Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 3:13:21 pm
Alex Knepper explains how he was dumped from David Horowitz’s Newsreal blog, for criticizing Ann Coulter’s newfound opposition to the Afghanistan War: How I Got Dumped for Criticizing Coulter. NewsReal writer David Swindle responds with an unhinged post, spewing insults like a firehose: The Liar Alex Knepper Wasn’t Fired for Criticizing ...

Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 12:58:05 pm
Here’s a new book I’m very much looking forward to reading, reviewed by Larry Rohter in the New York Times Books section: Mark Twain’s Unexpurgated Autobiography. Twain’s autobiography has been previously published, but only after meddlesome editors removed some passages, ostensibly to protect Twain’s reputation. Versions of the autobiography have been ...

Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 11:59:00 am
Popular right wing blogger (and writer for Newsmax, World Net Daily, and Andrew Breitbart’s websites) Pamela “Shrieking Harpy” Geller has never had a very firm grasp on reality. But the constant poison and hatred in which she bathes has now apparently rotted away her last shred of sanity. Today Geller posts ...

Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 12:00:51 am
Popular right wing blogger (and writer for Newsmax, World Net Daily, and Andrew Breitbart’s websites) Pamela “Shrieking Harpy” Geller is once again doing what she does best — inciting hatred against Muslims, in particular the Cordoba House planned for downtown Manhattan, near the former site of the World Trade Center. ...

Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 10:29:31 am
Yesterday Rand Paul, the rising star of the Republican Party, compared the United States to the Roman Empire in its last days. This sort of rhetoric is indistinguishable from the anti-American rants of Al Qaeda, and it’s now standard tea party fare. Why does Rand Paul hate America? SHEPHERDSVILLE, Ky. — ...

Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 10:02:42 am
Recently we’ve had several front page posts about Arthur Robinson, the GOP mutant candidate for Oregon’s 4th Congressional District, and his incredibly strange views on … well, everything. In addition, LGF reader freetoken put together an excellent Page on Robinson’s Christian Dominionist connections. But it gets worse: Oregon GOP Congressional Candidate ...

Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 9:27:53 am
Here we go. In their desperation to do anything possible to obstruct financial regulatory reform, House Republicans are going to align themselves with the keynote speaker of the John Birch Society’s 50th anniversary convention — Ron Paul: GOPers To Push Fed Audit. House GOPers will make a push to audit ...

Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 9:53:53 am
To no one’s surprise, in her interview with Nevada reporter John Ralston yesterday, Tea Party extremist Sharron Angle started trying to walk back some of her earlier disastrous statements: Sharron Angle grilled on Social Security, Medicare and ‘taking Harry Reid out’. In her TV appearance Tuesday, Angle said that she ...

Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:42:18 am
Nevada Tea Party candidate Sharron Angle, a former member of the completely insane Constitution Party who has written about the dangers of fluoridation (shades of the John Birch Society), is dodging the media. And she has good reason to dodge. Her history is rife with extremism, questionable associations, and bizarre views. ...

Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 9:43:28 pm
The GOP in Texas pushed hard to get Thurgood Marshall removed from social studies textbooks, and today I watched in absolute disgust as the GOP in Washington actually smeared Thurgood Marshall during Kagan’s nomination hearing. Here’s Dana Milbank’s take on this appalling example of the complete degradation of the Republican Party: ...

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, Jun 27, 2010 at 5:25:56 pm
Tea Party wacko Rick Barber, who’s running for Congress in the GOP primary in Alabama’s 2nd District, was last seen at LGF when he posted a video calling for President Obama to be impeached and openly inciting anti-government insurrection. Well, he’s lovingly fondling his Revolutionary War pistol again, ranting about a ...

Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 10:29:33 am
White supremacist blogger (and contributor to Pajamas Media and the American Spectator) Robert Stacy McCain says his use of ugly racial slurs on Twitter was all just a joke. Because calling Mexicans “beaners” and Brits “faggots” is hilarious, as we all know. And to make it even funnier, McCain breaks ...

Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 5:55:53 pm
For the record, because I half expect the American Spectator to ignore it, here’s the email I just wrote to the editor: Dear Editor, As you may or may not be aware, one of your contributors, Robert Stacy McCain, posted several comments on Twitter today, referring to Mexicans as “beaners,” British ...

Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 2:27:35 pm
White supremacist blogger (and contributor to Pajamas Media) Robert Stacy McCain is watching the World Cup, and he just posted this lovely comment on Twitter: Alternatively #USA cheers for #ARG against #MEX beaners #WorldCup #tcot This ugly racial slur was preceded by … more ugly racial slurs: #USA ...

Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 1:25:31 pm
One of the most personally disturbing and saddening aspects of the ongoing right wing meltdown for me has been the utter disintegration of Pajamas Media, which started with the idea of being a non-partisan blog-based news source, but has now completed its transformation into one of the most insane wingnut ...

Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 11:03:46 am
For the past couple of years as I’ve been writing about the horrible agenda of Fox News commentator Glenn Beck, I’ve noted many times that Beck’s views seem to be derived almost entirely from the hateful, paleo-right wing conspiracy theory world view of the John Birch Society — a group ...

Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 5:46:27 pm
The latest freakish fantasy to sweep through the right wing blogs like a forest fire of stupid is the out-of-nowhere rumor that President Obama is planning to grant amnesty to millions of illegal aliens by executive order! Ahhh! Ahhh! We’re doomed! [Run around screaming…] The source for this latest outrageous outrage is ...

Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 1:00:32 pm
The 2010 Texas Republican Party platform is in the news, as people notice that it’s an unvarnished far right document advocating atavistic policies across the board; creationism, climate change denial, historical revisionism aimed at erasing the separation of church and state, etc., ad nauseam. But some of the worst vitriol in ...

Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:39:02 am
Far right evangelist Lou Engle is highly influential among the social conservative wing of the GOP (which is pretty much the entire GOP); he has hosted “prayercasts” attended by top Republican politicians including former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, and is involved in many other high profile political activities. And this “man ...

Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 5:06:45 pm
This video playlist from MSNBC contains the complete Chris Matthews feature, “Rise of the New Right.” You can jump to any section by clicking the “Playlist” button that appears at the lower right of the player when you move your mouse over it. Regular LGF readers will notice that almost everything ...

Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 1:28:55 pm
The musical insanity break for this Sunday afternoon is Chris Thile’s band Punch Brothers, performing “Sometimes” from the album Punch. American chamber music at its finest. [Video]

Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 5:54:26 pm
Far right conspiracy lunacy is now well entrenched even on sites that used to be considered “mainstream conservative” — like Townhall.com. Yesterday at Townhall, conservatives were served up a piping hot slice of deranged conspiracy-mongering from Floyd and Mary Beth Brown: Could the Obama Administration be Blocking Gulf Clean-up Efforts Intentionally? Any ...

Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 12:16:14 pm
Here’s popular right wing blogger (and writer for Newsmax, World Net Daily, and Andrew Breitbart’s websites) Pamela “Shrieking Harpy” Geller, expressing her unqualified support for antisemites, Holocaust deniers, and extreme right wing European fascist groups again — because they hate Muslims as much as she does: Hundreds attend Paris sausage, ...

Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 5:34:39 pm
One of the tenets of the very politically active far right Christian sect known as the “Dominionists” is the “Seven Mountains” analogy — a strategy for building political influence and gradually turning the United States into a theocracy. It may sound crazy, but the people who believe this are completely ...