Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 4:42:19 pm
On his front page today, Rush Limbaugh has a prominent link to “Prison Planet,” the website of whacked out conspiracy freakazoid Alex Jones, titled: Algore Photoshops Fake Earth. And possibly even more ridiculous, Limbaugh says his “official climatologist” is Dr. Roy Spencer — a notorious climate change denier and creationist, who ...

Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 5:58:07 pm
My interview with Erik Kain has been getting a fair amount of attention; Erik emailed to let me know it was linked by Fark.com and other high-traffic sites. Going by Tweetdeck’s search results, there was some Twittering too. Andrew Sullivan linked to it at Daily Dish, with these comments about neo-Confederate ...

Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 11:40:04 am
TPM’s Ben Frumin reports that the Washington Times may be on the brink of a shutdown: Is The Washington Times’ Continued Operation In Jeopardy? Things seem to be going from bad to worse at the Washington Times. And the continued operation of the newspaper, which is owned by Rev. Sun ...

Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 11:37:14 am
The New York Daily News is reporting disturbances at some polling stations, apparently from anti-abortion “activists” who support Doug Hoffman: Police Called To NY-23 Polling Sites. I just got off the phone with former state Democratic Chairwoman June O’Neill, who informed me the police had been called to at least ...

Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 8:47:26 am
The Watertown Daily Times, in New York’s 23rd congressional district, switches their endorsement from Republican Dede Scozzofava to Democrat Bill Owens — and they report that Scozzofava is doing the same. During the day Saturday, she began to quietly and thoughtfully encourage her supporters to vote for Democrat William L. ...

Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:08:13 am
In the New York Daily News, political correspondent Michael Saul has a piece about the crudely faked “Obama thesis” that tricked Rush Limbaugh and a gaggle of right wing bloggers: Limbaugh falls for Obama thesis hoax - but is in no Rush to apologize. “So here is who we have ...

Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 9:41:56 am
Wow. If this is true, Britain may have a bigger problem with racial issues than the United States does: One in Five Britons Consider Voting BNP, Telegraph Poll Says. Oct. 24 (Bloomberg) — One in five Britons would consider voting for the whites-only British National Party, a YouGov poll for ...

Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 6:53:18 pm
Science Daily has more details on the alarming Caltech study we noted earlier this week, led by Aradhna Tripati: Last Time Carbon Dioxide Levels Were This High: 15 Million Years Ago, Scientists Report. “The last time carbon dioxide levels were apparently as high as they are today — and were ...

Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 12:25:30 pm
At the Daily Beast, Conor Friedersdorf makes an excellent point about the well-documented racially charged comments of a certain right wing deity talk show host: Rush the Race-Baiter. I share a powerful distaste for characters like Al Sharpton, who deliberately play on the racial anxieties of Americans. As one of ...

Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:24:23 am
He’s a Birther, he promotes insane conspiracy theories at World Net Daily, he appears frequently on Alex Jones’s whacked out radio show, he’s appeared more than once on the white supremacist radio show Political Cesspool — and last night he got two whole segments on Fox News’s Sean Hannity show ...

Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:56:46 am
I’m not sure where they get the idea that anyone is “terrified” of them (it’s actually more like “disgustedly amused”), but the Ron Paulbots at Daily Paul are on to us! Little Green Footballs comments section terrified of Paulites taking over new GOP website. You comment jogged my memeory. On October ...

Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 6:42:10 pm
I thought I’d seen everything. Then I saw this completely crazy anti-evolution article at the web’s craziest right wing site, Weird Nut Daily: ’Origin of Species’ edition debunks evolution. That’s right. They’re claiming that Darwin’s ground-breaking work “The Origin of Species” is an anti-evolution book. You almost have to bow down before ...

Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 8:43:10 pm
At least five of the featured speakers at today’s tea party in Washington DC were connected to the Ron Paul cult. Here’s a display the Paulians set up, right in front of the Capitol building. Also present at the tea party — the insane Birther movement, with professionally printed signs from ...

Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 8:55:53 pm
The Nirthers at American Thinker call on me to authenticate the latest Nirth Certifikit they’ve dug up with help from Weird Nut Daily and Jerome Corsi: Obama’s ‘Long Form’ Shows Up. Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs did some admirable work on Dan Rather’s Memogate, primarily by duplicating Rather’s ...

Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 9:29:45 am
I’ve been sounding off about the insanity peddled by World Net Daily for quite a while. They promote every wrong, crazy idea associated with the far right: creationism, birtherism, anti-vaccinationism, and much more. And some of their writers associate openly with white supremacists and racist groups. After reading an especially mindless ...

Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 10:17:33 am
About 20 major companies have now pulled their advertisements from the Glenn Beck Comedy Hour; the latest to bail out is Farmers Insurance. However ... A Fox News spokesperson told the Daily News yesterday that “advertisers referenced have all moved their spots from Beck to other programs on the network so ...

Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 6:14:31 am
Ron Paulbots celebrate as Fox News turns Judge Andrew Napolitano’s web show “Freedom Watch” into a daily disgrace. Quotes from Napolitano: Lew Rockwell has done more to cement the intellectual foundations of the movement for liberty than anybody else today. [...] Oh my God, here is the modern day Thomas Jefferson. [speaking about ...

Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 6:31:32 pm
Going on right now in Los Angeles, a man who allegedly threatened Barack Obama led police on a wild car chase, ending in a standoff outside the Federal Building in Westwood. WESTWOOD — A man accused of making threats against the White House led officers on a wild freeway chase ...

Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 1:02:05 pm
Just when you think the weirdness might be slowing down a little, Fox News cites one of the most whacked out ravers at Alex Jones’ infowars.com, a far left nutjob with a history of antisemitic writings and conspiracy theories, as a reputable authority on swine flu. Foreign governments, too, are ...

Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 4:21:39 pm
That “Kenyan birth certificate” promoted by World Net Daily, Orly Taitz, Free Republic, and quite a few bloggers turns out to have been a deliberate prank on the Nirthers. They were well and truly punk’d. The first words I wrote immediately after seeing the latest incarnation of the Nirth Certifikit: Today ...

Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 11:05:41 am
Uh oh. Kathleen Parker is rattling cages again: Sen. George Voinovich and the GOP as a Party of the South. Not all Southern Republicans are wing nuts. Nor does the GOP have a monopoly on ignorance or racism. And, the South, for all its sins, is also lush with beauty, ...

Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 5:23:27 pm
The MEMRI Blog notes that several Arab media sources are reporting a failed military coup attempt in the Persian Gulf country of Qatar. Various Arab websites are reporting on the sudden firing of senior Qatari military officials after they staged a failed coup attempt. According to the report on the liberal ...

Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 10:01:10 am
Today we get a ludicrous effort by head Nirther Orly Taitz to foist off an obviously fake “Kenyan birth certificate” with Barack Obama’s name on it: Is this really it? (re: possible Obama’s Kenyan B.C. - Attny Taitz). These people are getting desperate. World Net Daily is also salivating over this. (By ...

Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 10:56:33 am
Yes, the poll was commissioned by Daily Kos (because they want to exploit the Nirther craziness as much as possible, and I can’t blame them), but on the other hand Research 2000 appears to be a reputable polling company. And the poll shows exactly why so many Republican politicians are pandering ...

Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:56:38 am
The irrepressible Dan Rather wants President Barack Obama to form a commission and save the media. Former CBS News anchor Dan Rather called on President Barack Obama to form a White House commission to help save the press Tuesday night in an impassioned speech at the Aspen Institute. “I personally encourage ...