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Update: Palin Apologizes for Leaving Books Unsigned
US News | Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 10:43:06 am PST
At her Facebook page, Sarah Palin apologizes for leaving hundreds of people with unsigned books after they waited in the rain for 6 hours: Not Enough Hours in the Day.
I’ve been told that yesterday there were supporters in Noblesville who stood in long lines for hours in the cold and rain, and the book signing event ended without a chance to say hello to everyone who showed up. I am so sorry. We are working on a solution for those who were left behind.
I apologize.
- Sarah Palin
Ace Beclowns Himself
Blogosphere | Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 5:08:58 pm PST
Normally I’d ignore this, but “Ace” has posted something so moronically misguided and false it calls for a response: Charles Johnson Now Deleting Posts for Mentioning Hacked Global Warming Fraud Emails.
“Ace” says I deleted this comment by LGF reader ‘bosforus’ with “no explanation,” and that I’m “suppressing the data.” That’s just how evil I am.
But in the real world where people aren’t on hair trigger outrage watch, I deleted the comment not because it mentioned the Hadley emails, but because it linked to downloads of illegally obtained data.
“Ace” may have no problem with that, but I don’t want LGF to be used to circulate files that were acquired by breaking into a private email server. That’s the reason it was deleted.
I also condemned the hacking of Sarah Palin’s Yahoo email account. Unlike “Ace,” I’m trying to be responsible and consistent.
For the record, ‘bosforus’ himself told me about his comment, in the thread I put up specifically to discuss (not “suppress”) the Hadley email data, and asked me to delete it. I thanked him and explained why I didn’t want the links at LGF, right here.
And that thread about the Hadley emails, by the way, has more than 400 comments, with plenty of debate and argument from both sides. Seems like an odd way to “suppress” something.
If the clown shoe fits, “Ace.”
Video: Palin Booed in Indiana
US News | Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 2:44:57 pm PST
After Sarah Palin ended a book-signing event in Noblesville, Indiana, without signing more than 300 books for people who waited more than 6 hours to see her, the crowd turned on her outside her tour bus, booing and yelling “Quitting on the job!”
Here’s a story on the embarrassing incident at Indychannel.com: Palin Greets Hundreds, But Not Everyone Leaves Happy.
Global Warming Nontroversy of the Day
Environment | Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 11:19:33 am PST
Right wing bloggers and climate “skeptics” are ranting and fuming about “the global warming scandal of the century,” after the email server of one of the UK’s leading climate research centers was hacked, and thousands of emails were stolen and promptly posted all over the web. (Which is, of course, completely illegal.)
However, reading the summaries that these folks have posted, such as the one in this almost comically exaggerated article by Telegraph writer James Delingpole, one thing stands out — there’s no there there. There’s no evidence of a conspiracy to commit massive fraud. There are no admissions of faking data. The worst thing they’ve dug up out of thousands of emails is this one referring to a “trick” used to adjust warming data, which Delingpole dramatically labels “Manipulation of evidence:”
I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline.
“Trick,” of course, can also mean “an effective technique,” but if you were desperately hunting for anything smear-worthy, I suppose the word would stand out.
RealClimate has responded to this stolen email nontroversy here: The CRU hack.
Since emails are normally intended to be private, people writing them are, shall we say, somewhat freer in expressing themselves than they would in a public statement. For instance, we are sure it comes as no shock to know that many scientists do not hold Steve McIntyre in high regard. Nor that a large group of them thought that the Soon and Baliunas (2003), Douglass et al (2008) or McClean et al (2009) papers were not very good (to say the least) and should not have been published. These sentiments have been made abundantly clear in the literature (though possibly less bluntly).
More interesting is what is not contained in the emails. There is no evidence of any worldwide conspiracy, no mention of George Soros nefariously funding climate research, no grand plan to ‘get rid of the MWP’, no admission that global warming is a hoax, no evidence of the falsifying of data, and no ‘marching orders’ from our socialist/communist/vegetarian overlords. The truly paranoid will put this down to the hackers also being in on the plot though.
Instead, there is a peek into how scientists actually interact and the conflicts show that the community is a far cry from the monolith that is sometimes imagined. People working constructively to improve joint publications; scientists who are friendly and agree on many of the big picture issues, disagreeing at times about details and engaging in ‘robust’ discussions; Scientists expressing frustration at the misrepresentation of their work in politicized arenas and complaining when media reports get it wrong; Scientists resenting the time they have to take out of their research to deal with over-hyped nonsense. None of this should be shocking.
Read the whole thing; they make more excellent points about the absurdly exaggerated denialists’ claims.
Here’s their response to the “trick” comment:
No doubt, instances of cherry-picked and poorly-worded “gotcha” phrases will be pulled out of context. One example is worth mentioning quickly. Phil Jones in discussing the presentation of temperature reconstructions stated that “I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline.” The paper in question is the Mann, Bradley and Hughes (1998) Nature paper on the original multiproxy temperature reconstruction, and the ‘trick’ is just to plot the instrumental records along with reconstruction so that the context of the recent warming is clear. Scientists often use the term “trick” to refer to a “a good way to deal with a problem”, rather than something that is “secret”, and so there is nothing problematic in this at all. As for the ‘decline’, it is well known that Keith Briffa’s maximum latewood tree ring density proxy diverges from the temperature records after 1960 (this is more commonly known as the “divergence problem”–see e.g. the recent discussion in this paper) and has been discussed in the literature since Briffa et al in Nature in 1998 (Nature, 391, 678-682). Those authors have always recommend not using the post 1960 part of their reconstruction, and so while ‘hiding’ is probably a poor choice of words (since it is ‘hidden’ in plain sight), not using the data in the plot is completely appropriate, as is further research to understand why this happens.
Kindle Now Available for Canada
Technology | Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 10:19:41 am PST
Here’s some good news if you live in Canada and you’ve been waiting for Amazon to release their terrific Kindle e-book reader
Here’s the Amazon news release: Amazon Kindle and More than 300,000 Books in the Kindle Store Now Available to Customers in Canada.
(Note: if you buy a Kindle by clicking the picture or by following one of the links in this post, we get a small cut of the purchase price through Amazon’s associates program.)
ACORN Sting Operatives Pose with White Supremacist
Politics | Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 9:24:57 am PST
White supremacist blogger Robert Stacy McCain continues to be welcomed in Republican circles; here he is posing at the American Spectator dinner with the two videographers who filmed the ACORN sting tapes: An O’Keefe/Giles Victory Lap.
Also see:
Sarah Palin’s Book Ghostwritten by Associate of White Supremacist McCain
Robert Stacy McCain and the Fall of the Conservative Movement
Meet Robert Stacy McCain, Neo-Confederate Wacko Extraordinaire
Audio: Robert Stacy McCain on Alan Colmes Radio Show
The Other ‘Other McCain’
Robert Stacy McCain’s Angry Departure From the Washington Times
The Door Opens - Update: The Door Closes
Open | Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 6:25:08 pm PST
The registration door swings open and the turnstiles turn, clicking and counting the hatchlings as they enter.
If you decide to take that momentous step and register, it’s not a bad idea to read all the rules and commit them to memory. The short version:
- Don’t register with a proxy.
- Don’t register with a throwaway email address.
- Don’t register more than one account at a time from the same Internet connection.
- Don’t be a jerk.
- Don’t be a troll.
- Don’t be a sock puppet. Stinky Beaumont hates sock puppets. He will find you. You don’t want Stinky mad at you.
- If you’re registering just to post a dramatic “goodbye cruel world” comment full of insults and drool, don’t waste your time. Nobody’s going to read it. It will be immediately deleted and your account will be blocked.
- Do play nice.
And then everything will be groovy.
UPDATE at 11/19/09 8:19:33 pm:
The door of registration opportunity has slammed shut for the evening.
NY Times: Giuliani Bails on Governor Race
Politics | Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 6:14:26 pm PST
New York Times writer Danny Hakim reports that Rudy Giuliani has decided not to run for Governor of New York.
Former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani has decided not to run for governor next year after months of considering a candidacy, according to people who have been told of the decision.
Many Republican leaders had viewed Mr. Giuliani as the strongest potential candidate as voter anger and anti-Albany sentiment have appeared to be swelling.
It remains unclear whether the former mayor is considering any other political race in 2010. Some have urged him to take on Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand, who is newly installed in office, has never run statewide and is still introducing herself to voters in some areas. Mr. Giuliani is said to have made no decision about such a race. …
It was not clear what prompted the decision, but the possibility of facing Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo, who is quietly planning a run for governor on the Democratic ticket, may not have appealed to Mr. Giuliani, who suffered a bruising defeat in the 2008 Republican presidential primary.
Rush Limbaugh and Alex Jones
Weird | Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 4:42:19 pm PST
On his front page today, Rush Limbaugh has a prominent link to “Prison Planet,” the website of whacked out conspiracy freakazoid Alex Jones, titled: Algore Photoshops Fake Earth.
And possibly even more ridiculous, Limbaugh says his “official climatologist” is Dr. Roy Spencer — a notorious climate change denier and creationist, who believes “intelligent design” creationism should be taught in schools as if it were science. Dr. Spencer is one of the best examples of the anti-science convergence of climate deniers and creationists.
That’s who Rush Limbaugh’s promoting to millions of people as a reputable expert and global warming “skeptic.”
(Hat tip: Killgore.)
Ron Paul Gets to Audit the Fed
Politics | Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 3:16:55 pm PST
Ron Paul’s bill to audit the Federal Reserve has been approved.
The House Financial Services Committee has approved Rep. Ron Paul’s measure to drastically expand the government’s power to audit the Federal Reserve.
The measure, based on a Paul proposal that has attracted more than 300 co-sponsors, passed, 43-26, as an amendment to a financial reform bill. Florida Democrat and fellow Fed critic Alan Grayson co-sponsored the amendment with Paul and played a leading role drumming up support for it among committee members. The adoption of this amendment is an extraordinary victory for Paul, whose libertarian, anti-Fed leanings have often been dismissed by the political establishment.
Thursday Afternoon Music: Charlotte Gainsbourg, 'Heaven Can Wait'
Music | Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 1:21:01 pm PST
Here’s a terrifically weird video for singer Charlotte Gainsbourg’s new song with Beck, directed by Keith Schofield. The iTunes Store has the single; the album comes out early next year.
Hoffman: 'ACORN Stole the Election!'
Politics | Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 10:31:04 am PST
Far right New York congressional candidate Doug Hoffman has posted a wacky, paranoid “unconcession” letter at his website; he accuses ACORN and “the unions” of “tampering with democracy,” and the file name of the web page is “stolenelection.html.” Wow. Stop Another Stolen Election!
(Hat tip: Dave Weigel, who points out that ACORN actually had no volunteers in Hoffman’s district.)
Fox News Plays Video Games Again
Media | Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 9:15:24 am PST
And again, Fox News shows old footage of Sarah Palin from the presidential campaign to give the impression that she’s drawing huge crowds on her book tour.
The Swamp reports that heads may roll at Fox over this embarrassing incident.
Hasan's Supervisor Warned Army in 2007
US News | Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 9:08:54 am PST
As we learn more about Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, it’s clear that he was throwing off warning signals right and left — but nobody wanted to step up and take action about him until it was too late: Hasan’s Supervisor Warned Army In 2007.
Two years ago, a top psychiatrist at Walter Reed Army Medical Center was so concerned about what he saw as Nidal Hasan’s incompetence and reckless behavior that he put those concerns in writing. NPR has obtained a copy of the memo, the first evaluation that has surfaced from Hasan’s file.
Officials at Walter Reed sent that memo to Fort Hood this year when Hasan was transferred there.
Nevertheless, commanders still assigned Hasan — accused of killing 13 people in a mass shooting at Fort Hood on Nov. 5 — to work with some of the Army’s most troubled and vulnerable soldiers.
On May 17, 2007, Hasan’s supervisor at Walter Reed sent the memo to the Walter Reed credentials committee. It reads, “Memorandum for: Credentials Committee. Subject: CPT Nidal Hasan.” More than a page long, the document warns that: “The Faculty has serious concerns about CPT Hasan’s professionalism and work ethic. … He demonstrates a pattern of poor judgment and a lack of professionalism.” It is signed by the chief of psychiatric residents at Walter Reed, Maj. Scott Moran.
When shown the memo, two leading psychiatrists said it was so damning, it might have sunk Hasan’s career if he had applied for a job outside the Army.
LGF Poll: 9/11 Terror Trials in New York
US News | Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 4:58:34 pm PST
Baby Sloth Open Thread
Open | Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 3:36:26 pm PST
Open thread, with baby sloths at the Sloth Sanctuary. Cuteness guaranteed.
(Hat tip: Zooborns.)
Bill Maher and the Pyre of Stupidity
Health | Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 12:29:26 pm PST
At Huffington Post, TV talk show host Bill Maher has a very lengthy article trying to explain his anti-vaccination opinions, but it’s more obfuscation than explanation: Bill Maher: Vaccination: A Conversation Worth Having.
It’s pretty long-winded and a bit whiny, and amounts to a restatement of Maher’s previous positions, which were never really hidden: he has quackish beliefs about science, medicine, and especially vaccines.
Maher’s nemesis at SciBlogs, Orac, has posted an even lengthier but much more readable response to Maher’s apologetics; he lets Maher have it: Bill Maher flames out in a pyre of stupidity over vaccines—again.
First off, Maher is apparently very, very unhappy that he’s been sucked into this debate. More like he’s never actually been called out so publicly for his medical and scientific ignorance before or so clearly revealed to be anti-science when it comes to medicine. He doesn’t like it, not one bit. So he starts out by complaining about how the topic is coming up in every interview he does these days. I also think he was particularly hurt by Michael Shermer’s excellent (but far too polite for the situation) Open Letter to Bill Maher. Never does it cross Maher’s fragile eggshell mind that the reason that the topic of vaccines in general and the flu vaccine in particular are coming up so often in his interviews is because of—oh, maybe, just maybe—his history on the topic. It’s not as though Maher hasn’t been laying down swaths of antivaccine nonsense hither and yon since at least 2005, which was the first time I noticed him. It’s not exactly a secret that Maher’s been an anti-vaccine loon who “doesn’t believe in Western medicine” for many years now. He’s been “questioning” vaccines and “Western medicine” (a code word for science-based medicine among the woo set) for years now, both in his comedy act and on his show. So—surprise! surprise!—when a flu pandemic shows up in 2009 and the government gears up for a mass vaccination program to combat it, why is Maher surprised that the topic comes up a lot on his show or whenever he does interviews? More likely, he’s surprised at the amount of justified criticism he’s taken for his anti-scientific health views. After being given a free pass for at least five years, suddenly people are noticing just how flaky Maher’s medical views are. So now, a month after the most recent season of his show ended, he shows up on that quackfest known as HuffPo to try to defend himself.
The results, predictably, are pathetic.
Holder Defends 9/11 Trial Decision
US News | Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 9:55:37 am PST
At a meeting of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Attorney General Eric Holder defended his decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other 9/11 suspects in civilian court in New York.
Holder said he knows “we are at war with a vicious enemy who targets our soldiers on the battlefield in Afghanistan and our civilians on the streets here at home. … Those who suggest otherwise are simply wrong.”
Dozens of family members of 9/11 victims recently signed a letter to Holder and President Obama opposing a civilian trial for the alleged plotters.
They said it would give the men a well-publicized platform to espouse their views, in a trial to be held just blocks from where the World Trade Center towers crumbled when the hijacked planes crashed into them.
“Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will have no more of a platform to spew his hateful ideology in federal court than he would have in military commissions,” Holder said Wednesday.
“Before (his military) commissions last year, he declared the proceedings an ‘inquisition,’ condemned his own attorneys and our Constitution and professed his desire to become a martyr. Those proceedings were heavily covered in the media, yet few complained at the time that his rants threatened the fabric of our democracy,” Holder said.
Holder said he was confident his decision “will withstand the judgment of history.”
Palin: 'Death Panels' Like Reagan's 'Evil Empire'
Politics | Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 9:10:50 am PST
Sarah “I didn’t come from no monkey” Palin gets the ultimate soft ball interview from Rich Lowry at National Review: The Rogue, on the Record.
When Lowry asks about her absurd fear-mongering “death panels” statement, she compares herself to … Ronald Reagan. You remember how Reagan called the Soviet Union the “evil empire?” “Death panels” is the same kind of thing.
It wouldn’t be a Palin interview without asking about “death panels.” How did she come up with the phrase? “To me, while reading that section of the bill, it became so evident that there would be a panel of bureaucrats who would decide on levels of health care, decide on those who are worthy or not worthy of receiving some government-controlled coverage,” she explains. “Since health care would have to be rationed if it were promised to everyone, it would therefore lead to harm for many individuals not able to receive the government care. That leads, of course, to death.”
“The term I used to describe the panel making these decisions should not be taken literally,” says Palin. The phrase is “a lot like when President Reagan used to refer to the Soviet Union as the ‘evil empire.’ He got his point across. He got people thinking and researching what he was talking about. It was quite effective. Same thing with the ‘death panels.’ I would characterize them like that again, in a heartbeat.”
In this quote she says outright that she knows the “death panels” claim is false, and we shouldn’t “take it literally.”
But in her original statement she gave no indication that she wasn’t speaking literally. This is what she wrote at Facebook:
The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s “death panel” so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their “level of productivity in society,” whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.
Not only did she make a very specific claim, she used her own child to do it. I think she did knowingly, deliberately lie, in order to rile up the right wing base — and it worked.
Onion: Obama Home Teleprompter Malfunctions
Humor | Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 5:29:04 pm PST
Tuesday Afternoon Music: Antoine Dufour and Tommy Gauthier, 'Solitude'
Music | Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 3:53:57 pm PST
Antoine Dufour (harp guitar) and Tommy Gauthier (violin) play “Solitude,” from their latest album Still Strings. (Here it is at the iTunes Store.)
Greenland Ice Melting Faster Than Ever
Environment | Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 2:06:50 pm PST
Germany’s Spiegel Online reports on new research on the Greenland ice sheet (cross-checked with two different methods that yielded the same result), showing that the ice is disappearing much faster than previously believed.
The dimensions of this frosty giant go way beyond human imagination. With a surface area spanning some 1.7 million square kilometers (656,000 square miles), a view of Greenland’s ice above the Sermeq-Kujalleq glacier near Ilulisat makes it seem endless. The idea that this sheet of ice, which is up to three kilometers thick in parts, is melting seems absurd in the extreme.
But the large number of gigantic icebergs — and the valley into which they are slowly sliding — tell a different story. Here, as elsewhere in Greenland, a gigantic upheaval is underway. In recent years, the glacier has receded by around 15 kilometers; the ongoing meltdown appears unstoppable. Just how quickly Greenland’s ice is melting remains a matter of some debate, but the melting ice is contributing to rising ocean levels — with potentially dramatic consequences for millions across the globe.
Were Greenland to lose all of its ice, sea levels would rise some seven meters higher than today’s levels. Such a scenario will not become reality overnight — indeed the process could last hundreds of years. But new results from a team of Dutch researchers suggest that conservative estimates as to the speed with which the ice is melting should be shelved. According to the study, the rate at which Greenland’s ice is melting has accelerated substantially in recent years.
There are, strictly speaking, two parallel processes responsible for the ice’s retreat. On the one hand, rising temperatures melt the ice on land while warmer ocean currents eat away at the glaciers that jut out into the ocean. A research team led by Michiel van den Broeke from the University of Utrecht reported in the most recent edition of the journal Science that the two processes are contributing equally to the disappearance of the ice sheet.
According to the new report, Greenland lost an estimated 1,500 gigatons (one gigaton is equal to 1 billion tons) of ice from the year 2000 to 2008. “That is at the upper end of recent estimates of Greenland mass loss using various other methods,” van den Broeke told SPIEGEL ONLINE. Between 2006 and 2008, the loss in weight totaled 273 gigatons per year, he said.
The scientists are convinced their results are accurate because they arrived at their numbers using two fundamentally different methods — both of which returned the same conclusion. On the one hand, they monitored the movement of the ice which they fed into a regional computer model. For a second data source, they used the Grace observation satellites, which measure the Earth’s gravitational field.
Wash. Times Editor: Obama's Mother Was 'Attracted to Men of the Third World'
US News | Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:38:10 pm PST
Washington Times editor Wesley Pruden sums up Barack Obama in racially charged language, saying Obama has no “blood impulse” to be an American.
This kind of stuff is becoming more and more open in “conservative” media.
It’s no fault of the president that he has no natural instinct or blood impulse for what the America of “the 57 states” is about. He was sired by a Kenyan father, born to a mother attracted to men of the Third World and reared by grandparents in Hawaii, a paradise far from the American mainstream.
Hoffman and Beck Storming the Castle
Politics | Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:06:36 pm PST
Prodded by Glenn Beck, far right candidate Doug Hoffman has ‘unconceded’ in New York 23.
After some tabulating errors were discovered, Owens’ lead over Hoffman shrunk to 3,026 votes. But there are as many as 10,000 oustanding absentee and paper ballots that only today will begin to be counted. (And that number could be far less; 10,000 absentee ballots were requested … we don’t know exactly how many were returned.) Hoffman “unconceded” today on Glenn Beck’s national radio show.
ADL Special Report: A Year of Growing Animosity
US News | Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:06:12 am PST
The Anti-Defamation League has released a detailed report on the increasing anger and hostility among the right wing, singling out many of the same personalities and issues on which LGF has been focusing recently. This is the index page with summaries of the main points: Rage Grows in America: Anti-Government Conspiracies.
Since the election of Barack Obama as president, a current of anti-government hostility has swept across the United States, creating a climate of fervor and activism with manifestations ranging from incivility in public forums to acts of intimidation and violence.
What characterizes this anti-government hostility is a shared belief that Obama and his administration actually pose a threat to the future of the United States. Some accuse Obama of plotting to bring socialism to the United States, while others claim he will bring about Nazism or fascism. All believe that Obama and his administration will trample on individual freedoms and civil liberties, due to some sinister agenda, and they see his economic and social policies as manifestations of this agenda. In particular anti-government activists used the issue of health care reform as a rallying point, accusing Obama and his administration of dark designs ranging from “socialized medicine” to “death panels,” even when the Obama administration had not come out with a specific health care reform plan. Some even compared the Obama administration’s intentions to Nazi eugenics programs.
Some of these assertions are motivated by prejudice, but more common is an intense strain of anti-government distrust and anger, colored by a streak of paranoia and belief in conspiracies. These sentiments are present both in mainstream and “grass-roots” movements as well as in extreme anti-government movements such as a resurgent militia movement. Ultimately, this anti-government anger, if it continues to grow in intensity and scope, may result in an increase in anti-government extremists and the potential for a rise of violent anti-government acts.
The ADL is right on target when they identify Glenn Beck as one of the primary mainstream media promoters of extremist ideologies and conspiracy theory paranoia:
The most important mainstream media figure who has repeatedly helped to stoke the fires of anti-government anger is right-wing media host Glenn Beck, who has a TV show on FOX News and a popular syndicated radio show. While other conservative media hosts, such as Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, routinely attack Obama and his administration, typically on partisan grounds, they have usually [But not always… – ed.] dismissed or refused to give a platform to the conspiracy theorists and anti-government extremists. This has not been the case with Glenn Beck. Beck and his guests have made a habit of demonizing President Obama and promoting conspiracy theories about his administration.
On a number of his TV and radio programs, Beck has even gone so far as to make comparisons between Hitler and Obama and to promote the idea that the president is dangerous.
The whole thing is very much worth reading, so here are direct links to all of the report’s sections:
Part One: Anger in the Mainstream
The Tea Parties
The Town Hall Meeting Disruptions
A Building Anger
The “Birther” Movement
The Influence of the Mainstream Media
Part Two: Anger on the Fringes
Alex Jones, the Conspiracy King
Conspiracy Theories Imagine Government Plots
Conspiracy Theories Prompting Action: The Iowa National Guard
Conspiracy Theories Prompting Action: Richard Poplawski
Resisting the Government
The Oath Keepers
The Three Percenters
The Resurgence of the Militia Movement
