Saturday, July 31, 2010

Beck Lies About Oakland Cop Sniper, Claims Innocence In Inspiring Shooter Who Targeted Tides Foundation

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[Cross-posted at Crooks and Liars .] We knew Glenn Beck was going to deny any culpability for his role in inciting a right-wing nutcase ...
Thursday, July 29, 2010

Tea Partying 'Patriots' Ginning Themselves Up For A Shooting War -- And GOP Politicians Are On Board

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[Cross-posted at Crooks and Liars .] Nicholas Phillips at the Riverfront Times takes note of this YouTube video from a Tea Party/Patri...
Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Right-Wing 'True Patriot' Bank Robber Got Away With $86,000 He Gave To 'The Cause'

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[Cross-posted at Crooks and Liars .] When I first heard this story about a farmer from Port Townsend -- on the other side of Puget Sou...

Jan Brewer's Fearmongering Is Destroying Arizona's Economy -- But Hey, It Wins Votes

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[Cross-posted at Crooks and Liars .] Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer and her misbegotten immigration law, SB1070, may be popular with Arizonans...

Shawna Forde And Her Killer Minutemen Had Scheduled Other 'Operations' When They Were Arrested For Murders

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[Cross-posted at Crooks and Liars .] There have been some interesting developments in the bizarre and telling case of Shawna Forde, the...
Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Who, Me Unleash Violent Nutcases? Beck Wonders Why The Concern About The Tides Foundation -- But Doesn't Mention Shooter

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[Cross-posted at Crooks and Liars .] Glenn Beck was all hyped up about last week's Netroots Nation gathering in Vegas, especially t...
Monday, July 26, 2010

Beck And His Cohost Have A Big Giggle Over Olbermann's History Lesson, Mock His Education, And Betray Their Own Ignorance

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[Cross-posted at Crooks and Liars .] You can tell that Keith Olbermann scored some serious points in his special comment of last week ...

Ex-Tea Party Spokesman Mark Williams Doesn't Want The Story To Be About Him. Too Late, Dude.

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[Cross-posted at Crooks and Liars .] Mark Williams -- having seen his Tea Party Express booted from the National Tea Party Foundation f...

Fun In Colorado: Tom Tancredo Ditches The GOP For The Constitution Party

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[Cross-posted at Crooks and Liars .] Tom Tancredo seems to be on a one-man crusade to make Colorado the Wingnutopia of this year's p...
Friday, July 23, 2010

Our Netroots Panel On The Tea Parties Gets The Attention Of The Movement's Defenders

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[Cross-posted at Crooks and Liars .] John and I have been wandering the halls at Netroots Nation here in Vegas this week, having a bl...
Wednesday, July 21, 2010

'Character Assassination Without Due Process': Glenn Beck And Fox News Know All About That

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[Cross-posted at Crooks and Liars .] Boy, talk about projection: Here's Glenn Beck yesterday on his Fox show : Beck: This administ...

Violent, Racist Haters Among The Tea Partiers? NAACP Gets Death Threats That Pretty Much Prove Their Point

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[Cross-posted at Crooks and Liars .] [WARNING: Audio not safe for work. ] It's obvious why Andrew Breitbart successfully smeared Sh...
Tuesday, July 20, 2010

When Vigilantes Rule: Feds Hand Down Hate-Crime Charges For Post-Katrina Shootings In White Neighborhoods

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[Cross-posted at Crooks and Liars .] A few years ago, A.C. Thompson wrote an amazing piece for The Nation describing how white militia...
Monday, July 19, 2010

The Tea Partiers Can't Just Paper Over Their Innate Nuttiness

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[Cross-posted at Crooks and Liars .] Last week, some Tea Partiers in Iowa put up the above billboard comparing President Obama to...
Sunday, July 18, 2010

National Tea Party Umbrella Group Says It Has 'Expelled' Mark Williams' Tea Party Express After Racist Screed. Right.

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[Cross-posted at Crooks and Liars .] Well, now that Mark Williams dropped the mask and revealed the rotten racist core of the Tea Part...
Friday, July 09, 2010

Tom Tancredo: Like The Civil War And Soviets And Al Qaeda, President Obama Is 'The Greatest Threat To The United States Today'

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[Cross-posted at Crooks and Liars .] You can always count on Tom Tancredo to say all kinds of insane things, but sometimes it's har...

After The Barrage Of Hate They Generated, Will The 'Climategate' Accusers Cop To Their Hoax And Apologize?

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[Cross-posted at Crooks and Liars .] I've been monitoring Fox News to see what mention of the the independent report exonerating tho...

After The Latest Bloodshed, 'Sovereign Citizens' -- And The Threat Of Right-wing Violence -- Rise On Media Radar

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[Cross-posted at Crooks and Liars .] Earlier this week, NBC Nightly News ran a smart, concise segment on the case of Jerry and Joe Kane...
Thursday, July 08, 2010

David Vitter Says Disgraced Aide Worked On Abortion Issues, But Not 'Women's Affairs'

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[Cross-posted at Crooks and Liars .] Sen. David Vitter has been having to answer a lot of uncomfortable questions about Brent Furer, th...

Beck Thinks He's Connected Obama To The Racist New Black Panthers. But He's Not Even Close

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[Cross-posted at Crooks and Liars .] Someday, Glenn Beck's chalkboard conspiracy theorizing is going to land him in serious legal t...