Saturday, August 29, 2009

Obama's 'SS': Glenn Beck sees scary black people

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-- by Dave Eric Boehlert at Media Matters wonders if Glenn Beck has forgotten that the entire reason he is in hot water with advertisers re...
Friday, August 28, 2009

Idaho Republican candidate jokes about buying 'Obama tags' to go along with wolf hunt

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-- by Dave Much of my family still lives in Idaho, and my dad is fond of hanging at the gun range. He says he hears guys talking casually ab...

Right-Wing Fearfest: Beck says 'free speech is under attack,' then Limbaugh tells him Obama brings 'totalitarianism'

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-- by Dave Glenn Beck seems to be feeling sorry for himself for having brought down a brickload of opprobrium -- and fleeing advertisers -- ...
Thursday, August 27, 2009

Bernie Goldberg thinks he's uncovered a scoop about Bush's military records -- that was reported 10 years ago

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-- by Dave Bernard Goldberg was on The O'Reilly Factor last night touting his hot new scoop in the long-running controversy over George ...

Glenn Beck dives off the conspiracist deep end with nutty guilt-by-association game

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-- by Dave Glenn Beck has been imploring his viewers this week to record the show and keep it and watch it and rewatch it so that they can a...
Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Gun-toting Arizona protester belongs to hate-mongering pastor's flock

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-- by Dave So it turns out that Contessa Brewer had good reason to see a connection between the rabidly hateful rhetoric spewed by the likes...

Reportage you'll never see on Fox: MSNBC's Contessa Brewer explores extremist rhetoric and right-wing violence

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[H/t Heather] -- by Dave Yesterday MSNBC's Contessa Brewer tackled the rantings of Pastor Steven Anderson down at his strip-mall church...
Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Frum unloads on talk-show wingnuts for distorting health-care debate, while Kurtz tweaks Fox hypocrisy

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-- by Dave David Frum spoke out this weekend about the reckless direction America's right-wing talk-show hosts are taking our national ...
Sunday, August 23, 2009

Right-wingers are always eager to dismiss the existence -- and the threat -- of far-right extremists

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-- by Dave Conservatives have been working like mad to whitewash out of public view the existence of violent right-wing extremists, only to...

Gospel of Hate: Arizona pastor Steve Anderson spews bile toward Obama, Frank, and gays

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-- by Dave Pam Spaulding happened upon this character named Steven Anderson, who preaches from the pulpit at Faithful Word Baptist Church ...
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...