TagsTagsAt 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
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
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
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
I’ve been wondering why the mainstream media have been so curiously uninterested in the bad craziness of the tea party movement, but with the release of this New York Times article the grace period may be coming to an end: Tea Party Movement Lights Fuse for Rebellion on Right. This article ...
Tea Party, Bad Craziness, Racism, Birthers, Extremism, John Birch Society, Oath Keepers, Militias
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 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
Last night Chris Matthews interviewed the founder of the disturbing “Oath Keepers” movement, a group of self-styled patriots who spout militia rhetoric and conspiracy theories, and prepare for armed revolution — against the Obama administration. Also on the show: Southern Poverty Law Center spokesman Mark Potok, who notes the similarity ...
Oath Keepers, Right Wing, Extremism, Militias, Patriot Movement, Chris Matthews
The Las Vegas Review Journal’s Alan Maimon reports on the rise of a very disturbing movement fueled by conspiracy theories and anti-government bad craziness: READY TO REVOLT: Oath Keepers pledges to prevent dictatorship in United States. Launched in March by Las Vegan Stewart Rhodes, Oath Keepers bills itself as a ...
Oath Keepers, Right Wing, Extremism, Militias, Patriot Movement