Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 9:48:22 am
Here's Michele Bachmann with crazier hair than usual, refusing to say she believes President Obama is a US citizen or a Christian; instead she uses the weasel words we're hearing from every Republican: "I take the President at his word." Are there people who really don't see what's going on here? ...

Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 3:00:16 pm
It's official: the loons really have taken over the GOP. Birthers make a majority among those voters who say they're likely to participate in a Republican primary next year. 51% say they don't think Barack Obama was born in the United States to just 28% who firmly believe that he ...

Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 1:17:07 pm
On Meet the Press, David Gregory pushed GOP House Speaker John Boehner pretty hard to repudiate the moronic, essentially racist Birther conspiracy theory, but Boehner refused to do it. Let's face it -- the Republican Party will never risk alienating these people, because an ignorant, rage-filled base of reactionary voters ...

Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 11:47:17 am
Los Angeles Times writer Michael Memoli has more on Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie's announced intention to debunk the Birthers: Reporting from Honolulu — Neil Abercrombie knew Barack Obama's parents when the future president was born here in 1961, and he has been aggravated by the so-called birther movement, which alleges ...

Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 6:35:06 pm
Hawaii's new governor, Neil Abercrombie, says he's going to confront the Birther delusion head-on, and good for him. It's long past time to kill this mind-numbingly stupid right wing meme. HONOLULU — Gov. Neil Abercrombie of Hawaii, who befriended President Obama’s parents when they were university students here, has been ...

Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:23:51 am
The NAACP has released an exhaustive and thoroughly documented report on the links between many Tea Party organizations and indisputable racist hate groups: Tea Party Nationalism. It would be a mistake to claim that all Tea Partiers are nativist vigilantes or racists of one stripe or another, and this report ...

Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:43:28 am
Jon Ralston has more video of Sharron Angle's speech to Hispanic high school students, and it's getting even weirder: Angle to Hispanic children: 'Some of you look a little more Asian to me'. "So that’s what we want is a secure and sovereign nation and, you know, I don’t know ...

Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 3:56:25 pm
The Louisville Courier-Journal reports that Rand Paul is a member of the totally whacked-out Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, a group with an innocuous-sounding name that touts some really insane conspiracy theories: Rand Paul part of AAPS doctors’ group airing unusual views. Republican U.S. Senate nominee Rand Paul belongs ...

Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 10:44:40 am
There was a time when openly associating with the cranks, racists, and conspiracy freakazoids of the John Birch Society would have spelled instant disaster for a politician's career. But in today's climate of right wing extremism, the John Birch Society has not only been re-legitimized, it's been welcomed back into the ...

Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 2:32:44 pm
Nevada Tea Party loon Sharron Angle has been trying to deflect Harry Reid's charges that she's too extreme, but as Jon Ralston points out at his Las Vegas Sun blog, she has a strange way of doing it -- by speaking at an event promoted by a "Doctors Tea Party" ...

Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 5:59:19 pm
Kudos to Markos Moulitsas for doing the right thing when he discovered that some poll results from the firm Research 2000 may have been fraudulent: More on Research 2000. I have just published a report by three statistics wizards showing, quite convincingly, that the weekly Research 2000 State of the ...

Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 2:51:23 pm
Former Senator Rick Santorum gave an interview to the Iowa Republican blog last Friday, and said the reason why President Obama “doesn’t connect” with ordinary Americans is that he isn’t really an American. Obama is detached form the American experience.  He just doesn’t identify with the average American because of ...

Sun, May 16, 2010 at 11:37:11 pm
Remember when Joseph Farah of World Net Daily gave the opening night speech at the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville — a full tilt loony Birther rant that also advocated a Christian theocracy in the US — and got a standing ovation? Remember how Andrew Breitbart got out in ...

Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 11:23:00 am
As we noted last month, the state of Hawaii has pretty much had it with Birthers demanding to see Barack Obama’s real, true, official, not fake, certified, long-form birth certificate, and yesterday the state legislature passed a bill that will allow officials to ignore these obsessive repeated requests from loons. ...

Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 11:05:25 am
Speaking of Birthers, leading Birther bird-brain Orly Taitz has a new plan to bring down our seekrit Moslem alien President — she’s going to have him prosecuted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes. US is not a signatory to ICC, however Kenya is. According to members of the ...

Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 10:51:06 am
CNN’s Anderson Cooper talks with former Rudy Giuliani speechwriter John Avlon and political analyst Roland Martin about the absurd Arizona Birther bill, and the sheer insanity of the Birther movement. Martin says Birthers are stupid, which is blunt but accurate. [Video] And if you’d like to see an object example of how widespread ...

Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 9:26:37 am
John Avlon says this new Harris poll is scary, and that’s probably an understatement. Bad craziness has taken over the right to an appalling degree. Obama Derangement Syndrome—pathological hatred of the president posing as patriotism—has infected the Republican Party. Here’s new data to prove it: [Item List] These numbers all come ...

Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:42:30 pm
Hawaiian public service officials are normally the most laid-back public service officials in the country; to get on their last nerves you really have to work at it. But the Birther kooks are nothing if not persistent: Hawaii Birthers Bill: State May Start Ignoring Requests For Obama Citizenship. HONOLULU — Birthers ...

Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 9:47:00 am
Happening right now at CPAC: Saving Freedom and Due Process from Oppressive Justice Department Maryland Ballroom Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli (VA) Scott Bullock, Institute for Justice Gary Kreep, United States Justice Foundation Moderator: Andrew Langer, Institute for Liberty Gary Kreep is a religious fanatic who produced a Birther TV commercial, featured at LGF: Nirthers on ...

Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 2:38:41 pm
In many ways I have an enormous amount of respect for Dennis Prager; unlike some of his fellow talk radio hosts, he gets deep into the issues, and for the most part refrains from demagoguery. And he and I have many things in common, particularly an understanding of the danger ...

Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 10:08:17 am
The Hatewatch blog has a report on this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), probably the most extreme right wing version of the event ever held, featuring creationists, Birthers, nativists, militias, Glenn Beck, the re-ascendant wackos of the John Birch Society — and many top Republican politicians: Conspiracy Central: Beck, ...

Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 11:01:45 am
I have some business in the analog world today, so I’ll have a more detailed response to Dennis Prager’s article (posted at several conservative websites today) a bit later. But in the meantime I’ll just make one point about his conclusion: 10. Hatred for President Obama that goes far beyond ...