TagsTagsHere’s a great editorial at Long Island’s The Jewish Star, responding to my post about “Why I Parted Ways with the Right:” Editorial: Losing the right to be Right. Something unheard of happened on the Internet on November 20th. Defying all historical precedent, someone actually changed his mind. Charles Johnson, the popular ...
Right Wing, Barack Obama, Bad Craziness, Far Right, paranoia, Extremism, Homophobia
Because the wackos have taken over. Should the “Tea Party” movement organize itself to run congressional candidates across the country, it would poll better than the Republican Party, according to a new survey by Rasmussen Reports. In the national telephone poll of 1,000 likely voters released Monday, 23 percent said they ...
GOP, Republican Party, Extremism, Right Wing, Far Right, social conservatism, Religious Right, Tea Parties
In the previous thread, I mentioned that I was considering doing a post about the endless flood of phony scandals from right wing blogs, Fox News, World Nut Daily, etc. etc., and it was more than a little amazing how many examples LGF readers came up with. Climategate is just ...
Nontroversy, Scandal, Barack Obama, Right Wing, Bad Craziness, Conspiracy Theories
The Week magazine has an article with some reactions to my post “Why I Parted Ways with the Right,” from both left-leaning and right-leaning sites: ‘Why I left the right’ - THE WEEK. The righty blogs they picked are some of the saner ones; check out a Google Blog Search on ...
Right Wing, Barack Obama, Bad Craziness, Far Right, paranoia, Extremism, Homophobia
Well, the right wing blogosphere has responded to my post about their almost universal hate speech and ugly ranting with … a deluge of hate speech and ugly ranting. You can easily find numerous examples just by taking a short cruise around the right wing sites, but probably the best ...
Right Wing, Barack Obama, Bad Craziness, Far Right, paranoia, Extremism, Homophobia, Free Republic
1. Support for fascists, both in America (see: Pat Buchanan, Robert Stacy McCain, etc.) and in Europe (see: Vlaams Belang, BNP, SIOE, Pat Buchanan, etc.) 2. Support for bigotry, hatred, and white supremacism (see: Pat Buchanan, Ann Coulter, Robert Stacy McCain, Lew Rockwell, etc.) 3. Support for throwing women back into the ...
Right Wing, Barack Obama, Bad Craziness, Far Right, Conspiracy Theories, paranoia, Extremism, Glenn Beck, ADL
This is just unbelievable to me; the national Republican Party is actually going to consider a purity test that candidates for the 2010 elections must swear to uphold — or forfeit any GOP campaign money. The far right section of the GOP is really feeling its oats lately, and now ...
GOP, Republican Party, Extremism, Right Wing, Far Right, RNC, 2010 Elections, Purity, Purge, social conservatism, Religious Right
Missouri’s Lafayette County Republican Central Committee has put up a billboard proudly advising citizens to prepare for the violent overthrow of the US government: Lafayette County Politics: New I-70 billboard replaces famed OBAMANATION sign. Reads: Vote Out Incumbents. Live Free or Die! UPDATE at 11/22/09 11:28:16 am: More billboard bad craziness: And an ...
Sedition, Revolution, Right Wing, Extremism, Republican Party, GOP, Bad Craziness
White supremacist blogger Robert Stacy McCain continues to be welcomed in Republican circles; here he is posing at the American Spectator dinner with the two videographers who filmed the ACORN sting tapes: An O’Keefe/Giles Victory Lap. Also see: Sarah Palin’s Book Ghostwritten by Associate of White Supremacist McCain Robert Stacy McCain and the ...
Robert Stacy McCain, White supremacism, Racism, Neo-Nazis, Right Wing, Hate Speech, Neo-Confederate
Far right New York congressional candidate Doug Hoffman has posted a wacky, paranoid “unconcession” letter at his website; he accuses ACORN and “the unions” of “tampering with democracy,” and the file name of the web page is “stolenelection.html.” Wow. Stop Another Stolen Election! (Hat tip: Dave Weigel, who points out that ...
GOP, Republican Party, Extremism, Right Wing, Dede Scozzafava, Doug Hoffman, Conservative Party, Bill Owens
Prodded by Glenn Beck, far right candidate Doug Hoffman has ‘unconceded’ in New York 23. After some tabulating errors were discovered, Owens’ lead over Hoffman shrunk to 3,026 votes. But there are as many as 10,000 oustanding absentee and paper ballots that only today will begin to be counted. (And ...
GOP, Republican Party, Extremism, Right Wing, Dede Scozzafava, Doug Hoffman, Conservative Party, Bill Owens, Glenn Beck
The Anti-Defamation League has released a detailed report on the increasing anger and hostility among the right wing, singling out many of the same personalities and issues on which LGF has been focusing recently. This is the index page with summaries of the main points: Rage Grows in America: Anti-Government ...
Right Wing, Barack Obama, Bad Craziness, Far Right, Conspiracy Theories, paranoia, Extremism, Glenn Beck, ADL
Here’s some not entirely unsuccessful science humor from the National Center for Science Education, taking down creationist Ray Comfort and his ridiculous “special” version of Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species.” [Video]
Evolution, Creationism, Ray Comfort, charles darwin, Bananas, Right Wing, Anti-Science, Eugenie Scott, NCSE
On his first visit to Japan, one of America’s most valued allies, President Obama greets Emperor Akihito with a traditional bow and the right wing blogosphere completely loses it. Some of this stuff is blatantly racist too. A commenter at Hot Air gives his perspective: Someone needs to give this half white ...
Barack Obama, Bowgate, Japan, Emperor, Nontroversy, silliness, Right Wing, Racism
A very interesting open letter from Conor Friedersdorf to Jonah Goldberg. I’m writing this letter as a fan – I’ve tremendous respect for the pioneering work you did at National Review Online, your attempts to inject humor into political writing, and the enjoyable debates you’ve done with Peter Beinart. But ...
I watched this earlier and was going to export from EyeTV and upload it to YouTube, but Think Progress beat me to it so I’ll use their video. It’s not one of the GOP’s finest moments (to put it mildly), as House Republicans shout, scream, and make repetitive objections over the ...
Holocaust survivor and author Elie Wiesel condemned signs containing Holocaust imagery and antisemitic conspiracy theories, at Michele Bachmann’s “tea party” event last Thursday. One sign at the rally contained images of dead Holocaust victims at the Dachau concentration camp under the banner “National Socialist Health Care.” Another sign said that ...
Michele Bachmann, Loopy, Extremism, Right Wing, Health Care, Abortion, Elie Wiesel, Tea Party
Pastor Stephen Broden from Dallas Texas gives the benediction at Michele Bachmann’s “house call” protest against the health care reform bill, and immediately launches a political diatribe about “death panels!” and “death care!” and tyranny and socialism and anti-Christ abortion and violation of all the laws of God and nature. ...
Michele Bachmann, Loopy, Extremism, Right Wing, Health Care, Abortion, Sex Clinics, Pastor Broden, Death Panel
C-SPAN 3 is covering the Michele Bachmann anti-health care tea party swarm right now; as I write, Jon Voight is speaking on the steps of the Capitol. I’d estimate the crowd at between 7.3 and 8.2 million people. At least. UPDATE at 11/5/09 10:03:39 am: The word of the day on the house ...
Michele Bachmann, Loopy, Extremism, Right Wing, Health Care, Abortion, Sex Clinics
Michele Bachmann’s (R-Mars) chief of staff is bailing out, and declines to say why. The aide who helped turn Rep. Michele Bachmann into a controversial mainstay of cable news has informed colleagues that she’s quitting — just as the firebrand Republican congresswoman prepares for her biggest media moment yet. Multiple sources ...
Michele Bachmann, Loopy, Extremism, Right Wing, Health Care, Abortion, Sex Clinics
Here’s video of RNC chairman Michael Steele’s statement this morning, with some pointed comments aimed at Sarah Palin, Tim Pawlenty, and RedState blogger Erick Erickson’s claim that the NY-23 loss was a “victory:” Steele Throws Elbow to Palin, Pawlenty on NY-23. [Video]
GOP, Republican Party, Michael Steele, Right Wing, Dede Scozzafava, Doug Hoffman, Conservative Party, Bill Owens, Video
Meet the next hero of the tea party movement: In NY-23, Hoffman Vows to ‘Continue This Fight’. “I can guarantee you the political world hasn’t seen the last of me,” the Conservative Party candidate told Washington Wire today, after losing the closely watched special House election in upstate New York ...
GOP, Republican Party, Extremism, Right Wing, Dede Scozzafava, Doug Hoffman, Conservative Party, Bill Owens
Over at RedState, the all-spin zone, CEO Erick Erickson is trying his best to take the NY-23 loss, dress it up in a cheap suit, and call it a “victory:” In NY-23, Conservatives Win. Erickson’s “point,” if it can be called that, is that the far right “sent a message,” scared ...
GOP, Republican Party, Extremism, Right Wing, Dede Scozzafava, Doug Hoffman, Conservative Party, Bill Owens
Unless some of the late precincts are packing a big surprise, it looks like Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman has been defeated by Democrat Bill Owens in New York’s 23rd congressional district election… UPDATE at 11/3/09 9:18:47 pm: Yep — Hoffman has conceded to Owens. So there’s the first Democrat victory in ...
GOP, Republican Party, Extremism, Right Wing, Dede Scozzafava, Doug Hoffman, Conservative Party, Bill Owens
Hot Air may have put me in their “Left Channels,” but Think Progress still categorizes me as a “conservative” blogger: Think Progress » Doug Hoffman Praises Glenn Beck As His ‘Mentor’. Conservative blogger Charles Johnson of the site Little Green Footballs reported yesterday that Doug Hoffman, the Conservative Party candidate ...