Perino: no terrorists attacks occurred during Bush administration

From Media Matters and Huffington Post:
No, really. She actually said that. And she wasn’t joking. And, of course, Hannity and the other guest didn’t bat an eye or, y’know, remind her about the almost 3000 people who died eight years ago or about the fatal anthrax letters.

This is a sad follow [...]

The Uninformed Agrieved: at least they know they’re mad

I have to say I was pleasantly surprised by Mathews conduct of this interview and it brings up an important trend: the proud and willful rejection of any reference to facts and rationality in preference for stridently reactionary emotionalism.
Chris Mathews actually came down pretty hard on Bishop Thomas Tobin of Providence Rhode Island over his [...]

Palin booed by disgruntled autograph seekers

This is priceless (via ThinkProgress):

This is one reason why I’m still not convinced she’ll have any real success if she runs in 2012. She and her handlers are so arrogant and inept that they even anger fanatics who took time off from work and waited in the cold and rain all [...]

the teabagging of a political party

Greenwald, Hullabaloo, TPM, along with many other sane people, as well as some not so sane people, are trying to figure out the right wing and republican freak out over terror trials.
Of course, the Trike Force, aka the redstate 101s Fighting Keyboarders, are barely keeping it together.
The snake is eating its tail. This will not [...]

fox news corrects sarah palin

Link via TPM: How low can a person’s credibility sink? If the answer is lower than Fox’s minimum required truthiness, then may the flying spaghetti monster have mercy on your soul.

The Party of No: I object! I object! I object! I object! I object!

Not having a plan of their own, the rightwingers and Republicans can only try to keep actual plans from being heard.
The teabaggers have taken over the party and the party has adopted the teabaggers methods of red faced screaming and tantrum throwing. It is willful and pridefully deliberate ignorance on parade and it is ugly [...]

Republicans: Dem wins = voter fraud; Rep wins = will of the people

TPM and Media Matters have good pieces up about rightwingers and Republicans already alleging voter pre fraud. That there is no evidence of this happening in 2006 or 2008 does not keep sites like redstate.com from alleging past and future fraud.
Does anyone want to place a wager on the accuracy of this prediction: rightwingers and [...]

redstate nuttery: the power of humor as critique

Ridicule of hypocrisy and factual analysis in action:
As a counterpoint, even in the process of attempting to dispatch the paranoid fringe of the Republican party, the still very rightwing David Frum treats the nuttery with undue respect and, in so doing, gives them the unwarranted air of serious contributors:

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 [...]

virtual reality: the refusal to reject demonstrably untrue ‘facts’

In the last few days there has been a rush of examples of rightwingers proudly rejecting reality and substituting a virtual world more suited to their worldview.
First there was the laughably absurd Great Obama Thesis Unveiling.
And today there was the totally neutral and not skewed poll from, uh, the Club for Growth putting Conservative Party [...]