TagsTagsIt’s obvious why Nevada Tea Party candidate Sharron Angle’s GOP handlers try so hard to keep her away from inquisitive reporters: she’s nuts. Really, honestly nuts. Don’t want her talking to journalists, oh no. That’s no way to get elected. Today she’s back in the news for echoing reptilian Rep. Joe ...
Nevada, Tea Parties, Far Right, Religious Right, Bad Craziness, Sharron Angle, Abortion, Separation of Church and State, Thomas Jefferson
To no one’s surprise, in her interview with Nevada reporter John Ralston yesterday, Tea Party extremist Sharron Angle started trying to walk back some of her earlier disastrous statements: Sharron Angle grilled on Social Security, Medicare and ‘taking Harry Reid out’. In her TV appearance Tuesday, Angle said that she ...
Nevada, Tea Parties, Far Right, Religious Right, Bad Craziness, Sharron Angle, Abortion, Separation of Church and State, Thomas Jefferson
Las Vegas reporter John Ralston is interviewing tea party/Constitution Party wacko Sharron Angle, and there’s a live streaming video here: Home - My News 3 - KVBC, Las Vegas, NV. She just reiterated that she wants to cut off unemployment benefits, because people are being “spoiled” by them.
Nevada, Tea Parties, Far Right, John Birch Society, Fluoride, Conspiracy Theories, Bad Craziness, Sharron Angle, Abortion
Nevada Tea Party candidate Sharron Angle, a former member of the completely insane Constitution Party who has written about the dangers of fluoridation (shades of the John Birch Society), is dodging the media. And she has good reason to dodge. Her history is rife with extremism, questionable associations, and bizarre views. ...
Nevada, Tea Parties, Far Right, John Birch Society, Fluoride, Conspiracy Theories, Bad Craziness, Sharron Angle, Abortion
Here’s Nevada Tea Party candidate Sharron Angle, saying that the unemployed are “spoiled.” The GOP sure is raising up quite a crop of canny politicians this year. [Video] (Hat tip: philosophus invidius.)
Nevada, Tea Parties, Far Right, John Birch Society, Fluoride, Conspiracy Theories, nativism, Bad Craziness, Sharron Angle, unemployment
This video playlist from MSNBC contains the complete Chris Matthews feature, “Rise of the New Right.” You can jump to any section by clicking the “Playlist” button that appears at the lower right of the player when you move your mouse over it. Regular LGF readers will notice that almost everything ...
Chris Matthews, Far Right, Fright Wing, Tea Parties, John Birch Society, Birthers, Racism, Extremism
Nevada Tea Party wacko Sharron Angle shows why the GOP brass are doing their best to keep her away from the media: GOP Senate Nominee Sharron Angle Breaks Her Silence. [Video] LAS VEGAS - As Sharron Angle greeted supporters at Stoney’s Restaurant in Las Vegas, 8 News NOW Reporter Nathan Baca ...
Nevada, Tea Parties, Far Right, John Birch Society, Fluoride, Conspiracy Theories, nativism, Bad Craziness, Insurrection, Incitement
New GOP Senate candidate from Nevada Sharron Angle is back in the news, after a radio interview surfaced in which she suggested that it might be time for an armed insurrection. [Audio] You know, our Founding Fathers, they put that Second Amendment in there for a good reason and that was ...
Nevada, Tea Parties, Far Right, John Birch Society, Fluoride, Conspiracy Theories, nativism, Bad Craziness, Insurrection, Incitement
New GOP Senate candidate from Nevada Sharron Angle is apparently trying to quietly toss the online records of her extreme nativist and John Birch Society-inspired positions down the memory hole. Sharron Angle—Tea Partier, Oath Keepers supporter, anti-fluoride crusader, and new GOP candidate for Senate from Nevada—is already demonstrating her solidarity ...
Nevada, Tea Parties, Far Right, John Birch Society, Fluoride, Conspiracy Theories, nativism, Bad Craziness
That John McCain campaign advertisement about the border fence is even more ridiculous than we thought: McCain Counsels the Wrong Sheriff. The TV ad – shot in the border town of Nogales, Arizona – shows McCain talking with Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu about the need for tougher border security. ...
John McCain, Arizona, Tea Parties, J. D. Hayworth, Right Wing, Republican Party, Immigration
Every once in a while, you see a video that makes you want to sweep everything off your desk, put your head in your hands, and sob, “Why? Dear God, why?” John McCain’s latest campaign advertisement is one such video. [Video]
John McCain, Arizona, Tea Parties, J. D. Hayworth, Right Wing, Republican Party
John McCain is cranky about that “maverick” thing. Damn it, why won’t people just stop calling him that? Ix-nay on the averick-may, ummie-days! John McCain — who built his political persona and his 2008 presidential campaign around the claim that he’s a “maverick” — told Newsweek recently: “I never considered ...
John McCain, Arizona, Tea Parties, J. D. Hayworth, Right Wing, Republican Party
You probably heard about John McCain’s latest pathetic attempt to rebrand himself as a good ol’ right winger, by claiming he has never considered himself a “maverick.” Ahem. Worth the Fighting For: The Education of an American Maverick, and the Heroes Who Inspired Him, by John McCain. McCain’s primary opponent in Arizona, ...
John McCain, Arizona, Tea Parties, J. D. Hayworth, Right Wing, Republican Party
John McCain is playing the Birther card against his opponent J. D. Hayworth, comparing Hayworth to Orly Taitz and Philip Berg. A comparison that is richly deserved. Gotta love this. [Video] (Hat tip: Thanos.)
John McCain, Arizona, Tea Parties, J. D. Hayworth, Birthers, Conspiracy Theories, Right Wing, Republican Party
Oops. Scott Brown voted the wrong way on the Senate jobs bill, and now he has tea party heartache. Comment by Relentless_Righteous_and_Right 31 minutes ago Great. Another marxist. Case closed. Thanks, Scott. Guess we’ll have to wait another 6 years to find a real Conservative to fill the dead kennedy’s seat. ...
John McCain’s Republican opponent for his Arizona Senate seat, former right wing talk radio host J. D. Hayworth, has a new twist on the Birther theme — he says he’s concerned about President Obama’s citizenship because it’s an issue of possible identity theft. [Video] In 2006, J. D. Hayworth made it into ...
John McCain, Arizona, Tea Parties, J. D. Hayworth, Birthers, Conspiracy Theories, Right Wing, Republican Party
This month, the two main Ron Paul-related websites (“Campaign for Liberty” and “The Daily Paul”) both published eulogies for author Eustace Mullins, who recently died at the age of 86. The Daily Paul’s version: Eustace Mullins Passes On. Legendary author of scores of books and pamphlets demolishing the lies of ...
Antisemitism, Ron Paul, Paulians, Hate Speech, Extremism, Far Right, Tea Parties
The South Carolina Republican Party apparently feels that they aren’t conservative enough yet, so they’ll be uniting with tea party groups. That ought to do it. The South Carolina Republican Party announced Monday that it’s uniting with tea party groups in the state to share resources, coordinate messaging and push ...
South Carolina, GOP, Republican Party, Tea Parties, Populism, social conservatism
In his new radio ads for the US Senate campaign in Arizona, John McCain is using the kind of language he spoke out against in 2008, and pretty obviously making an appeal to the tea party crowd. “President Obama is leading an extreme left-wing crusade to bankrupt America. I stand ...
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
A clip from my Bloggingheads discussion with Conn Carroll of the Heritage Foundation has been posted at the New York Times video page today: Bloggingheads: Conservative Fascism? - Video Library - The New York Times. Notice how Carroll tosses in a blatant straw man argument at the conclusion of this clip, ...
Bloggingheads, Video, Little Green Footballs, Abortion, Tea Parties, Creationism, Anti-Science, Right Wing
Here’s your humble Lizard Overlord discussing the issues of the day (via webcam) with the Heritage Foundation’s Conn Carroll, who gets increasingly agitated as the issues start to get closer to his biases — finally accusing me of being “pro-death” and “pro-euthanasia.” [Video]
Bloggingheads, Video, Little Green Footballs, Abortion, Tea Parties, Creationism, Anti-Science, Right Wing
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
A new survey commissioned by the American Revolution Center has found that an overwhelming majority of Americans (90%) believe that knowledge of the American Revolution and its principles is very important. The survey also found that nearly the same number of people (89%) believed they could pass a test on their ...