Right-wing pundit Dick Morris explains it all on Fox News. It seems that we need to have our soldiers in Iraq – to be killed. Yes, if we give al Qaeda fresh young American bodies there, they won’t kill Americans here: MORRIS: I think that withdrawal from Iraq — it obviously gives al Qaeda a huge victory. Huge victory. On … Read More
Great Moments In Punditry
Tom Tomorrow: P.S.: Death toll for U.S troops in Iraq during April 2007: 117, the highest since January 2005.
My Bad
That terrible tragedy at Virginia Tech? My fault, it turns out. So says noted "actor" Chuck Norris: Though one can point to Cho’s own psychotic behavior and our graphic slasher media as potential contributors to his deplorable murder spree, we must also hesitate to consider how we as a society are possibly contributing to the growth of these academic killing … Read More
The Tillman Turnabout
It’s sad and pathetic. When pro-football player Pat Tillman left a lucrative sports career to serve his country fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, he was a darling of the right wing. When he lost his life, he was praised and lauded by the right as a hero, giving his life to protect our freedoms blah blah blah But when the … Read More
Shorter Townhall Pundits
Shorter Mike Gallagher: I’m not going spend an entire column capitalizing on the Virginia Tech murders. Instead, I’m going to write about me and my thoughts (about the Virginia Tech murders). Shorter Phil Harris: If fetuses had laptops and email accounts, here’s what they would say. Shorter John Hawkins: I’ve figured it out, everybody — Cho Seung-Hui was baaaad. Shorter … Read More
The Stupidity, It Burns
It’s hard to understand why Dinish D’Souza is called one of the prominent thinkers of the American Right, when he writes absolutely amazingly dumb things like this: Notice something interesting about the aftermath of the Virginia Tech shootings? Atheists are nowhere to be found. Every time there is a public gathering there is talk of God and divine mercy and … Read More
Blaming The Victim
Well, so far from the right wing punditry, we’ve learned where to lay the blame re: yesterday’s mass shooting. The list, as I wrote in an earlier post, includes the teaching of evolution in schools, English as a collegiate major, foreigners in general, abortion, and co-ed dorms. Now add the most insidious spin: the shootings could have been prevented by … Read More
Ain’t Just Imus
Media Matters looks at the racism, bigotry, misogyny, and general ugliness of Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly and others.
Columnist Kaye Grogan Heavily Hits The Sauce
The thing I love about reading conservative columnist Kaye Grogan is that you can just tell that’s she’s sitting there with glass of bourbon at her computer-side, as she rambles on about, well — you’re never really sure. Last week’s column was a diatribe about money raised in presidential elections. We’ll join her somewhere in the middle (her second drink, … Read More
Nathan Tabor, Criminologist
You may have heard the story from Florida about those two 10-year-olds and an older teen who brutally attacked a homeless man. Nathan Tabor thinks he knows why the kids did it: (1) They weren’t allowed to pray in schools; (2) they thought that killing was okay, because abortion is legal. Seriously, that what Nathan says.
Malkin’s Manifesto
So wingnut Michell Malkin has written a "mini-Turner Diaries of batshit post-9/11 anti-Muslim paranoia", which she calls a "John Doe Manifesto". Big on bravada and even bigger on prejudice, it is a how-to guide to justify every bigot’s anti-Muslim fear. Let’s break it down, shall we? Dear Muslim Terrorist Plotter/Planner/Funder/Enabler/Apologist, Oh, why so formal, Michelle? You do not know me. … Read More
The Sympathy Surge
Leave to the vile right-wing radio morons to suggest that John Edwards is using his wife’s battle with cancer for political ends and to garnish votes. Rush Limbaugh, who suggested a few months ago that Michael J. Fox was exaggerated his disease for political effect, said yesterday about the Edwards press conference: Now, this suggests to me that, look, let’s … Read More
“Feminism Destroying America”
So says Chuck Baldwin, Founder-Pastor of Crossroads Baptist Church in Pensacola, Florida and vice presidential nominee for the Constitution Party in 2004: When one searches to find the causes for America’s rapid deterioration, there is no shortage of suspects. However, my thirty-plus years experience as a pastor, counselor, and researcher has convinced me that there is no greater threat to … Read More
Ann Coulter (Finally) Goes Too Far … Even For Conservatives
Here’s a short clip of what Ann said at CPAC on Friday: Yup, she called John Edwards a "faggot", using that word. Progressives like me are used to this sort of vile from Coulter, but this time, the outrage is coming from the right as well. And with good reason. This was a forum for conservatives and their presidential nominees, … Read More
Conservatives Are Not Funny
Most political comedians are liberal. Political comedy shows (e.g., The Daily Show) have a liberal bent. Irked by this fact, Fox News has come out with its "answer" to The Daily Show — a weekly show called "The Half Hour News Hour". It premeiers Sunday night, but some previews have been made available. In this one, the opening of the … Read More