TagsTagsSpeaking of video fraudsters, a lot of people got upset recently when Andrew Breitbart showed up on the front page of the Huffington Post. I knew that Breitbart had a long relationship with Arianna Huffington, and was involved with the startup of HuffPo, so I wasn't too surprised myself. But ...
Andrew Breitbart, Shirley Sherrod, NAACP, Fraud, Defamation, Huffington Post, Van Jones
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
Uh oh. Responding to Glenn Beck’s Twitter call for his followers to dig up all the dirt they can find on Obama officials, Keith Olbermann is calling for all the dirt on Glenn Beck. I don’t know why I’ve got this phrasing in my head, but: Find everything you can about ...
Glenn Beck, kooks, Far Right, Extremism, Fox News, Van Jones, Keith Olbermann
Here’s the statement released by Van Jones about his decision to resign from his “green jobs” position: White House Adviser Van Jones Resigns Amid Controversy Over Past Activism. “On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against ...
To no one’s surprise. Of course, it’s announced on Saturday night, on Labor Day weekend, to avoid as much publicity as possible. WASHINGTON — Obama aide Van Jones resigns as environmental adviser amid controversy over past statements. Just to head off the howling mob: As I wrote yesterday, I’m no fan ...
Instapundit links to pictures from the Cincinnati Tea Party. And since the blogosphere is ranting and raving about Truthers right now, and how horrible and evil they are (a position with which I agree), let’s take a little look at who’s behind the Cincinnati Tea Party, shall we? One of the main ...
Glenn Beck, kooks, Far Right, Extremism, Fox News, Van Jones, Truthers, Ron Paul, Tea Party
Stop the presses! LGF reader Killgore Trout has discovered a truly shocking piece of evidence, at the meetup website for the April 15th Tea Party in San Antonio, Texas: Glenn Beck @ San Antonio Tea Party @ the ALAMO - We Are Change San Antonio 911 Truth (San Antonio, TX). This is ...
Glenn Beck, kooks, Far Right, Extremism, Fox News, Van Jones, Truthers, Ron Paul
So as we begin the Labor Day weekend, I did a little search around the right wing blogs who are relentlessly shouting that Van Jones is a Truther (based on pages at hate sites and Truther sites), to see if any of them have found anything else that ties Jones ...
Glenn Beck, kooks, Far Right, Extremism, Fox News, Van Jones, Truthers
As people dig around for incriminating evidence on Van Jones at 9/11 Truther sites and crazy conspiracy sites like the antisemitic, Holocaust-denying rense.com (which, by the way, is not a credible source of information about anything), here are a couple of tidbits that tend to back up Jones’ claim that ...
Glenn Beck, kooks, Far Right, Extremism, Fox News, Van Jones, Truthers
Obama’s “green jobs” official Van Jones has issued a statement about the claim that he’s a 9/11 Truther, promoted relentlessly today by Fox News: Controversial Obama Administration Official Denies Being Part of 9/11 ‘Truther’ Movement, Apologizes for Past Comments. A top environmental official of the Obama administration issued a statement ...
Glenn Beck, kooks, Far Right, Extremism, Fox News, Van Jones
Here’s a report on another one of Barack Obama’s “czars” with a background of radical leftism and woo-woo quackery: Darwin Central: Obama’s Pseudoscience Czar. DC forum member El Goodo has done some excellent detective work on Obama’s so-called economic czars, wading through dirty pools that other so-called muckrakers refuse to ...
Barack Obama, Van Jones, Green Jobs, Leftism, Pseudo-Science