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It’s not the most gracious apology I’ve ever seen, but Sean Hannity admits Jon Stewart was right, and says he’s sorry for using footage of large crowds from the September 12th tea party in his coverage of Michele Bachmann’s protest last week. Hannity says it was “inadvertent,” but it’s a ...
Fox News, Jon Stewart, Michele Bachmann, Tea Party, Protest, Demonstration, Media Malfeasance
It turns out that financial analyst/nativist Lou Dobbs didn’t quit his CNN anchor job completely of his own volition. He was given an ultimatum by CNN president Jonathan Klein. Months ago the president of CNN/U.S., Jonathan Klein, offered a choice to Lou Dobbs, the channel’s most outspoken anchor. Mr. ...
If Lou Dobbs is moving to Fox News, it makes total sense: Update: Lou Dobbs to Quit CNN.
Jon Stewart catches Fox News and Sean Hannity red-handed in their coverage of Michele Bachmann’s “house call” rally, slipping in footage from the September 12th tea party in Washington DC to make Bachmann’s rally look bigger: Sean Hannity Uses Glenn Beck’s Protest Footage. [Video]
Fox News, Jon Stewart, Michele Bachmann, Tea Party, Protest, Demonstration, Media Malfeasance
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 ...
Michele Bachmann, Loopy, Extremism, Right Wing, Health Care, Abortion, Elie Wiesel, Tea Party
Posted without comment, except perhaps a slight cough which I will mask and pretend was insignificant. [Video]
Tea Party, Protest, Demonstration, GOP, Republican Party, Documentary, Right Wing, Movie
On July 23 of this year, one of our threads was titled Disgusting Racist of the Day, and featured this ugly racist image circulated on a tea party mailing list by “activist” Dr. David McKalip. Well, look who turned up as a “medical expert” on Glenn Beck’s Friday show ...
By supporting the tea parties with a nod and a wink, the GOP may have created a monster: Tea partiers turn on GOP leadership. Whether it’s the loose confederation of Washington-oriented groups that have played an organizational role or the state-level activists who are channeling grass roots anger into ...
Tim Blair joins the crowd of right wing bloggers trying to spin up the attendance numbers at the Washington DC tea party, responding to my post about Metrorail ridership by quoting the Heritage Foundation, who, as we all know, are completely unbiased (ahem): BIGNESS ENSMALLENED. ...Comparing September 12, 2008, ...
Tea Party, Protest, Demonstration, Washington DC, Fact Checking, Fail
This video shows what happened when a man walked through the Washington DC tea party with a sign that said, “Public Option Now!” He had a police escort, and obviously needed them. Imagine what would have happened if the police weren’t there. [Video]
Tea Party, Protest, Demonstration, Washington DC, Extremism, Fanaticism, Unfaithful Monkey
Another dozen pictures, “cherry-picked” out of thousands of similar photos all over the web.
Tea Party, Protest, Demonstration, Washington DC, Extremism, Fanaticism, birthers, Racism
Rick Sanchez is a very unhappy CNN newsman. And he has good reason, because Fox News published an advertisement that is — no other words for it — blatantly dishonest. [Video]
Again we must revisit the issue of attendance at the Washington DC tea party, because, amazingly, the right wing blogosphere is still trying to artificially pump up the number, with very scientific-sounding calculations. Here’s the Washington DC Metrorail service information for Saturday, September 12, 2009: September 12, 2009: ...
Tea Party, Protest, Demonstration, Washington DC, Fact Checking, Fail
A few more photographs from the Washington DC tea party, that speak for themselves.
Tea Party, Protest, Demonstration, Washington DC, Extremism, Fanaticism, birthers, Racism
Brendan Nyhan has a good post on the spread of the two million protestor myth across the right wing blogosphere — one of the most embarrassing episodes I’ve witnessed among people who pride themselves on “fact checking.” After all, who cares about basic fact checking when there’s an ideology to ...
Tea Party, Protest, Demonstration, Washington DC, Fact Checking, Fail
Glenn Beck, naturally, falls right in line with the absurdly inflated crowd numbers that are all over the right wing blogs. His source for this claim? A ... university somewhere. He can’t remember the name. Just some university that did a ... study. [Video] UPDATE at 9/15/09 11:33:47 am: One ...
Tea Party, Protest, Demonstration, Washington DC, Fact Checking, Fail, Glenn Beck, Video
Here’s Tea Party Express leader Mark Williams on the Anderson Cooper show, denying there are any extremists at the tea parties, they’re just a tiny minority of fringe elements, no racists, only a few Obama-with-a-bone-through-his-nose pictures, everything’s just fine. And then Anderson quotes what Mark Williams wrote on his own ...
Racism, birthers, Fanaticism, Extremism, Washington DC, Demonstration, Protest, Tea Party, Video
This is so pathetic I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. Dozens — if not hundreds — of right wing blogs are running with this quote, portraying it as a statement about the tea party held last weekend: ‘We believe it is the largest event held in Washington, D.C., ...
Tea Party, Protest, Demonstration, Washington DC, Fact Checking, Fail
Open talk of revolution, Hitler, Hitler Hitler, pictures of dead babies with a fanatic screaming “Repent,” and more people with signs that say, “We came unarmed ... this time.” Bad, bad craziness. [Video] Here’s a Google search for ‘we came unarmed this time’. This open threat of violence is everywhere ...
Tea Party, Protest, Demonstration, Washington DC, Extremism, Fanaticism, Video
The threatening clenched fist logo of the “9-12 Taxpayer March on DC” (organizer of the Washington DC tea party) is clearly based on the logo of the Progressive Labor Party — a group whose stated purpose is to “smash capitalism.” Unity and resistance are what the fist represented ...
Logo, Communism, Washington DC, Demonstration, Protest, Tea Party
A few more photos from the Washington DC tea party demonstration, starting with one of the most repulsive posters I think I’ve ever seen. “Stop him now before it’s to [sic] late! It’s not about Obamacare it’s about power! When we smell the burning flesh from the ovens it will ...
Tea Party, Protest, Demonstration, Washington DC, Hitler, Nazi, Barack Obama, Satan, Coup, birthers, Racism
Since we now see some right wing bloggers claiming that Hitler-Nazi imagery was hardly even visible at yesterday’s tea party in Washington DC, here are a dozen photos we’ve found with a quick look around the web. There are lots more; it would take a week to post them all. ...
Tea Party, Protest, Demonstration, Washington DC, Hitler, Nazi, Barack Obama
One of the announcers yesterday, Amy Kremer, National Coordinator of the Tea Party movement, is the person who saw nothing wrong with circulating a picture of Barack Obama as a witch doctor with a bone through his nose, and pledged to support the creep who did it: Tea Party Leader ...
Featuring a tea party attendee with an AK-47 semi-automatic rifle, talking about getting ready for civil war. [Video] Here’s the article that accompanies this video: Tea party movement has anger, no dominant leaders. No one on the tea party express seems concerned with the vocal fringe of the crowds ...
Tea Party, Protest, Demonstration, Washington DC, Extremism, Fanaticism, Video
According to the Washington DC Fire Department, there were between 60,000 and 70,000 people at today’s tea party protest. (Nowhere near the 2,000,000+ being claimed at some right wing blogs.)