Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 9:41:16 am
Wingnut bloggers are hilariously freaking out today about a conference call held by the Romney campaign, because they took questions from Mother Jones and Talking Points Memo, but not ... them. The charge is led by third string wingnut "Datechguy:" If you're a conservative Mitt Romney apparently doesn't want ...

Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 2:36:55 pm
Florida's Tea Party governor Rick Scott is famous for his law that mandates drug testing for all welfare recipients, and at a press conference today Daily Show correspondent Aasif Mandvi pointed out that the law should also apply to governors.

Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 10:15:10 am
It's a picture of a political party completely lost in lala land, as Newt Gingrich teams up with Birther Donald Trump to subvert America's child labor laws and put disadvantaged kids to work swabbing out the toilets in their own schools, reality show style: Gingrich asks Trump to create 'apprentice' ...

Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 5:13:41 pm
Yes, tomorrow looks like it will be a grim day for Herman Cain; here's NBC's David Gregory reporting that a source close to Cain says he's bailing out tomorrow. Video Meanwhile, according to the Daily Beast's Allison Samuels, sources close to Cain's family say the allegations of sexual misconduct have shaken his ...

Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:31:41 pm
Here's an excellent, detailed piece on the blatant lies being pushed by right wing media about the so-called "Climategate" emails, comparing the actual emails to the right's out of context, deliberately distorted quotes. The level of outright dishonesty is shocking: 'Climategate' Redux: Conservative Media Distort Hacked Emails ... Again. Here's one ...

Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 2:07:52 pm
GOBBLE GOBBLE AKBAR!Yes, Pamela Geller is still at it, relentlessly ferreting out the hidden truth behind the appalling Butterball Shariah Turkey Infiltration Plot, or as she calls it: BURKABALL BUTTERBALL: 'BACTERIAL' KOSHER VS HOLY HALAL!!!!!! - Atlas Shrugs I haven't laughed this much at a fake right wing outrage since Jim ...

Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 12:25:32 pm
As the Republican Party sinks ever deeper into anti-science denial, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released a new report that concludes, in very cautious language, that at least some of the extreme weather events we've seen around the world are consequences of human-induced climate change. The findings ...

Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 9:54:35 am
Perhaps we have become so numb to the political circus by now that we don't notice the extreme, but the Saturday November 19th GOP Presidential candidate Thanksgiving Family Forum (not really a "debate") in Iowa was more about religious identity than anything to do with Presidential responsibilities or the practice ...

Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 8:56:14 pm
Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez has been charged with attempting to assassinate President Obama, and in light of the right wing blogosphere's ongoing attempts to link Ortega to the Occupy Wall Street protests, it should be pointed out that what we know so far about his delusional ideas falls much more in ...

Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 12:26:41 pm
In the perpetual race to the bottom of a bottomless pit that is the right wing blogosphere, a new outrageous outrage has arisen, more outrageous than all the other fake outrages of wingnut history. My friends, can your hearts stand the awful truth of the Barack Hussein Obama Christmas Tree Tax?! You ...

Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 6:26:51 pm
Here's a look at one of America's ugliest chapters -- the bizarre antisemitic visions of Father Charles Coughlin, a Roman Catholic priest who was the Rush Limbaugh/Glenn Beck of his day. At its height, Father Coughlin's radio show boasted more than 30 million listeners -- at the time, a full ...

Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 11:06:29 am
Lisa SimeoneToday we see a very disappointing move from NPR, who have fired Lisa Simeone from her job as host of NPR's Soundprint non-political documentary show after the right wing propaganda journal Daily Caller accused her of "ethics violations" because of her involvement in Occupy DC. This article set off a ...

Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 4:38:13 pm
In the October 14th episode of his radio show, Rush Limbaugh defended the Ugandan terrorist group calling itself the Lord's Resistance Army, portraying the LRA as Christians targeted by President Obama for being Christian, and defending the agitprop of the LRA by reading it as gospel. Only at the very last ...

Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 9:13:08 pm
Today, 8 people were allegedly shot and killed at a Seal Beach beauty salon by suspect Scott DeKraai as reported by the Los Alamitos Seal Beach Patch: Seal Beach shooting suspect in custody Scott DeKraai. Eight people were killed and one critically wounded Wednesday afternoon when a heavily armed gunman wearing ...

Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 1:15:00 pm
Harsh words for Rick Perry today from former RNC chairman Michael Steele: Michael Steele on Perry’s Hunting Camp: “It’s Very Troubling”. In an interview with TIME on Monday morning, former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele also scolded Perry. “It’s very troubling on some many levels, for so many reasons,” ...

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 ...

Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 12:07:36 pm
Adequate words do not exist to describe the magnitude of this idiocy, as Arizona's Sheriff Joe Arpaio cooperates with the far right's craziest theocratic media site, World Net Daily, to launch an investigation into ... wait for it ... President Obama's birth certificate. Yes, really. Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, ...

Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 5:23:02 pm
From the Washington Post's blog: Attack Watch, new Obama campaign site to ‘fight smears,’ becomes laughing stock of conservatives. At Fox Nation, this devolves into: WaPo: Obama's New Site, AttackWatch.com, Becomes Laughing Stock of the Internet. You mean it's the whole Internet, not just the usual obsessed far right anti-Obama nutbags? The Fox ...

Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 2:39:27 pm
After the Virginia earthquake, you knew it was just a matter of time before one of the religious right's odd fear-mongering fanatics started ranting defensively about signs from the heavens; World Net Daily publisher and relentless Birther Joseph Farah is one of the first out of the gate. For some ...

Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 7:24:11 pm
Anti-Muslim demagogue Pamela Geller paid close attention to the White House Ramadan dinner, because that's how the creeping shariah gets in. And she noticed that President Obama actually HONORED THE SACRIFICES THAT MUSLIM AMERICANS MADE ON 911!!!! The horror! Geller also notes: the Muslims killed in New York on 9/11/2001 were ...

Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 12:44:43 pm
The Fox Nation website is the unfiltered id of Fox News; the stuff they hint at or imply on FoxNews.com is right out in the open at Nation.FoxNews.com. Remember when Fox Business host Eric Bolling was forced to issue an obviously insincere apology after his outrageously racist show about Obama inviting ...

Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 12:59:19 pm
Norwegian newspaper Verdens Gang reports that immediately after his shooting rampage at the summer camp on Utoya, "counter-jihad" killer Anders Behring Breivik used his cell phone to call the police and boast, "Mission Accomplished." Anders Behring Breivik said "mission accomplished" during a call to police after he massacred 69 people ...

Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 1:50:19 pm
With impeccable timing, today Pamela Geller is hyping the release of her new book, published by the far right's craziest pseudo-news and Birther site, World Net Daily: Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance. Islamic supremacism is seeping into every aspect of American life. Islamic jihad ...