TagsTagsPrison via Shutterstock It's interesting to see the same weird, bigoted memes emerge simultaneously at both the top and the bottom of the right wing food chain. Emerging from the bottom, a comment posted at Breitbart.com in their ongoing series of attacks on CNN anchor Soledad O'Brien: “Soledad.” One helluva sexy name ...
Breitbart.com, Mini-Breitbarts, Soledad O'Brien, Roger Ailes, Comments, Right Wing
Another day, another completely fake right wing outrage. Today's trumped-up nonsense from the right involves Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen, who criticized Mitt Romney for using his wife to claim he understood the difficulties faced by working women. Rosen's exact words were: "Guess what, his wife has actually never worked a ...
Mitt Romney, Ann Romney, Women's Rights, Hilary Rosen, Fake Outrage, Right Wing
Dan Riehl, one of the star bloggers at Breitbart.com (one of his recent race-baiting posts got the coveted Drudge link there), is also known as one of the most inadvertently hilarious writers in the wingnut blogosphere. Not as dim as Jim Hoft, of course; no one is. But Dan has ...
National Review, Racism, White supremacism, White Nationalism, Robert Weissberg, John Derbyshire, Right Wing, Dan Riehl, Mini-Breitbarts, Breitbart.com, Inadvertent Comedy
LGF gets results: Regarding Robert Weissberg - National Review Online. Unbeknowst to us, occasional Phi Beta Cons contributor Robert Weissberg (whose book was published a few years ago by Transaction) participated in an American Renaissance conference where he delivered a noxious talk about the future of white nationalism. He will ...
National Review, John Derbyshire, Robert Weissberg, Racism, White Nationalism, Right Wing
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
Notice that in this post announcing the firing of John Derbyshire from National Review, Rich Lowry doesn't use the word "racist" once: Parting Ways - by Rich Lowry - the Corner - National Review Online. Anyone who has read Derb in our pages knows he’s a deeply literate, funny, and ...
John Derbyshire, Right Wing, Far Right, Racism, White Nationalism, Bad Craziness, Trayvon Martin
Here's wingnut blogger Dan Riehl again, with an incoherent post attacking me and defending John Derbyshire's twisted racist article, while recounting a sad tale from his youth fighting in the streets against gangs of black kids: Riehl World View: The Left's Misguided Attack on John Derbyshire. However, I do remember ...
Right Wing, Breitbart.com, Dan Riehl, Idiocy, John Derbyshire, Racism, White Nationalism
National Review writer John Derbyshire has outdone himself this time. This article at TakiMag.com (more on this later) is his version of "the talk" black parents have with their children to warn them about the existence of racism -- and it's overtly racist, paranoid, and frankly deranged: The Talk: Nonblack ...
John Derbyshire, Right Wing, Far Right, Racism, White Nationalism, Bad Craziness, Trayvon Martin
Fox News anchor Heather Childers, who tweeted links to a radical right wing conspiracy website yesterday accusing Barack Obama of threatening to kill Chelsea Clinton and faking his birth certificate, has today set her Twitter account to protected. Meanwhile, LGF reader RadicalModerate took a look at "Godfather Politics," the site to ...
Fox News, Birthers, Conspiracy Theories, Bad Craziness, Heather Childers, Right Wing, President Obama
Fox News anchor Heather Childers is on Twitter, and she's merrily tweeting links to a bugeyed crazy far right website called "Godfather Politics," asking the question: Thoughts? Did Obama Campaign Threaten Chelsea Clinton's Life 2 Keep Parents Silent? Godfather Politics: godfatherpolitics.com/4506/obama-cam... via @AddThis — Heather Childers (@HeatherChilders) April 3, 2012 Your eyes ...
Fox News, Birthers, Conspiracy Theories, Bad Craziness, Heather Childers, Right Wing
Rick Santorum is not going to be the President of the US. But has there ever been a presidential candidate so totally disconnected from the real world? In this clip Rachel Maddow takes apart Santorum's absurd counter-factual claim that California universities do not teach American history. Why does Santorum tell such ...
Rick Santorum, Rachel Maddow, California, Anti-Academic, Dishonesty, Right Wing, Video
One of the weirdest reactionary things conservatives do is to gleefully waste energy to show those dumb liberals what they think of their "Earth Day" and "Earth Hour:" Turn on the Lights for Human Achievement Hour. Tonight, from 8:30 to 9:30, environmentalists will observe Earth Hour, turning off all their ...
Earth Hour, Environment, Right Wing, Reactionary, Spiteful, Idiocy
NOT MY PROBLEMSince I posted yesterday about Dan Riehl's ugly race-baiting article at Breitbart.com and the deluge of overtly racist comments that followed, hundreds more comments have been posted there: Hoodie-Wearing Gunmen Kill 1, Wound 5 in Bobby Rush's Chicago District. None of the sickening hate speech quoted in our previous ...
Breitbart.com, Mini-Breitbarts, Dan Riehl, Racism, Hate Speech, Right Wing
Here's Dan "Darker Means Guiltier" Riehl again at Breitbart.com, with another blatantly race-baiting post: Hoodie-Wearing Gunmen Kill 1, Wound 5 in Bobby Rush's Chicago District. No point in quoting this; I'll just give you the short version. Blacks, crime, hoodies, blacks, crime, Black Panthers. Also, blacks. Riehl's audience at Breitbart.com takes it ...
Breitbart.com, Mini-Breitbarts, Racism, Hate Speech, Dan Riehl, Right Wing
Speaking today on Fox News (the only place she ever speaks), half-governor Sarah Palin tossed another absurd word salad to her wingnut admirers, blathering that President Obama "orchestrated" his remarks about Trayvon Martin. “I think it was orchestrated,” Palin said. “I’m going to get clobbered for even suggesting this, but ...
Sarah Palin, Word Salad, Fox News, Racism, Trayvon Martin, Right Wing, Idiocy
The City of Sanford has uploaded a more complete set of video clips showing George Zimmerman being brought into the police station after killing Trayvon Martin, and again there is absolutely no evidence of injuries to Zimmerman, neither on the back of his head (which supposedly had "lacerations") nor to ...
Trayvon Martin, Florida, Crime, George Zimmerman, Right Wing
Yes, they're at it again. The denizens of the comment forums on Fox News are spewing almost unbelievable amounts of racist hatred and sick violent fantasies in yet another thread: House Democrats Call Trayvon Martin Death 'Murder,' Racial Profiling | Fox News. There are more than 6,000 comments for this article, ...
Fox News, Trayvon Martin, Racism, Hate Speech, Bad Craziness, Right Wing
This is good news; those unnecessary xenophobic "anti-shariah" bills promoted by the loony right wing are failing across the nation: Anti-Shariah Movement Loses Steam in State Legislatures. At this point in 2011, 22 state legislatures had either passed or were considering bills to prohibit judges from considering either Islamic law, ...
Anti-Muslim, Right Wing, Bad Craziness, Bigot Brigade, Idiocy
Yesterday, when I posted the article about Dan Riehl's ludicrous racist fail, he immediately sent this to me on Twitter: @LizardoidI get confused, Chuckie. How many years has it been since you've been relevant? — DanRiehl (@DanRiehl) March 24, 2012 But it looks like Dan is suddenly pretty concerned about my relevance ...
Trayvon Martin, Crime, Conspiracy Theories, Dan Riehl, Mini-Breitbarts, Idiocy, Racism, Right Wing
The Onion
The more I learn about Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law, the worse it looks: Opponents of Florida's 2005 'Stand Your Ground' Law Predicted 'Racially Motivated Killings'. Rep. Dennis BaxleySeven years ago, opponents of the “Stand Your Ground” legislation predicted it could lead to racially motivated killings. From Reuters, April 2005: “For ...
Florida, Trayvon Martin, Crime, Stand Your Ground, NRA, Neo-Confederates, Racism, Right Wing
In a column for the Philadelphia Inquirer, Rick Santorum proves again that he is probably the dumbest, most determinedly ignorant right winger ever to run for President, with an attack on evolution and global warming that's absolutely breathtaking in its mindless hostility toward science: The Elephant in the Room: Challenging ...
Rick Santorum, Anti-Science, Evolution, Global Warming, Right Wing, Deliberate Ignorance, Religious Right, Bad Craziness
If you've been trying to make sense out of the blizzard of information about the Florida shooting death of 17-year old Trayvon Martin, here's a very good explainer at Mother Jones: The Trayvon Martin Killing, Explained. The more we learn about this case, the more it looks like a serious miscarriage ...
I've seen this kind of weird thinking before, but it's still a little amazing to encounter people who blithely give themselves permission to use racial slurs, and then deny there's anything racist about it: Exclusive: Seller of Controversial Anti-Obama Sticker Says It's Not Racist. Paula Smith of Hinesville, Georgia has ...
President Obama, Racism, Georgia, Right Wing, Fantasyland, Bad Craziness
DERPJim Hoft, the "GatewayPundit," has long been known as the Internet's Dumbest Wingnut. But lately he's been competing for the title of Internet's Most Dishonest Wingnut too. Today the right wing religious fanatic is furiously trying to claim that the former public relations director of the San Diego Tea Party, Michael ...
Gateway Pundit, Jim Hoft, Right Wing, Occupy Wall Street, Crime, Idiocy, Dimmitude, Tea Party