Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 10:14:41 am
The Southern Poverty Law Center has a report on the hatred and extremism that has reared its head on the right since the election of Barack Obama: Rage on the Right. And it’s especially relevant after the shootings at the Pentagon yesterday, apparently perpetrated by a virulently anti-government libertarian who drew ...

Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 3:30:44 pm
Currently one of the top stories at Drudge Report: an anti-John McCain, anti-FDA article at the John Birch Society website. Here’s Google’s cache of the JBS article.

Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 11:46:53 am
I have big disagreements with Mark Levin about all kinds of stuff, but I’ll at least give him props for being one of the few conservative pundits to take a stand against the John Birch Society. I was invited to be the opening speaker at Saturday’s CPAC session. I had ...

Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 10:18:37 am
Theocrat Mike Huckabee has blasted the CPAC conference, because of the domination by Ron Paul libertarians. This is where the tea party coalition begins to fall apart, because religious right conservatives like Huckabee are diametrically opposed to the laissez faire libertarian social philosophy. People like the Huckster are very much in ...

Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 8:53:56 am
Here’s a rematch with Conn Carroll of the Heritage Foundation; I pressed him pretty hard on the John Birch Society at CPAC (the talking point response is: “there were lots of groups at CPAC”), and the Heritage Foundation’s support for “intelligent design” creationism. And we found a couple of (relatively ...

Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 2:57:45 pm
And now, the Glenn Beck experience, live from “CPAC 2010, the John Birch Society Edition.” Is there any one man who more symbolizes the current state of the modern right wing than Fox News’s very own raving freakazoid nut sandwich? [CPAC live video feed discontinued…]

Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 1:19:21 pm
Mitt Romney gave one of the first major speeches at CPAC 2010 (the event co-sponsored by the John Birch Society and the Oath Keepers militia group), on Thursday afternoon, opening day. A commenter at The Lizard Annex points out that George W. Romney was unequivocal and very direct in his denunciation ...

Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 12:32:25 pm
An all-star panel of former tobacco industry shills and current energy industry shills, now beginning at “CPAC 2010, The John Birch Edition:” [Video moved to newer thread…] Saving Freedom from the Hoax of Global Warming Marriott Ballroom Chris Horner, author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming Ann McElhinney, Not Evil Just ...

Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 11:27:58 am
Noblesse Oblige has a list of Politicians Who Suck for Signing up to Speak at a Bircher Sponsored Convention. Here’s the list from CPAC, where the John Birch Society and Oathkeepers are Cosponsors. All of the people below are listed as confirmed speakers at the CPAC website. I’m a ...

Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 9:04:50 am
It’s Ann Coulter time at CPAC 2010, the John Birch Society Edition. [Video moved to newer thread…]

Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 5:18:41 pm
A George W. Bush impersonator is doing some labored political schtick as I post this… [Video moved to newer thread…] ABC News blog The Note takes note of the John Birch Society at CPAC: Far-Right John Birch Society 2010. ABC’s Jonathan Karl reports: This week’s Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington has ...

Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 2:23:59 pm
And now … Ron Paul! (Keynote speaker at the John Birch Society’s 50th anniversary celebration, now sharing CPAC with the Birchers. Living the dream.) [Video moved to newer post…]

Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 10:06:34 am
Now speaking at CPAC (sharing the event with the vile John Birch Society without protest), one of the craziest of the tea party social conservatives, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Mars). [Video moved to newer thread…] (Note: the Ustream video code seems to give Internet Explorer fits. You’ll have better luck in this thread ...

Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 9:55:24 am
Here’s the live video feed from CPAC 2010; Dick Cheney just took the stage to wild applause and blaring generic hard rock music. [Live feed offline…] Every politician who appears at this event is being tarred by participating in a conference co-sponsored by the John Birch Society — and note that even ...

Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 9:07:03 am
John Avlon has a piece at The Daily Beast on the appalling rise in conservative circles of the once marginalized John Birch Society, and their co-sponsorship of CPAC: Return of the Fright Wing. When the John Birch Society announced that it would be co-sponsoring CPAC, its press release declared that ...

Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 6:09:28 pm
The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) starts tomorrow, featuring the John Birch Society as a co-sponsor; here’s the schedule for the first day: CPAC 2010 : Thursday, February 18, 2010. Speakers this year include: Hon. Dick Armey Hon. John Ashcroft Rep. Michele Bachmann Glenn Beck [The keynote speaker. --ed.] Amb. John Bolton Andrew Breitbart Herman Cain Tucker Carlson Liz ...

Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 9:45:09 am
I’ve been wondering why the mainstream media have been so curiously uninterested in the bad craziness of the tea party movement, but with the release of this New York Times article the grace period may be coming to an end: Tea Party Movement Lights Fuse for Rebellion on Right. This article ...

Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 6:27:26 pm
The National Post’s Jonathan Kay is not a liberal. He attended the Tea Party Convention in Nashville, Tennessee, and filed this report for Newsweek: Tea Party Movement Is Full of Conspiracy Theories. (I know. I’ve only been trying to point this out for the past year.) After I spent the weekend ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 5:34:00 pm
Chris Cillizza has a bit about Sarah Palin’s decision to attend the Southern Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans, but not CPAC 2010, at The Fix: Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin’s decision to attend — and speak at — the Southern Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans in April transforms ...

Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 9:50:14 am
He spreads End Times craziness and has guests who suggest Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is the Antichrist. He constantly predicts that the end of America is imminent. He asserts that President Obama is a “racist with a deep-seated hatred of white culture.” He says President Obama is part of a decades long ...

Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 4:26:06 pm
RNC chairman Michael Steele apparently believes that the best way to get young people and minorities to take another look at the Republican Party is to praise a raving freakazoid nut sandwich who gets his talking points from the John Birch Society and calls President Obama a “racist with a ...