Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 6:45:02 pm
YouTube Just unreal. What can anyone say at this point? And this is the same guy who constantly asserts that the US should have taken Iraq's oil. UPDATE at 6/14/16 7:11:34 pm by Charles Johnson This isn't the first time Trump has accused US soldiers of stealing the money intended for Iraqi reconstruction. He ...

Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 11:05:30 am
YouTube I've been making the point frequently at LGF and on Twitter and Facebook that the insistence by many conservatives -- including Donald Trump, of course -- that President Obama has to say the magic words "radical Islam" or we'll never be able to defeat ISIS is a talking point so ...

Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 6:58:57 pm
Susan Sarandon has done some terrific work as an actress, and I'll always respect her for that. But somebody who loves her needs to pull her aside and let her know that when she says things like this, she looks like a lunatic disconnected from the real world. And she's not ...

Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 10:06:07 am
The Washington Post headline made a bold statement: Clinton questions whether Sanders is qualified to be president. We'll come back to that in a bit, but last night Bernie Sanders responded to the headline by attacking Clinton for her vote to authorize the Iraq War and saying she was not qualified ...

Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 4:00:59 pm
Video As predicted by former Navy intelligence counter-terrorism expert Malcolm Nance, ISIS is now using a clip of Donald Trump in their latest video to boast about how they're causing panic in Western societies. Nice work, Donald. He's playing right into the hands of the terrorists he claims he's going to instantly ...

Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 11:22:55 am
YouTube There were plenty of comical moments in last night's Republican debate; Marco Rubio and Donald Trump calling each other "little Marco" and "big Donald" was one memorable example, reminiscent of a grade school argument between spoiled children. But the video clip above shows a moment that was actually more in the ...

Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 10:21:21 am
Gage Skidmore/Flickr You know how one of Donald Trump's constant talking points is that he was opposed to the Iraq War from the start? For one example of many, in the New Hampshire debate recently, Trump said, “I’m the only one up here, when the war of Iraq... in Iraq, I ...

Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 10:46:18 am
Terrorist group al-Shabab is now using Donald Trump's anti-Muslim bigotry as a recruiting tool, exactly as Hillary Clinton stated. Terror group al-Shabab, al-Qaeda's Somalia-based affiliate, is using a clip from Donald Trump in a purported Islamist propaganda video -- and it's gaining traction among Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ...

Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 5:26:40 pm
Albert H. Teich / Shutterstock.com Here goes Ben Carson, trying to sound knowledgeable about foreign policy and national security and just coming off as a multi-level ignoramus: Carson: al Qaeda was not a threat in 2003. “A lot of Americans really think back to 2003, and they remember Saddam Hussein and ...

Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 11:53:52 am
Here we go again. Jeb Bush urges U.S. declaration of war against ISIL. Republican presidential contender Jeb Bush said on Sunday, in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on Paris, the U.S. should “declare war” on the Islamic State, which is blamed by the French for the deadly attacks. “We should ...

Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 10:19:02 am
Reading over some of the right wing sites today is a view into a strange alternate universe where everything is reversed; to these folks, the Democratic debate was a crazy festival of socialism and the only person on the stage who was even remotely sane was... Jim Webb. Yes, the ...

Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 8:05:12 pm
http://www.bobcesca.com/podcast/081815 /BCS_081815.mp3 Tonight on The Bubble Genius Bob & Chez Show: 19 Butt Demons and Counting: Nobody Wants Al Gore to Run; Hillary versus Bernie; Fox News Channel's Insufferable Douchebag Jesse Watters Wants Slave Labor; Marco Rubio Decks a Kid with a Football; Lindsey Graham Wants to Pound Iraq; Ex-Gay Porn Star ...

Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 12:42:01 pm
When RedState founder Erick Erickson very publicly uninvited Donald Trump to his right wing conference, claiming it was because of Trump's woman-hating comments, people who actually pay attention to the absolutely horrible things Erickson himself has said (not just about women, he's equal opportunity horrible) pointed out the sheer hypocrisy ...

Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 2:13:54 pm
YouTube Here's the President's speech today at American University in Washington, DC. Brace yourself; this one goes deep, and it left a real mark on the GOP.

Thu, May 28, 2015 at 2:02:25 pm
During Commencement Week at Columbia University earlier this month, someone hung posters on the Columbia campus and on Broadway with a photo of activist Emma Sulkowicz and the words "Pretty Little Liar." At the same time, someone created a Twitter account: @fakerape, and according to Anna Merlan's article linked above, ...

Thu, May 14, 2015 at 8:18:55 pm
Is he triangulating because his aides let him know how disastrous it would be to still support the Iraq War at this point, or is he actually expressing an honest opinion now? Who knows! In the 2015 GOP Clown Car, not even the clowns know what they really believe: Jeb ...

Sun, May 10, 2015 at 7:00:07 am
This story was broken on Friday by nj.com. Hopefully It can survive the weekend to receive the scrutiny and derision is deserves. Those salutes to American servicemen and women we all watch on the Jumbotron during halftime of NFL games? Turns out they are paid promotions costing taxpayers millions ...

Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 3:26:26 pm
YouTube YouTube As David Corn and Daniel Schulman report, Bill O'Reilly Has His Own Brian Williams Problem -- and it makes Williams look like a piker when it comes to lying about war zone experiences. Because nobody denies that Williams was actually there in Iraq, but O'Reilly apparently made up entire stories ...

Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 11:11:30 am
I'll start this post by noting that if Brian Williams is found to have lied about his experiences in Iraq, it's a serious issue that needs to be addressed. But doubt remains about whether he deliberately embellished his story or is suffering from a false memory -- a very common ...

Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 5:37:34 pm
Photo credit: Charles M. Herring Following up on our previous post about the now almost certainly false claim launched by wingnut stalker Chuck C. Johnson that NBC anchor Brian Williams was "lying" about seeing a dead body floating in a flooded street from his hotel room in New Orleans, the Associated ...

Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 11:07:53 am
As if the Brian Williams story weren't already murky enough, the helicopter pilot interviewed yesterday on CNN is now questioning his memories that partly supported Williams' account. I text-messaged Krell before dawn, and asked him to call me as soon as he woke up. He replied with this text: "Good morning. ...

Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 5:44:36 pm
Yes, it's another monumental wall of authentic wingnut gibberish, brought to you by half-governor Sarah Palin! This time I decided it makes much more sense to look at this as sort of impressionistic free verse. So imagine Sarah in a smoky hipster poetry slam, intoning these words with her usual ...

Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 3:56:47 pm
This is interesting; apparently the Brian Williams story may not be the clear-cut case of lying it's been made out to be: Helicopter Pilot: Actually, Yes, Brian Williams' Chopper Did Take Fire in 2003. Krell appeared to back up at least some of what Williams has said during repeated tellings ...

Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 11:10:22 am
Right wing media are already taking President Obama's comments at this morning's prayer breakfast out of context in order to play into the hateful attack that our President is a terrorist sympathizer who hates Christians. Hot Air accused the President of comparing Christianity to ISIS: Drudge went with the single out ...

Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 4:13:37 pm
YouTube But come on, folks, give Brian Williams a break. Who among us hasn't occasionally forgotten we didn't actually storm the beach at Normandy on D-Day? NBC's Brian Williams Recants Iraq Story After Soldiers Protest. WASHINGTON -- NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams admitted Wednesday he was not aboard a helicopter ...