Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 10:49:01 am
As the Republican Party sinks ever deeper into anti-science denialism, two new research papers published in Nature show that time is running out: Warming could exceed safe levels in this lifetime. (Reuters) - Global temperature rise could exceed "safe" levels of two degrees Celsius in some parts of the world ...

Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 5:51:33 pm
Pat Buchanan apparently feels secure enough in his various media consulting positions to actually appear on an overtly white supremacist radio show -- again: Pat Buchanan Promotes Book On 'Pro-White' Radio Show. Buchanan has a long history marred by bigotry and hostility toward minorities. He recently released a new book, ...

Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 11:17:56 am
Herman Cain posing with anti-Muslim hate monger Pamela GellerHerman Cain's advisers have him going around to all the far right Christian outlets this weekend, desperately walking back his absurd self-contradictory statements on abortion. After trying to snow the cable news networks into believing he might be sort of "pro-choice," Cain ...

Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 9:56:08 am
Herman Cain's ridiculous self-contradictory statements on abortion are beginning to piss off the religious right, who want their candidates to be as rabidly anti-abortion as possible: Herman Cain's Abortion Comments Roil Iowa Republicans. WASHINGTON -- The first signs of real damage to Herman Cain's campaign emerged Thursday as his position ...

Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 10:25:24 am
Watching the debate last night, I was struck by the fact that we've now seen several of these gabfests unfold without a single mention of one of the Republican Party's biggest and most irrational problems -- their total rejection of science in many important areas. In the early debates we saw ...

Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 9:52:22 am
Here's a good piece by Michelle Goldberg on the relentless attempt by the right wing hate machine to smear Occupy Wall Street as "antisemitic:" Occupy Wall Street Isn't Anti-Semitic, But It's Too Leaderless. One of the curses of left-wing politics is the perennial presence of International ANSWER, a front group ...

Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 10:58:37 am
We have a winner in today's Sweepstakes of Wingnut Derp: our erstwhile friend Zombie, at our erstwhile employer Pajamas Media, pushing one of the most ridiculous (yet inadvertently hilarious) smears of Occupy Wall Street we've seen to date: The PJ Tatler » Bizarre neo-swastika reminiscent of “The Great Dictator” used ...

Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 7:23:52 pm
How do Andrew Breitbart's camp followers deal with learning that one of their smears has been debunked? djmcs (-125p) · 3 hours ago -22 Newly-hired Breitbartian dunce Pollack cites a Pajamas Media story that falsely used a 14-year old Jewish girl to promote the daft idea of OWS anti-semitism... http://littlegreenfootballs.com/artic le/39299_Its... [...] IsrealFeller (82p) ...

Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 5:47:22 pm
An overwhelming majority of the world's environmental scientists are sounding an increasingly desperate alarm about the impending consequences of global warming, but one of the two major US political parties has decided to loudly ignore reality: Whatever Happened to Global Warming? IN 2008, both the Democratic and Republican candidates for ...

Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 12:19:30 pm
There have been many reports of alleged antisemitism being a major part of the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations, most of them originating at right wing blogs. In some cases there have indeed been incidents, rhetoric and signage where the anti-Semitism is rather self-evident. In other cases, bias against the Occupy Wall ...

Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 4:22:44 pm
Here's something interesting: while doing my janitorial rounds, I noticed referrals coming from Reddit, from a discussion of a new anti-Occupy Wall Street smear circulating on Facebook, a photograph of some anarchists with a sign that says, "Fuck the Troops." The photograph's real enough: But it's almost 5 years old; it was ...

Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 10:26:11 am
As we noted a few days ago, the entire right wing media and blogosphere -- all of them -- fell for yet another fake outrage: the false claim that President Obama had offered to apologize to Japan for the bombing of Hiroshima in WWII. Fox News, of course, quickly spread the ...

Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 3:05:33 pm
The religious right is making a desperate all-out effort to roll back women's reproductive rights, and a bizarre fetus-worshipping circus took place today in Congress as the fundamentalist loons put on an emotional ultrasound show for the right wingers about to vote on the falsely named "Protect Life Act:" A ...

Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 1:39:52 pm
Here we go again. Based on a (probably deliberate) misreading of a diplomatic cable released by Wikileaks, the right wing media are having yet another attack of the vapors. Linked at Drudge Report: Apologies Not Accepted - Investors.com. Leaked cables show Japan nixed a presidential apology to Hiroshima and Nagasaki ...

Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 10:29:05 am
One of the craziest conspiracy theories pushed by right wing organizations like the John Birch Society is that fluoride in drinking water is a government mind control plot -- and this deranged meme is making a big comeback in the Tea Party Era: Dozens show up at Pinellas County Commission ...

Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 10:44:11 am
At far right propaganda site American Spectator (one of the outlets for white supremacist blogger Robert Stacy McCain), Patrick Howley openly admits that he "infiltrated" the Occupy Wall Street protest in Washington DC, posing in his "left wing altar [sic] ego," and leering at the "attractive 20-year old girls:" The ...

Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 11:15:05 am
Tommy Christopher has a good piece at Mediaite today on Andrew Breitbart's race-baiting attempt to tie President Obama to the New Black Panther Party, with a look back at the right's history of using the NBPP to scare white people: Andrew Breitbart Obama Black Panthers Photobomb. During the 2008 campaign, ...

Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 6:00:33 pm
Yea, verily. The End Times approach-eth. LGF linked at ThinkProgress: Pam Geller Linked Anti-Muslim Activist Calls For Mass Murder Of Congressmen, Muslims, Liberals And Journalists (Updated). Pamela Geller's business associate John Jay has a pretty hilarious rant about me at his site, too: summer patriot, winter soldier: start the revolution ... apparently things ...

Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 2:33:13 pm
A 20-month old infant with a terminal disease died this week, after his parents sued the Canadian government to allow them to perform a tracheotomy to keep him alive: 'Baby Joseph' Dies at Home After Long Treatment Battle. The "pro-life" movement seized on this case, because they believe God wanted this ...

Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 12:47:11 pm
God keeps changing His mind about far right theocrat Mike Huckabee's presidential plans; apparently He's now telling Huckabee to suit up again and get back in the game: Huckabee looks again at Republican presidential bid. A sign of disarray on the evangelical right wing. Apparently there aren't enough religious fanatics in ...

Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 12:35:24 pm
One of the groups founded by anti-Muslim demagogues Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer is called the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), an "umbrella" group that provides cover for their other activities and funding for their anti-Muslim advertisements. John Jay, one of the founding members of the board of AFDI and ...

Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 6:56:47 pm
Sometimes there's nothing you can say but, "Wow." Here's Tom Tancredo with an incredibly over-the-top anti-Muslim fear-mongering piece, attacking Rick Perry in Tucker Carlson's The Daily Caller: Governor Perry’s Muslim blind spot. Complete with quotes and links to hate group leaders Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller. Islam scholar Robert Spencer, head ...

Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 12:52:22 pm
The right wing Assembly Line of Outrageous Outrages just keeps churning out bogus stories. It takes a lot of man hours to keep the Republican base as crazed and out of touch with reality as possible, but the wingnut media and blogosphere are always on the job. The latest chorus of ...

Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 11:47:15 am
Recently, Christopher Horner at the far-right American blog, Big Government, blogged that the FDA ban on asthma medication containing CFCs was the result of "Obama's FDA." Some of which he writes in Breathless: FDA Bans Asthma Medication: Then, as no Leftist idea is complete without a dash of self-contradicting demagoguery, ...

Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 11:41:14 am
Remember those "audience-submitted" questions at the Fox News debate last night? It turns out that Fox slipped in a couple of ringers -- including a representative of an anti-immigrant hate group founded by a white supremacist. One of the YouTube questions came from Kristen Williamson, a spokeswoman from Federation for ...