Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 11:10:37 am
Jon Avlon has a piece at The Daily Beast on the sick and twisted world of the right wing Obama Haters Book Club, where fear mongering and deranged conspiracy theories are a thriving business. Welcome to the Obama Haters Book Club--a parallel universe of fear mongering for fun and profit.  Over ...

Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 7:54:20 pm
Tonight, the bogus right wing talking points about the Benghazi attack are totally falling apart, as the latest reports from the investigation become public: David Ignatius: Benghazi Intelligence Revealed. "Talking points" prepared by the CIA on Sept. 15, the same day that Rice taped three television appearances, support her description ...

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 ...

Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 1:56:32 pm
In this whacked out fear-mongering clip from July, we see Michele Bachmann giving a speech at the extreme right wing Eagle Forum's 2012 Leadership Summit, raving that the entire US government is being infiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood -- with the explicit approval of Barack Obama. (h/t: Right Wing Watch.)

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 ...

Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 6:43:37 pm
According to my careful analysis, Texas Rep. Louie "Terror Babies" Gohmert is the Dumbest Person in Congress, and he proves it again with this crazy rant accusing President Obama of "jump-starting a new Ottoman Empire." It's doubtful that Gohmert actually knows anything about the Ottoman Empire, except that it somehow involves ...

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 ...

Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 3:28:11 pm
Right Wing Watch takes a look at this weekend's Values Voter Summit, the annual meeting of some of the right wing's craziest elements -- Birthers, bigots, homophobes, conspiracy theorists, Dominionists, and a host of miscellaneous fundamentalist fanatics: Who's Who at the Values Voter Summit 2012. Tony Perkins Tony Perkins is president ...

Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 11:14:34 am
Jeffrey Goldberg has been trying to track down "Sam Bacile," the producer of the anti-Muslim film that precipitated the attack on the US's Libyan embassy, and this story is really beginning to smell bad now: Muhammad Film Consultant: 'Sam Bacile' Is Not Israeli, and Not a Real Name. As part ...

Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 10:39:54 am
Here's the schedule for today's festivities at the Democratic National Convention, following Michelle Obama's brilliant speech last night. 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM (LOCAL) Call to Order The Honorable Antonio R. Villaraigosa Chair of the 2012 Democratic National Convention Committee Mayor of Los Angeles, California Invocation Bishop Vashti Murphy McKenzie, 10th Episcopal District First Woman Elected Bishop ...

Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 6:35:11 pm
The Democratic Convention opens tomorrow, and here's the most recent schedule of locations, speakers, and events: 9 a.m. - 10 a.m. Morning Prayer Gathering (Room 211AB/212AB). 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Caucus Session 1. Women's Caucus (Ballroom ABCD). 9:30 a.m. - 11 a.m. R+D and America's Energy Outlook. Moderator: Amy Harder, Energy ...

Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 1:18:45 pm
The Republican Party's 2012 platform is the most extreme right wing GOP platform in history. Name a radical far right position on almost any issue, and chances are good you'll find it enshrined in this document -- and that includes the "stealth shariah" hallucinations of the crazed anti-Muslim crowd. It's ...

Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 11:27:59 am
The real leaders of the Republican Party are very unhappy with the GOP establishment over their treatment of Todd "Legitimate Rape" Akin: Conservative Christians Rally Around Akin in Face of GOP Criticism. Making the point yet again that Akin is no outlier in the conservative movement -- his opinions may be ...

Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 12:49:54 pm
Roger Ebert: A great many Americans no longer believe in the separation of Church and State, and indeed deny it is a principle found in the Constitution. Yet the wording of the First Amendment is quite clear, and its importance to the founders is underlined by its being first. Certainly ...

Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 10:49:45 am
San Francisco’s Municipal Railway is going to run the always-disgusting Pamela Geller's bigoted advertisements on their buses, but they're donating the ad revenue to the Human Rights Commission and placing their own signage next to the ads saying, "Muni doesn’t support this message." In the hate-addled mind of Pamela Geller, of ...

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, ...

Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 1:53:01 pm
I haven't looked at Fox Nation comments in a while, but when I happened to see a tweet about their article on the Family Research Council shooting, I clicked through -- and I think they might be getting even more insane and full of rage, if that's possible. Fox subtly titled ...

Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 10:13:31 am
Another shooting incident today, this time at the office of the anti-gay religious right hate group Family Research Council: Security Guard Shot at Family Research Council in Downtown DC. A security guard at the Family Research Council was shot and wounded Wednesday morning after a scuffle in the lobby of ...

Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 7:08:20 pm
[Link: www.alternet.org...] The ads, which were rejected in New York by the Metropolitan Transit Authority before a judge ruled that the decision violated free speech rights, send a strident pro-Israel message. They read: "In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man." Then, between two ...

Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 5:14:31 pm
Mitt Romney doesn't want the press around when he meets with his biggest donors in Jerusalem. JERUSALEM — Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, who touched down here Saturday night for a day of meetings with top Israeli and Palestinian leaders, plans to wrap up his visit to Israel by collecting ...

Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 12:50:21 pm
President Barack Obama shows Prime Minister David Cameron of the United Kingdom a bust of Sir Winston Churchill in the private residence of the White House, July 20, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) [Editor's note: see the updates below for the rest of the story...] I used to respect ...

Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 7:12:02 pm
For the most part, the right wing blogs have been desperately trying to ignore Romney's amazing gaffeage in Britain, but one wingnut among them ventured fearlessly into the fray. Another classic outburst from proud Internet caveman Dan Riehl, who clearly doesn't appreciate our shared "Anglo-Saxon heritage:" A Limp Wrist-Ed David Cameron Hits ...

Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 12:38:49 pm
Video If Mitt Romney's overseas trip is supposed to be a charm offensive, he's got it half right; he managed to offend everyone in Britain on his first day. Here's London Mayor Boris Johnson taking a poke at Mitt in a speech to a huge audience at the lighting of the ...

Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 10:38:35 am
Mitt Romney's trip to Britain is not exactly going swimmingly: Mitt Romney Rebuked by David Cameron in London Visit. Mr Romney Goes to London: barely having exited the threshold of the prime minister's residence, the American candidate blurts that he is now in the club with British intelligence. For our American ...