Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 6:06:22 pm
The NSA is a topic of discussion on social media tonight because of 60 Minutes, but here's something I bet you didn't know about the incredibly intrusive techniques Facebook uses to monitor everything you do on their site (and beyond): Facebook Self-Censorship: What Happens to the Posts You Don't Publish? ...

Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 6:07:56 pm
For years, we've had the ability for commenters to include images in their posts, but what appeared in the post was a text link that you had to click to open the image in a popup dialog. Well, I checked our server's free space and did some math, and estimated the ...

Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 10:46:40 am
Your gigantic unison right wing freakout of the day: Obama, Cuban President Raul Castro Shake Hands at Nelson Mandela Memorial. President Obama shook hands with Cuban President Raul Castro today at a memorial service for the late Nelson Mandela in South Africa. Obama stopped to shake Castro's hand as he was ...

Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 12:49:55 pm
Remember when Newt Gingrich pretended to be "surprised" by the deluge of vicious, hateful right wing comments responding to his praise of Nelson Mandela? Well, that was yesterday. Today he's come up with a way to blame it all on liberals, specifically those dirty liberals at MSNBC, who (according to Gingrich) ...

Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 12:18:09 pm
At the far right propaganda site that Andrew Breitbart spawned, Ben "Friends of Hamas" Shapiro shares his special take on President Obama's planned trip to South Africa: AFTER SNUBBING THATCHER FUNERAL, OBAMA AND MICHELLE TO VISIT SOUTH AFRICA FOR MANDELA!!! I've lost track of how many times the Breitbrats have used ...

Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 11:06:39 am
I mentioned in a comment to LGF Reader Randall Gross' page on the religious right and Nelson Mandela that the late Jerry Falwell stuck his foot in his mouth big time back in 1985 when he urged Congress to block sanctions against the Apartheid regime and called Bishop Desmond Tutu ...

Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 1:03:53 pm
I have to admit I've never been a big fan of Martin Bashir's hyperbolic style, but it's more than a little pathetic to see MSNBC caving in to the right wing shriek machine, even after Bashir apologized and Sarah Palin accepted it: Martin Bashir Resigns From MSNBC. Note that Bashir's comment ...

Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 5:06:43 pm
Political map of Africa (2012) courtesy of UT Perry-Castañeda LibraryYes, Angola again. I know you might be tired of hearing about it by now, but I despise yellow journalism, so I tend to be like a dog with a bone when ridiculous fake stories make the rounds on the internet. ...

Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 12:45:57 pm
Today at the increasingly unhinged right wing propaganda site that Andrew Breitbart built, they have a new "expert" on health care, with an EXCLUSIVE breaking news report: EXCLUSIVE: STOP WASTING TIME TRYING TO FIX OBAMACARE!!! This exclusive opinion on health care and medical science is the work of Republican Representative from ...

Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 10:16:01 am
An 81-year-old "birther" was arrested today and charged with threatening President Barack Obama's life, according to federal court records. Prosecutors allege that Elwyn Nels Fossedal was in a post office near his Wisconsin home last month when he announced, "If President Obama was here I would shoot him right there ...

Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 11:27:29 am
Media Matters Rush Limbaugh invoked a rape analogy on Friday to criticize President Obama's move to support filibuster reform. On Thursday, Obama expressed his support for Senate Democrats voting to require just 51 votes -- as opposed to 60 -- approve judicial and executive nominees. Limbaugh compared them to a group ...

Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 12:48:48 pm
Denizens of the frenzied underworld of right wing blogs are completely and totally losing their shit today over Harry Reid's use of the "nuclear option" to put a (partial) end to the GOP's frantic, crazed obstructionism. Thousands upon thousands of raging, randomly capitalized and punctuated comments about tyranny and communism ...

Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 1:54:10 pm
I've taken a bit of a break from mocking the right wing idiots at Breitbart.com lately, but this self-beclownment is so monumental it rivals Ben Shapiro's hilarious "Friends of Hamas" smear against Chuck Hagel, as Larry O'Connor gets the vapors over President Obama's recitation of an early version of the ...

Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 1:05:15 pm
Here's the dullard from Wasilla's latest unsuccessful attempt to put concepts into sentences and have them make actual sense, as she praises the extreme right wing loons at Breitbart.com for fighting (unflinchingly!) to preserve "American exceptionalism," whatever that is (Sarah's pretty unclear herself). This delectable word salad mixes Breitbart, American ...

Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 9:33:53 am
Sen. Rand Paul's weekly column, axed from The Washington Times this week after plagiarism allegations, has already found a new outlet. The conservative media outlet Breitbart News announced on Wednesday that Paul, the Kentucky tea party favorite and possible 2016 Republican presidential contender, would become the newest contributor amid its ...

Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 12:09:52 pm
Yes, you read that correctly: puppy bombs. If you saw the headline and actually believed it for a second, then your bullshit detector is probably in serious need of a tune-up. Think about it for a minute--the Muslim Brotherhood soaked puppies in gasoline so they could lob them at the ...

Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 9:57:38 am
YouTube Rafael Cruz, father of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), told a tea party group in 2012 he thinks President Barack Obama should go "back to Kenya." Cruz can be seen making the comments in a video posted by YouTube user Michael Openshaw in Sept. 2012 and reported by Mother Jones Thursday. ...

Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 11:41:40 am
Video Appearing on Asheville radio station WWNC Thursday, Yelton accused the show of taking his comment out of context with a cut-and-paste editing job. "They created an illusion that I was just personally had an agenda against the blacks, tried to make it talking about racism rather than the real issue ...

Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 3:40:17 pm
Video North Carolina Republican Party precinct chairman Don Yelton was asked to resign today, following his appearance on the Daily Show last night, and you'll see why. Comedy Central

Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 11:50:25 am
Video OK, folks, this one is just unbelievable. At today's Republican clown show on the poor performance of Healthcare.gov, Rep. Joe Barton (R-Tex.) pulled out a slide showing some HTML code from a page at the site and ranted that it was a violation of HIPAA privacy laws, because a section of ...

Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 10:06:37 am
A top White House national security aide who was secretly going on Twitter to insult other Obama administration officials and politicians from both major parties, and to question the policies he had been helping develop, is apologizing. Jofi Joseph is also out of a job. The Daily Beast broke the news ...

Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 8:28:30 am
Fox takes a page from Greenwald, using socks to counter criticism & it makes you wonder how many socks they registered here over the years. NPR media reporter David Folkenflik writes in his forthcoming book Murdoch's World that Fox News' public relations staffers used an elaborate series of dummy accounts ...

Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 5:37:23 pm
Texas blogger Allen Clifton lays it out in plain language: Bashing the media is an easy thing to do. Both political parties do it, though Republicans are far more aggressive with their accusation that the "liberal media" or "mainstream media" is out to get them. All while ignoring ...

Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 12:04:31 pm
Over at the weird far right propaganda site that Andrew Breitbart built, Larry O'Connor's very upset with John McCain for violating St. Reagan's "never criticize fellow Republicans" rule, and calling Rep. Louie "Dumbest Man in Congress" Gohmert... dumb: McCain on Gohmert: 'No Intelligence'. So, if you're keeping score at home, ...

Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 11:23:56 am
Here we go again, folks. The Republican Party's plot to hold the nation hostage in order to kill the Affordable Care Act is not working out very well for them, but are they going to climb down off the ledge now and get back to work? No, silly! Of course not. ...