Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 3:34:58 pm
Environmentalist Peter Sinclair’s new video deals with the now thoroughly debunked and discredited “Climategate” nontroversy, the threats and intimidation directed against climate scientists, and the connections between climate change deniers and the worst elements of the far right — including the neo-Nazis at Stormfront (Google cache link). [Video] The “Climategate” idiocy confirms ...

Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 6:36:39 pm
Check out Ry Cooder’s excellent new single, inspired by Arizona’s new anti-immigrant law, in an exclusive premiere on NPR. Arizona’s ongoing battle over immigration has inspired a new single from guitarist, composer and venerated session musician Ry Cooder.  The song, “Quicksand,” tells the story of six people who attempt to ...

Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:39:02 am
Far right evangelist Lou Engle is highly influential among the social conservative wing of the GOP (which is pretty much the entire GOP); he has hosted “prayercasts” attended by top Republican politicians including former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, and is involved in many other high profile political activities. And this “man ...

Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 9:26:22 am
This should come as no surprise after the deranged anti-census agitation from people like Michele Bachmann, Glenn Beck, and Redstate.com CEO Erick Erickson (who publicly threatened to use a shotgun on census workers): threats and violence against census workers this year have more than doubled compared to 2000. So far, ...

Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 9:46:13 am
We have a new candidate for “craziest tea party candidate:” Rick Barber, running for Congress in the GOP primary in Alabama’s 2nd District, who created the following advertisement showing him stroking a Revolutionary War pistol and calling for President Obama to be impeached, and concluding with a “founding father” who ...

Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 3:43:34 pm
Pamela Geller has received a notice from PayPal that she’s in violation of their acceptable use policy regarding sites that “promote hate,” and told that in order to prevent closure of her account she must remove all PayPal logos and forms from her over-the-top anti-Muslim sites atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com, sioaonline.com, and freedomdefense.typepad.com. Geller ...

Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 1:39:24 pm
William Kristol’s article claiming that the Obama administration was planning to support an anti-Israel resolution at the UN was rapidly spread throughout the wingnutsphere, with the requisite expressions of outrageous outrage, rage, and more outrage. And once again, it’s a bogus story. The White House is sharply denying a claim by ...

Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 10:12:39 am
Here’s an account of a demonstration against the proposed community center/mosque in downtown Manhattan, featuring anti-Muslim bloggers Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller: On this ground, zero tolerance. The following appalling incident perfectly demonstrates the pure bigotry that motivates the Spencer/Geller crowd; the angry mob turned on a pair of men who ...

Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 11:19:56 am
New GOP Senate candidate from Nevada Sharron Angle is apparently trying to quietly toss the online records of her extreme nativist and John Birch Society-inspired positions down the memory hole. Sharron Angle—Tea Partier, Oath Keepers supporter, anti-fluoride crusader, and new GOP candidate for Senate from Nevada—is already demonstrating her solidarity ...

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 ...

Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 4:59:31 pm
In their four and a half minute video segment about Reuters cropping out the knives from those photos, Fox News crops out all mention of Little Green Footballs. An absolutely classic case of Fox News lifting a story from the blogosphere without any attribution except unnamed “critics” and “bloggers.” Media Outlet’s Anti-Israel ...

Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 8:22:43 pm
Fox News Hitler pimp Glenn Beck has a new favorite author: Glenn Beck’s new book club pick: Nazi sympathizer who praised Hitler and denounced the Allies. On his radio show today, Glenn Beck heralded and promoted the work of Nazi sympathizer Elizabeth Dilling, who spoke at rallies hosted by the ...

Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 11:52:14 pm
Tim Blair thinks people have only started leaving anti-Israel comments at LGF since my new “leftish conversion.” He says these are my “new friends.” Blair, you ignorant slut. People have been leaving anti-Israel comments at LGF for many years. It happens every time there’s a phony international incident like this. The ...

Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 2:47:03 pm
Now the truth is coming out about the Mavi Marmara incident. Apparently, the first four Israeli marines who rappelled onto the ship were savagely beaten and overwhelmed. You can see this taking place in the video released by the IDF. And then, the “peace activists” dragged these four injured soldiers belowdecks and ...

Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 10:28:22 am
In an interview with Don Imus, Ron Paul calls for the US to abandon Israel, calls Gaza a “concentration camp,” and recites a litany of anti-Israel talking points, including the canard that Israel is starving the people of Gaza. One of the biggest influences on the modern Republican Party sounds just ...

Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 10:45:56 am
California Republican senatorial candidate Carly Fiorina, the demon sheep lady, is also an anti-science global warming denier. Which is no surprise in the Age of the Teabag. [Video] Back in February I wrote that the demon sheep ad was so weird it made me want to vote for her. OK, I’m ...

Fri, May 28, 2010 at 11:02:26 am
Amanda Robb at Ms Magazine points out a simple fact about anti-abortion murderer Scott Roeder: he did not act alone. He had an extensive support network of Christian anti-abortion extremists, many of whom are quite open about their belief that murdering abortion doctors is “justifiable homicide.” Roeder wasn’t the first ...

Fri, May 28, 2010 at 10:01:03 am
Using exactly the same deceptive “teach the controversy” tactics as creationists have for years, a Republican pressure group with the Orwellian name “Balanced Education for Everyone” is trying to force schools not to teach global warming in science classes: Push to teach ‘other side’ of global warming heats up in ...

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 ...

Sat, May 22, 2010 at 5:54:34 pm
Oops. A national anti-illegal-immigration group has pulled out of a planned June 5 rally in Phoenix to support Arizona’s immigration law because of a key organizer’s alleged links to neo-Nazis. The website for the “Phoenix Rising” Arizona Rally and Freedom March event scheduled for Wesley Bolin Plaza lists as “confirmed” speakers ...

Sat, May 22, 2010 at 10:09:43 am
Rand Paul says he’s too exhausted to appear on Meet The Press tomorrow, but he’s not too exhausted to give interviews to the local Kentucky press, and he says Louisville is still segregated. Which means the Civil Rights Act didn’t work. (In Rand’s private universe, that is.) And in the same ...

Fri, May 21, 2010 at 8:25:42 pm
The Anti-Defamation League has a press release about “sovereign citizen” movement member Jerry Kane, killed yesterday in a shootout with police in West Memphis. New York, NY, May 21, 2010 … A suspect in the shooting deaths of two West Memphis, Arkansas police officers was a member of an extreme ...

Thu, May 20, 2010 at 9:16:45 am
Well, Rand Paul really stepped deep into the muck yesterday with his painful waffling about the Civil Rights Act. The right wing blogosphere is in full-throated excuse-making mode this morning. Even Dave Weigel is desperately trying to spin this as being a “principled libertarian” stance, because as a libertarian himself ...

Tue, May 18, 2010 at 3:20:16 pm
An interesting footnote to the Mark Souder scandal: he was also one of the main promoters of creationism (in its “intelligent design” disguise) on Capitol Hill. I was going to post the following video of Souder being “interviewed” by his mistress Tracy Jackson, about the very influential role he played in ...

Sun, May 16, 2010 at 4:03:12 pm
Here’s Newt Gingrich racing for the bottom on Fox News, saying Obama should withdraw Elena Kagan’s nomination because she’s “anti-military,” then launching an attack on Harvard (where Kagan was dean of the law school), because they accept Saudi money. It’s unclear how this is supposed to be Kagan’s responsibility, but ...