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Fake Outrage Du Jour: 'Obama's Christmas Tree Tax'

Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 12:26 pm PST

In the perpetual race to the bottom of a bottomless pit that is the right wing blogosphere, a new outrageous outrage has arisen, more outrageous than all the other fake outrages of wingnut history. My friends, can your hearts stand the awful truth of the Barack Hussein Obama Christmas Tree Tax?! You ...

Fake Outrage, Outrageous Outrage, Jim Hoft, Gateway Pundit, Idiocy, War on Christmas, Fox News, Drudge Report, Wingnutosphere

Yet Another Right Wing ACORN Freak-Out

Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 1:03 pm PDT

Yes, the undead boogeyman ACORN has been resurrected, to terrify and enrage the wingnutosphere yet again.

Acorn, Outrageous Outrage, Right Wing, Idiocy, Wingnutosphere, Boogeyman, Squirrel

Big Government on a Roll: Obama Faked His Auto Factory Address

Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 1:16 pm PDT

Amazingly, Andrew Breitbart's "Big Government" website has topped their earlier incredibly stupid Dana Loesch post with an even more mind-bogglingly stupid post, this one by Larry O'Connor: Was President Obama Really Sitting in Front of an Assembly Line in this Video? - Big Government. Once again, these geniuses are wrongly identifying ...

Andrew Breitbart, President Obama, Video Fraud, Irony, Idiocy, Outrageous Outrage

Big Government's Outrageous Outrage of the Day

Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 10:00 am PDT

Breitbart camp follower Dana Loesch has a shocking, stunning, discombobulating scoop today on the participation of major big name journalists in planning for Occupy Wall Street -- while they're reporting on it! Two of the worst offenders: Dylan Ratigan and Matt Taibbi! Journolist 2.0: Occupy Wall Street Emails Show MSM, Dylan ...

Outrageous Outrage, Occupy Wall Street, Matt Taibbi, Dylan Ratigan, Idiocy, Andrew Breitbart, Dana Loesch

Wingnuts Circulate 2007 Anti-War Photo to Smear Occupy Wall Street

Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 4:22 pm PDT

Here's something interesting: while doing my janitorial rounds, I noticed referrals coming from Reddit, from a discussion of a new anti-Occupy Wall Street smear circulating on Facebook, a photograph of some anarchists with a sign that says, "Fuck the Troops." The photograph's real enough: But it's almost 5 years old; it was ...

Occupy Wall Street, Demonstration, Oregon, Smear, Right Wing, Outrageous Outrage

Fox News 'Clarifies' Bogus Obama Apology Story

Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 10:26 am PDT

As we noted a few days ago, the entire right wing media and blogosphere -- all of them -- fell for yet another fake outrage: the false claim that President Obama had offered to apologize to Japan for the bombing of Hiroshima in WWII. Fox News, of course, quickly spread the ...

Fake, Outrageous Outrage, Japan, President Obama, Hiroshima, Idiocy

Fake Outrage of the Day: Obama Did Not Offer to Apologize for Hiroshima

Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 1:39 pm PDT

Here we go again. Based on a (probably deliberate) misreading of a diplomatic cable released by Wikileaks, the right wing media are having yet another attack of the vapors. Linked at Drudge Report: Apologies Not Accepted - Investors.com. Leaked cables show Japan nixed a presidential apology to Hiroshima and Nagasaki ...

Fake, Outrageous Outrage, Japan, President Obama, Hiroshima, Idiocy

Photos: The Truth About Breitbart's Race-Baiting 'Black Panthers' Story

Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 11:02 am PDT

As we pointed out on Monday, Andrew Breitbart shamelessly tried to promote a completely fake, utterly dishonest story that Barack Obama "marched with" the New Black Panther Party during a 2007 event in Selma, Alabama. In fact, there were more than 10,000 people at this event, and it had nothing ...

Andrew Breitbart, Race-Baiting, Racism, civil rights, President Obama, New Black Panther Party, Fake, Outrageous Outrage

Christopher: Andrew Breitbart's Race-Baiting 'New Black Panther' Story

Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 11:15 am PDT

Tommy Christopher has a good piece at Mediaite today on Andrew Breitbart's race-baiting attempt to tie President Obama to the New Black Panther Party, with a look back at the right's history of using the NBPP to scare white people: Andrew Breitbart Obama Black Panthers Photobomb. During the 2008 campaign, ...

Andrew Breitbart, Voting Rights March, President Obama, Smear, New Black Panther Party, Outrageous Outrage

Will the Right Wing Blogs Correct Their Bogus 'Black Panther' Story?

Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 10:26 am PDT

Do you think there's any chance that the right wing blogosphere will do the right thing and correct the ridiculous and totally false "New Black Panther Party" story launched yesterday by the execrable Andrew Breitbart? I'm kidding, of course. Being a right wing blogger these days means never having to say ...

National Review, Andrew McCarthy, Andrew Breitbart, Fake, Outrageous Outrage, New Black Panther Party, President Obama, Race-Baiting, Bryan Preston, Ed Morrissey, Jim Hoft, Michelle Malkin, Pamela Geller, Voting Rights March

National Review's Andrew McCarthy Falls for Bogus Breitbart Story - Update: Entire Right Wing Blogosphere Parrots Bogus Story

Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 1:50 pm PDT

At the National Review, Andrew McCarthy totally falls for Andrew Breitbart's fake story about Barack Obama appearing at a "rally for the New Black Panther Party" -- which was actually the celebration of the 1965 Voting Rights March in Selma, Alabama: Breitbart: Obama Appeared and Marched with New Black Panther ...

President Obama, New Black Panther Party, Outrageous Outrage, Fake, Andrew Breitbart, Andrew McCarthy, National Review, Race-Baiting

Andrew Breitbart's Race-Baiting Fake Outrage Du Jour

Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 10:59 am PDT

This morning, Andrew Breitbart is peddling yet another race-baiting fake outrage: » Shock Photos: Candidate Obama Appeared And Marched With New Black Panther Party in 2007 - Big Government. It's a classic example of Breitbart's sleazy smear tactics. Notice that in his whole long overheated screed, Breitbart never actually tells you ...

Andrew Breitbart, civil rights, TIME Magazine, New Black Panther Party, Bill Clinton, Outrageous Outrage, President Obama, Smear

Obama Adviser Valerie Jarrett's Speech Provokes Right Wing Outrage, Racial Slurs

Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 1:53 pm PDT

Here we go again; the Perpetual Assembly Line of Fake Right Wing Outrages cranks out another bogus story, and the right wing blogs and media all start squawking in unison. President Obama's senior adviser Valerie Jarrett gave a speech recently, in which she said that government should help create jobs so ...

President Obama, Outrageous Outrage, Right Wing, Valerie Jarrett, Commies, Idiocy, Racism

Wingnut Outrage of the Week: The EPA's "$21B Expansion"

Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 12:52 pm PDT

The right wing Assembly Line of Outrageous Outrages just keeps churning out bogus stories. It takes a lot of man hours to keep the Republican base as crazed and out of touch with reality as possible, but the wingnut media and blogosphere are always on the job. The latest chorus of ...

Outrageous Outrage, Wingnutosphere, Right Wing, Daily Caller, EPA, Environmental Protection Agency, Global Warming, Anti-Science, Idiocy

GOP Candidates Attack Obama on Palestinian Statehood Bid

Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 10:32 am PDT

The Obama administration has promised to veto the Palestinian bid for statehood in the UN Security Council, but of course that doesn't stop the loons running for the GOP nomination from attacking him anyway, with the usual right wing nonsense that Obama has changed the US stance toward Israel (he ...

President Obama, Israel, Palestinians, Outrageous Outrage, Rick Perry, Mitt Romney, United Nations

What Michelle Obama Really Said

Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 6:51 pm PDT

[Link: www.alldeaf.com...] "Amazing how they fold that flag." (h/t: parkinson1963.)

Idiocy, Outrageous Outrage, Lip-Reading, Fail, Wingnutosphere, Michelle Obama, President Obama

Wingnut Blogs Freak Out Over Lip-Reading

Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 12:54 pm PDT

Right wing bloggers staged a massive freakout over President Obama's new AttackWatch website, calling it an "Obama snitch squad" and comparing it to Nazi Germany (of course). Then these same obsessed bloggers proceeded to demonstrate exactly why the site is necessary, concocting a ludicrous, ugly smear against Michelle Obama based on ...

Idiocy, Outrageous Outrage, Lip-Reading, Fail, Wingnutosphere, Michelle Obama, President Obama

Actual News Headline vs. Fox News Headline

Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 5:23 pm PDT

From the Washington Post's blog: Attack Watch, new Obama campaign site to ‘fight smears,’ becomes laughing stock of conservatives. At Fox Nation, this devolves into: WaPo: Obama's New Site, AttackWatch.com, Becomes Laughing Stock of the Internet. You mean it's the whole Internet, not just the usual obsessed far right anti-Obama nutbags? The Fox ...

Outrageous Outrage, Bad Craziness, Fox Nation, President Obama, Fox News

Right Wing Blogs Freaking Out Again: PBS Edited the Obama Speech!

Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 10:15 am PDT

Here we go again. Don't these people ever get tired of humiliating themselves? Practically the entire right wing blogosphere went into vapor-lock this morning, shrieking in unison at the evil librul PBS for "editing" the transcript of the President's joint session speech on jobs, to cover up his "gaffe" that Abraham ...

PBS, Outrageous Outrage, Republican Party, Abraham Lincoln, Idiocy, Wingnutosphere, Right Wing, Obama Derangement Syndrome, President Obama

Video: Hoffa Blasts Fox News

Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 10:29 am PDT

I can hardly believe it, but right wing radio, blogs and politicians are still whining about James Hoffa's speech in Michigan, crying and complaining and demanding apologies. What the hell is wrong with these people? And to make matters worse, even non-Fox News sources are running the Fox-edited quotes of Hoffa's ...

Right Wing, Outrageous Outrage, Deception, Unions, James Hoffa, Fox News

Comparing James Hoffa's Rhetoric with the Tea Party's Open Threats

Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 9:32 am PDT

As the petulant high-pitched whining of the right wing blogosphere reaches fever pitch, Teamsters president James Hoffa is not retreating: Teamsters President: 'No Regrets' After Fiery Speech Draws Right-Wing Criticism. Hoffa riled up Fox News and the right wing Monday with a Labor Day speech in Detroit in which he ...

Tea Party, Outrageous Outrage, Right Wing, President Obama, James Hoffa, Media Ethics, Deception, Fox News

Fox News Deceptively Edits Video to Smear Teamsters Pres. Hoffa

Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 3:50 pm PDT

This is one of the sleaziest, most dishonest things I've ever seen Fox News do. People need to start seriously asking what's going on with a news organization that would try to pull something like this. The right wing blogs and media have been going ballistic all day about the latest ...

Outrageous Outrage, Right Wing, President Obama, James Hoffa, Media Ethics, Deception, Fox News

Update: Romney to Quadruple Size of La Jolla Beachfront Home

Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 10:22 am PDT

As Republicans continue to whine and complain about the President's vacation on Martha's Vineyard, here's an update to our post from yesterday about Mitt Romney's collection of multi-million dollar mansions; Romney has filed an application to increase the size of his $12 million beachfront compound in La Jolla from a ...

President Obama, Outrageous Outrage, Lavish Lifestyles of the Rich and Republican, Mitt Romney, Right Wing

Lavish Lifestyles of the Rich and Republican

Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 2:48 pm PDT

Suddenly there seems to be an enormous amount of right wing whining about the President's "lavish" lifestyle. A prime example of the genre: The Imperial Presidency - Mark Steyn - National Review Online. Mark Steyn seems to think President Obama should forego vacations at Martha's Vineyard, and private jets, and Darth ...

President Obama, Outrageous Outrage, Lavish Lifestyles of the Rich and Republican, Mark Steyn, Right Wing

Darrell Issa Was Briefed on 'Fast and Furious' in April 2010, But Raised No Objections

Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 2:16 pm PDT

I'm still waiting to see if the "Fast and Furious" scandal, in which ATF agents reportedly allowed guns to be transported across the border into Mexico, is a real scandal or yet another fake right wing outrage, but I'm currently leaning toward the latter option. And here's one reason why. Last ...

Right Wing, ATF, Fast and Furious, Outrageous Outrage

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