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 [...]

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 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 [...]

Rush Limbaugh has made plenty of racist comments

Nate silver notes that some of the comments attributed to Limbaugh are not sourced and that, further, the alleged quotes are so egregious that if they were real, there would certainly be recordings of them.
If we don’t have recordings, then we should not attribute the comments to Limbaugh. That said, as Silver also notes, Limbaugh [...]

celebrating failure: obama, the olympics and rightwinger nutty

I was personally very ambivalent about the prospect of the Olympics coming to Chicago. Still, this is astounding.
How this is supposed to win people over to their cause escapes me.

Newsmax tries to disappear column advocating a military coup against Obama

Here’s yet another example, as if one were needed, of the rightwingers not getting the archive.
These people are not thinking rationally. TPM and Media Matters, among many, many others, have the story, including this link to a PDF of the article and this to a web version of it.
By trying to act as if [...]

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 [...]

Behind the mask

The mask that has never more than partially obscured so much of the vileness directed at Obama, rooted so deeply in ancient racial animosity, is slipping further away from the true face of so many of his detractors.
They’ve been coming for years now, helped along by various social networks of web 2.0. But just [...]

The birthers are a key Republican demographic

“Birthers” refers to people who believe that President Obama is not eligible to be president because he is not really a citizen. Although there are variations, most of them believe he was born in Kenya, not Hawaii and, so they think, he is therefor not a citizen.
Never mind that it has been conclusively proven that [...]