Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 1:20:29 pm
The entire right wing blogosphere is in a frenzy of anti-Muslim bigotry over this awful story out of Oklahoma: Suspect in Co-Worker's Beheading Was Recently Released From Probation. A 2010 booking photo of Alton Nolen from the Logan County Sheriff's Office in Oklahoma.A man suspected of beheading a woman he ...

Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 9:57:57 am
It's bizarre to watch the right wing news sites trying to settle on a way to spin President Obama's action against ISIS inside Syria; they alternate from hand-wringing fear that Obama isn't doin' it right, to attacking Obama for doin' it at all, to completely ignoring the fact that Obama ...

Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 10:35:44 am
You may recall this LGF post from a couple of weeks ago, in which we called out right wing smear artist Chuck C. Johnson (most recently infamous for alleging -- with no evidence -- that Ferguson teenager Michael Brown had been involved in a second degree murder while a juvenile) ...

Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 5:11:37 pm
DERPWritten with his typical random use of bold markup and capitalization, Jim Hoft, fabled Dumbest Man on the Internet, is now using the Oathkeepers militia group as a source for his latest incredibly dim fear-mongering post: REPORT... TX Rancher: Terrorists on Wanted List Were Caught Crossing Into US (Video) | ...

Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 5:30:34 pm
YouTube I haven't done a post about religious loony Bryan Fischer in a while, because he's so predictably hateful and dim-witted it gets boring, but this one made me laugh: Bryan Fischer Wants Michelle Obama to Start a 'Fight Obesity, Go Straight' Anti-Lesbian Campaign. "I would suggest that if Michelle Obama ...

Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 10:15:39 am
You may recall that National Review columnist John Derbyshire was fired from the magazine in 2012 when he published an absolutely horrible racist article at a website called Takimag. Takimag is an overtly racist and often antisemitic publication, with a list of contributors that's a who's who of white nationalists and ...

Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 7:34:50 pm
DERPIt's always hilarious when the Dumbest Man on the Internet, Jim Hoft, pretends he understands what's going on the real world. In today's example of Hoft's monumental idiocy, this morning he posted one of his usual ridiculous anti-Obama rants, titled: Horror! Watch This Video and Tell Me Barack Obama Is ...

Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 10:32:42 am
Today, the Dumbest Man on the Internet can barely contain his excitement over an ugly racist incident in Moscow -- because it was directed against President Obama, of course. Jim Hoft drools: Russians Shine Laser Show of Obama 'Fellating' Banana on US Embassy in Moscow (Video) | the Gateway Pundit. As usual, ...

Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 6:31:19 pm
YouTube The video's several years old and low resolution, but with the House Republicans' vote for a deranged racist anti-immigrant bill that has no chance of passing the Senate, I can't think of a better song for tonight's jam than the Los Lobos classic "Will The Wolf Survive?" Through the chill ...

Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 1:37:20 pm
In his press conference today, President Obama said, "After 9/11... we tortured some folks. We did some things that were contrary to our values." And you can just imagine the reaction from conservatives to that. Well, actually, no need to imagine. Here's a representative tweet from Ted Cruz's senior communications advisor. I ...

Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 12:57:06 pm
Click for Video Today in Mississippi, Attorney General Jim Hood told the Clarion-Ledger that his office is investigating "political blogger" Charles C. Johnson (who is NOT ME), after a self-proclaimed pastor admitted to the AG's office that he was paid by Johnson to lie about participating in a vote-buying scheme. Right ...

Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 11:31:53 am
YouTube It's going to be awfully hard to find a loonier right wing rant than this one, as Americans for Legal Immigration PAC president William Gheen goes on the whacked-out Alex Jones show and concocts a freakish conspiracy theory (on the spot!) that President Obama is bringing in Central American children, ...

Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 6:17:39 pm
Wow. I rarely begin a post that way, but here's something I never knew about Reason Magazine, the flagship journal of American libertarianism, and it's really, really awful. Mark Ames at Pando Daily has dug the whole thing up: As Reason's Editor Defends Its Racist History, Here's a Copy of ...

Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 3:28:03 pm
Sometimes Glenn Greenwald does something that really brings out his true agenda -- and it's not at all related to helping advance progressive causes. The most important thing to Greenwald often seems to be simple sabotage of the democratic process, with smear tactics and ugly personal attacks the order of ...

Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 11:25:49 am
Media Matters Here's today's example of the absolutely horrible anti-science propaganda relentlessly pushed out there by right wing groups, as CNBC promotes an Exxon-funded physicist as an expert on climate change despite the fact that he has no demonstrated expertise on the subject, and he launches into a bizarre rant comparing ...

Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 3:15:08 pm
Here's right wing blogger Pat Dollard, former contributor to Breitbart "News" and guest on Fox News' "Red Eye" show, the epitome of a pro-war anti-Muslim Republican with more than 38,000 followers on Twitter, managing to pack antisemitism and homophobia into one absolutely vile tweet: This isn't unusual for Dollard. If you ...

Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 11:06:52 am
When we last left Kentucky Sen. Brandon Smith, he was lecturing us about the "real facts" of climate change and how Mars is the same temperature as our own happy planet Earth. When called out on his dubious grasp of how things actually work in real life science, he was quick ...

Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 11:35:44 am
Video In an interview with ABC News, Eric Holder had some words of truth about half-governor Sarah Palin and her ludicrous calls for impeaching President Obama. Asked about calls by Sarah Palin to impeach Obama over the administration's immigration policies, Holder said: "She wasn't a particularly good vice presidential candidate. She's ...

Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 10:45:10 am
At the Washington Post, Erik Wemple fact checks one of the more inflammatory claims in the latest Glenn Greenwald article about alleged NSA/FBI spying on American Muslim leaders: that the Justice Department went around to Muslim groups before the story was even written, warning them Greenwald's article was full of ...

Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 12:17:54 pm
Remember this when people try to tell you the anti-immigrant protesters in Murrieta, California are patriots -- because patriots don't fly the flag of traitors. Posted at Instagram by LA Times reporter James Barragan:

Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 2:25:21 pm
Anti-Muslim hate group leader Pamela Geller (one of the main inspirations for Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik) recently tried to export her deranged views to Canada, purchasing bus advertisements to sow division and discord, but the transit company pulled the ads after receiving numerous complaints. Now, as she's done several times ...

Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 12:51:21 pm
The Republican National Committee needs to hire Breitbart "News" editor John Nolte right away -- he's bringing a message that's a sure winner for the GOP in 2016! Unmarried left-wing women as a whole seem to be a needy, entitled, spoiled, crybaby, helpless lot. — John Nolte (@NolteNC) July 7, 2014 How ...

Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 2:38:56 pm
Here we go again with yet another bogus exposé by crazed wingnut blogger Charles C. Johnson (WHO IS NOT ME), alleging that the Thad Cochran campaign in Mississippi bought votes from black voters to defeat Tea Party loon Chris McDaniel. It's pretty amazing to see the far right uniting to ...

Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 11:26:32 am
Youtube Video It's difficult to understand why anyone would ever get the impression that anti-science lunacy runs rampant in the Republican Party. Louisiana state Rep. Lenar Whitney (R) is accusing liberals, such as former Vice President Al Gore, of advancing "the greatest deception in the history of mankind" -- man-made climate ...

Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 2:06:50 pm
YouTube Yes, the United States has made huge progress in gay rights in an amazingly short period of time, but our religious fanatics are doing incredible damage in places like Uganda.