October 2009
1 post
Think Progress » REPORT: ‘We Will... →
More and more calls for violence against the government.
August 2009
11 posts
Philadelphia Police Officer Accused Of Running... →
Crying wolf is dangerous because when combined with jingoistic rhetoric, citizens (including law enforcement personnel) take it upon themselves to “fight for their country back.”
From HuffPo:
Philadelphia’s police department is investigating why an officer used his police car’s computer to run a criminal background check on President Barack Obama.
WatchRAW VIDEO: Tampa health care town hall disrupted by wingnuts - Daily Kos TV (beta)
Daily Kos: The Moment and the Radical Right: Where... →
Daily Kos diarist nobody at all examines the number of recommended diaries about the “increasing violence in public discourse” over health care reform being executed ”with the familiar ingredients of violence, ultra-nationalism, misinformation, historical revisionism, racism, corporatism, silencing of dissent, and fear.”
Think Progress» More ‘Town Halls Gone Wild’: Angry... →
Since members of Congress have been returning home to their districts for the August recess, a consortium of industry-backed right-wing groups have been planning ambushes to harass Democrats for supporting health care reform. ThinkProgress obtained a leaked memo from a volunteer with Tea Party Patriots, a website sponsored by lobbyist-run groupsAmericans for Prosperity and FreedomWorks, that...
Think Progress» Freshman Democratic lawmaker... →
As lobbyist-run groups encourage conservative activists to “rattle” members of Congress atlocal town hall events, Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA), the president of the freshman Democratic class has revealed that “at least one freshman Democrat” has already been “physically assaulted at a local event.” Connolly warned that conservative groups had taken things to a “dangerous level“
Watching Extremists on Twitter
I started a Twitter desktop application tonight (2AM) and had a search column for Daily Kos. Instead of having a list of different users each tweeting about Daily Kos, it was one guy with several posts in a row. He went on about how kos (Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas) was sweating because the Hawaii birth certificate displayed on his website was a fake and asking why Greeks interfere in...
Crying Wolf and Healthcare
Crying wolf and healthcare may not seem nearly as dangerous as the efforts by some to rev up false suspicions of Obama’s birth certificate or stoking the supposed illegitimacy to mean that soldiers must not follow illegal orders from the Constitutionally disqualified Commander-in-Chief. And yet, adding more rumors i.e. forcing elderly into assisted suicides adds to the insanity that some...
WatchBeck conspiracy theory: “Cash for clunkers” website lets Feds take over your computer
July 2009
10 posts
WatchBeck: Obama “a racist” with “deep-seeded hatred for white people”
New GOP "Racist" Headache →
After “Barack the Magic Negro” and other GOP racial gaffes, a top Young Republican official—who was elected chairman Saturday—laughs at a racial slur about President Obama. The Daily Beast’s John Avlon on a choice facing GOP brass: Lose the radical fringe, or never email, use social media or send out holiday CDs again.
The GOP's Young Hatemonger →
Audra Shay, accused of endorsing racism on Facebook, became head of the Young Republicans on Saturday. John Avlon uncovers new details about her disturbing online comments.
Conservative Free Republic blog in free speech... →
“A typical street whore.” “A bunch of ghetto thugs.” “Ghetto street trash.” “Wonder when she will get her first abortion.”
These are a small selection of some of the racially-charged comments posted to the conservative ‘Free Republic’ blog Thursday, aimed at U.S. President Barack Obama’s 11-year-old daughter Malia after she was...
Is Rush Limbaugh trying to encourage a military... →
This thread of commentary clearly is pushing toward a single thought — to push people in the armed forces into seeing Obama as a usurper and traitor, just like the Honduran president, and toward the idea that a similar military-based removal of him from office might be justified.
WatchFrom Media Matters:
Schultz says Limbaugh has a “sick obsession” with political “rape” metaphors
June 2009
21 posts
Misleading Fox Nation Headline Implies That... →
From Newshounds:
The headline of the linked article is “House Passes Milestone Energy, Climate Change Bill.” Obviously not happy with the AP headline, the Fox Nation writers, in order to put it in right wing terms the pitchfork gang can understand and appreciate, tweaked it thusly: “Treason? House Passes Direct Assault On Industrial Base.” It is accompanied by a photo of House Speaker Nancy...
WatchLimbaugh says that the Sanford affair is Obama’s fault as well, that Sanford was so overcome with grief from having to take the stimulus money. Oh yeah, and the economy is Obama’s fault as well, indirectly.
Political Spolitical
With every passing day, I consider myself more and more the naive individual that every right winger from Michelle Malkin to Glenn Beck describes President Obama. I thought in the face of evidence, citizens of the United States that happen to serve in Congress would do the right thing. Wrong. I thought in the face of overwhelming logic, citizens of the United States that happen to serve in...
WatchFrom Daily Kos TV:
Sunday Loon Watch: GOP Picks a Fight with President Obama over Iran
WatchDaily Kos TV demonstrates that Fox decrying the death of journalism for the upcoming ABC interview from the White House was already done by Fox News with both former President George W. Bush and former Vice President Dick Cheney. Hypocrisy at its finest.
Right-wing media and the fringe: A growing history... →
From Media Matters:
This week, the country’s attention was captured by the horrific shooting at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, allegedly by James W. von Brunn, an 88-year-old man with ties to white supremacist and anti-Semitic organizations. The fatal shooting came just two months after an April 7 Department of Homeland Security report detailing potential increases in right-wing...
Tragedy at the Holocaust Museum: Stand Up To... →
David Neiwert, the inspiration for this blog, details right-wing violence incident after incident since the start of the year.
The storm I’ve been warning about is coming faster now. To get a sense of just how fast, let’s take stock of what’s been happening on the right wing since President Obama’s inauguration:
The Obama Haters’ Silent Enablers →
Frank Rich adds to the growing number of journalists and bloggers pointing to the danger of the invective that has been ratcheted up by pundits and radio hosts in conservative media.
From his article in today’s NYTimes:
WHEN a Fox News anchor, reacting to his own network’s surging e-mail traffic, warns urgently on-camera of a rise in hate-filled, “amped up” Americans who are “taking the...
Glenn Beck Spins the Holocaust Museum Shooting →
Yesterday afternoon Glenn Beck and two of his guests argued that Adolph Hitler and the Nazi Party were “leftwing”; that “political correctness” led the committed white supremacist, James Von Brunn, to shoot a security guard at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC; and that ultimately President Barack Obama is the one responsible for the violence because his...
The Big Hate by Paul Krugman, NYTimes →
Now, for the most part, the likes of Fox News and the R.N.C. haven’t directly incited violence, despite Bill O’Reilly’s declarations that “some” called Dr. Tiller “Tiller the Baby Killer,” that he had “blood on his hands,” and that he was a “guy operating a death mill.” But they have gone out of their way to provide a platform for conspiracy theories and apocalyptic rhetoric, just as they did the...
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Steele: Judge Sotomayor would be racist against white men
PRUDEN: 'Inner Klansman' at work in Washington →
The problem with mindless flag waving is that it reduces everything to a simple, absurd argument: “You’re either for us or against us.” WE couldn’t possibly be guilty of anything and YOU are just one of those Hollywood America haters.
Washington Times editor Wes Pruden (refuse to link to him)
“Mr. Obama’s revelation of his “inner Muslim” in Cairo reveals much about...
WatchFrom DailyKosTV:
Caught on tape: Liz and Dick Cheney lie about Iraq & 9/11
WatchHardball with Chris Matthews: Fact-checking Dick Cheney
Why I Turned Down O'Reilly →
Mary Alice Carr in the Washington Post writes:
When you tell an audience of millions over and over again that someone is an executioner, you cannot feign surprise when someone executes that person.
The choice on abortion: rhetorical recklessness or... →
Tim Rutten at the LATimes on abortion and arguments:
In the American debate over abortion, the extravagance of the moral argument and the intemperance of its expression have had consequences — and we have the graves to prove it.
WatchFrom Daily Kos TV:
Bill O’Reilly’s jihad against Dr. George Tiller.
May 2009
10 posts
Fox talker Peters has a Gitmo solution: Just kill... →
From Crooks and Liars:
Col. Ralph Peters — who doesn’t exactly have a track record for probity to begin with — went on Neil Cavuto and offered a solution to dealing with terrorists at Guantanamo Bay — just kill them all.
Steele: Dems Want To Take Away Our Guns, Move... →
From TPMDC:
“It is ironic, to say the least, that at the same time Democrats in Congress are threatening to deny Americans their second amendment right to own a firearm and defend their families and homes,” Steele said, “they are considering bringing terrorists like 9-11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and other Al Qaeda detainees to our communities once the President follows...
How Hate Groups Went Mainstream →
From the American Prospect:
David Neiwert’s The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right arrives in stores as if conjured up by the zeitgeist. Since the inauguration of President Barack Obama, a culture of paranoia has hijacked the conservative movement. Examples of the hysterical style abound: Glenn Beck portraying Obama pouring gasoline on the American people; Rep....
Tincture of Lawlessness: Obama's Overreaching... →
Squeezing the facts around the mantras consistent with the motives of all Democrat Socialists, George Will argues in today’s Washington Post that lawless Obama’s motivation for requiring California to return $74 million in budget cuts on the elderly and incapacitated is to increase the welfare state. Will switches gears, with the word ‘anyway’ in a subsequent paragraph, to...