TagsTagsAt right wing blog Hot Air, Allahpundit complains about a "blasphemous" advertisement for Doritos. (Yes, really.) Even to an ex-Catholic like me, it feels cheap. Blasphemy in defense of principle, like free speech, is welcome; blasphemy in the service of humor can be fun. Blasphemy to sell bags of Cool ...
Doritos, Blasphemy, Nontroversy, Right Wing, Hot Air, Allahpundit
I'm writing a piece on the most outrageous outrages of year and have several excellent candidates in mind, but here's a thread for suggestions from you, gentle readers, to make sure I don't miss anything especially outrageous. When the article is done, it will include a poll to vote for The ...
Little Green Footballs, LGF, Nontroversy, Outrageous Outrage, Awards, 2010
Fox News’s Megyn Kelly gets into a raging right wing slap fight with Kirsten Powers, bullying, insulting, and refusing to let Powers speak, when Powers dares to depart from the idiotic Fox News talking points on the New Black Panthers phony scandal. Megyn Kelly actually believes the Justice Department has ...
Fox News, Extremism, New Black Panther Party, Nontroversy, Megyn Kelly, Kirsten Powers
By now it’s clear that the media, the public, and right wing politicians were taken in, punk’d if you will, by the thoroughly dishonest hoax known as “Climategate.” Today another investigation by a British panel cleared the climate scientists of the CRU. “On the specific allegations made against the behavior ...
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, Climategate, CRU, Investigation, Nontroversy
William Kristol’s article claiming that the Obama administration was planning to support an anti-Israel resolution at the UN was rapidly spread throughout the wingnutsphere, with the requisite expressions of outrageous outrage, rage, and more outrage. And once again, it’s a bogus story. The White House is sharply denying a claim by ...
Outrage, Outrageous Outrage, Nontroversy, Barack Obama, Israel, Gaza, Mavi Marmara
I swear, I’m having a very difficult time keeping up with the Outrageous Outrages lately. They’re gushing out so fast from the bottomless Well of Outrage that I’m worried the blowout preventer is going to fail, contaminating a huge area with long-lived Outragium and necessitating a massive government effort to ...
Outrage, Outrageous Outrage, Nontroversy, Memorial Day, Patriotism, Arlington
I’ve been watching all week as the Republican Party and their right wing blogosphere lap dogs worked overtime to trump up some bogus accusations against Rep. Joe Sestak, accusations that have now fallen apart like wet tissue paper. Just like the hundreds of similar nontroversies trumpeted by the right wing ever ...
Joe Sestak, Nontroversy, Fail, Right Wing, Idiocy, Outrageous Outrage
The wingnut blogosphere is fuming and hissing with outrage over this story today: Students Kicked Off Campus for Wearing American Flag Tees. What? They were kicked out of school just for wearing US flag clothing? Outrage! But as usual with these trumped up nontroversies, there’s a bit more to the story. Is ...
Outrage, Outrageous Outrage, Nontroversy, Flag, Cinco de Mayo, Bigotry
Another investigation into the CRU “Climategate” phony scandal has reported in, exonerating the scientists just as I predicted, with only minor criticisms. Here’s the Oxburgh Report — finding no scientific misconduct and no distortion of data.
Global Warming, Climate Change, Science, CRU, Climategate, Nontroversy
Rachel Maddow hits the nail on the head, with a segment about the two biggest fake news stories of this political silly season: “Climategate” and the ACORN sting videos. Maddow says politics has become “unmoored from facts,” and she’s right. The people who promote these nontroversies could not possibly care ...
Here’s a perfect example of why I simply ignore most of the “outrageous outrages of the day” that pour out of the wingnut blogs and media like clowns out of a circus Volkswagen: the incredibly stupid claim that President Obama was going to ban sport fishing. Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh ...
One of the silliest in a long list of silly wingnut obsessions: word counting. The I’s Have It: Obama Uses ‘I’ 43 Times in Baltimore. Every time they do this I have a *headdesk* moment. Please, folks. Get a grip. It doesn’t prove Obama’s a “narcissist.” It proves you have way ...
Barack Obama, State of the Union, Speech, Word Counting, Outrageous Outrage, Nontroversy
Tim Blair is still outrageously outraged that Danny Glover said global warming caused the Haitian earthquake. (He didn’t.) Blair links to a Bill O’Reilly segment that blatantly misquotes what Glover did say: [Video] Here’s the misquote: There’s all this hell because of global warming, there’s all this hell because of climate change … ...
Danny Glover, Global Warming, Haiti, Earthquake, Tim Blair, Right Wing, Nontroversy
In today’s outrageous outrage, tu quoque specialists everywhere are faking outrageous outrage over remarks made by leftist actor Danny Glover in a phone interview. The screaming was so high-pitched I was motivated to check out the video recording: [Video] This is the section being pulled out of context: The threat of what ...
Outrageous Outrage, Nontroversy, Danny Glover, Hollywood, Haiti, Earthquake, Global Warming, Tim Blair
Last seen at LGF with a strange op-ed arguing that if “Mother Mary” had Obamacare she would have aborted God, Chuck Norris is back with an even more whacked out sequel for World Net Daily: Obama’s secret vault. Yes, that’s right. Chuck thinks the dreaded Executive Order 12425 will give Interpol ...
Here’s a welcome moment of sanity on Fox News, via Media Matters (head explodes) as commentators on the Fox Special Report show, including Charles Krauthammer, tear apart one of the latest outrageous overheated conspiracy theories — the strange tale of Executive Order 12425 and the Interpol Sovereignty Takeover That Wasn’t. ...
Right Wing, Nontroversy, Outrageous Outrage, silliness, Interpol, United Nations, Fox News
Of all the incredibly idiotic outrages over which the right wing blogosphere has hyperventilated (and there were hundreds last year) this has to be the flat out dumbest one yet. From Ed Morrissey, who specializes in outrageous outrages: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Picture of the Day. And it’s not ...
In the latest nontroversy sweeping the wingnut blogosphere, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano was interviewed on CNN yesterday, and said, “The system worked.” The usual blogs are yelling and screaming and running around in faux outrage, claiming that Napolitano said the system worked because passengers tackled the would-be terrorist. Some are even ...
DHS, Janet Napolitano, Terrorism, Nontroversy, Outrageous Outrage
Just when you think the Evil Christmas Tree Scandal might be subsiding (along with Bowgates One and Two, Queen-touching-gate, Children-Indoctrination-gate, Shopping-trip-gate, Plagiarized-painting-gate, and all the other goofy wingnut-gates), Christopher Knight uncovers another diabolical scheme from the Usurper in Chief and his diabolical wife: The Great Christmas Ornament Scandal, Part 2. ...
Idiocy, Right Wing, Nontroversy, Christmas, Barack Obama, Outrageous Outrage
The Los Angeles Times “Culture Monster” blog has a piece on Andrew Breitbart’s shocking Mao Zedong White House Christmas tree ornament exposé, one of the year’s most outrageous outrages: A Warhol Christmas at the White House. Blogger Christopher Knight points out that the commie infiltration of Washington DC is much, much ...
Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government blog is having a cow about some ornaments on the White House Christmas tree, touching all the right wing hot buttons — commies, gays, and Obama’s “arrogance” — and evoking the desired Pavlovian response: EXCLUSIVE: Transvestites, Mao And Obama Ornaments Decorate White House Christmas Tree. The ...
Here’s another excellent video debunking the claim that climatologists are “censoring” scientific journals to stifle critics and skeptical scientists. [Video]
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, CRU, Nontroversy
Michelle Malkin rants again: Public school lunacy of the day: A second-grader in Taunton, MA was kicked out of school, suspended, and ordered to undergo a mental evaluation for… …drawing a picture of Jesus Christ on the cross. (Hat tip: Michael Graham) One picture of Jesus gets a kid booted from the classroom. But ...
Nontroversy, War on Christmas, Right Wing, Fact Checking, Victimhood, Persecution, Michelle Malkin
Environmentalist Peter Sinclair continues destroying the dishonest and absurdly exaggerated climate change denialist claims about the stolen CRU emails, with humor and logic and all that good stuff we care about at LGF. Watch for the quip about “leading Republican intellectuals” at about 8:00. [Video]
Global Warming, Science, AGW, Climate Change, CRU, Peter Sinclair, Nontroversy
FactCheck.org takes an in-depth look at “Climategate,” and notices something: there’s no “there” there. No conspiracies, no cover-ups, no fakery. Nothing. Nada. Zip. Zilch. In late November 2009, more than 1,000 e-mails between scientists at the Climate Research Unit of the U.K.’s University of East Anglia were stolen and made public ...