Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:10:19 am
Pamela Geller’s appearance last night on the Joy Behar show with Ron Reagan and Stephanie Miller perfectly demonstrates why Geller has become known on the Internet as the “shrieking harpy.” Geller actually seems to think she came off well on this show, in which she tells Ron Reagan what his own ...

Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 12:07:55 pm
There are reports that the Tea Party Convention organizers are planning a press conference today to denounce Birtherism, after Joseph Farah’s speech last night. It seems a little late to start worrying about it, the day after the keynote speaker unleashed a full-on paranoid Birther rant to a cheering audience and ...

Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 4:16:09 pm
I’m privileged to announce that Andrew Breitbart has added me to his list of everyone in the world who must immediately bow before his might and retract, retract, retract: Retraction Requests: Charles Johnson, Big Journalism. Breitbart seems to believe I should retract my statement that the 2006 event titled “Race and ...

Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 1:51:43 pm
The Andrew Breitbart-Max Blumenthal slugfest continues, as Blumenthal posts a short interview with “Isis,” the woman who took the photograph of Breitbart employee James O’Keefe at the “Race and Conservatism” event in 2006: Isis: O’Keefe “Was There,” Involved In “Execution”. I followed up with Isis. She told me in no ...

Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 7:53:41 pm
We have a new entry in the “Is American politics weird enough yet?” sweepstakes: Sarah Palin bashes Rush Limbaugh. “Governor Palin believes crude and demeaning name calling at the expense of others is disrespectful.”

Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 9:55:37 am
The Dominican consul general told CNN today that he warned the leader of a group of American Baptists that they were going to get in trouble, because they did not have the proper documentation for the Haitian children they tried to smuggle out of the country. “I warned her, I ...

Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 3:42:22 pm
Uh oh. According to a group called “One People’s Project,” ACORN sting filmmaker James O’Keefe was photographed attending a 2006 white nationalist conference titled “Race and Conservatism.” James O’Keefe’s race problem. An activist organization that monitors hate groups has produced a photo of O’Keefe at a 2006 conference on “Race ...

Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 1:45:14 pm
One of the world’s foremost right wing climate change deniers, Marc Morano, appears on the radio show of one of the world’s foremost raving conspiracy kooks, 9/11 Truther Alex Jones — and it’s exactly where he belongs. Marc Morano on Alex Jones Tv 1/4: NASA Scientist Demands End to Industrial Society! Also ...

Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 5:29:49 pm
Redstate.com, home to some of the most extreme far right bloggers on the web, the site whose CEO infamously called Justice Souter a “goat-f*cking child molester,” has announced that they will be in charge of vetting and approving the bloggers for this year’s CPAC, which seems completely appropriate: We’ve got ...

Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 3:19:51 pm
Ten American Baptists are in jail in Haiti for attempting to smuggle 33 “orphans” out of the country — and many of the children aren’t even orphans at all: Road From Haiti Was Paved With Good Intentions, American Baptists Say. And one of the pastors involved has denounced “the accusations of ...

Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 11:00:59 am
The Federation of American Scientists’ Project on Government Secrecy has obtained an English translation of the newly revised Fatah charter: OSC Translates the 2009 Fatah Charter. And there are some interesting changes in the new document; while it still calls for revolution and “struggle,” and refers several times to the “enemy” ...

Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 11:31:41 am
Former TV weatherman Anthony Watts has been engaged in an ongoing attack on the reliability of the US network of surface weather stations, claiming that poor placement of the stations has resulted in data that’s biased toward the warm side. Watts set up the website SurfaceStations.org to coordinate photographic evidence ...

Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 1:08:21 pm
The theory of anthropogenic climate change got some support from an unwanted source, in the latest anti-US audiotape from “Osama bin Laden.” “Talk about climate change is not an ideological luxury but a reality,” Mr. bin Laden was quoted as saying in a report on Al Jazeera’s English-language Web site. ...

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, ...

Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 5:09:48 pm
Polish Catholic bishop Tadeusz Pieronek, a close friend of former pope John Paul II, is in the Jerusalem Post today for his statements about the Holocaust: Pieronek: Jews use tragedy of Holocaust as propaganda. The Holocaust only receives media coverage because of affluent Jews’ financial backing, military might and lobbying ...

Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 11:07:56 pm
If you’re a twofisted, spineless progressive (a mighty fashionable stance nowadays) Offissa Pupp, who forcefully asserts the will of socalled society, becomes a cosmic angel; while Ignatz Mouse, who forcefully defies society’s socalled will by asserting his authentic own, becomes a demon of anarchy and a fiend of chaos. But ...

Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:56:04 pm
Shrieking harpy said what? “He’s a traitor, a turncoat, a plant. We may not know for years what actually happened.” Insert sigh. I have a few significant disagreements with the angle taken by Jonathan Dee in his profile for the New York Times, most of all his willingness to accept unverifiable anecdotal ...

Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 2:26:04 pm
At his victory party, supporters of Scott Brown wave the New Flag of the Second American Revolution. And people tried to tell me Brown wasn’t sailing on the seas of tea. (Hat tip: KT.) UPDATE at 1/20/10 2:38:01 pm: Also see: Scott Brown Held Tea Party Fundraiser Before Professing To Be Unfamiliar With Tea ...

Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:04:21 pm
In today’s outrageous outrage, tu quoque specialists everywhere are faking outrageous outrage over remarks made by leftist actor Danny Glover in a phone interview. The screaming was so high-pitched I was motivated to check out the video recording: [Video] This is the section being pulled out of context: The threat of what ...

Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:40:45 am
Last seen at LGF with a strange op-ed arguing that if “Mother Mary” had Obamacare she would have aborted God, Chuck Norris is back with an even more whacked out sequel for World Net Daily: Obama’s secret vault. Yes, that’s right. Chuck thinks the dreaded Executive Order 12425 will give Interpol ...

Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:01:08 am
A great piece at the New York Times by Dennis Overbye looks at the latest research from the Hubble Space Telescope’s new Wide Field Camera 3, which is recording images from a time ever closer to the beginning of the universe itself: With Updated Hubble Telescope, Reaching Farther Back in ...

Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 11:57:49 am
At True/Slant, Barrett Brown has been getting into it with wingnut blogger Donald Douglas, and the story of Douglas’s latest attempt to defend the white supremacist connections of Robert Stacy McCain has some amusing turns. Brown has put up two posts that should be read in order for the full effect: Seven ...

Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 3:27:21 pm
Or, “Why I parted ways with the right, exhibit J for ‘John Birch Society.’” 2009 JBS.org Year in Review. There’s good news and there’s bad news as we review our online progress during 2009. But the good news borders on “great,” so why not start there? The great news is that it’s ...

Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 2:05:08 pm
Mark Halperin and John Heilemann’s new book “Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime,” is making plenty of waves in Washington; today Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid apologized for remarks cited in the book, describing then-candidate Barack Obama as “light-skinned … with ...