TagsTagsTea Party-endorsed Republican gubernatorial candidate for New York, Carl Paladino, has released a campaign video attacking the Park51 project: "As governor, I will use the power of eminent domain to stop the mosque, and use the site as a war memorial instead of a monument to those who attacked our ...
Ground Zero, Park51, Mosque, Manhattan, Bigotry, Islam, Tea Party, Carl Paladino, Racism
Note to the religious fanatics who decided it would be a good idea to respond to my post about extremist GOP anti-abortion positions by emailing me several photos of dead babies, with notes telling me that you're praying for me -- if you think this kind of tactic is going ...
Abortion, Extremism, Fanaticism, Religious Right, Women's Rights, Far Right, Tea Party, Misogyny
Extremist positions on abortion are now completely mainstream in the Republican Party, as Rachel Maddow points out in this clip. It's absolutely appalling to see the entire GOP uniting behind candidates who oppose abortion in cases of rape or incest -- and even in cases where the life of the ...
Abortion, Extremism, Fanaticism, Religious Right, Women's Rights, Far Right, Tea Party, Misogyny
Colorado Tea Party Senate candidate Ken Buck joins the completely insane and heartless anti-choice crowd, and says women who are raped or who are victims of incest should be forced to have the rapist's child. QUESTION: How do you feel about abortion? Are you for abortion, against abortion, are you ...
Abortion, Extremism, Fanaticism, Religious Right, Women's Rights, Far Right, Tea Party
Reports of sanity breaking out in the Republican National Committee have apparently been greatly exaggerated: RNC to re-invite Breitbart to fundraiser. "I don't know Andrew Breitbart's schedule for after Labor Day, but he certainly will be invited," RNC Communications Director Doug Heye said, reiterating that the event "has been postponed," ...
Tea Party, Bad Craziness, Extremism, Racism, NAACP, Andrew Breitbart, Shirley Sherrod, RNC
And now the Republican National Committee is slowly backing away from Breitbart. Washington (CNN) – The Republican National Committee has cancelled a fundraiser with conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart, who is under fire for promoting an edited video that falsely portrays former Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod as having boasted about ...
Tea Party, Bad Craziness, Extremism, Racism, NAACP, Andrew Breitbart, Shirley Sherrod, RNC
Yesterday in Philadelphia there was a rally intended to show the incredible diversity of the Tea Party movement, called the "Uni-Tea Rally." The featured speaker at this event: Andrew Breitbart, who certainly knows a thing or two about race-baiting. Unfortunately, the only non-white people at the rally were onstage: 500 white ...
Tea Party, Bad Craziness, Extremism, Racism, NAACP, Andrew Breitbart, Philadelphia
This is classic. The wingnut blogs are still ranting that Fox never aired a story about the Sherrod case until she had already resigned, pretending not to be aware that Fox did run stories on their websites, FoxNews.com and TheFoxNation.com. Today Fox suit Michael Clemente admitted there was ‘a breakdown’. ...
Tea Party, Bad Craziness, Extremism, Racism, NAACP, Andrew Breitbart, Shirley Sherrod, Fox News
At the annual convention of the National Association of Black Journalists, Shirley Sherrod said she is going to sue Andrew Breitbart. Breitbart, meanwhile, is continuing the smear campaign, and today at his “Big Government” site, Greg Gutfeld actually whines that somebody needs to apologize to the Tea Party movement. It’s the ...
Tea Party, Bad Craziness, Extremism, Racism, NAACP, Andrew Breitbart, Shirley Sherrod
The big right wing talking point against the proposed community center near Ground Zero in Manhattan (I refuse to call it a “Ground Zero Mega-Mosque!”) is that Ground Zero is sacred. Hallowed ground. It’s a deadly offense to think of a mosque on that sacred, hallowed ground, a “stab in ...
Mosque, Bigotry, Anti-Muslim, Tea Party, Temecula, Poop, Dogs, Bigotry, Right Wing
On the Michael Savage clown show, Andrew Breitbart now claims President Obama ‘is orchestrating the campaign to destroy’ him and his ‘reputation’. Video
Tea Party, Bad Craziness, Extremism, Racism, NAACP, Andrew Breitbart, Shirley Sherrod, Obama Derangement Syndrome
Remember Jeffrey Lord’s rank piece of race-baiting at the American Spectator saying that Shirley Sherrod’s story of the lynching of a black man was a lie, because the man wasn’t hanged? Well, that disgusting little rationalization brought some heavy criticism down on Lord, as you might imagine. So today he’s moving ...
Tea Party, Bad Craziness, Extremism, Racism, NAACP, Andrew Breitbart, Shirley Sherrod, Right Wing, American Spectator
Obama’s former “green jobs” adviser Van Jones (another person who was forced to resign after a dishonest right wing smear campaign) has an op-ed in the New York Times about the zero-sum politics of personal destruction: Shirley Sherrod and Me. UNDERSTAND how Shirley Sherrod, the Agriculture Department official who was ...
Tea Party, Bad Craziness, Extremism, Racism, NAACP, Andrew Breitbart, Shirley Sherrod, Right Wing, Van Jones
It should be no surprise to find American Spectator, the magazine that plays host to white supremacist blogger Robert Stacy McCain, running an absolutely vile 4000-word attack piece on Shirley Sherrod today. Jeffrey Lord says Sherrod lied in her speech to the NAACP when she talked about the murder of a ...
Tea Party, Bad Craziness, Extremism, Racism, NAACP, Andrew Breitbart, Shirley Sherrod, Right Wing, American Spectator
Coming up in August, a very special Republican National Committee fundraising event featuring right wing hero Andrew Breitbart. Unbelievable. Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele has a party fundraising event coming up in August that is scheduled to feature a very special guest: Conservative media activist Andrew Breitbart, according to ...
Tea Party, Bad Craziness, Extremism, Racism, NAACP, Andrew Breitbart, Shirley Sherrod, Right Wing, RNC, Republican Party
Ken Buck, the Colorado Tea Party candidate for the US Senate, thinks the Tea Partiers are “dumbasses.” Of course, he didn’t say that in public. He was caught on tape by a Democratic Party worker in an unguarded moment. In other words, when he was telling the truth. KUSA - U.S. ...
Tea Party, Colorado, Ken Buck, Birthers, Nirthers, Conspiracy Theories, Idiocy, GOP
By now, you can predict right wing tactics almost to the letter. Whenever Fox News, a Tea Party group, or a Congressman from Texas is caught saying or doing something stupid, misogynist, racist, or kinky, the tactic is: pick out an irrelevant or minor point in the criticism that can ...
Tea Party, Bad Craziness, Extremism, Racism, NAACP, Andrew Breitbart, Shirley Sherrod, Right Wing
James Edwards, host of the repellent white supremacist radio show called “The Political Cesspool,” is irritated at all this denial coming from Tea Partiers. He says they should stop being such wusses and embrace their inner racists. Of course the Tea Party is racist, crowed a blog post on the ...
Tea Party, Bad Craziness, Extremism, Racism, NAACP, White Supremacists, Council of Conservative Citizens
The LA Times’s Jim Rainey has pretty much the same take on the Shirley Sherrod affair as I do — there’s a villain in this little play, and his name is Andrew Breitbart. Certain media outlets have played the story and the political ramifications for the Obama administration (and there ...
Tea Party, Bad Craziness, Extremism, Racism, NAACP, Andrew Breitbart, Shirley Sherrod
The must-read for the day: The Story Behind the 1965 Killing of Sherrod’s Dad. Her dad was named Hosie Miller, and he was a deacon at Thankful Baptist Church in Newton, Ga., toward the southwest corner of the state. He was also a farmer who, according to CNN, grew corn, ...
Tea Party, Bad Craziness, Extremism, Racism, NAACP, Andrew Breitbart, Shirley Sherrod
The dim bulbs of the right wing blogosphere are working hard to throw up (and I mean that literally) a thick coating of BS as cover for Andrew Breitbart. It’s a perfect storm of willful denial, and totally expected. Earlier we took note of hateblogger Jim Hoft, who didn’t even slow ...
Tea Party, Bad Craziness, Extremism, Racism, NAACP, Andrew Breitbart, Shirley Sherrod, Dan Riehl
Anderson Cooper has an on-point commentary about Andrew Breitbart’s sleazy hit piece on Shirley Sherrod. Video
Tea Party, Bad Craziness, Extremism, Racism, NAACP, Andrew Breitbart, Shirley Sherrod, Anderson Cooper
Having done his best this week to smear and destroy an innocent woman, Andrew Breitbart is heading off to vacation. But first he gave an interview to Politico, to boast about his wonderfulness and direct some more race-baiting smears at Shirley Sherrod. “I am public enemy number 1 or 2 ...
Tea Party, Bad Craziness, Extremism, Racism, NAACP, Andrew Breitbart, Shirley Sherrod
I was curious to see how Jim Hoft, the homophobic, bigoted, borderline illiterate religious fanatic who blogs at Catholic website First Things, was dealing with the fact that the right’s idiotic “reverse racism” Shirley Sherrod scandal had spectacularly blown up in their faces. Hoft, of course, is still foaming at the ...
Tea Party, Bad Craziness, Extremism, Racism, NAACP, Andrew Breitbart, Shirley Sherrod, Jim Hoft
President Obama reportedly spoke to Shirley Sherrod on the phone today, and urged her to take a new job with the USDA. Sherrod hasn’t yet accepted the offer.
Tea Party, Bad Craziness, Extremism, Racism, NAACP, Andrew Breitbart, Shirley Sherrod, Barack Obama