Thu, May 1, 2014 at 5:43:02 pm
YouTube It takes a lot to make my jaw drop after all these eons of blogging, but the amazing thing about this new religious right film is that something so deliberately ignorant and anti-rational is actually being made in 2014. In "A Matter of Faith," a good Christian girl who was raised ...

Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 10:57:47 am
An excellent piece by Jeffrey Goldberg on John Kerry's absurdly misrepresented "apartheid" comment: Is Israel an Apartheid State? The problem is not inside Israel; the problem is on the West Bank. The settlers who entangle Israel in the lives of Palestinians believe that they are the vanguard of Zionism. In ...

Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 8:55:22 am
This isn't a new story, but since I commented on it extensively in one of the main threads, I figured I might as well turn it into a Page in case it ever comes up. The "Investigation" Back in mid-February right-wing activists had their fainting couches out over a Clarion Project article ...

Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 2:26:05 pm
SoundCloud Brian Tashman at Right Wing Watch reports: Conservative activists are livid about a new bill to update a 1993 National Telecommunications and Information Administration report "on the current prevalence of hate crimes and hate speech in telecommunications," which anti-Muslim activist Pamela Geller said "is Sharia." While speaking to Janet Mefferd yesterday, ...

Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 11:45:33 am
It's been almost a week since I wrote anything about the Mighty Glenn Greenwald, but it seems the Mighty G has been thinking of me, despite the wonderful awards he's been receiving, because today he tweeted a link to the blog run by the extreme right wing Muslim-hating weirdos who've ...

Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 1:16:39 pm
One of the bizarre exercises right wing bloggers love to engage in after a far right nutjob kills some people: find some way to paint the killer as a "liberal" or a "Democrat." If the criminal in question ever registered as a Democrat in his/her life, they'll dig it up; ...

Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 7:16:53 pm
The SPLC's HateWatch blog connects the dots: Frazier Glenn Miller, Longtime Anti-Semite, Arrested in Kansas Jewish Community Center Murders. Frazier Glenn Miller, 73, of Aurora, Mo., was arrested today for the murder of three people at two separate Jewish Community Centers in Overland Park, Kan. Miller, who was arrested using ...

Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 9:55:31 am
The gays are going to force us all into tolerating them, Or kill us. Or tolerance-camp us. Something that requires a pre-emptive strike by the forces of decency...which will coincidentally take the form of policing the population for gayness, criminalizing gayness, and maybe forced reparitive therapy...in camps. And the occasional ...

Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 11:17:55 am
Yesterday, this happened: creationist Texas Governor Rick Perry came out strongly in favor of letting prison rape continue unabated. "I will not sign your form and I will encourage my fellow governors to follow suit," Perry wrote in a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder, the first governor to make ...

Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 3:27:52 pm
So, after genocide-lovin' wingnut Pat Dollard tweeted yesterday that it was "time for Americans to start slaughtering Muslims in the streets," Mother Jones contacted Breitbart "News" for comment, since Dollard's Twitter profile says he's a contributor for them. The response: We asked the editor of Breitbart, Alex Marlow, and the ...

Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 6:58:45 pm
Are you surprised to find out that right wing Birther Donald Trump is also opposed to vaccinations? If I were President I would push for proper vaccinations but would not allow one time massive shots that a small child cannot take - AUTISM. -- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 27, 2014 ...

Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 11:10:51 am
If you've ever expressed a liberal political opinion on Twitter, you've seen them -- the rabid right wingers who feverishly tweet insults and long-debunked talking points at you, with no attempt at all to really debate anything. The worst ones are blatantly racist, homophobic, anti-Muslim religious fanatics whose online lives ...

Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 10:50:44 am
The right wing media are staging another one of their absurd freak-out sessions, this time pretending to be gravely offended by the use of wire coat hangers as a symbol of illegal abortion. And rarely have I read such a truly despicable example of anti-choice propaganda as Kevin D. Williamson's disgusting ...

Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 10:51:10 am
Have you noticed that every second or third article by Glenn Greenwald at The Intercept is explaining and/or defending something awful he's done, or viciously attacking his critics for pointing it out? It's really striking. At least half of Greenwald's time these days is taken up with trying to justify ...

Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 11:38:07 am
Getty Image Meanwhile in Venezuela, the death toll in anti-Maduro protests has risen to 29, and security forces have cracked down on protesters in Caracas's Plaza Altamira. And Nicolas Maduro has been calling the protesters "Los Chuckys." "I'm giving the Chuckys, the killers, just a few hours," Maduro said, using the ...

Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 12:55:25 pm
Here's a reminder that Russian society is not a one-sided monolith, as thousands of people stage an anti-war rally against Russia's invasion of Ukraine, ahead of the Crimean vote on secession. Getty Image Getty Image Getty Image Getty Image Getty Image Getty Image Getty Image Meanwhile, Putin's supporters held a counter-demonstration with a slightly different vibe. Getty Image Getty Image ...

Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 10:20:35 am
Rosie Gray's article on what it's really like to work for Kremlin propaganda outlet Russia Today is our must-read of the day; it's every bit as bad as you thought: How the Truth Is Made at Russia Today. The public shake-up and skewed coverage of Ukraine has pulled aside RT's ...

Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 9:56:41 am
Some conservatives have started laying into the Oscar-winning movie 12 Years a Slave for creating an unfairly negative portrayal of slavery. You see, the movie portrays slaves being made unhappy by slavery. But that negativity is merely anti-slavery "propaganda," according to James Bowman in conservative magazine The American Spectator: ...

Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 3:23:49 pm
Getty Image CPAC is currently having its annual shindig in Maryland. CPAC is run by the American Conservative Union, and the event needs lots of money to happen. But it's not grassroots organizations that are funding this event. It's heavy hitters and deep pockets. Who's really sponsoring CPAC? It's big energy companies, tobacco, ...

Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 5:13:13 pm
There's something of a mini-rebellion of news anchors (an anchor putsch) going on at Russia Today, the propaganda channel operated by the Kremlin. First 9/11 Truther Abby Martin made negative remarks about Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and now another anchor, Liz Wahl, has gone further and resigned on air. YouTube I'm cynical ...

Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 10:54:03 am
Well, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer really poked a stick into the right wing hive mind by vetoing the Republican attempt to enshrine anti-gay bigotry as "religious freedom." Today the wingnut blogosphere is absolutely full of out of control unison ranting, but my favorite loony comments so far come from ... ...

Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 9:11:28 am
Rep. Mary Sue McClurkinSo a few days ago I posted a page about how Alabama is attempting to force "Christian" prayer in all Public schools. Specifically, this revolved around Rep. Mary Sue McClurkin, R-Indian Springs, who blatantly ignored a 2-3 loss in a voice vote for something she (and ...

Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 4:58:16 pm
Minutes ago, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer vetoed the SB1062 "religious freedom" pro-bigotry bill, pretending it was an act of principle instead of a result of the huge backlash. That distant popping sound you hear is right wing heads exploding all over the Internets. Moments ago, I vetoed #SB1062. pic.twitter.com/gdQn0dG2vB — Jan Brewer (@GovBrewer) ...

Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 11:53:35 am
Basically, they're still for it, but the backlash is painful, so they're against it. But it's still a good idea. That maybe isn't absolutely necessary. But a good thing, just don't do it because there might be some bad results that would hurt us instead of the people we're ...

Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 11:33:26 am
If you noticed quite a few right wing blogs and media sites that seemed to be rather, uh, uncritical of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych in the past few weeks, it's not necessarily because they were really that sympathetic to the kleptocratic ruler. They might have been getting paid: Exclusive: How Ukraine ...