The #tcot (Top Conservatives On Twitter) feed on Twitter can be fascinating; it’s a glimpse into the raw unedited id of the modern right wing, and you can often see wingnut talking points and conspiracy theories emerging from this roiling subconscious primordial stew before they spread to the wingnut blogosphere ...
Stanley McChrystal, Afghanistan, Military, controversy, Conspiracy Theories, Obama Derangement Syndrome
The Associated Press is reporting, to no one’s surprise, that General Stanley McChrystal is getting the boot from President Obama…
CNN is reporting, via Time Magazine’s Joe Klein: Here are the latest developments involving Gen. Stanley McChrystal, America’s top commander in Afghanistan. He and his staff made comments in a Rolling Stone article that appear to mock top civilian officials, including Vice President Joe Biden. The story, which is to ...
A new book on the 2008 presidential campaign reveals that Sarah Palin’s (in)famous line about Barack Obama “palling around with terrorists” apparently came straight from the McCain camp: ’Pals Around With Terrorists’: Palin Wasn’t That Rogue, After All. On the subject of linking Obama to ex-Weatherman Bill Ayers, it turns ...
Sarah Palin, John McCain, Campaign, controversy, Email, Rogue
CBS has obtained internal McCain-Palin campaign emails that show a lot of infighting between Sarah Palin and campaign staffers. Internal campaign e-mails exchanged three weeks before Election Day offer a rare look at just how frustrated then Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin had become with the manner in which ...