TagsTagsConfirming everything I’ve written about them, the delightfully vindictive John Hawkins of RightWingNews.com takes a poll of the right wing blogosphere on their attitudes toward race. It’s as bad as you might imagine. Get a load of Hawkins’s title: Polling Conservative Bloggers On Race, Jesse Jackson, the NAACP, & False Accusations ...
Right Wing, Far Right, blogs, Wingnutosphere, Racism, Denial, Cognitive Dissonance
Here’s an interesting discussion of the pitfalls of allowing anonymous commenting on blogs and media websites, from NPR’s Talk of the Nation. Video
It’s getting more and more difficult to keep up with the brain-dead outrageous outrages firehosing out of the strange echo chamber known as the wingnut blogosphere on a daily — sometimes hourly — basis. It’s a non-stop cavalcade of crazy. Today’s OO is one of the stupidest and most transparently deceptive ...
Barack Obama, Supreme Court, Elena Kagan, Right Wing, blogs, Idiocy, World Net Daily, Alex Jones
My interview with Erik Kain has been getting a fair amount of attention; Erik emailed to let me know it was linked by Fark.com and other high-traffic sites. Going by Tweetdeck’s search results, there was some Twittering too. Andrew Sullivan linked to it at Daily Dish, with these comments about neo-Confederate ...
Look, ma — I’m controversial! The Evolution of Blogging: An Interview with Charles Johnson. (Erik Kain and I conducted this interview through email over the course of several weeks.)
So what does the wingnut blogosphere have to say about the totally embarrassing launch of the GOP’s new website that’s not really a website? Hot Air: nothing. Michelle Malkin: zero. Ace of Spades HQ: zip. Gateway Pundit: zilch. Power Line: nada. (Don’t worry — I’m sure they’ll have something to say once they’ve settled on the ...
GOP, Republican Party, Michael Steele, Web Design, Fail, Right Wing, blogs
Here’s some unexpected praise that made my morning, in a Jerusalem Post article on an Israeli proposal to give some bloggers journalist credentials. The Government Press Office (GPO) is considering granting leading bloggers press credentials equal to those of journalists and reporters. Ron Dermer, a senior adviser to the prime minister, ...
Since I received two emails last night asking why LGF doesn’t have a Twitter page—here’s another reminder that as of last week, we do have automatic updates on Twitter every time a new post appears. To receive these updates, follow the Lizardoid.
As an excuse for an open thread, here’s another reminder that LGF now has automatic updates on Twitter, every time a new post appears out of the phlogiston.
In case you missed our announcement last Sunday, we have a new feature in the LGF Blog that automatically sends a Twitter update when a new article is posted. Here’s the page where you can follow the tweeting lizardoid.
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Using the Twitter API, the LGF Blog now automatically sends out a Twitter update whenever a new article is posted. A “tweet,” if you will. To get these tweets, follow the lizardoid. UPDATE at 3/15/09 12:09:21 pm: Ed Driscoll has a video intro to the wonders of tweeting: Twitter On The Edge ...
Here’s a lunatic we’ve featured before, who has been banned from the official Barack Obama blog site several times but simply re-registers and starts raving again: my.barackobama.com | The Spook who sat by the door. (Former CIA Agent). His last four blog posts, all dated July 4th: NAZI NEO CON REPUBLICAN ...
LGF, Election 2008, Barack Obama, blogs, Hate Speech, Internet
Today’s episode of the ongoing lunacy and anti-Americanism at the official Barack Obama blog site features a piece by Ulf Erlingsson, PhD, pleading for people to support convicted Islamic Jihad kingpin Sami Al-Arian: my.barackobama.com | Ulf Erlingsson’s Blog: We are all Palestinians. We are all Palestinians By Ulf Erlingsson, PhD - ...
LGF, Election 2008, Barack Obama, blogs, Hate Speech, Internet, Palestinians, Sami Al-Arian
There are so many loons of one stripe or another posting “blogs” at the official Barack Obama site that I’m just going to start dumping links: my.barackobama.com | Sam Vafadar’s Blog: More on numerology and politics/world events... my.barackobama.com | Mark Banks’ Blog: Mr. Obama - please don’t continue Bush’s excuse of 9/11... my.barackobama.com ...
LGF, Election 2008, Barack Obama, blogs, Hate Speech, Internet, my.barackobama.com
The next Obama associate to be tossed aside and washed down the memory drain—Mike Klonsky, a comrade of Weather Underground leader William Ayers: How is it under that bus, Comrade Klonsky? Yesterday I opened a browser window to Klonsky’s now-vanished blog, but didn’t get around to writing about it; here’s a ...
LGF, Election 2008, Barack Obama, blogs, Hate Speech, Internet, Klonsky, my.barackobama.com
The Middle East Media Research Institute has released a handy little “widget” that can be embedded in a blog template: The MEMRI Widget. It would be installed here, except that I don’t usually put in external stuff that might affect the page loading speed; and the RSS feeds for the main ...
LGF, MEMRI, MEMRI TV, Widget, Blogosphere, blogs, Technology
I think we have the jawdropper of the day, as the official web site of a candidate for president of the United States contains a blog posted by a follower of World Can’t Wait, linking to an article by the chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party. And we know that Obama ...
LGF, Election 2008, Barack Obama, blogs, Hate Speech, Internet, Communism, World Can't Wait
The Obama site administrators have been quietly trying to eject the worst moonbats, although it’s curious what they apparently continue to permit. Here’s a Google cached copy (may be gone by the time you click) of a blog post from Chris in St. Helens, Oregon, with a dramatic exit: Barack Obama ...
LGF, Election 2008, Barack Obama, blogs, Hate Speech, Internet