I admit it: global warming, or climate change, is a hoax

You have to hand it to the neo birchers, flat earthers, birthers, climate change deniers and free lance commie spotters. Fueled by Fox “News” misinformation and willful misunderstanding, they never let facts or reality get in the way of their delusions and grand conspiracy theories.
They know there is a vast left wing conspiracy to [...]

How many deaths will make little Joey Lieberman feel better?

Okay, we get it. Lieberman is pissed at liberals and progressives because they had the temerity to be angry with him for supporting an unlawful, unnecessary, and unwinnable war. He wants to stick it to us. And the only way he can do it is to screw us on HCR.
It makes him feel good.
It will [...]

Shillgate Denialism: why the rightwing Republican corporate shills aren’t getting traction with ‘climategate’

While our friends at redstate Trike Force HQ and elsewhere are busy prostituting themselves to corporations that profit greatly from selling dinosaur era fuel, all their jumping up and down is profiting them little.
They think they have debunked the climate change ‘myth’ conclusively. They are of course wrong, but, trapped in their self amplifying echo [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]