Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 6:32:18 pm
Imagine my surprise that more evidence of Ron Paul's long history of racism and far right fear-mongering is now coming to light. Reuters has unearthed a blatantly racist and homophobic direct-mail advertisement for the infamous Ron Paul newsletters: In ad for newsletter, Ron Paul forecast race war. A direct-mail solicitation ...

Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 11:20:49 am
We've been covering Ron Paul's racist past and far right connections for years at LGF; kudos to the mainstream media for finally starting to catch up: Paul's story changes on racial comments. WASHINGTON – Rep. Ron Paul has tried since 2001 to disavow racist and incendiary language published in Texas ...

Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 3:25:27 pm
As Ron Paul's popularity has risen in polls, the media are suddenly interested in his racist, antisemitic newsletters again -- and the increased focus is obviously starting to rattle him. Today in an interview with CNN's Gloria Borger, Paul flatly denied that he wrote or even read any of the ...

Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 8:10:44 pm
In New Hampshire today, Ron Paul denied that he had anything to do with the blatantly racist newsletters sent out by his organization in the 1990s, despite undeniable evidence to the contrary: Ron Paul Denies Writing Past Newsletters Featuring Racial Slurs. "Everybody knows I didn't write them," Paul said during ...

Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 11:05:06 am
The New York Times has gotten around to reporting on Ron Paul's political newsletters that contained numerous racist, anti-gay and anti-Israel passages. These are newsletters that are well known to LGF readers, but it's well past time for the Times to report on these newsletters. The latest issue of The ...

Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 9:50:42 am
In the ever-changing GOP clown car of far right candidates, the leader in Iowa polling is now Crazy Uncle Ron Paul. Newt Gingrich's campaign is rapidly imploding, and Ron Paul has now taken the lead in Iowa.  He's at 23% to 20% for Mitt Romney, 14% for Gingrich, 10% each ...

Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 1:48:32 pm
If I didn't know about Ron Paul's far right and neo-Confederate connections, and his history of blatantly racist newsletters, and everything else about him, I'd probably be giving him kudos right now for telling the unvarnished truth about Michele Bachmann (and most of the rest of the GOP field too, ...

Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 8:02:18 pm
The media are now pretending that there was some actual conflict, but the Republican candidates obviously agree with each other on almost every issue. Except for Ron Paul, who consistently plays the Crazy Uncle. The only real "conflict" tonight came from the attacks on each other's past positions for not being ...

Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 10:16:10 am
Rasmussen polls are typically biased in favor of whoever Fox News is currently touting, so take this with a shaker full of salt -- but today they have Mitt Romney ahead of Newt Gingrich again: Iowa: Romney 23%, Gingrich 20%, Paul 18%.

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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 ...

Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 10:31:41 am
Michele Bachmann and Ron Paul are complaining that CBS News deliberately snubbed them during last night's debate: The Bachmann campaign went so far as to release an email that they said spokeswoman Alice Stewart had “inadvertently received” from CBS earlier in the day. In the email string, CBS News’ political analyst ...

Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 10:04:08 am
Anti-Muslim demagogues Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer have expressed their unqualified support for the fascist English Defence League on many occasions, despite the EDL's frequently violent demonstrations and the presence of many outright neo-Nazis among their ranks. Yesterday in Britain, police arrested nearly 200 members of the EDL for planning to ...

Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 9:47:46 am
Starring in a pair of new films made by antisemitic 9/11 conspiracy theorist James Jaeger: Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul. Yesterday, filmmaker James Jaeger of the Jaeger Research Institute publicized the films SPOiLER: How A Third Party Could Win and Original Intent, which “exposes the historical march of Cultural Marxism.” ...

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 2, 2011 at 12:55:46 pm
DERPThe amount of hatred directed at First Lady Michelle Obama by the right wing is disturbingly amazing, and no wingnut is more deranged than Jim "Dim" Hoft (aka "the Internet's dumbest man"). Yesterday the Prince of Derp stoked the outrage of his even dimmer readers by blatantly making up a story, ...

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 10:58:37 am
According to the right wing blogosphere, President Barack Obama keeps sending signals to the Islamic world that he's weak, and that he encourages the spread of creeping shariah. He has a novel technique for telegraphing this weakness: systematically, relentlessly killing the leaders of Al Qaeda. SANA, Yemen — Anwar al-Awlaki, the ...

Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 10:14:50 am
Ron Paul's "let 'em die" health plan wasn't the only appalling moment in last night's debate. Not by a long shot. Here we see the audience booing Ron Paul for saying "the whole Muslim world" was not responsible for 9/11. (Preceded by the usual "they hate our American exceptionalism" incantations from ...

Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 8:32:51 pm
A memorable moment from tonight's GOP debate: thunderous applause for Ron Paul's call to let people without private health insurance die.

Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 2:46:22 pm
If you believe the media stories about it, we're in for a real "slugfest" tonight at the CNN/Teabagger Republican Debate: Five things to watch for in CNN/Tea Party Republican debate. Round two of the Perry-Romney slugfest? It started in Wednesday's debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, ...

Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 5:48:59 pm
The latest Fox News poll contains bad news for Romney, Bachmann, and Palin. Rick Perry has the religious right solidly on his side, more than any GOP candidate in a long time. Perry receives the support of 26 percent of GOP primary voters in the new poll. That’s up from 13 ...

Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 1:06:33 pm
The libertarians are really distinguishing themselves this week with their comments on Hurricane Irene. First we had Ron Paul pining for that bygone year of 1900 when there was no FEMA and tens of thousands were left to rot where they died. Good times! And now we have Patrick Michaels (a senior ...

Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 10:37:45 am
The hurricane that struck Galveston, Texas in 1900, with winds up to 145 mph, was the deadliest in US history. Official reports put the death toll at about 8,000, but many believe the true number was much higher. So many people were killed that it was impossible to bury them ...

Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 10:59:51 am
Practically the entire right wing blogosphere was taken in by a hoax this morning, as a right wing foe of NY Times economist Paul Krugman created a Google+ account with Krugman's name and proceeded to post outrageous comments: The Krugman Google Saga: Or, Why Fact-Checking is Important. National Review, American Thinker, ...