Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 11:38:02 am
I woke up today feeling masochistic, I guess, because I spent about 15 minutes having a look around the wingnut blogosphere to see what was shaking in the Land of Epistemic Closure. The Daily Caller has an article accusing Glenn Beck of using the work of numerous right wing loons (such ...

Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 3:20:43 pm
"Go to hell!"Here's an update on the pitiful attendance at today's Teabagfest in Madison, Wisconsin, featuring Andrew "Go To Hell!" Breitbart and Sarah "Fight Like a Girl" Palin, who had to scream to be heard over the counterprotesters. Earlier reports of about a thousand people were slightly under the mark, ...

Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 5:45:26 pm
Tonight's quiet musical interlude is provided by the Foo Fighters, who brought their tasteful adult rock stylings to Jon Stewart's show last night. (Their new album Wasting Light is great, by the way. You should get it.) Video

Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 1:24:39 pm
In the same vein as Jon Kyl's "It was not intended to be factual," WorldNetDaily CEO Joseph Farah admits to Justin Elliott of Salon that WND publishes "some misinformation." Related: Wingnut Photoshop Fail Wingnut Fail of the Day: Bill Ayers 'Admits' He Wrote Obama's Autobiography World Net Daily's White Supremacist Sources Video: World Net Daily ...

Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 10:00:02 am
Despite his numerous denials, the rumors about Glenn Beck's show being on the chopping block were accurate: Glenn Beck to End Daily Fox News Program. Glenn Beck will end his daily Fox News Channel program later this year. His departure was jointly announced in a statement on Wednesday by Fox and ...

Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 11:40:21 am
Here's the flat-out hilarious wingnut blogosphere story of the day: World Net Daily wackos Jack Cashill and Jerome Corsi are once again trying to float the brain-dead conspiracy theory that left wing professor Bill Ayers wrote Barack Obama's autobiography, Dreams from my Father. Corsi and Cashill seem to be having a ...

Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:49:39 pm
Speaking of video fraudsters, a lot of people got upset recently when Andrew Breitbart showed up on the front page of the Huffington Post. I knew that Breitbart had a long relationship with Arianna Huffington, and was involved with the startup of HuffPo, so I wasn't too surprised myself. But ...

Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 5:16:45 pm
Lewis Black is hilarious in this Daily Show segment on the Donald's recent debut as a Birther. Video

Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 1:05:29 pm
NPR's Morning Edition has a piece on admitted criminal James O'Keefe's latest deceptively edited sting video: Elements Of NPR Gotcha Video Taken Out Of Context. Video The only mystery here is why anyone still reacts to these ugly right wing hit jobs by firing the targets and issuing apologies, then having to ...

Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 2:04:03 pm
Twenty-two journalists at NPR have signed a statement denouncing former fundraiser Ron Schiller's remarks at a dinner set up by scam artist James O'Keefe: NPR hosts, journalists ‘appalled’ by Ron Schiller’s comments. An Open Letter from Journalists at NPR News..... Dear Listeners and Supporters, We, and our colleagues at NPR News, strive ...

Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 11:01:53 am
Republicans in South Dakota who are sponsoring yet another absurdly draconian anti-abortion law are completely clueless as to what Planned Parenthood actually does. Republican state Sen. Al Novstrup (pictured, above) one of the bill's main sponsors, said that he views the legislation not as a fresh set of "restrictions" on ...

Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 2:41:46 pm
Engadget has hundreds of photos from today's iPad 2 launch: Live from Apple's iPad 2 event. It strikes me as more of an evolutionary upgrade than a big leap into gadgetry unknown, but there are some very cool new features -- like the HD video camera (although it's got to be ...

Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 11:28:45 am
It's now clear that murderous tyrant Muammar Gaddafi is living on borrowed time. Even his voluptuous blonde Ukrainian nurse is abandoning the Colonel's sinking ship. Click to enlargeGalyna Kolotnytska, described in a diplomatic cable published by Wikileaks as a "voluptuous blond" who "travel[s] everywhere" with Col. Gadhafi, called her family ...

Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 7:11:20 pm
Yeah, let's bring a camel to Wisconsin. Egypt, Wisconsin, camels. It probably sounded like a guaranteed laugh riot, in the Daily Show's production meeting. But reality has a way of intruding on bad show biz ideas. Apparently, they forgot that Wisconsin has snow and ice in February.

Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 10:35:34 am
House Republicans were caught red-handed last week in a misogynistic plan to quietly redefine what qualifies as rape, in order to deny women federal funds for abortions. Now that they've been exposed for the heartless bastards they are, they're backing down. House Republicans plan to sidestep a charged debate over the ...

Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:32:48 am
The Republican Party isn't only planning to block climate change rules put into effect by the Obama administration; they're also targeting the 40-year old Clean Air Act. Ed Whitfield (R-KY) thinks that some dirty air is okay and is not afraid to say so. In a recent interview with National ...

Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 12:44:43 pm
DERPAs we documented last Saturday, Jim Hoft (the "Gateway Pundit") may be the single dumbest and least scrupulous blogger on the right (and that's saying something). He was the first to float the amazingly stupid "Applause-Gate" story -- mistaking the Tucson memorial's closed captioning system for an applause prompt, and claiming ...

Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 10:51:26 am
I don't know why any good rock-ribbed conservative Tea Partier would even think of attending the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) this year. I mean, look at the exhibitors! Not only are there going to be Sodomites, it's also been infiltrated by the creeping stealth global jihad: Right-Wingers Claim Muslim ...

Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 9:27:42 am
The Internet black hole of far right theocratic craziness known as World Net Daily is celebrating today because religious fundamentalists are abandoning CPAC out of fear of a gay planet. Two of the nation's premier moral issues organizations, the Family Research Council and Concerned Women for America, are refusing to ...

Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 5:28:19 pm
Creationist-friendly officials in Kentucky are moving forward with plans to grant tax breaks to the ridiculous "Ark Encounter" theme park, thereby ensuring the state's status as a laughingstock for the entire world, for many years to come. The six-member board voted unanimously to approve the incentives for the Kentucky Speedway ...

Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 11:47:30 am
Here's the daily post in which I hector you once more not to miss the awesome last minute holiday bargains at Amazon's Top Holiday Deals page, and the kids' paradise known as the Holiday Toy List. (Note: we get a small commission from Amazon’s Associates program for everything you buy, if ...

Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 9:50:01 am
Last night, Jon Stewart hosted four 9/11 first responders in an extraordinary segment of The Daily Show, talking about the Republican Party's craven obstruction of a bill guaranteeing them health care, and the media's lack of coverage of the issue. A must-see. [Video]

Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 1:26:59 pm
Andrew Sullivan notes that an anti-Obama rant currently posted at Rush Limbaugh's site contains this lovely image: A quote from the accompanying text: This guy is an utter wrecking ball all by himself on the world stage to the point now of getting embarrassing. This presidency of Obama's, it doesn't take ...

Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 9:28:08 am
Right wing journalism reaches a new pinnacle of schtoopid, as Tucker Carlson impersonates Keith Olbermann to send a series of insulting emails to Philadelphia Daily News columnist Stu Bykofsky.

Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 1:59:10 pm
In the non-stop deluge of Obama Derangement Syndrome that pours daily out of the right wing blogosphere, one site regularly stands out for its excessive, extravagant dim-wittedness. One blog is a beacon of stupidity, a shining symbol of what can be achieved by an illiterate religious fanatic boiling with crazed ...