Saturday, August 22, 2009

The anti-Obama teabaggers can't really pretend they don't attract far-right extremists anymore

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-- by Dave Bill O'Reilly did an interesting thing Wednesday night when he reran that footage of Barney Frank castigating that woman carr...
Friday, August 21, 2009

Violence at immigrants' march in Connecticut suburb as white nationalists turn out to harass

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-- by Dave The New Haven Independent has a complete report on the ugliness that emerged from last weekend's march by an immigrant-right...
Thursday, August 20, 2009

There's a reason the Obama-hating crazies are coming out of the woodwork

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-- by Dave ABC News had a noteworthy story last week on the increasing fears for President Obama's safety because of the plethora of nu...
Friday, August 14, 2009

Liveblogging Howard Dean

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-- by Sara Howard Dean addresses the Netroots at 9am ET Friday morning. Sara's there liveblogging it -- join in the conversation at OurF...
Thursday, August 13, 2009

Fascist America II: The Last Turnoff

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-- by Sara Writing about fascism for an American audience is always a fraught business. Invariably, a third of the readers will dismiss the ...

SPLC report: The "Second Wave" of militia activity is now upon us

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-- by Dave We've been reporting steadily on the return of the militia movement in post-Bush America, and now that reportage has been co...
Tuesday, August 11, 2009

'Concerned father' on Fox: Obama's health-care reforms 'sentencing our families to death'

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-- by Dave You had to figure that the moment you saw that "concerned father" harassing John Dingell at the town-hall meeting on he...

Faking victimhood: Just how hurt was that supposed victim of SEIU 'thuggery'?

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-- by Dave This weekend the righties got all worked up about the supposed "brutality" of union thugs in St. Louis who they say be...
Sunday, August 09, 2009

Today's history lesson: How the Brownshirts used street violence as martyrdom propaganda

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[Script reads: "We Are Creating the New Germany! Remember the victims -- Vote the National Socialist List". Larger image here. ] -...

Frank Schaeffer's warning: The 'Glenn Becks' have unleashed 'an anti-democratic, anti-American movement in this country'

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[H/t Heather] -- by Dave Franklin Schaeffer, the author of Crazy For God and a man who knows whereof he speaks when it comes to the great w...

'Brown Shirts'? Town Hall teabaggers' ranks are indeed riddled with right-wing extremists

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[H/t Gavin.] -- by Dave Rep. Brian Baird of Washington (whose district includes Olympia and Vancouver) has announced that, rather than run ...
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 ...