TagsTagsBooga boogaProving that right wing attack memes never die, they just get eternally recycled, another super-rich wingnut is funding a campaign to try to tie Barack Obama to Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Yes, again. G.O.P. 'Super PAC' Weighs Hard-Line Attack on Obama. WASHINGTON — A group of high-profile Republican strategists is working with ...
President Obama, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Race-Baiting, Super PAC, Right Wing, smears
Almost missed this one; remember when the entire right wing blogosphere went into a race-baiting frenzy over a story from Alabama, in which a white man was beaten by a group of African Americans who, according to the wingnuts, said it was "justice for Trayvon Martin?" Well, the story was bogus. ...
Trayvon Martin, Alabama, Hate Crime, Right Wing, Race-Baiting
Here's an interesting look at the race-baiting propaganda tactics of Breitbart.com, a tip sent by LGF reader Dave, who tracked down the speech from which Breitbart blogger Ben Shapiro used one photo to illustrate his article on Michelle Obama. (The article that prompted an outpouring of rage and racist hatred ...
Breitbart.com, Hate Speech, Michelle Obama, Mini-Breitbarts, Race-Baiting, Racism, Right Wing, Propaganda
Breitbart.com's Ben Shapiro digs into his folder named "Angry Michelle" and finds the perfect picture for his latest exercise in race-baiting: Michelle: Community Organize for Barack! And of course, the people who post comments at Breitbart.com respond in the usual Pavlovian way with a sickening deluge of hatred, comparing the First ...
Breitbart.com, Mini-Breitbarts, Racism, Hate Speech, Michelle Obama, Right Wing, Race-Baiting
Gawker announces today that their new writer is a current Fox News Channel employee, who shall remain nameless. He (or she) brought along a video, showing Mitt Romney before an appearance on the Sean Hannity show, discussing the horses Romney and his wife own, and warning each other that it's ...
Fox News, Fox Nation, Racism, Race-Baiting, Gawker, Mitt Romney
A terrible thing happened recently to Daily Caller writer Mark Judge: someone stole his bicycle. The bike was a source of great joy and inspiration for Mark, so you can imagine how totally devastated he must have been. But as many negative experiences do, this terrible theft had its bright side: ...
Daily Caller, Racism, Right Wing, Race-Baiting, WTF!?, Cycling
It's pretty revealing to see how Breitbart.com's editor-in-chief Joel Pollak reacts when the absolutely blatant racism and paranoia of his commenters is exposed. This isn't a surprise to him, of course -- Breitbart.com's articles are specifically targeted at inciting this type of racism and whiny right wing victimhood, and the ...
Breitbart.com, Mini-Breitbarts, Racism, Race-Baiting, Right Wing Business Model, Joel Pollak
Malevolent Gingrich via Shutterstock Speaking today on the Sean Hannity radio show, Newt Gingrich found a way to picture President Obama's remarks on Trayvon Martin as "disgraceful." What's disgraceful is Gingrich's bizarre criticism; believe it or not, he's saying that Obama would have been just fine "if it had been a white ...
Trayvon Martin, President Obama, Racism, newt gingrich, Race-Baiting, Disgusting
Apparently, the followers of Andrew Breitbart believe that being Hispanic means you can't be white: MEDIA LABELS HISPANIC MAN WHITE IN SHOOTING OF BLACK TEEN. On Friday night, a young African-American teenager, Trayvon Martin, was shot to death in Orlando by a neighborhood watch captain, George Zimmerman. The media immediately ...
Breitbart.com, Race-Baiting, Hispanic, Latino, Racism, Trayvon Martin
Video Soledad O'Brien had a great followup yesterday on the subject of "Critical Race Theory," calling on Emory University's Dorothy Brown, who teaches the theory, to explain it in more detail. Along the way, the distorted nonsense still being hyped by the Breitbart.com gang was thoroughly destroyed. Here's Dorothy Brown answering the ...
Soledad O'Brien, Breitbart.com, Mini-Breitbarts, Joel Pollak, Dorothy Brown, Critical Race Theory, Dishonesty, Race-Baiting, Smear, Right Wing
Sarah Palin, clearly upset by the Obama campaign's advertisement calling her out for her ugly race-baiting comments that Obama wants to "bring us back to the days before the Civil War," has now doubled down on her attacks against the President in a post on Facebook: Let's Talk About the ...
Sarah Palin, President Obama, Racism, Dog Whistle, Race-Baiting, Right Wing, Breitbart.com
YouTube Video An official Obama campaign ad directly confronts the ugly race-baiting of Sarah Palin, who claimed yesterday that the President wants to "bring us back to the days before the Civil War."
President Obama, Sarah Palin, Civil War, Race-Baiting, Right Wing, Far Right, Election 2012
What can you even say about this? Mitt Romney clearly understands that the GOP base is responding to Gingrich's ugly race-baiting, so he's jumping right into the sewer with Newt. TPM’s Benjy Sarlin is at a Romney Rally in Ormond Beach, Florida and tweets that the former Gov. said “I ...
Newt Gingrich's appallingly overt race-baiting has paid off big-time in South Carolina, where the Confederate flag flies in front of the state Capitol building: Gingrich Is Well-Positioned as South Carolina Votes. Newt Gingrich, who had trailed Mitt Romney by a double-digit margin in South Carolina in several polls conducted just ...
newt gingrich, Republican Party, Election 2012, Race-Baiting, South Carolina
Here's an open thread for wrap-up comments about tonight's GOP debate, possibly the most race-baiting debate so far, on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. I could hardly believe the audience reactions tonight. For example:
Republican Party, Debate, Fox News, Race-Baiting, Dog Whistle
Chris Matthews takes an interesting look back at Newt Gingrich's long history of rhetorical bomb-throwing and race-baiting. Video
newt gingrich, Chris Matthews, Race-Baiting, Racism, Adultery, Republican Party
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
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
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
The Fox Nation website is the unfiltered id of Fox News; the stuff they hint at or imply on FoxNews.com is right out in the open at Nation.FoxNews.com. Remember when Fox Business host Eric Bolling was forced to issue an obviously insincere apology after his outrageously racist show about Obama inviting ...
Fox News, Fox Nation, Right Wing, Extremism, President Obama, Race-Baiting, Racism
The deranged, blatantly racist and sexist advertisement produced by wingnut loon Ladd Ehrlinger, Jr. to attack Democrat Janice Hahn in California's special election didn't help her Tea Party opponent: California special election: Janice Hahn cruises to solid victory. Democrat Janice Hahn defeated Republican Craig Huey in a bitterly contested Southern ...
California, Janice Hahn, Special Election, Racism, Race-Baiting, Right Wing
Hah! Just go look at this page at Buzzfeed; the title should tell you everything you need to know: Actual News Headlines Vs. Fox News Headlines. One example out of many:
Fox News, Fox Nation, Right Wing, Extremism, President Obama, Distortion, Race-Baiting
Today, California Republican Craig Huey denounced the crude racist and sexist advertisement produced by wingnut loon Ladd Ehrlinger, Jr., but his opponent in the special election, Janice Hahn, is calling for an investigation into whether Ehrlinger coordinated illegally with the Huey campaign. Hahn's campaign noted that the video was produced ...
If you think you've already seen the worst Tea Party racism, you're sadly mistaken. Because a group called Turn Right USA has released an attack ad directed at Democrat Janice Hahn, intended to help Republicans in the upcoming special election in California. It's a mind-blower. This freakishly awful web video was ...
"Race-baiting pig" also works for serial philanderer Newt Gingrich. MACON, Ga. — Republican Newt Gingrich told a Georgia audience on Friday evening that the 2012 presidential election is the most consequential since the 1860 race that elected Abraham Lincoln to the White House and was soon followed by the Civil War. Addressing ...
newt gingrich, Hypocrisy, Philandering, Religious Right, Race-Baiting