Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:30:57 am
Oh noes! The wingnut stalkers are on to me. Is Charles Johnson of LGF a secret Muslim? The “reasoning” behind this plaintive question is that only a sekrit Moslem enemy could possibly believe Muslim Americans deserve constitutional rights and protections. Yep, really. This is what the bigotry virus looks like in an advanced ...

Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 9:12:17 am
Remember Jeffrey Lord’s rank piece of race-baiting at the American Spectator saying that Shirley Sherrod’s story of the lynching of a black man was a lie, because the man wasn’t hanged? Well, that disgusting little rationalization brought some heavy criticism down on Lord, as you might imagine. So today he’s moving ...

Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 5:21:25 pm
Here’s an email of a type I don’t get to feature too often; not a rant full of creepy insults or a smug gloat over some imagined right wing victory, but an actual email of support. Shocking, I know. I’ll admit that I veered away from LGF when the ...

Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 11:28:03 am
The Lt. Governor of Tennessee, Ron Ramsey, is running for governor. And he thinks America’s constitutionally guaranteed freedom of religion may not apply to Muslims. At a recent event in Hamilton County, Ramsey was asked by a man in the audience about the “threat that’s invading our country from the ...

Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 10:10:52 am
It should be no surprise to find American Spectator, the magazine that plays host to white supremacist blogger Robert Stacy McCain, running an absolutely vile 4000-word attack piece on Shirley Sherrod today. Jeffrey Lord says Sherrod lied in her speech to the NAACP when she talked about the murder of a ...

Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 9:18:12 pm
Ken Buck, the Colorado Tea Party candidate for the US Senate, thinks the Tea Partiers are “dumbasses.” Of course, he didn’t say that in public. He was caught on tape by a Democratic Party worker in an unguarded moment. In other words, when he was telling the truth. KUSA - U.S. ...

Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 12:31:01 pm
Yet another outrageous outrage is just now bubbling up to the surface, pushed by … I hope you’re sitting down … Drudge Report: White House backed release of Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi. In this case, all you have to do to debunk this ridiculously misleading headline is read the story ...

Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 1:19:09 pm
James Edwards, host of the repellent white supremacist radio show called “The Political Cesspool,” is irritated at all this denial coming from Tea Partiers. He says they should stop being such wusses and embrace their inner racists. Of course the Tea Party is racist, crowed a blog post on the ...

Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 10:08:13 am
With all the absurd and deliberately distorted misinformation circulating around the Park51 project (the Bigot Brigade calls it the “Ground Zero mosque,” although it’s not actually at Ground Zero and will be a community center, not just a mosque), Aziz Poonawalla went to the source and interviewed the lead developer ...

Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 12:27:08 pm
LGF reader SpaceJesus’s Page tells the tale of the latest strange and tawdry episode of Republican malfeasance toward women: 92 Republicans Vote Against Legislation That Will Help Prevent Rape of Native American Women. The House passed a bill that would make it easier for tribal courts with limited sovereignty and ...

Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 9:49:30 am
Anti-Muslim bloggers Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller used to frequently cite stories about radical Islamists forwarded to them by Jeffrey Imm; you’ll find hundreds of posts at their sites that refer to Mr. Imm. Well, their increasingly open bigotry and their outrageously paranoid, un-American group “Stop the Islamization of America” have ...

Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 9:42:23 am
Eugene Robinson isn’t pulling any punches with his new column: Obama needs to stand up to ‘reverse racism’ ploy. After the Shirley Sherrod episode, there’s no longer any need to mince words: A cynical right-wing propaganda machine is peddling the poisonous fiction that when African Americans or other minorities reach ...

Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 1:34:29 pm
Sarah Palin is doubling down on bigotry, with yet another Facebook post that brushes aside minor issues like tolerance and openness to get to what she really wants to say: Muslims shouldn’t have the same constitutional rights as other Americans. Sarah Palin: An Intolerable Mistake on Hallowed Ground | Facebook. ...

Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 8:58:55 am
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is reportedly reconsidering the resignation of Shirley Sherrod, after it became clear that Andrew Breitbart’s edited video was a complete sham intended to smear an innocent person for purposes of race-baiting: Vilsack, USDA to reconsider employee ouster. Vilsack’s statement came after the NAACP posted the full ...

Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 3:57:08 pm
In Oakland, police have announced that Byron Williams, who was injured in a shootout with police on Sunday, was on his way to commit mass murder at offices of the ACLU and the Tides Foundation. OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) ― Police say a California man who engaged in a freeway shootout ...

Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 3:15:07 pm
Here’s the new statement just released by the NAACP: NAACP Statement on the Resignation of Shirley Sherrod. With regard to the initial media coverage of the resignation of USDA Official Shirley Sherrod, we have come to the conclusion we were snookered by Fox News and Tea Party Activist Andrew Breitbart ...

Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 12:57:08 pm
This is the statement from Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack. He’s actually standing by the decision to force Shirley Sherrod’s resignation. Wow. This is crazy. Yesterday I asked for and accepted Ms. Sherrod’s resignation for two reasons. First, for the past 18 months we have been working to turn a page ...

Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:01:57 am
Yesterday the NAACP posted a denunciation of USDA official Shirley Sherrod, based on the edited, misleading video cooked up by Andrew Breitbart. Today this page comes up blank. But Google’s cache still has it: NAACP STATEMENT ON THE RESIGNATION OF SHIRLEY SHERROD | Press Room | NAACP. (BALTIMORE, MD) NAACP President and ...

Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 11:06:14 am
Sarah Palin is joining forces with Pamela Geller and the raving anti-Muslim Bigot Brigade at last! Her new Twitter post calls on “peaceful Muslims” to “refudiate” (yes, she really said it again and no, it doesn’t seem to be a joke) the “Ground Zero mosque.” Ground Zero Mosque supporters: doesn’t ...

Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 10:19:25 am
After screaming all week that there is absolutely no racism in Tea Party groups, today the “National Tea Party Federation” expelled Mark Williams and his “Tea Party Express” for … something. Couldn’t be racism, there is none in the Tea Party. Now, of course, they’ll claim the nonexistent problem is solved. ...

Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 6:24:41 pm
Ta-Nehisi Coates finds the right words: Mark Williams is the same man who has denounced Barack Obama as “Indonesian Muslim” and a “welfare thug.” If Mark Williams is not a racist, then there are no racists in American society—a position which many, some liberals among them, no doubt find plausible. It’s ...

Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 11:02:00 am
Heavily armed neo-Nazis roaming the Arizona desert looking for “narco-terrorists.” What could possibly go wrong? Jason “J.T.” Ready is taking matters into his own hands, declaring war on “narco-terrorists” and keeping an eye out for illegal immigrants. So far, he says his patrols have only found a few border crossers ...

Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 11:25:19 am
On CNN, Tea Party Express spokesman Mark Williams says the NAACP is a racist organization because they have the words “Colored People” in their name. Yep, really. He also says it’s impossible for a Tea Party member to be a racist. (Previously on CNN, Williams called President Obama an “Indonesian ...

Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:36:01 pm
Tea Party Express spokesman Mark Williams was previously featured at LGF when he called President Obama an “Indonesian Muslim welfare thug” and the “racist in chief.” NPR’s Cheryl Corley interviewed Williams as a “Tea Party leader” for their piece about the NAACP resolution condemning tea party racism, and Williams performed ...

Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 5:35:05 pm
I’ve occasionally had differences with the NAACP, but in this case they’re absolutely right — it’s long past time for Tea Party organizers to take a stand against the significant racist element in their movement: NAACP Passes Tea Party Racism Resolution. The resolution was approved in a vote by more ...