Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 9:58:09 am
Extremist anti-Muslim Dutch politician Geert Wilders (who wants to ban the Koran and make the religion of Islam illegal) won big in yesterday’s elections in the Netherlands: Election triumph puts anti-Islam Wilders in line for Dutch Cabinet role. The Freedom Party of the anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders emerged as the ...

Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 12:00:38 pm
The Canada-Israel Committee has an interesting breakdown and analysis of the massive amounts of humanitarian aid regularly delivered to Gaza by Israel: Facts Beyond the Spin: Israel Delivers Massive Aid to Gaza. Despite the fact that Israel publicly offered to inspect and then transfer the flotilla’s aid to Gaza several ...

Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 9:17:41 am
The Obama administration is not joining the international chorus of condemnation against Israel: Official: US Will Stand with Israel. I’m told there won’t be any daylight between the US and Israel in the aftermath of the incident on the flotilla yesterday, which resulted in the deaths of 10 activists. Regardless of ...

Fri, May 28, 2010 at 12:45:35 pm
In a jaw-droppingly bigoted rant last Wednesday, right wing radio talker Michael Berry came right out and said about the proposed mosque/community center in Manhattan, “I hope somebody blows it up.” Audio On Wednesday, a man named “Tony” called into the KTRH-AM (Houston, TX) radio show of right-wing radio host Michael ...

Thu, May 27, 2010 at 12:01:54 pm
Here’s another video clip of Family Research Council “senior fellow” Peter Sprigg. If you’re gay, the Family Research Council thinks you should be thrown out of the United States. Really. [Video] Note that the Family Research Council doesn’t qualify for the label “fringe,” either — they sponsor the Values Voters Summit every year, ...

Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:46:23 am
Oh, for Pete’s sake. Today’s winner in the right wing raving homophobe sweepstakes: Peter Sprigg of James Dobson’s ultra-fundamentalist Family Research Council, with a superheated fantasy about a military turned into a non-stop orgy of gay rape. The proposed repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” is working the theocrats into ...

Wed, May 26, 2010 at 10:25:12 am
Yesterday a community board in Manhattan voted to approve a proposal to build a mosque two blocks from where the World Trade Center once stood: Local Board Endorses Muslim Center Near Ground Zero. The anti-Muslim bigots of the so-called “anti-jihad” blogosphere are freaking out, of course. Pamela “Shrieking Harpy” Geller is spewing ...

Mon, May 24, 2010 at 11:48:25 am
At ReligionDispatches, Sarah Posner has some more data on Rand Paul’s crackpot brand of libertarianism, which is inexplicably mixed with fundamentalist Christianity: Rand Paul: We Wouldn’t Need Laws If Everyone Were Christian. Appearing on The Brody File, Rand Paul, who believes that portions of the 1964 Civil Rights Act need ...

Wed, May 19, 2010 at 9:42:05 am
Mark Williams, talk radio host and chairman of one of the largest tea party groups, Tea Party Express, was previously featured at LGF when he went on CNN and called Barack Obama an “Indonesian Muslim turned welfare thug.” That was right after he said that there were no racists at the ...

Sat, May 15, 2010 at 10:12:43 am
Lars Vilks, the Swedish artist who drew a series of sketches showing Mohammed as a “roundabout dog,” is the target of a new round of attacks from Muslim fanatics, and today his home was vandalized. It was the latest in a week of attacks on the 53-year-old cartoonist, who was ...

Tue, May 11, 2010 at 9:42:10 am
As expected, the right wing is calling President Obama’s Supreme Court pick Elena Kagan a radical socialist activist lesbian this week. Rush Limbaugh is being his usual sexist slob self, saying yesterday, “We don’t need to go too deep in analyzing the babe … I guess she can change her ...

Sun, May 9, 2010 at 7:26:33 pm
Did I mention that LGF Pages is turning into a full-featured blogging tool for any registered LGF user? I did? Well, it took another step in the mutational process today, with the addition of a free-form tagging system. “Tags” are words or phrases associated with an LGF Page; there are very few ...

Tue, May 4, 2010 at 1:43:22 pm
Uh oh. Fundamentalist Christian leader George Rekers, who founded the politically active and virulently anti-gay Family Research Council with Dr. James Dobson, has been caught by a Miami newspaper on vacation with a ‘rent boy’. The pictures on the Rentboy.com profile show a shirtless young man with delicate features, ...

Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 9:44:23 am
A lieutenant colonel in the Army has been charged with dereliction of duty and other crimes, after refusing to deploy because he believes President Obama is a sekrit Muslim alien. Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin is charged with one specification under Article 87, missing movement, and four specifications under Article 92, ...

Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 2:24:32 pm
So here we go again with a very touchy Islamic group threatening “South Park” creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker with death because the cartoon show dared to have a cartoon character version of Mohammed, the revered prophet of Islam, revered so much that if you don’t revere him some ...

Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 2:06:03 pm
This week in Wausau, Wisconsin, organizers of a tea party rally had to cancel the appearance of a speaker from Alabama when it came to light that he had a history of speaking at white supremacist events. Attorney John Eidsmoe agreed to withdraw after another tea party speaker complained. Eidsmoe has ...

Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 6:01:58 pm
Yesterday I received several hate mails from those odd people who are desperate to find evidence that I’m “abandoning Israel” (I’m not, but since they can’t find that evidence they’ll just assume it’s true anyway), raving about a story published in Israeli tabloid Maariv claiming that Israeli nuclear scientists are ...

Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 12:49:50 pm
Senior editor for The Atlantic Ta-Nehisi Coates puts it all in a nice neat package: Proud Of Being Ignorant. A lot of you have e-mailed me to note that Virginia governor Bob McDonnell has decided to honor  those who fought to preserve, and extend, white supremacy. I don’t really have much to ...

Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 7:22:24 pm
In 2001, Family Research Council leader Tony Perkins gave a speech to the openly white supremacist Council of Conservative Citizens. And when Perkins worked for Senator Woody Jenkins, he purchased a phone-bank list from former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke. Today he’s angry at the Republican Party over recent revelations that ...

Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 5:27:56 pm
Female suicide bombers struck today in two central Moscow subway stations, killing at least three dozen people in the latest attack by Chechnyan Muslim fanatics: Toll From Moscow Bombing at 37. MOSCOW — Female suicide bombers set off huge explosions in two subway stations in central Moscow during the Monday ...

Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 9:57:43 am
Britain has expelled an Israeli diplomat said to be a “a senior Mossad official,” as a response to the use of forged British passports by the hit team that assassinated Hamas commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai. Foreign secretary David Miliband also directly accused Israel of carrying out the killing, saying ...

Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 9:26:37 am
John Avlon says this new Harris poll is scary, and that’s probably an understatement. Bad craziness has taken over the right to an appalling degree. Obama Derangement Syndrome—pathological hatred of the president posing as patriotism—has infected the Republican Party. Here’s new data to prove it: [Item List] These numbers all come ...

Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:03:52 pm
The Onion reports on an initiative among the nation’s bigots to develop new state of the art slurs to keep pace with rising numbers of multi-racial births. WASHINGTON—A coalition of the nation’s most fervent bigots convened in Washington Monday to address growing concerns that the production of hateful new racial ...

Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 5:13:34 pm
The wingnut blogosphere is in full shrieking harpy mode over Glenn Beck’s statement about anti-Muslim Dutch MP Geert Wilders (who wants to ban the Koran and make Islam itself illegal). This is one of those Bizarro days, because I actually find myself agreeing with Glenn Beck. Geert Wilders is a far ...

Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 2:14:21 pm
In the very public ongoing battle between Andrew Breitbart and Max Blumenthal, Blumenthal has another article at Huffington Post on James O’Keefe and on some of the disturbing events at CPAC: Feeling the Hate at CPAC 2010 With Andrew Breitbart, Hannah Giles and the Crazy Mob. While I was filming ...