TagsTagsHere’s a rematch with Conn Carroll of the Heritage Foundation; I pressed him pretty hard on the John Birch Society at CPAC (the talking point response is: “there were lots of groups at CPAC”), and the Heritage Foundation’s support for “intelligent design” creationism. And we found a couple of (relatively ...
James O'Keefe, Racism, Right Wing, CPAC, John Birch Society, Creationism, Little Green Footballs, Video, Bloggingheads
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
Amazingly, Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit) manages to write a puff piece for the Wall Street Journal about the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville without even mentioning Tom Tancredo’s racist call to bring back literacy tests or Joseph Farah’s Birther/theocrat speech and resulting standing ovation. How is it possible to be that ...
Tea Party, Bad Craziness, Racism, Tom Tancredo, Literacy Tests, Joseph Farah, Birthers, Extremism, Glenn Reynolds
On “The View” today, Meghan McCain called out Tom Tancredo for his shocking dog whistle racism speech at the Tea Party Convention in Nashville. McCain: Congressman Tancredo went on TV and he was the first opening speaker and he said, ‘People who could not even spell the word vote or ...
Tea Party, Bad Craziness, Racism, Tom Tancredo, Literacy Tests, Meghan McCain
On the first night of the first National Tea Party Convention the featured speaker, Tom Tancredo, blew the racist dog whistle so loudly they heard it in Alabama. In the 1960s. The opening-night speaker at first ever National Tea Party Convention ripped into President Obama, Sen. John McCain and “the cult ...
Tea Party, Bad Craziness, Racism, Tom Tancredo, Literacy Tests
In many ways I have an enormous amount of respect for Dennis Prager; unlike some of his fellow talk radio hosts, he gets deep into the issues, and for the most part refrains from demagoguery. And he and I have many things in common, particularly an understanding of the danger ...
Little Green Footballs, New York Times, Profile, Dennis Prager, Right Wing, Hate Speech, Racism
I have some business in the analog world today, so I’ll have a more detailed response to Dennis Prager’s article (posted at several conservative websites today) a bit later. But in the meantime I’ll just make one point about his conclusion: 10. Hatred for President Obama that goes far beyond ...
Little Green Footballs, New York Times, Profile, Dennis Prager, Right Wing, Hate Speech, Racism
Dale Robertson is in the Washington Times again, described as a “leading figure” in the tea party movement: ‘Tea party’ activists feel slighted by GOP. Leading figures in the burgeoning “tea party” movement complain they are being ignored by the Republican National Committee, despite having already shown their clout in ...
Tea Party, Protest, Demonstration, Houston, Racism, Bad Craziness, GOP
More of Rush Limbaugh’s patented sleazy race-baiting from his Wednesday radio show, as he says President Obama will use the Haitian disaster to boost his credibility with the ‘light-skinned and dark-skinned black community in this country’. Also in the same show, he argued against government aid to Haiti. Lovely. [Video] UPDATE at ...
At True/Slant, Barrett Brown has been getting into it with wingnut blogger Donald Douglas, and the story of Douglas’s latest attempt to defend the white supremacist connections of Robert Stacy McCain has some amusing turns. Brown has put up two posts that should be read in order for the full effect: Seven ...
Robert Stacy McCain, White supremacism, Racism, Right Wing, Barrett Brown
Mark Halperin and John Heilemann’s new book “Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime,” is making plenty of waves in Washington; today Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid apologized for remarks cited in the book, describing then-candidate Barack Obama as “light-skinned … with ...
Man. This is just classic. The Washington Times reports that “tea party leader” Dale Robertson is warning the GOP that the teabaggers are “turning their guns” on Republicans who aren’t far enough to the right. A founder of the Tea Party movement said Wednesday he had a warning for Republican ...
Tea Party, Protest, Demonstration, Houston, Racism, Bad Craziness
Ryan Mauro claims that I called him a racist — I didn’t — and posts yet another one of those straw man attacks for which the right wing has become infamous: Darnit! Charles Johnson Catches Me Being a Racist! Whatever Shall I Do? Oddly, he includes no link to LGF in ...
Bloggingheads, Video, Little Green Footballs, Abortion, Tea Parties, Creationism, Anti-Science, Right Wing, Racism, Christian Action Network, Homophobia
Here’s RedState.com’s head wingnut, Erick Erickson, confronted by Stephen Colbert with just a few of the weird extremist statements he’s made; for example, that “Justice Souter is a goat-f*cking child molester,” and “I didn’t realize the Nobel Prize committee had an affirmative action quota.” Erickson says the former statement “wasn’t his ...
Stephen Colbert, Comedy, Erick Erickson, Right Wing, Video, RedState.com, Racism, Hate Speech
This is ironic, since I just finished a recording for Bloggingheads.tv in which Conn Carroll of the Heritage Foundation insisted there was no racism evident at the tea party demonstrations — and now here we have Dale Robertson, leader of TeaParty.org, in trouble for appearing at the February 27, 2009 ...
Tea Party, Protest, Demonstration, Houston, Racism, Bad Craziness
Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit) says this picture of Barack Obama as a shoeshine boy isn’t racist — because Rush Limbaugh was a shoeshine boy. UPDATE: Or is it racist? Rush Limbaugh actually was a shoeshine boy. Yeah the racial stereotype is a bit shaky — when I was a kid I ...
Racism, Right Wing, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Instapundit, Rush Limbaugh
Looks like my post about the Photoshopped image of Barack Obama shining Sarah Palin’s shoes hit a nerve in the wingnut universe, because someone has actually spent time on New Year’s Day to create another version of the picture, pasting my head on the shoe shine boy’s body: The caption asks: ...
Racism, Right Wing, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Charles Johnson, Stupidity
After bloggers began pointing them out, Minnesota Republican State Senate candidate Mike Parry deleted more than 40 racist and anti-gay comments from his Twitter feed: Senate candidate scrubs racist comments from Twitter. Among the tweets erased by Parry was a May 27 comment about President Obama: “read the exclusive on ...
GOP, Republican Party, Extremism, Right Wing, Homophobia, Anti-Gay, Racism
Here’s yet another ugly little upwelling of racism from the right wing base, as a Colorado Department of Transportation employee forwards an email to her co-workers containing a photoshopped image of President Barack Obama giving Sarah Palin a shoeshine. UPDATE at 1/1/10 4:52:47 pm: The shoeshine picture is also in this thread ...
Do wingnuts have an aversion to mirrors, like vampires? Twitter user “obamascare” tweets: ‘Avatar’ Contains Racist and Liberal Messages http://j.mp/4FTcZT #tcot Avatar #climategate #gorefraud With a link to a Yahoo review of the movie. Notice that it’s copied to #tcot, which stands for “Top Conservatives On Twitter.” The ridiculously hypocritical part ...
Movies, Avatar, Racism, Barack Obama, wingnuts, Right Wing, Bigotry
Imagine my surprise to discover that white supremacist blogger Robert Stacy McCain has cravenly refused Barrett Brown’s challenge: Stacy McCain Finally Acknowledges, Declines My Offer to Debate. And in classic Stacy McCain style, he throws in an ugly smear while running away. McCain uses his post as an opportunity to deploy ...
Robert Stacy McCain, White supremacism, Racism, Neo-Nazis, Right Wing, Hate Speech, Neo-Confederate, Bill White, Barrett Brown
You have to wonder why white supremacist blogger Robert Stacy McCain won’t even acknowledge Barrett Brown’s invitation to an email debate on McCain’s numerous racist connections and statements — when Brown has offered to print the entire unedited email exchange in his upcoming book. If McCain really has nothing to be ...
Robert Stacy McCain, White supremacism, Racism, Neo-Nazis, Right Wing, Hate Speech, Neo-Confederate, Bill White, Barrett Brown
Robert Stacy McCain’s neo-Nazi pal Bill White, who McCain met at a 2002 conference of the white nationalist group American Renaissance, has been convicted in Virginia on four counts of making online threats, and may be spending a long time in prison. ROANOKE, Va. (AP) A federal jury in Virginia ...
Robert Stacy McCain, White supremacism, Racism, Neo-Nazis, Right Wing, Hate Speech, Neo-Confederate, Bill White
Robert Stacy McCain’s neo-Nazi pal Bill White (the guy McCain got published in the Washington Times), is in big trouble in Virginia, as people testify about his stalking and threats: Columnist Describes Barrage of Threats from Nazi Leader. Also see: Target of Neo-Nazi Threatmaker Bill White Tells of Fear. Here are the LGF ...
Robert Stacy McCain, White supremacism, Racism, Neo-Nazis, Right Wing, Hate Speech, Neo-Confederate, Bill White
If you still refuse to believe that Barack Obama has become a truly centrist President, read his Nobel Prize acceptance speech. I face the world as it is, and cannot stand idle in the face of threats to the American people. For make no mistake: evil does exist in the ...