Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 11:15:31 am
The impeached president of the United States was at it again today, in a meeting with US governors, launching into bizarre boastful rants on subjects he knows nothing about; Trump says, "The European Union was really formed so they could treat us badly." He didn't make up this conspiracy theory -- ...

Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 11:30:05 am
Donald Trump's cabinet and agency picks are almost universally horrifying (if you aren't an extreme right wing loon), a wildly unqualified crew of billionaire former Goldman Sachs executives, retired generals with strange ideas, and now -- a far right Congressman from South Carolina with ties to the John Birch Society. ...

Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 1:27:25 pm
One of Donald Trump's five foreign policy advisers, Joseph Schmitz, is being accused by senior intelligence and Pentagon officials of antisemitic comments and Holocaust denial. And the hits just keep on comin'. The revelations feed two themes that his opponent Hillary Clinton has used to erode Trump’s credibility: That he is ...

Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 2:34:38 pm
Immediately following the horrific terror attacks in Paris, conservative media and blogs started pushing their usual line of horse puckey; the French had it coming because they have strict gun control laws. If they only had more guns, they could have stopped those terrorists in their tracks. Of course, France's gun ...

Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 10:11:47 am
The political news today for Jeb Bush is not good; the latest poll from Florida shows him with support in the single digits. In Florida. Ouch. But Ben Carson and Donald Trump, arguably the two most extreme Republicans in the race, have reason to party: both of them are now over ...

Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 12:58:59 pm
Just a couple of days after he promoted the extreme right wing militia Oathkeepers (referring to them as "a coalition of current and former military, police, and other public officials"), activist Glenn Greenwald is now hyping an article by another far right conspiracy monger: Judge Andrew Napolitano. In Barrons, @Judgenap raves ...

Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 3:13:26 pm
Today we have news that Julian Assange's idol, Ron Paul, will be joining the president of the John Birch Society to address one of the most virulent antisemitic groups in North America: Ron Paul, Birch President to Speak at Anti-Semitic Conference. Beyond the obvious, what do a far-right Italian politician, ...

Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 1:14:34 pm
In many ways, the John Birch Society is the prototype for the modern right wing, and this deranged rant at their official website is a perfect example. The twisted talking points are identical to the stuff you can read every day at any right wing blog or media site: Extremist ...

Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 11:45:15 am
It was bad enough when CPAC recently allowed the wacko paleo-conservative John Birch Society to have an exhibit, but this year things are exponentially worse. This year, the Conservative Political Action Conference, at which presidential candidates Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich will appear, is having a panel discussion featuring ...

Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 9:59:31 am
Jon Huntsman made it official this morning -- he's out of the race. Right wing bloggers are celebrating, because Huntsman is relatively sane compared to the rest of the field. For example, at rabid far right blog "Weasel Zippers" (a name he stole from our random sayings, by the way), ...

Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 1:08:28 pm
Mitt Romney takes the concept of "party loyalty" to a ridiculous extreme, and ends up saying Ron Paul would be a better President than Barack Obama. What a beautiful example of absurd cognitive dissonance. Romney, of course, is being the archetypal cynical politician here; he only said this because he knows ...

Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 4:49:18 pm
Andrew Kaczynski has dug up yet another buried video, a 1998 John Birch Society documentary starring none other than Ron Paul -- a classic example of far right paranoia and conspiracy theorizing, as Dr. Paul calmly explains that the United Nations is plotting to take over America, create a New ...

Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 10:29:05 am
One of the craziest conspiracy theories pushed by right wing organizations like the John Birch Society is that fluoride in drinking water is a government mind control plot -- and this deranged meme is making a big comeback in the Tea Party Era: Dozens show up at Pinellas County Commission ...

Thu, May 5, 2011 at 2:18:17 pm
Tonight's first GOP presidential primary debate in Greenville, South Carolina, (at 9pm ET, live on Fox News) will be brought to you in part by the Oath Keepers militia and the John Birch Society. It's all the way out in the open now, folks. The extreme paleo-right wing John Birch Society ...

Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 9:49:18 am
This Easter, the right wing Las Vegas Review-Journal is running this crazed editorial by Glenn Cook, comparing Tea Party/John Birch Society lunatic Sharron Angle to ... you guessed it ... Jesus Christ. How appropriate that on this Easter Sunday, Nevada marks yet another political resurrection. And this one, so unexpected and ...

Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 11:58:35 am
Of all the partisan Republican pundits on the scene, David Frum is probably the most sensible. But occasionally he issues one of these pieces, in which his partisanship completely clouds his judgment: A Great Week for the GOP. 1) The Republican caucus accepted a deal to avert a government shutdown. ...

Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 6:06:31 pm
At LGF we've been connecting the dots between Glenn Beck's raving freakazoid conspiracy theories and the crazed propaganda of the paleo-conservative John Birch Society for years, and it's finally getting some mainstream notice on Chris Matthews' show, after the Weekly Standard's Bill Kristol delicately broached the dreaded subject. Video

Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 2:46:21 pm
As LGF has noted in many front page articles and reader-submitted Pages, the wall between the convoluted conspiracy theories promoted by raving freakazoid Glenn Beck and classic antisemitism is paper thin. Beck's brand of populist right wing craziness is drawn from many of the same discredited sources, such as racist ...

Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 10:52:58 am
In the latest bail-out from the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the far-right creationist climate change denial organization known as the Heritage Foundation is joining the fundamentalist groups who are afraid of gay cooties. Similar to last year’s CPAC, more than a half dozen groups say they won’t attend the ...

Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 9:27:42 am
The Internet black hole of far right theocratic craziness known as World Net Daily is celebrating today because religious fundamentalists are abandoning CPAC out of fear of a gay planet. Two of the nation's premier moral issues organizations, the Family Research Council and Concerned Women for America, are refusing to ...

Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 10:33:52 am
A coalition of religious right groups has announced that they will boycott the next Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) if the gay conservative group GOProud is allowed to attend. They've posted their letter to the CPAC organizers online, demanding that teh gheys be expelled from their midst -- including this absolutely ...

Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 3:37:16 pm
For the past few years I've been watching Ron Paul's rise to power with a gut-wrenching sense of inevitability; despite his overtly racist newsletters, insane economic theories, and associations with extremists and conspiracy wackos of all kinds, from the John Birch Society to Alex Jones, his star just keeps rising ...

Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 5:35:56 pm
I wonder what brand of champagne they're drinking tonight at John Birch Society headquarters? They really are the comeback story of the last two years. Not long ago, associations with the Birchers would have been the political kiss of death. Now they're everywhere in the GOP. The resurrection of the John Birch ...

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 ...

Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 3:23:57 pm
Sharron Angle proved yesterday that she'll lie shamelessly to anyone, telling a group of Hispanic high school students that those images of threatening Latinos in her campaign ad may not be Latinos at all. Then she went on to make an even more outrageous claim, in a campaign dedicated to race-baiting ...