Sun, May 22, 2011 at 10:04:06 am
George Mitchell, who recently resigned as President Obama's envoy to the Middle East, said today that Obama's statements on the "1967 lines" were not a major shift in policy. The question is, why have the mainstream media been working so hard to hype this as a huge departure from previous policies, ...

Fri, May 20, 2011 at 2:53:25 pm
Sixteen-year old high school sophomore Amy Myers got into the news when she challenged loony Michele Bachmann (R-Mars) to a debate. Imagine my surprise to learn that Myers is now being reviled and threatened by right wingers. "A lot of them are calling me a whore," 16-year-old Amy Myers said, ...

Thu, May 19, 2011 at 11:23:48 am
In three short paragraphs about President Obama's speech this morning, the Associated Press warps the story beyond recognition: Obama says Palestine must be based in 1967 borders. WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama is endorsing the Palestinians' demand for their future state to be based on the borders that existed before ...

Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:26:28 am
The Republican Party is in the midst of glorious meltdown over Paul Ryan's bizarre, heartless plan to kill Medicare, as South Carolina Tea Party Governor Nikki Haley blasts Newt Gingrich over his criticism of Ryan's "budget." Dallas (CNN) - Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich might not want to count on ...

Sun, May 15, 2011 at 9:48:03 am
"I ♥ me some Muslims!"The Independent's Robert Chalmers has a very balanced and fair look at Pamela Geller: American patriot or extremist firebrand? And of course, any balanced and fair examination of the Shrieking Harpy can only come to one conclusion: she's desperately unhinged. What's striking about this article, though, is that ...

Sat, May 14, 2011 at 11:32:24 am
The target of one of Andrew Breitbart's most despicable smears, Shirley Sherrod, is going back to work for the USDA, in a contract job to help the USDA improve its civil rights record. Sherrod will be a contract employee leading one of three field programs designed to bolster relations between ...

Fri, May 13, 2011 at 10:37:19 am
Here we go again. Fox Nation shrieks: School Tells Child to Take Down Drawing of American Flag! This leads to hundreds of raging right wing comments. For example: nam_vet6869 2 hours ago WAKE UP AMERICA, WE ARE BEING OVER RUN BY THE SOCIALIST AND THE PRESIDENT IS HOLDING THE DOOR OPEN. It's also ...

Wed, May 11, 2011 at 5:18:11 pm
The controversy over rapper Common's appearance at the White House has triggered some kind of psychotic hate reaction in the right wing's collective id. Four hours after our first post, I went back to that Fox News article -- and Fox's audience is still ranting and spewing away, finding creative ...

Wed, May 11, 2011 at 1:12:37 pm
The comments are really pouring in to Fox News's article about rapper Common's invitation to the White House. Here's a selection of some of the most recent ones, from just the first couple of pages: smashthetaco Just now Yo, Weed is green, watermelon too. Your wife is a sasquatch. And so are you. Word Up, Ho ------------ nappybegone2012 ...

Wed, May 11, 2011 at 12:18:11 pm
The outrageous outrages just keep on comin'! Next target on the right wing Conveyor Belt of Bad Craziness: singer Jill Scott. At fraudster Andrew Breitbart's site "Big Hollywood:" Like Rapper Common, White House Guest Jill Scott ‘Winces’ at Interracial Relationships. It's the same old tired "reverse racism" ploy, used by wingnuts ...

Mon, May 9, 2011 at 12:23:30 pm
The University of Missouri-Kansas City has issued a statement about the latest deceptively edited videos from fraudster Andrew Breitbart; St. Louis Activist Hub has it. Dear Colleagues, We have finally completed viewing the videos originating at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) from the UMSL course Introduction to Labor Studies. The ...

Mon, May 2, 2011 at 1:04:51 pm
Andrew Breitbart's "Big Peace" is his anti-Islam site, run by Frank "Sharia Is Taking Over America" Gaffney and featuring an all-star cast of far right Muslim-hating loons. And today, they're getting out in front of the news by demanding proof that Osama bin Laden is dead: Display Bin Laden’s Body At ...

Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 11:56:57 am
Andrew Breitbart's "Big Government" smear site is pushing yet another deceptively edited video, targeting two University of Missouri pro-union professors by cutting their statements up into grossly distorted excerpts to make it appear as if they're advocating violence. At this point, Breitbart and his cohorts are only playing to the choir, ...

Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 2:59:21 pm
The pastor of the Shiloh Baptist Church (visited by the Obama family on Easter) says he's received more than 100 threatening phone calls and emails since Sean Hannity's Monday night show on Fox News: Shiloh Baptist Church receives threats after comments from Sean Hannity. The Rev. Wallace Charles Smith said ...

Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:32:56 am
MEGA DERPOf all the right wing conspiracy loons who promote the Birther garbage, few are as persistently idiotic and ridiculous as Pamela "Shrieking Harpy" Geller. For a while Birtherism actually vied with anti-Muslim bigotry for space at her site, which shows you how important it is to her. In countless posts, ...

Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 3:55:05 pm
The tech note for today is a new feature in the comment posting form: there's now a button labeled "Upload Image." It opens a popup window in which you can upload an image file from your computer to LGF, using the standard HTML two-step file uploading form. You then get ...

Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 10:43:19 am
Yesterday, Andrew Breitbart signed on to the world's dumbest conspiracy theory, that Barack Obama's autobiography was secretly written by Bill Ayers. Today, Breitbart's site "Big Government" is running this pile of Birther garbage: What if the Birthers Are Right? - Big Journalism. The meltdown of the right wing blogosphere into a stinky ...

Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 1:38:32 pm
In Andrew Breitbart's extremely hostile and combative interview with Martin Bashir, the most newsworthy moment is when Breitbart reveals that he actually believes in the world's stupidest right wing conspiracy theory -- that President Obama's first book was secretly written by former Weather Underground leader Bill Ayers. And amazingly, Breitbart even ...

Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 5:34:07 pm
After a campaign of incitement and harassment by French Christian extremists (including an archbishop), four people invaded a gallery in Avignon yesterday and attacked Andres Serrano's controversial photograph, "Piss Christ." Civitas, a lobby group that says it aims to re-Christianize France, launched an online petition and mobilised other fundamentalist groups. ...

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, ...

Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 11:35:00 am
Reports are that less than a thousand people have turned out for the Koch Brothers-sponsored Teabagger rally today in Madison, Wisconsin, despite the featured appearance of half-governor Sarah Palin. And the few wingnuts who showed up were confronted with hundreds of pro-union counter-protesters. It's still going on, with one deranged Tea ...

Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 11:51:53 pm
I've been traveling today so I'm getting to this a bit late -- but I'm proud to announce that today Little Green Footballs logged our nine millionth comment! Comment #9M was posted this afternoon by "darthstar," and it consisted of a single pithy yet enigmatic expression: booger Almost Zen in its ...

Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 3:24:29 pm
In a new column for Slate, Christopher Hitchens focuses on Hamid Karzai's incitement of violence against foreigners. As someone who advances the quaint belief that the removal of two of the worst regimes in the region—the Taliban and the Iraqi Baath Party—did not have nothing to do with the subsequent ...

Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 9:00:54 pm
If you want to see how deranged the commenting sections of right wing blogs have gotten, just go read any of their posts about the violence in Afghanistan. Gateway Pundit, Hot Air, Pamela "Shrieking Harpy" Geller, Fox Nation -- all of them are packed with comments calling for genocide against ...