Saturday, August 08, 2009

Rush Limbaugh has his fascism all backwards: Mussolini sent out blackshirts to attack unions

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-- by Dave Rush Limbaugh, on his radio show Friday: Limbaugh: Folks, this is Mussolini-type stuff. This is the President of the United Stat...

Glenn Beck jokes about putting poison in Nancy Pelosi's wine

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-- by Dave Glenn Beck had a glass of wine with Nancy Pelosi on Thursday night. Of course, it wasn't actually Pelosi. It was some poor Fo...

Are Republicans and their thugs killing off the Town Hall as a democratic forum?

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-- by Dave Does anyone remember when Town Hall forums were civil affairs that gave citizens a chance to speak freely to their elected repres...
Friday, August 07, 2009

Fascist America: Are We There Yet?

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-- by Sara All through the dark years of the Bush Administration, progressives watched in horror as Constitutional protections vanished, nat...
Thursday, August 06, 2009

The Blue Dogs' disconnect: Listening to people who will never vote for them anyway

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-- by Dave CNN's John King went out to Idaho's Benewah County last week -- which is a fairly typical logging area which lies within ...
Wednesday, August 05, 2009

Glenn Beck pleads with his audience not to resort to violence: 'Just one lunatic like Timothy McVeigh could ruin everything'

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-- by Dave It appears to be dawning on Glenn Beck -- what with yet another of his heavily armed fans now under arrest for casing out an Air...

Huckabee brings on David Barton to promote his far-right theories on church-state separation

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-- by Dave This weekend on his Fox News program, Mike Huckabee -- who probably still harbors some kind of presidential ambitions -- brought ...

Gee, another well-armed Glenn Beck fan freaked out about FEMA concentration camps. Whoda thunk?

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-- by Dave Well, at least this time -- unlike the last -- no one got hurt : A woman who police said had an XM-15 assault rifle, a shotgun, ...
Sunday, August 02, 2009

Teabaggers want a voice in health-care forums -- one that disrupts, attacks, and distracts

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-- by Dave We noticed the other day that tea partiers are being organized into a campaign of disruption and intimidation at health-care for...

Study: Misconduct is rampant in ICE's immigration raids

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Earlier this week, the Cardozo School of Law's Immigrant Justice Center released a study examining the effects of SWAT-style immigration...

On Planet O'Reilly, Sarah Palin is proof liberals look down their noses at 'stupid' working-class Americans

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-- by Dave Bill O'Reilly likes to use Bill Maher as a symbol of the "far left," though in reality Maher is only definably ...
Saturday, August 01, 2009

Memo to Fox talkers: Al Qaeda not the only group that 'radicalizes' domestic terrorists

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-- by Dave There's been a lot of talk on the teevee -- particularly Fox -- the past couple of days about domestic terrorism, sparked by ...

Now Sean Hannity is mainstreaming far-right fringe theories on his Fox News show too

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-- by Dave Lou Dobbs is hardly the only right-wing pundit on the air transmitting bogus right-wing conspiracy theories. See, for instance, S...

The Goldberg-O'Reilly Birther theory: It's an evil Obama plot to make conservatives look like wingnuts

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-- by Dave [media=9215 embeddl] Bernie Goldberg has a theory about why there's been a significant controversy over Lou Dobbs' promot...
Thursday, July 30, 2009

Now Lou Dobbs wants to pretend he was just 'reporting' Birther claims

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-- by Dave Judging from Tuesday night's performance, Lou Dobbs is pinning his hopes on salvaging the tattered shreds of his credibility...

Malkin's latest screed on Obamas' 'culture of corruption' has a distinctly Clintonesque scent

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-- by Dave Michelle Malkin has a new book out. If it's as well researched as her two most recent outings -- which featured the classic...

For some reason, Bill O'Reilly doesn't think Lou Dobbs should get the boot for spreading right-wing falsehoods

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-- by Dave Bill O'Reilly seems to have a little trouble understanding how the First Amendment works. Free-speech rights mean the governm...
Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Fox & Friends crew frighten elderly viewers: health-care reform is 'a subtle form of euthanasia'

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-- by Dave You know the opponents of health-care reform -- which obviously includes nearly every talking head who appears on Fox News -- are...

Lou Dobbs and the Birthers: Mainstreaming fringe ideas for ratings eventually will catch up with you

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-- by Dave Howard Kurtz this weekend was only the latest media critic to pile on Lou Dobbs for his promotion of the Birthers' conspirac...
Sunday, July 26, 2009

Sara on Thom (and Talk of the Nation)

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-- by Sara I'm going to be on Thom Hartmann's national show tomorrow morning about 10:15 PDT, talking about Canadian health care. (E...