Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 1:43:19 pm
Lest we believe that conspiracy theories about allowing Ebola to spread are isolated to Africa, the far-right is convinced that Obama is trying to TAKE OUR GUNZ by creating the conditions for a mass epidemic. In case you needed more proof Infowars and the Tea Party are hazardous to public ...

Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 4:26:13 pm
If you've followed Glenn Greenwald's work at all (and you aren't one of the acolytes who rush to excuse anything he says or does), you're probably aware that his criticism of the United States is relentless, at times bordering on pathological, and today at the Intercept he's published another one ...

Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 7:34:50 pm
DERPIt's always hilarious when the Dumbest Man on the Internet, Jim Hoft, pretends he understands what's going on the real world. In today's example of Hoft's monumental idiocy, this morning he posted one of his usual ridiculous anti-Obama rants, titled: Horror! Watch This Video and Tell Me Barack Obama Is ...

Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 1:08:28 pm
Last week Gabby Giffords co-authored an op-ed for CNN on Domestic Abuse and gun violence. Guns killing women: Time for Congress to act Basically, she is asking Congress to extend Federal gun laws that protect married women against abusive spouses to include single women who are abused and stalked. Seems, to me anyway, ...

Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 1:37:20 pm
In his press conference today, President Obama said, "After 9/11... we tortured some folks. We did some things that were contrary to our values." And you can just imagine the reaction from conservatives to that. Well, actually, no need to imagine. Here's a representative tweet from Ted Cruz's senior communications advisor. I ...

Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 8:44:35 pm
[large]Exhibit A[/large] 'Jew-hating bitch Pelosi' says Hamas is a humanitarian group http://t.co/EMN37OxqKL — TwitchyTeam (@TwitchyTeam) July 30, 2014 A screenshot: CNS also reported as Pelosi: Qataris Have Told Me 'Hamas Is a Humanitarian Organization' which is more accurate. What Rep. Nancy Pelosi really said with context: PELOSI: Well, we all -- war is a ...

Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 4:52:30 pm
That bogus story about the ISIS Islamist group ordering all women to get circumcised has been debunked since early this morning, but at Breitbart "News" it's still on their front page without any sign that it's fake. JIHADISTS IN IRAQ ORDER WOMEN UNDERGO GENITAL MUTILATION That's their whole story in the screenshot ...

Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 2:54:01 pm
A wave of WTFs went through Twitter this afternoon when the Associated Press tweeted this: BREAKING: US officials: Intel suggests Malaysia plane shot down by separatists, no link to Russia found. — The Associated Press (@AP) July 22, 2014 Because of course, the BUK surface-to-air missile was supplied by Russia, the people ...

Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 11:20:17 am
Today, MSNBC's Ronan Farrow published an opinion piece in the Washington Post calling on companies like YouTube, Facebook and Twitter to do more to stop terrorists from inciting violence. To make his case, Farrow cited the incitements to genocide by Rwandan media that led to a horrific bloodbath 20 years ...

Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 4:22:24 pm
YouTube Last night's Bill Maher show featured a panel with Paul Rieckhoff of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) and the Mighty Glenn Greenwald, who got into a very heated exchange beginning when Greenwald asserted that US troops in Iraq should be considered terrorists. It turned into a full-blown yelling match ...

Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 4:40:21 pm
Vimeo As we're being drawn yet again into the mess created by the Bush administration's disastrous war of choice in Iraq, here are some interesting and very pertinent comments from Bill Moyers and Andrew Bacevich on the immoral nature of "preventive" war. BILL MOYERS: What is it about how we go ...

Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 4:42:29 pm
MSNBC Here's an excellent report by Rachel Maddow on right wing media's coverage of the capture of the main suspect in the Benghazi attacks, focusing on the king of all wingnut sites, Drudge Report -- and segueing into a look at how the media is pushing so many pundits who were ...

Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 9:18:46 am
Who does the Obama administration think they're fooling? This capture of a Benghazi ringleader is nothing more than a transparent attempt to distract people's attention from Benghazi: U.S. Captures Benghazi Suspect in Secret Raid. The officials said Ahmed Abu Khattala was captured Sunday near Benghazi by American troops, working alongside ...

Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 1:54:34 pm
YouTube Here's an exceptional moment for raving freakazoid nut sandwich Glenn Beck from his radio show today, via Right Wing Watch. Beck lapses into a hallucinatory fantasy in which he's the President of the United States (kind of a daymare, really), and describes how he would deal with issues like the crisis ...

Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 12:04:46 pm
But wait! We're not done with recycled neocon hawks and their bad advice yet! Now we have a two-fer at the Weekly Standard, as William Kristol and Frederick Kagan team up to call for MOAR WAR: What to Do in Iraq. This would require a willingness to send American forces back ...

Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 10:41:01 am
The latest public figure who was utterly horribly wrong in almost everything he did in Iraq but now wants us to send more US soldiers to die for a neocon pipe dream is L. Paul Bremer, the guy who dissolved the Iraqi Army and very possibly engendered the situation Iraq ...

Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 11:22:21 am
[large]December 4, 2008[/large] Fact Sheet: The Strategic Framework Agreement and the Security Agreement with Iraq To Ensure That The Security Agreement Is Consistent With The Capacity Of Iraq's Security Forces, The Dates Included In This Agreement Were Discussed With The Iraqis, General Petraeus, And General Odierno - They Allow For The ...

Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 1:01:57 pm
Remember this guy? Mitt Romney poses with anti-Muslim hate group leader Pamela Geller Yes, he's popping up again like a malevolent right wing jack-in-the-box, predictably calling President Obama all kinds of names and boasting about how he would have solved everything by... well, he actually never gets around to saying how he ...

Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 10:47:44 am
In a statement this morning, President Obama said he will not be sending US troops to Iraq, but did not rule out other types of military action such as airstrikes. Speaking just before leaving for North Dakota, Obama told reporters that Iraqi leaders would have to reach a political solution ...

Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 11:07:14 am
Getty Image A picture taken with a mobile phone shows uniforms reportedly belonging to Iraqi security forces scattered on the road on June 10, 2014, after hundreds of militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) launched a major assault on the security forces in Mosul, some ...

Tue, May 6, 2014 at 11:33:24 am
The party that denies climate change and still refuses to accept the theory of evolution after more than a century is now planning to gut the National Science Foundation. Because of course they are. WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration and the scientific community at large are expressing serious alarm at ...

Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 8:04:17 pm
Imagine my surprise to learn that Edward Snowden was played like a violin by Vladimir Putin. NSA leaker Edward Snowden instantly regretted asking Russian President Vladimir Putin a softball question on live television about the Kremlin's mass surveillance effort, two sources close to the leaker tell The Daily Beast. "It certainly ...

Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 9:02:51 am
In an interesting twist to the BLM vs. Bundy standoff in Nevada, the BLM has released 400 cattle they rounded up belonging to Cliven Bundy, a rancher at odds with the government for 20 years. See previous LGF posts here and here. Several hundred Bundy backers converged on Bureau of ...

Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 10:46:52 am
Getty Image Here's a good piece by LA Times reporter Ken Dilanian on NSA leader Gen. Keith Alexander, and the vast expansion of NSA digital surveillance over which he presided: NSA Chief's Legacy Is Shaped by Big Data, for Better and Worse. The overhaul, which Alexander ordered shortly after taking leadership ...

Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 10:50:44 am
The right wing media are staging another one of their absurd freak-out sessions, this time pretending to be gravely offended by the use of wire coat hangers as a symbol of illegal abortion. And rarely have I read such a truly despicable example of anti-choice propaganda as Kevin D. Williamson's disgusting ...