The Conservative Denial That This Is About Race Is Getting Bizarre

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This conservative columnist for the Miami Herald (and Fox News contributor) may be the most desperate person on the internets:   UPDATE:  Still in denial, she later tweeted, “None of this story adds up. Even if a ‘white supremacist,’ their targets/hatred isn’t usually church-going African-Americansty” Huh?!? She got a lot of blowback and has sense set her Twitter account to private.

Palin Word Salad Of The Day

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The Great Pundit takes on Rachel Dolezal, the white woman who pretended to be black, who headed up the Spokane chapter of the NAACP.  Let’s see how far we can wade in before we get tangled and swallowed: Ok, I’m sorry. I shouldn’t laugh… this hard. I know this isn’t a victimless crime, what this white chick perpetrated. But it’s … Read More

Religious Bigots Use First Amendment Protections To Spew Hate…. Again

Ken AshfordConstitution, Gun Control, Immigration and Xenophobia, Right Wing Punditry/Idiocy, Rightwing Extremism/Violence, War on Terrorism/Torture1 Comment

Another crazed anti-Muslim right winger — this one in Phoenix — is planning to hold a ‘Draw Muhammad’ Contest right in front of the Islamic Community Center. The organizer of the event, Jon Ritzheimer, has held two protests in Phoenix since the Texas shootings. The chants and slogans at the protests are brash and hateful. Some supporters wear t-shirts that … Read More

Allen West: Anti-Sharia Law Crusader

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Former congressman and Fox News contributor Allen West went to Walmart and thought he was the victim of “Sharia law”.  Let’s hear what happened in his own words from his own blog in a post that was originally titled “Sharia Law Comes To Walmart” (ominous music): My daughter Aubrey and I arrived in Dallas and our home in Woodbridge on Sunday morning. We … Read More

Geller: Blaming Me For Texas Shooting Is Like Blaming A Woman For Her Own Rape

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Bill O’Reilly says he would have done it “another way”.  But that’s not the worst of it. Greta Van Susteren — also on Fox — editorialized against Geller: Van Susteren said that while the group has the right to exercise free speech, they should not have knowingly endangered police officers by doing do. “It is one thing for someone to stand … Read More

How Abhorrent Is Pam Geller?

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Want a good measurement of the toxicity level of Pamela Geller, whose American Freedom Defense Initiative worked so hard for so long to attract the sort of violence that struck its Muhammad Art Exhibit and Cartoon Contest in Texas on Sunday? Two survivors of theCharlie Hebdo murders went on Charlie Rose’s show to make it clear they want nothing to … Read More

Our Favorite Ex-Congresswoman Predicts The End Of Times

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Go ahead, Michele Bachmann. Break out your “THE END IS NEAR” sign. You know you want to. She came close in a radio interview: Michele Bachmann says the rapture is coming, thanks to President Barack Obama’s policies on Iran’s nuclear program and marriage equality. In a radio interview last week, Bachmann, the former Minnesota Republican congresswoman, told “End Times” host … Read More

Whiny White Man Whines

Ken AshfordElection 2016, Right Wing Punditry/Idiocy2 Comments

Bill O’Reilly lays down the law because he’s white, Christian and oppressed.  Not that gender matters and not that he’s using his victimhood to bash a female candidate or anything: If you are a Christian or a white man in the U.S.A. it’s open season on you. Therefore Hillary Clinton has an advantage. She can run a general campaign, first … Read More

Our Old Friend Bryan Fischer Has A Theory

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Bryan Fischer is the host of the daily ‘Focal Point’ radio talk program on American Family Radio Talk, a division of the American Family Association.  And he writes today: Why Obama wants a Republican to win in 2016 It is by now fairly well established that Valerie Jarrett, President Obama’s advisor and brain, is the one who leaked the business … Read More

Michele Fiore Tries Even Harder To Replace Bachman

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It was only a few weeks ago that I wrote about Michele Fiore, a local congresswoman in Nevada, where I wondered aloud if she was to become the next Michelle Bachman.  It seems that she’s still trying to win my heart, using an offensive racial term common in the 1960s to describe an African American colleague. Assemblywoman Michele Fiore, R-Las Vegas, … Read More

Right Wing Begins To Eat Itself

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Here’s the thing about rampant fear — it’s rampant.  This is a perfect example of how islamophobia – now a staple of America’s right – has run amok.  Not only are conservatives freaking out about scary secret Muslims on the left; they are now seeing and fearing them on the right: Glenn Beck is threatening to quit the National Rifle Association over the … Read More