TagsTagsBloggers won't be running out of material any time soon, with the GOP's goofiest right wing extremist, Sharron Angle, forming a new TeaBagger umbrella group called "Patriot Caucus." Former Nevada GOP Senate candidate Sharron Angle is angling to lead the tea party movement heading into 2012. Angle over the weekend unveiled ...
Nevada, Tea Parties, Far Right, Bad Craziness, Sharron Angle, John Birch Society, Republican Party, Xenophobia
Sharron Angle's overtly racist ads featuring images of menacing Latinos seriously backfired on her; she garnered just 8% of the Latino vote, compared to Harry Reid's 90%. In this election, the Tea Party GOP made a calculation to pander to the racist and xenophobic elements of their base, and this is ...
Nevada, Tea Parties, Far Right, Bad Craziness, Sharron Angle, John Birch Society, Republican Party, Xenophobia
Quite a difference from the signs we usually see at Tea Party events, courtesy of LGF reader Carl Hoffman. Click the picture to start the slideshow... %%SLIDESHOW=/slideshows/20 101030RallyToRestoreSanity|http://little greenfootballs.com/weblog/pictures/ZZ1FC D1E90.jpg%%
Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Comedy, Tea Parties, Demonstration, Reasonableness, Freaking Out, Mongering, Photography
Sometimes I wake up, have some coffee, load up Tweetdeck to check Twitter, and discover that all the wingnuts are chattering excitedly about a crushing new post by someone that really puts me in my place, smacks me down, and destroys the last shreds of my credibility. Seems to happen ...
Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Comedy, Tea Parties, Demonstration, Reasonableness, Freaking Out, Mongering
Based on aerial photos taken by AirPhotosLive.com, the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear attracted approximately 215,000 people, more than twice as many as Glenn Beck's 9/12 religious right rally. An estimated 215,000 people attended a rally organized by Comedy Central talk show hosts Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert Saturday ...
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From The Stewart/Colbert Rally, our photo of the day (courtesy of LGF reader simoom):
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Here's the live video feed for the Stewart-Colbert Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear. An estimate from an unnamed Parks Service employee puts attendance at "well over 200,000," according to the New York Times's Brian Stelter. Publicly, Parks Service doesn't estimate crowds. Privately, it has told Viacom there are "well ...
Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Comedy, Tea Parties, Demonstration, Reasonableness, Freaking Out, Mongering, Live Video
Nevada Tea Party loon Sharron Angle gives us our quote for the day: "You know, the two wars that we're in right now is exactly what we're in." [Video]
Nevada, Tea Parties, Far Right, Bad Craziness, Sharron Angle, John Birch Society, Republican Party, Dimmitude
Univision has announced that they're not going to run the outrageous advertisement from a Republican front group trying to suppress the Latino vote in Nevada: BREAKING: Univision Will Not Air GOP Group’s Ad Telling Latinos Not To Vote. "Univision will not be running any spots from Latinos for Reform related ...
Nevada, Tea Parties, Far Right, Bad Craziness, Republican Party, Immigration
As mentioned recently on LGF, Nevada Tea Party crazy lady Sharron Angle, in her ridiculous speech to a Hispanic student union, claimed that the 9/11 hijackers came through the Canadian border -- calling it "the most porous border we have." Leaving aside the sheer deceptive stupidity of trying to float this ...
Nevada, Tea Parties, Far Right, Bad Craziness, Republican Party, Immigration
I wish I could say this was unbelievable, but nothing the Republicans do surprises me any more. A GOP front group calling itself "Latinos for Reform" is actually running ads in Nevada telling Latinos they should not vote. [Video] (Hat tip: TPM.)
Nevada, Tea Parties, Far Right, Bad Craziness, Republican Party, Immigration
Jon Ralston has more video of Sharron Angle's speech to Hispanic high school students, and it's getting even weirder: Angle to Hispanic children: 'Some of you look a little more Asian to me'. "So that’s what we want is a secure and sovereign nation and, you know, I don’t know ...
Nevada, Tea Parties, Far Right, Bad Craziness, Sharron Angle, John Birch Society, Republican Party, Immigration
Sharron Angle proved yesterday that she'll lie shamelessly to anyone, telling a group of Hispanic high school students that those images of threatening Latinos in her campaign ad may not be Latinos at all. Then she went on to make an even more outrageous claim, in a campaign dedicated to race-baiting ...
Nevada, Tea Parties, Far Right, Bad Craziness, Sharron Angle, John Birch Society, Republican Party, Immigration
Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert's dueling rallies are shaping up to be truly massive. Sign-ups for the rally have been tallied on Facebook. Beyond the 290,000 who have so far signed on as definite attendees, 145,000 more have listed themselves as maybes. The site Rallymao.com has assembled a roster of the ...
Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Comedy, Tea Parties, Demonstration, Reasonableness, Freaking Out, Mongering
Tea Party crazy lady Sharron Angle is scheduled to debate Harry Reid in Nevada tonight, and it starts in just a few minutes. You can watch live over the web at C-SPAN. Here's a thread for liveblogging; we'll see how well the GOP's PR machine has coached Angle for her only ...
Nevada, Tea Parties, Far Right, Bad Craziness, Sharron Angle, John Birch Society, Republican Party, Harry Reid, Debate
Jon Ralston has been covering Sharron Angle since the beginning of her rise to Tea Party stardom, and he can't hide his astonishment at the blind hate that is financing Sharron Angle’s run. “Sharron Angle produced one of the most successful single quarters of fundraising in the nation’s history for ...
Nevada, Tea Parties, Far Right, Bad Craziness, Sharron Angle, John Birch Society, Republican Party
The mayor of Dearborn, Michigan, Jack O'Reilly, says Sharron Angle is a bigoted moron, using his city to stoke fear and hatred against Muslims. Not in so many words, of course. Video In a letter sent to Angle Monday, Dearborn Mayor John O’Reilly, Jr. fired back at the Nevada Republican. “I am deeply ...
Nevada, Tea Parties, Far Right, Bad Craziness, Sharron Angle, John Birch Society, Republican Party, Anti-Muslim, Dearborn
Sharron Angle's new attack ad contains a statement that is ... no other way to say it ... a lie. The ad asserts that Harry Reid voted to pay for "Viagra for convicted child molesters." But in reality, what Reid voted against was one of many silly obstructionist amendments to the ...
Nevada, Tea Parties, Far Right, Bad Craziness, Sharron Angle, John Birch Society, Republican Party, Harry Reid, Sleaze
There was a time when openly associating with the cranks, racists, and conspiracy freakazoids of the John Birch Society would have spelled instant disaster for a politician's career. But in today's climate of right wing extremism, the John Birch Society has not only been re-legitimized, it's been welcomed back into the ...
Nevada, Tea Parties, Far Right, Bad Craziness, Sharron Angle, John Birch Society, Republican Party
The March to Restore Sanity meets the March to Keep Fear Alive. [Video] [Video]
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Nevada Tea Party loon Sharron Angle has been trying to deflect Harry Reid's charges that she's too extreme, but as Jon Ralston points out at his Las Vegas Sun blog, she has a strange way of doing it -- by speaking at an event promoted by a "Doctors Tea Party" ...
Nevada, Tea Parties, Far Right, Religious Right, Bad Craziness, Sharron Angle, Birthers
Jon Ralston has quotes from an interview Tea Party candidate Sharron Angle did with a Christian radio station, revealing how shockingly extreme her views are: Angle: 'What's happening (in America)..is a violation of the 1st Commandment,' entitlements 'make government our God.' She's not simply a far right ideologue -- she's a ...
Nevada, Tea Parties, Far Right, Religious Right, Bad Craziness, Sharron Angle, Abortion, Separation of Church and State
In Nevada, the latest Mason-Dixon poll shows Harry Reid with a 7-point lead over Tea Party kook Sharron Angle. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has opened up a seven-point lead over Republican challenger Sharron Angle, according to a Mason-Dixon poll taken after Reid aired a barrage of negative ads targeting ...
Nevada, Tea Parties, Far Right, Religious Right, Bad Craziness, Sharron Angle, Abortion, Separation of Church and State, Constitution Party, Harry Reid
Nevada Tea Party candidate Sharron Angle says she’s not going to have a political makeover. Republican Sharron Angle said Saturday she won’t change her staunch conservative views to win the U.S. Senate race, although she acknowledged softening some of her rhetoric to avoid giving Sen. Harry Reid and other Democrats ...
Abortion, Sharron Angle, Bad Craziness, Republican Party, GOP, Religious Right, Far Right, Tea Parties, Nevada, Separation of Church and State, Constitution Party
Remember earlier today when Sharron Angle was quoted calling the $20 billion BP escrow fund a “slush fund?” Well, what she really meant to say was that it’s an important first step. Which is a little like a slush fund, isn’t it? Kinda? There’s been some confusion this morning regarding my position ...
Nevada, Tea Parties, Far Right, Religious Right, Bad Craziness, Sharron Angle, Abortion, Separation of Church and State, Thomas Jefferson