Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 4:19:05 pm
Robert Mackey at the New York Times Lede blog has identified the person who took the photos that were cropped by Reuters as Turkish journalist Adem Ozkose: Photographs of Battered Israeli Commandos Show New Side of Raid. Mackey fails to note, however, that Turkish journalist Adem Ozkose is hardly what one ...

Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 3:50:29 pm
NPR’s All Things Considered had an interesting segment yesterday on the 9 slain Turkish “activists” from the Mavi Marmara. There are new details in here about their backgrounds, and it’s almost comical to listen as reporter Julia Rooke keeps trying throughout the segment to avoid drawing the obvious conclusion that ...

Wed, May 26, 2010 at 12:19:11 pm
ACORN sting filmmaker James O’Keefe and friends pleaded guilty today to illegally entering the office of Sen. Mary Landrieu in New Orleans. The four defendants who were arrested in January in Sen. Mary Landrieu’s office in the Hale Boggs federal complex in New Orleans pleaded guilty Wednesday morning in federal court ...

Wed, May 26, 2010 at 10:25:12 am
Yesterday a community board in Manhattan voted to approve a proposal to build a mosque two blocks from where the World Trade Center once stood: Local Board Endorses Muslim Center Near Ground Zero. The anti-Muslim bigots of the so-called “anti-jihad” blogosphere are freaking out, of course. Pamela “Shrieking Harpy” Geller is spewing ...

Wed, May 19, 2010 at 5:19:36 pm
In an interview with NPR’s Robert Siegel, Rand Paul says he now has a clear Tea Party mandate. Shudder. Then he proceeds to dodge the question of whether he would have voted for the Americans with Disabilities Act and the 1964 Civil Rights Act. [Video]

Thu, May 13, 2010 at 10:13:41 am
The White House has posted an interview with Elena Kagan conducted by a White House staffer, and journalists are complaining. They wanted to interview her first. Waah. While the White House seems to believe the American people deserve to hear from Kagan, it has not made her available to reporters. ...

Tue, May 11, 2010 at 11:09:15 am
That John McCain campaign advertisement about the border fence is even more ridiculous than we thought: McCain Counsels the Wrong Sheriff. The TV ad – shot in the border town of Nogales, Arizona – shows McCain talking with Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu about the need for tougher border security. ...

Mon, May 10, 2010 at 6:44:07 pm
Every once in a while, you see a video that makes you want to sweep everything off your desk, put your head in your hands, and sob, “Why? Dear God, why?” John McCain’s latest campaign advertisement is one such video. [Video]

Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 1:42:07 pm
This last presidential election marks the first time in my life when I wish I could have a do-over, to reverse my vote for the dimmest bulb in US politics in many a year: Palin Needed Scripted Answers for Debate. The McCain group did a pretty good (but not perfect) job ...

Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 10:23:15 am
Today, Australian climate change denier Tim Blair breaks a huge blog-related story that had somehow gone unnoticed before he began digging — Blair has uncovered the stunning fact that during the presidential election I was opposed to Barack Obama. How did Blair discover this amazing amount of heretofore unknown evidence that ...

Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:09:32 am
John McCain is cranky about that “maverick” thing. Damn it, why won’t people just stop calling him that? Ix-nay on the averick-may, ummie-days! John McCain — who built his political persona and his 2008 presidential campaign around the claim that he’s a “maverick” — told Newsweek recently: “I never considered ...

Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 5:37:00 pm
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Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 10:17:29 am
Viriginia Governor Bob McDonnell’s pandering to the racist neo-Confederate crowd didn’t just start with his proclamation of “Confederate History Month.” In 2002, Donnell got into trouble when he used a pledge written by the United Daughters of the Confederacy to open sessions of the Virginia House of Delegates. Ben Tribbett ...

Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 12:49:21 pm
You probably heard about John McCain’s latest pathetic attempt to rebrand himself as a good ol’ right winger, by claiming he has never considered himself a “maverick.” Ahem. Worth the Fighting For: The Education of an American Maverick, and the Heroes Who Inspired Him, by John McCain. McCain’s primary opponent in Arizona, ...

Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 2:58:52 pm
Here are still more cases in which the Catholic Church allegedly refused to take action against priests who were molesting children, even after being warned repeatedly about what these monsters were doing. The abuse cases of two priests in Arizona have cast further doubt on the Catholic church’s insistence that ...

Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 11:56:34 am
After my last encounter with Stephen Green, in which he put his reputation on the line to defend white supremacist blogger Robert Stacy McCain, it’s not surprising to see Green being called out by TPM for advocating bringing back tarring and feathering. And possibly more. In the post, titled “Put ...

Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 2:21:42 pm
Most of the change we think we see in life Is due to truths being in and out of favor. — Robert Frost

Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 10:33:08 am
May I be blunt? The idea that legalizing same sex marriage will lead to bestiality is one of the most stone-dumb reactionary talking points of the religious right. Do these people really think the only reason humans don’t “marry” animals is because it’s against the law? Good grief. Maybe this says ...

Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:45:51 am
The Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hatewatch blog has some interesting information about white supremacist blogger Robert Stacy McCain — who is apparently writing for the Washington Times again (in addition to posting articles at Pajamas Media and Hot Air). Robert Stacy McCain, a former key Washington Times editor who has ...

Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 8:39:47 pm
I’d just like to express my gratitude to the gods of the Internet that I’m not associated with irrational anti-science lunatics like Tim Blair any more. UPDATE at 3/7/10 9:04:59 pm: And white supremacist blogger Robert Stacy McCain is chiming in too, with another thousand-word essay! It’s a two-fer! I must say, it’s ...

Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 9:39:02 am
White supremacist blogger Robert Stacy McCain (recently seen at LGF when he wrote an article whining about how awful it is to call political opponents “crazy”) calls me crazy (for probably the 200th time): Why Do Charles Johnson’s Beliefs Keep Turning Out to Be Delusional? McCain likes to rant about how ...

Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 9:24:39 am
White supremacist blogger Robert Stacy McCain has a post at the American Spectator decrying the practice of accusing opponents of insanity. Accusing opponents of dangerous insanity has become so commonplace in the Age of Obama that such discourse is now taken for granted. This is the neo-Confederate member of the ...

Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 9:10:46 am
The craziest Birther of them all, Orly Taitz, has posted an attack on John McCain at her blog, raging about McCain’s advertisement playing the Birther card against J. D. Hayworth. Taitz called the ad — which she misspelled as “add” throughout the post — “despicable” and “appalling.” She went on to challenge the ...

Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 3:30:44 pm
Currently one of the top stories at Drudge Report: an anti-John McCain, anti-FDA article at the John Birch Society website. Here’s Google’s cache of the JBS article.

Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 5:35:40 pm
John McCain is playing the Birther card against his opponent J. D. Hayworth, comparing Hayworth to Orly Taitz and Philip Berg. A comparison that is richly deserved. Gotta love this. [Video] (Hat tip: Thanos.)