more rejection of reality

Think Progress has a piece up about the House Republicans continuing the theme:
This of course fires up the True Believers and, in the past, might have drawn enough others to produce a viable payoff. But, again, it ignores the dual nature of the web as both a distribution and an archival system.
This kind of blatant [...]

redstate in damage control mode over cheering olympics not coming to US

Erick Erickson must be feeling some pressure over all the joy he and other redstaters felt and expressed with unbridled passion because the Olympics won’t take place in the US in 2016.
Responding to and article about Democrats charging that Republicans and right wingers are “rooting against America” at Politico, he pens a defense of [...]

Facebook poll asks whether Obama should be assassinated

This is utterly unbelievable. Even with all the craziness the rightwingers and Republicans have been up to, I am genuinely surprised by this.

Not so much about the sentiment. That, sadly, is unsurprising. What I am surprised by is that anyone would be so clueless as to create or vote affirmatively in this poll.
The feds are [...]

Major media not reporting Republican’s extremely low polling numbers

Crooks and Liars has a piece noting the new Dkos poll.
The gist is that while Obama’s numbers have predictably dropped from early highs and House and Senate Dems aren’t the most popular people in the minds of most Americans, House and Senate Republicans, along with the Republican party in general, are miserably unpopular with the [...]

the archive

Okay, so this is making me rethink the whole synchronicity thing:
via TPMtv (and also via Digby at Hullabaloo)

and via Huffington Post

Which is worse?

Fox News producer caught on film rallying 9/12 protesters

This is from Media Matters, also linked to on Huffington Post.
Here’s a video of a Fox “news” producer rallying a crowd off camera at the 9/12 protest. Follow the links above for longer versions of both the behind the scene shot of the producer hyping up the crowd and of the clip as it looked [...]

“…an Indonesian Muslim turned welfare thug and a racist in chief.”

Here’s one of the chief teabaggers talking about Obama, real Americans and DIrty Fucking Hippies (via Huffington Post):

eleventy million angry white people

Nate Silver has a nice take down both of the ridiculous lies, including falsely labeled photos, about how many people attended the tea bag protest in Washington and also the tendency to dismiss the protest’s importance.
If you follow the second link above to redstate.com and are willing to sift through some pretty astounding comments [...]

“… a badge of honor and a job well done!”

In the midst of crowing about Van Jones‘ resignation, the posters and commenters at redstate.com are taking a short break to engage in a bit of self pity because, as they say, the meanie progressives, liberals and Democrats are calling them, gasp, racists.
But, jutting their jaws to show their resolution, they proudly say such lies [...]

dangerously tapping into deepseated fear and loathing

Healthcare by itself is an important and emotional issue, there is more to the deep rage people are unleashing at townhall meetings and elsewhere.
Maybe not all, but a lot — in fact, what I would guess to be the vast majority — of the rage is fueled by reaction to the last election.
Quite simply, a [...]