Wed, May 6, 2015 at 3:54:24 pm
In her recent Time magazine piece, Pamela Geller denies that she and her organization, American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), were "asking for it" when their "Draw the Prophet" contest was attacked by Muslim extremists on Sunday. She claims they were fighting for "freedom," but how does she feel about the ...

Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 1:26:41 pm
The right wing base will be apoplectic over this statement by Jeb Bush, of course: Jeb Bush: Give 11 Million Immigrants Chance to Stay. HOUSTON (AP) -- Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush declared Wednesday that 11 million immigrants in the country illegally should have an opportunity to stay, wading yet ...

Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 10:39:33 am
Long-time readers of LGF will recognize many of the names of people and organizations called out in this piece by Charles Hawley; these are the very fascists and antisemites who made alliances with American "counter-jihad" groups years ago, leading me to make a clean break with them and their hateful ...

Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 12:20:06 pm
Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez will be facing criminal corruption charges, according to CNN: Washington (CNN)The Justice Department is preparing to bring criminal corruption charges against New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez, a Democrat, alleging he used his Senate office to push the business interests of a Democratic donor and friend in ...

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 ...

Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 1:07:35 pm
Rep. Randy Weber (R-Texas)Rep. Randy Weber (R-Texas)Rep. Randy Weber (R-Texas) is in the news after he was forced to apologize "to all those offended" by a tweet comparing President Obama to who else? Hitler. And in light of the previous post in which Rand Paul and Lamar Smith risibly tried to ...

Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 10:53:20 am
Image via Shutterstock Dick Cheney and many other Bush administration officials were lying about torture, and now we have proof. After reviewing thousands of the CIA's own documents, the committee has concluded that torture was ineffective as an intelligence-gathering technique. Torture produced little information of value, and what little it did ...

Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 10:18:58 am
I love it when the media publish two completely contradictory reports; in this case, it's about the state of Maine's attempt to impose a mandatory quarantine on nurse Kaci Hickox, in which Judge Charles C. LaVerdiere has ruled... something. The Associated Press says: Judge Rejects Ebola Quarantine for Nurse. FORT KENT, ...

Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 11:43:12 am
The National Review brings us our absolutely vile right wing article of the day, as David Horowitz says, "Thank You, ISIS," for beheading people and posting the video --because according to Horowitz this will wake up Americans, make them truly hate all Muslims, and get us ready to kill, kill, ...

Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 10:45:31 am
DERPDutifully passing on some fear-mongering propaganda he picked up from (where else?) Fox News by way of Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter, the legendary Dumbest Man on the Internet, Jim Hoft, yells: US Lawmaker: Ten ISIS Fighters Have Been Apprehended Coming Across Southern Border (Video) | the Gateway Pundit Hoft thought this was ...

Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 12:51:26 pm
YouTube Yes, folks, it's yet another ridiculous trumped up fake outrage, spreading like wildfire through right wing blogs and news sites. You can probably expect to see this on Fox News any minute if it hasn't shown up there already. This time the idiots are freaking out at the chairman of the ...

Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 8:24:09 pm
Here's some common ground between America's religious right and the jihadis of ISIS: ISIS Bans Teaching Evolution in Schools. The new Mosul curriculum, allegedly issued by al-Baghdadi himself, stresses that any reference to the republics of Iraq or Syria must be replaced with "Islamic State." Pictures that violate its ultra-conservative ...

Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 8:03:33 pm
Gerald F. Seib. Photo from freshfiction.com The author of this column, published September 9th on the front page of the Wall Street Journal, is an award-winning journalist and author. Therefore I cannot attribute his writing here to sloppiness or factual cluelessness. I do not care to research his past work to ...

Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 10:41:33 am
MSNBC Here's the full transcript of the President's interview with NBC dunderhead Chuck Todd, and if you want to know why I refer to Todd that way, here's a perfect example. Obama mentioned Syria specifically four times before Chuck Todd blurted out, "You've not said the word, 'Syria,' so far in our ...

Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 3:00:47 pm
Here we go again, folks; you can see it coming already. During his press conference today, President Obama talked at length about the need to develop a strong, comprehensive regional strategy with US allies and partners to address the threat of ISIL. So what are the right wing blogs going to ...

Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 5:43:53 pm
The entire right wing universe (including Drudge Report) is now screaming about this post by, yes, the Dumbest Man on the Internet again, claiming that anonymous sources told him officer Darren Wilson suffered an "orbital blowout fracture to the eye socket" in a struggle with unarmed teenager Michael Brown: BREAKING ...

Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 1:09:07 pm
YouTube Live from the Brady Press Briefing Room.

Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 11:05:47 am
Today Breitbart "News" is continuing the incitement of race-hatred in their white right wing audience, with yet another evil-minded post by Ben Shapiro titled: 5 RACE RIOTS IN OBAMA'S POST-RACIAL AMERICA. With a grotesque title like that, Shapiro is obviously appealing to the lowest common denominator knuckle-draggers, and you can probably ...