orwell spins ...

Sarah Palin, Sharron Angle, Far Right, Religious Right, kooks, Bad Craziness, John Birch Society

Angle vs. Reid

Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 5:53 pm PDT

Tea Party crazy lady Sharron Angle is scheduled to debate Harry Reid in Nevada tonight, and it starts in just a few minutes. You can watch live over the web at C-SPAN. Here's a thread for liveblogging; we'll see how well the GOP's PR machine has coached Angle for her only ...

Nevada, Tea Parties, Far Right, Bad Craziness, Sharron Angle, John Birch Society, Republican Party, Harry Reid, Debate

Glenn Beck and the John Birch Society

Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 1:09 pm PDT

NPR's Terry Gross interviews historian Sean Wilentz about the resurgence of paranoid John Birch Society ideology on the right wing, led by the main promoter of JBS craziness: Glenn Beck: Drawing On 1950s Extremism? They don't allow embedding of the audio for this interview, but it's worth a listen. We've been ...

Glenn Beck, kooks, Far Right, Extremism, Freakazoid, Nut Sandwich, Conspiracy Theories, Fox News, John Birch Society

The Blind Hate Financing Sharron Angle

Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 12:27 pm PDT

Jon Ralston has been covering Sharron Angle since the beginning of her rise to Tea Party stardom, and he can't hide his astonishment at the blind hate that is financing Sharron Angle’s run. “Sharron Angle produced one of the most successful single quarters of fundraising in the nation’s history for ...

Nevada, Tea Parties, Far Right, Bad Craziness, Sharron Angle, John Birch Society, Republican Party

No 'Sharia Law' in Dearborn, Mayor Says

Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 9:12 am PDT

The mayor of Dearborn, Michigan, Jack O'Reilly, says Sharron Angle is a bigoted moron, using his city to stoke fear and hatred against Muslims. Not in so many words, of course. Video In a letter sent to Angle Monday, Dearborn Mayor John O’Reilly, Jr. fired back at the Nevada Republican. “I am deeply ...

Nevada, Tea Parties, Far Right, Bad Craziness, Sharron Angle, John Birch Society, Republican Party, Anti-Muslim, Dearborn

Sharron Angle Resorts to Blatant Dishonesty

Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 1:20 pm PDT

Sharron Angle's new attack ad contains a statement that is ... no other way to say it ... a lie. The ad asserts that Harry Reid voted to pay for "Viagra for convicted child molesters." But in reality, what Reid voted against was one of many silly obstructionist amendments to the ...

Nevada, Tea Parties, Far Right, Bad Craziness, Sharron Angle, John Birch Society, Republican Party, Harry Reid, Sleaze

Sharron Angle's New Race-Baiting Ad

Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 11:20 am PDT

Sharron Angle's new ad attacking Harry Reid is an object example of the use of fear mongering racial stereotypes in political advertisements. [Video]

Nevada, Sharron Angle, John Birch Society, Anti-Muslim, Bad Craziness, Bigotry, Republican Party, Tea Party, Immigration

Sharron Angle: National Republicans Have 'Lost Their Principles'

Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 9:41 am PDT

Jon Ralston has obtained a recording of a meeting between Nevada GOP wacko Sharron Angle and Tea Party of Nevada candidate Scott Ashjian, in which Angle trashes the Republican Party -- then tries to convince Ashjian to back her because she'll be able to get him access to Jim DeMint ...

Nevada, Sharron Angle, John Birch Society, Anti-Muslim, Bad Craziness, Bigotry, Republican Party, Tea Party

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