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Copenhagen: Getting past the urgency trap
-- by Sara Note: Some of you have wondered where I went. Starting October 1, I went on a much-needed blogging sabbatical to work on my thesis. The current plan is to be back blogging at least weekly starting the first week of January. I had no idea how much I needed the rest. Really.  ...
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ADL report on tide of anti-Obama rage calls out Glenn Beck as 'fearmonger in chief'
-- by Dave It's nice to know that we're not alone in raising concerns about the increasingly unhinged nature of the kind of rhetoric right-wing talkers are unleashing in the name of their jihad against President Obama -- in no small part because such rhetoric inevitably produces acts of ...
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CNN parachutes in to Michigan to interview militiamen
dneiwert.blogspot.com — -- by Dave CNN's Jim Acosta this morning filed the first part of a three-part report on the return of the militia movement, something we've been tracking regularly here at C&L; . The piece, unfortunately, is like a lot of mainstream ... (more) CNN parachutes in to Michigan to interview militiamen
Teabaggers punk'd by anti-racists who get them to cheer rant against European-American immigrants
[Video from BlueStemPrairie, at their YouTube page. ] -- by Dave The teabaggers are getting ready for the next round of wingnuttery against the Obama administration. It sure looks like they lost on health-care reform, but they have already been organized for a long time around the ...
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Chuck Norris indulges violent eliminationist fantasies about liberals if he ran for office
--by Dave Fresh off warning us that President Obama intends to create a "one world order," Chuck Norris went on Sean Hannity's show last night on Fox and described his eliminationist fantasies if he ran for office: Hannity: Why don't you run? No no no, there's a solution -- why wouldn't ...
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Glenn Beck gets to ask dumb white-guy questions to a room full of black conservatives
-- by Dave It is hard to explain to white people like Glenn Beck why their "innocent" questions about race actually just reveal their ignorance and their false assumptions about people of other races and the nature of race relations. But Beck is so blitheringly un-self-aware that he ...
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Fox's mass leap to label Ft. Hood shootings 'terrorism' is classic ethnic/religious hysteria
-- by Dave The meme had been brewing for a few days among some of the Fox News guests -- particularly Michelle Malkin -- brought on to talk about the Fort Hood shootings, but it was Bill Sammon, during the broadcast of the memorial for the slain soldiers, who apparently made it official ...
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Media reform and the ouster of Lou Dobbs: Yes we can
-- by Dave Gosh. Looks like we won't have Lou Dobbs to kick around anymore. Except, of course, for when he lands that fat Fox Business Channel gig. In the meantime, some congratulations are in order -- and, as Greg Sargent suggests, the left blogosphere in general deserves a great deal ...
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Chuck Norris hears black helicopters whupping: Obama planning a 'one world order,' health-care bill means feds invade homes
-- by Dave Chuck Norris seems to have been hanging out listening to his good buddy Glenn Beck a bit much these days. He went on Neil Cavuto's Fox News show yesterday and regurgitated a lot Beck's talking points about how Obama is radically transforming the country, but took them the ...
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Judge Napolitano does Beck one better, urges states to 'nullify' federal laws they don't like
-- by Dave Glenn Beck -- who of course has a fetish about "extremist radicals" supposedly infiltrating the White House , while himself promoting far-right extremism on his show on a regular basis -- has been regularly plumping far-right "constitutionalist" theories about the 10th ...
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Pat Robertson denounces Islam: 'Not a religion,' but 'a violent political system,' wants adherents treated like Communists
-- by Dave You just knew that when Holy Joe Lieberman started grandstanding about the Fort Hood massacre by demanding an investigation into whether or not Nidal Hasan "infiltrated" the military as a "terrorist", it was the kind of demagoguery that would bring out the worst in his fellow ...
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Bolder by the day: Unapologetic Nazis are coming out of the woodwork
-- by Dave James Verini at the Daily Beast notices something we've been tracking here at Orcinus too: Neo-Nazis and far-right extremists are not only recruiting more openly, they're being much more public in their full-on expressions of racism, nativism, and xenophobia. Unlike David ...
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Right-wingers have been looking for a fresh excuse to scapegoat Muslims, and Fort Hood gave them one
-- by Dave [media=10634] The right-wingers were out in force yesterday in their attempt to paint the Fort Hood shootings as an act of radical Islamist jihadi terrorism, and claiming that "political correctness" kept the military from screening him as a threat -- evidently simply because ...
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Beck: Black Obama fans were 'taught to be slaves,' while progressives like Stern are 'taking you to a place to be slaughtered'
-- by Dave While Rush Limbaugh's constant race-baiting rhetoric recently was the focus of a national discussion -- thanks to his attempt to become an NFL team owner -- less has been said about the race-baiting of his would-be successor as the Big Man of the Conservative Movement: Glenn ...
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Pat Boone wants to rid the White House of its occupying vermin
-- by Dave Well, we've known for some time that Pat Boone has gone wingnutty, but his latest column for the wingnutty WorldNetDaily is one of the most vile pieces of eliminationist rhetoric to come down the pike in awhile: In time, it seems to happen to all older houses, no matter how ...
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Glenn Beck: Health-care reform is just like the 9/11 attacks. And my followers are standing up before it hits
-- by Dave Glenn Beck must have been feeling the pressure from Virginia Foxx yesterday in the Absurd Wingnuttery Championships. So, after Foxx compared the liberal health-care reform package working its way through Congress to terrorism , Beck went on his Fox News show and compared the ...
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Minuteman founder Jim Gilchrist's ties to Shawna Forde were close right up to her arrest for murder
-- by Dave A couple of weeks ago, when Harvard University withdrew its invitation to Minuteman founder Jim Gilchrist to speak at a forum on immigration, Gilchrist could be heard whining that he was being unfairly smeared for his incendiary rhetoric. Neil Cavuto, for instance, hosted ...
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The mainstreaming of the radical right: Conservatives run and hide from their culpability in spreading hate
-- by Dave Recently, Kevin Ecker of the right-wing Minnesota superblog True North posted the following item : Political activism at it's best is honest grassroots efforts by people finally fed up with lying politicians who decide to do something about an issue rather than just complain. ...
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Crazy Sheriff Joe Arpaio facing FBI investigation for abusing his power by arresting his critics
-- by Dave Phoenix's KPHO-Channel 5 broke the news yesterday : The FBI is looking into accusations that Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is using his position to settle political vendettas. Over the past year, 5 Investigates examined more than two dozen complaints against the sheriff ...
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Stray bullet hits Lou Dobbs' home, he claims victimhood, and Bill O'Reilly buys it
-- by Dave Lou Dobbs claimed on his radio show this week that the evil people who have targeted him for removal from his CNN anchor's seat are now taking shots at him and his wife in their home: "But I want to tell you, when you talk about what they've done - they've created an ...
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