Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 12:09:23 pm
Am I being cynical to suspect that this is a choreographed dance: first, the racially charged statement from an unnamed adviser, then the walk-back and counter-charges of dishonesty? Just seems like we've seen this play before: Romney Camp Denies 'Anglo-Saxon Heritage' Comment. According to the Telegraph, the adviser suggested that Mr. ...

Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 5:33:01 pm
My jaw is officially on the floor at this statement to Britain's Telegraph by one of Mitt Romney's advisers: Mitt Romney Would Restore 'Anglo-Saxon' Relations Between Britain and America. As the Republican presidential challenger accused Barack Obama of appeasing America’s enemies in his first foreign policy speech of the election ...

Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 1:55:03 pm
This is a good example of the difference between Democrats and Republicans, because a Republican would never say something like this about one of their own, knowing how it would be used by the opposition: Feinstein: Someone at White House Is Behind Recent Intel Leaks. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), chairwoman ...

Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 10:56:44 am
A great column by Frank Bruni on Michele Bachmann's peculiar hate-filled brand of "Christianity:" The Divine Miss M. What I find most fascinating about Michele Bachmann — and there are many, many more where she came from — is that she presents herself as a godly woman, humbly devoted to ...

Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 1:39:16 pm
New information about the suspected Aurora killer, James Holmes, suggests that he may have been inspired by Norwegian anti-Muslim terrorist Anders Behring Breivik. The scenario he tried to set up was very similar to Breivik's -- a massive bombing followed by a mass murder attack: Loud Music Used to Lure ...

Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:30:20 pm
Oh yeah, and also ... Michele Bachmann (R-Mars) came out of storage this week and launched a McCarthy-like crusade against a nonexistent Muslim Brotherhood infiltration of the upper echelons of the US government, targeting Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's aide Huma Abedin in particular. This crackpot anti-Muslim conspiracy theory has been ...

Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 12:46:29 pm
Rachel Maddow had a segment on at the end of her show last night that made me facepalm into a headdesk worthy of Olympic gold. Apparently the people of Egypt protested Hillary Clinton (and the U.S.), believing that the U.S. was responsible for the Muslim Brotherhood winning the election for ...

Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 12:11:01 pm
Ned May from the anti-Muslim blog Gates of Vienna spoke to a "counter-jihad" conference at the European Parliament a few days ago, desperately spinning the outright bigotry and hate speech in which he traffics in an attempt to distance himself from Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik, and he brought up ...

Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 12:07:49 pm
From the "Be Careful What You Wish For" file, some Louisiana Republicans who eagerly supported Gov. Bobby Jindal's school voucher plan (that diverts state funds to private religious schools) are now horrified to discover that there are other religions besides Christianity. For example, Rep. Valarie Hodge, who changed her mind about ...

Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 11:25:40 am
Deranged hate group leader Pamela Geller is raging and spewing venom this morning (I know, it's her usual state) because the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles pulled the plug on her scheduled speech titled "Islamic Jew Hatred as the Root Cause of Failure to Achieve Peace." As usual when a ...

Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 11:55:17 am
We've been watching in horror since the beginning of the Obama administration as the right wing's buried racism came bursting out to the surface, loud and proud. And now, one of the GOP's candidates for President, Tom Tancredo, who's long been associated with extreme right wing groups, has completely stopped ...

Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 3:27:15 pm
Rumors have been flying about Hosni Mubarak's current state; the latest CNN update suggests he may still be alive, if not ambulatory: Military Official Disputes Report of Mubarak's Clinical Death. [Updated at 6:09 p.m. ET] Conflicting reports emerged late Tuesday over whether the 84-year-old former president of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, ...

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 ...

Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 11:08:04 am
Today at PJ Media, hate group leader Robert Spencer turns in another exercise in blatant bigotry: PJ Media » Is Michael Bloomberg Secretly a Muslim? He's only "kidding," of course. He doesn't really think Michael Bloomberg is a secret Muslim. He just thinks Bloomberg is acting like a Muslim, and we know ...

Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 7:49:00 pm
We haven't had one of these posts in a while, not because the hate mail has dried up, but because it's usually so unimaginative and dull. But here's one that pretty much lays bare the deranged bigotry of the anti-Muslim crowd, in a few quick sentences dripping with vitriol. Tonight's bigot ...

Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 5:50:30 pm
Muslim-hating right wing ranter Pamela Geller is even more famous than usual tonight. Dangerous Minds: Atlas Puked: Allegedly Drunk Conservative Blogger Posts Utter Insanity at 8am. Pamela Geller, the rabidly Islamaphobic hate harpie whose face on cable news channels during the “Ground Zero mosque” controversy put people off their food all ...

Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 3:04:28 pm
Here's one for the annals of hate group leader Pamela Geller's Infamous Apparently Inebriated Posts; a reader emailed this morning to let me know that the following amazingly incoherent rant had appeared at her website. I grabbed a screenshot of Google's cached copy before it goes away (the post has ...

Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 11:20:17 am
Read it all here. [Video] Dianne Bauer opened up her cafe to Mitt Romney and his campaign for a small round table discussion Friday morning before his speech at Bayliss Park. This isn't the first politician that has asked Bauer to use the Main Street Cafe in downtown Council Bluffs. "With Rick Perry ...

Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 10:17:14 am
Kudos to Gov. Bill Haslam and his administration for not caving to the bigot brigades. Sadly, the Governor will probably now be labeled a RINO and accused of being connected (or at least sympathetic) to the Muslim Brotherhood. Added emphasis mine. Samar AliTea party and anti-Muslim activists are taking aim ...

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, ...

Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 11:40:57 am
Gulag via Shutterstock We're going into the second straight month of the bizarre wingnut paranoid conspiracy theory they've dubbed #TwitterGulag, and the raving right wingers show no signs of re-entering the atmosphere yet. They're utterly convinced that I am the ringleader of this non-existent plot; if you follow the link above, you'll ...

Wed, May 30, 2012 at 11:08:51 am
Another day, another outright lie from one of the most dishonest right wing "pundits," Dana Loesch, who told CNN's Carol Costello this morning that right wing Birthers don't exist. Here is what -- nobody -- nobody believes that the President wasn't born in Hawaii except for people like Phil Berg ...

Mon, May 7, 2012 at 6:13:55 pm
Here's anti-Muslim hate group leader Pamela Geller on the foiled Al Qaeda airplane bombing plot announced today; to her twisted brain, it's just more evidence that Obama is weak on terrorism: CIA THWARTS ISLAMIC UNDERWEAR BOMB PLOT TO DESTROY US-BOUND AIRLINER!!!!! - Atlas Shrugs No worries, the conceited horse's ass in ...

Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 11:27:26 am
There's so much craziness today in the right wing blogosphere that I've just been marveling at it while I drink coffee. One jaw-dropping post after another. Where to start? OK, this is probably the most ludicrous of the bunch: Islamophobia, Too, at Media Matters. Yes, mini-Breitbart Joel Pollak is now accusing Media ...

Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 9:46:57 am
We should be grateful to people like Florida's far right Tea Party Governor Rick Scott, who make it exceedingly clear that the Republican Party's war on women is very, very real: Governor Rick Scott Vetoes Funds for Rape Crisis Centers During Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) ...