Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 3:54:26 pm
The Obama administration, through Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, came out strongly today against the Organization of the Islamic Conference’s efforts to get the UN Human Rights Council to adopt resolutions barring the defamation of religion. By “religion,” the OIC means “Islam.” Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton criticized on ...

Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 11:08:36 am
It’s official — 61% of the US public agrees with President Obama that he doesn’t really deserve the Nobel Peace Prize: Americans’ Views on Obama and the Nobel Peace Prize. The poll breaks apart on partisan lines, of course. PRINCETON, NJ — The majority of Americans do not believe President Barack ...

Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 3:29:37 pm
As the apologists all over the right wing blogs continue to focus on one or two disputed quotes, here’s a lengthy collection of racist and/or race-baiting quotes from Saint Rush Limbaugh — all of them verified, cited and attributed: Limbaugh: My racial views? You mean, my belief in a colorblind ...

Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 5:18:07 pm
Time for tonight’s edition of the most extreme, hateful comments posted at the Hot Air blog owned by Michelle Malkin and run by Ed Morrissey and “Allahpundit.” We’ll start off with a few comments from a thread about calls to impeach President Obama. Ed Morrissey seems to believe this is ...

Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 11:10:47 am
Louisiana justice of the peace Keith Bardwell has refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple, but denies that he’s a racist. He’s just concerned. About ... you know ... the children. To prove that he’s a tolerant, non-racist kind of guy, Bardwell notes that he has “piles and piles ...

Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:27:46 pm
White House Communications Director Anita Dunn doesn’t hold anything back in this interview with Howard Kurtz, blasting Fox News for being “the communications arm of the Republican party.” Dunn also comments on right wing celebrations over America’s loss of the Olympics bid, and the knee-jerk negativity toward Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize. [Video] ...

Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 11:14:19 am
Redstate.com CEO Erick Erickson gets right down into the gutter. I did not realize the Nobel Peace Prize had an affirmative action quota for it, but that is the only thing I can think of for this news. There is no way Barack Obama earned it in the nominations period. ...

Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 8:33:01 am
Well, it’s still early in the morning on the west coast, but I think I already know what the outrage of the day will be in the right wing blogosphere: In Surprise, Nobel Peace Prize to Obama for Diplomacy. OSLO — President Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on ...

Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 12:41:41 pm
Pat Condell’s latest video is a brutally direct and very powerful indictment of organized religion. [Video]

Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 10:20:41 am
On the verge of weeping, Glenn Beck launches into one of his most bizarre rants yet, blaming godless atheists for everything wrong in America. And I do mean everything. [Video] UPDATE at 10/1/09 10:44:06 am: Beck claims that “In God We Trust” has been removed from US coins, but of course he’s wrong. ...

Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 11:03:31 am
Thomas Friedman draws some disturbing parallels between present day America, with a right wing going absolutely nuts, and Israel in the administration of Yitzhak Rabin: Where Did ‘We’ Go? I was in Israel interviewing Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin just before he was assassinated in 1995. We had a beer in ...

Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 9:31:15 am
At the “How to Take Back America” conference last week, attended by Republican leaders including Mike Huckabee, Steve King, and Michele Bachmann, speakers railed against the “Marxist and/or Nazi dictatorship” of President Obama, and promoted a full raft of far right conspiracy theories. Following the Values Voters Summit the previous ...

Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 8:53:54 am
In his speech to the United Nations this morning, President Obama reiterated his call for Israel to cease building settlements, and for the Palestinians to end incitement against Israel. I will also continue to seek a just and lasting peace between Israel, Palestine, and the Arab world. Yesterday, I had ...

Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 11:00:49 am
The far right religious fanatics appointed by Texas Governor Rick Perry to the State Board of Education are at it again. Led by David Barton of the extreme fundamentalist group Wallbuilders (who don’t believe in the separation of church and state), the three fanatics on the panel are trying to subvert ...

Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 9:54:40 am
Since the people at Powerline have made a big public announcement about it, I’ll just say that I’m not the least surprised that they’ve delinked LGF. Powerline has been going in a very bad direction recently; the “all Obama-hatred, all the time” focus is bad enough, but worse are their ...

Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 6:24:17 am
It’s the eighth year after the Islamic terrorist attacks that ripped a hole in downtown Manhattan and murdered almost 3,000 people. Today, I’m remembering the children who were killed that day, who started their morning excited about taking a plane flight, and ended up as pawns for one of the most ...

Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 10:17:57 am
Juan Cole writes a piece for Salon comparing Sarah Palin to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (yes, really), and gets our coveted Dumb Article of the Week prize: Sarah Palin, meet Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. It’s striking what Cole leaves out of his comparisons; since he’s going for the over-the-top smear anyway, I would have expected ...

Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 11:50:03 am
This is the mind-numbingly obvious technique the Palestinians have been getting away with for decades — talking about the “peace process” while threatening (and often committing) violence. Why would anyone expect Mahmoud Abbas to change this pattern of behavior now? Palestinians to keep resistance an option: Abbas. BETHLEHEM, West Bank ...

Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 10:05:58 am
Still more serious bad craziness at Free Republic: Did Jesus Reveal to us the name of the Anti-Christ? Linked to this whacked out video. And just take a wild guess who hundreds of Free Republic commenters seriously believe is the anti-Christ.

Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 7:57:49 pm
The new age quackery at the Huffington Post is starting to be obvious even to Salon: The Huffington Post is crazy about your health. The Huffington Post is one of the most valuable pieces of real estate on the Internet these days. It operates mostly as a news aggregation site ...

Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 1:34:32 pm
Even among people who accept that Barack Obama is a US citizen, a sort of “spinoff” idea keeps coming up in our discussions of the Nirther craziness: that Barack Obama “won’t release” his original birth certificate (some people refer to it as a “long form” certificate) because there’s something on ...

Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 3:05:10 pm
It’s a good thing we’re not having any kind of recession or financial crisis or massive deficit or anything like that here in the US, so we can afford to send $200 million in aid to Palestinians. And that’s just the first installment — we’ve promised almost a billion smackeroos to ...

Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 7:22:47 pm
One of the craziest Nirthers, Andrea Shea King (a writer for World Net Daily), is now openly promoting violent revolution, publishing a letter from a deranged listener to her Internet radio show: The Radio Patriot: LISTENER FEEDBACK. The reason we have had zero success and will continue to probably have ...

Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:19:26 pm
Paul Mirengoff at Power Line defends Geert Wilders against accusations that he’s a “fascist:” Who are the fascists in Europe? Read the whole thing for the context of Mirengoff’s argument (he quotes from an article at Brussels Journal, a Belgian blog connected to the far right Vlaams Belang that has published ...

Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 6:08:37 pm
As we’ve noted previously, in addition to all his other wonderful attributes, “the great Patrick J. Buchanan” (Sean Hannity’s introduction for him) is a creationist. And he has one of those “creationism checklist” articles now running at all the conservative websites (TownHall, WorldNetDaily, HumanEvents), in which he blames Charles Darwin for ...