Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 12:49:53 pm
We have a winner in today's Most Ridiculous Right Wing Rant contest, and once again it goes to the inimitable, reliably deranged Breitbart.com, where hack William Bigelow is screaming in all caps: THE ONION GOES ANTI-SEMITIC! So now The Onion, celebrated for their zany approach to the news, has fallen ...

Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 2:40:30 pm
At the New Republic, Penn Bullock has a well-researched article on the disturbing history of Mitt Romney's chief campaign strategist: Stuart Stevens' Shady Past Clients, Revealed. For Romney to brag behind closed doors that his consultants are using tactics honed in foreign elections is peculiar, to say the least. The ...

Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 2:12:03 pm
Watching a particularly beautiful movie of the sun helps show how the lines between science and art can sometimes blur. But there is more to the connection between the two disciplines: science and art techniques are often quite similar, indeed one may inform the other or be improved based ...

Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:24:51 am
The right wing blogs and media are all screeching in unison again, furiously trying to pretend that President Obama never referred to the Libyan embassy attack as an "act of terror" until 2 weeks later. In other words, as usual, they're all shilling for Mitt Romney's lies. So let's look at President ...

Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 10:18:39 am
The Republican Party seems to be doing an excellent job of dishonestly using the attack in Libya that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens for political purposes. They're relentlessly trying to drum this up into a scandal where there is no scandal, and our feckless media are taking the bait, of course. Today ...

Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 5:40:58 pm
• Exhibit A: Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney with hate group leader Pamela Geller Mitt Romney and Pamela Geller About Pamela Geller: Pamela Geller is the anti-Muslim movement's most visible and flamboyant figurehead. She's relentlessly shrill and coarse in her broad-brush denunciations of Islam and makes preposterous claims, such as that President ...

Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 7:37:01 pm
In the partisan rush to attack President Obama over the violence in Libya, House Republicans didn't care if they revealed CIA secrets. When House Republicans called a hearing in the middle of their long recess, you knew it would be something big, and indeed it was: They accidentally blew the ...

Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 5:37:36 pm
At National Review Online, where they've had to fire or distance themselves from two overt white nationalists this year, they're gamely trying to pick out the "most controversial parts" of the 6-year old video dredged up today by the right in a pre-debate surprise attack gone pathetically wrong: The Most ...

Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 1:04:39 pm
The latest wingnut outrageous outrage revolves around President Obama's use of the phrase "bumps in the road," while speaking about the road to democracy and peace in the Middle East and the Arab Spring during an interview on 60 Minutes last night. "I think it was absolutely the right thing ...

Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 10:40:11 am
In the wake of protests and riots as well as a terror attack against the US consulate in Libya that resulted in dozens of casualties and the death of US Ambassador Stevens and three other Americans ostensibly over a video denigrating Islam and the prophet Mohammed, a French satire magazine ...

Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 3:16:11 pm
As we noted yesterday, the latest Pew Research survey found that Mitt Romney's crass attack on President Obama after the Libyan embassy killings had done Romney serious damage. Now we have two more new polls from Monmouth University and Reuters/Ipsos with similar results: Romney's Libya Comments Landed With a Thud: ...

Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 3:31:37 pm
The Washington Post editorial board weighs in on the terrible events in Libya and Mitt Romney's crass political hay-making: The Death of an Ambassador. At a news conference, Mr. Romney claimed that the administration had delivered "an apology for America's values." In fact, it had done no such thing: Religious ...

Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 12:15:08 pm
Mitt Romney really stepped in it this time. Using the violent deaths of Americans overseas to attack President Obama, on the anniversary of 9/11 to boot, is even drawing criticism from many Republicans. And now his campaign is desperately circulating talking points to supporters, to try to deal with the consequences ...

Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 10:02:17 am
Mitt Romney sticks his finger in the wind, triangulates the necessary political coordinates, and issues a statement. “Congressman’s Akin comments on rape are insulting, inexcusable, and, frankly, wrong,” Romney said. “Like millions of other Americans, we found them to be offensive.” But Romney has a problem. His running mate Paul ...

Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 3:37:36 pm
Here's a statement from Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center, responding to Family Research Council president Tony Perkins' attempt to get a free pass for the FRC's long-standing bigotry and hateful propaganda, by blaming the Southern Poverty Law Center for the shooting at the FRC's DC office. (Bashing ...

Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 6:12:30 pm
The president of the anti-gay National Organization for Marriage wasted no time capitalizing on the Family Research Council shooting incident, attempting to make it illegitimate to refer to groups like his as "hate groups:" Shooting Spurs Heated Debate on Gay Rights, 'Hate Group' Label. Brian Brown, the president of NOM, ...

Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 9:38:05 am
Today we learn that the alleged mass murderer who attacked a Sikh temple in Wisconsin yesterday before being shot and killed by police was a far right white supremacist and Army veteran, and a former member of a skinhead hate band. The man who allegedly murdered six people at a ...

Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 9:52:12 am
So a guy upset about the Battle of Chik-Fil-A recorded a video of himself going through the drive-through line to get a free cup of water and express his displeasure about the company's policies: Yes, the guy was rude. And it was wrong of him to take out his anger ...

Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 5:55:39 pm
Are people getting inured to violence like we saw in Colorado this week? Why has there been so little real discussion of ways to stop such devastating weaponry from being used for indiscriminate slaughter? As a gun owner myself, I'm obviously taking advantage of my 2nd Amendment rights. But I never ...

Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 6:28:03 pm
You know that woman who testified that George Zimmerman had molested her for years, and was identified only as "Witness 9?" Breitbart.com's Lee Stranahan outed her today: Trayvon, George, Witness 9 & Other Obama Political Casualties. Welcome to the news cycle, Witness 9. The accusations of molestation by Zimmerman — ...

Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 10:01:15 am
Andrew Sullivan has an email from CNN's Anderson Cooper today that will come as a huge shock to ... well, nobody, really: Anderson Cooper: 'The Fact Is, I'm Gay.' Congratulations to Cooper for taking this step; I believe this makes him the most high profile openly gay journalist in the US. ...

Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 12:42:09 pm
So after Joe the Plumber suggested that gun control was responsible for the Holocaust and that the Bible is more accurate than science textbooks because "it was never revised," I'm sure you're all wondering who's running his brilliant communications operation. One great introduction to Joe's "Director of Communications" Phil ...

Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 4:16:00 pm
Congratulations to PJ Media for unlocking a new achievement -- being officially noticed by the Washington Post as one of the originators of a crazed anti-Obama conspiracy theory: Reining in the Rumors About EPA 'Drones'. It was a blood-boiler of a story, a menacing tale of government gone too far: ...

Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 10:39:01 am
Remember how, just a few weeks ago, the National Review was forced to fire not one, but two overt white nationalists from their staff? Our posts on these disgusting episodes: National Review's John Derbyshire Publishes Stunningly Racist Article at White Nationalist Site John Derbyshire Is Just a Little Too Openly Racist for ...

Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 10:55:14 am
When I worked for PJ Media several years back, anti-Muslim hateblogger Robert Spencer used to frequently email me, begging to be included in PJ Media's advertising program and have his articles published at the site. At the time, Roger Simon and the real decision maker of PJ Media, investor Aubrey Chernick, ...