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I’m sort of burned out tonight, but here’s a link that I think is incredibly important to read, especially as the wingnutteria is trying to claim Loughner’s obsessions were “leftist”. Not really. Not even slightly—just because some fringe right stuff starts to bleed over into fringe leftist stuff doesn’t mean…
Right wing propaganda machine adopts anti-vaccination stance
Reality has a well-known liberal bias, of course, but few people talk about the corollary of that law: malarkey has a strong right wing bias. Which isn’t to say that liberals aren’t capable of believing all sorts of malarkey. Sadly, I have an email inbox that is visited regularly enough…
Texas: Tea Party gubernatorial candidate has “not taken a position” on 9/11 conspiracy theories
Even nutbag Glenn Beck was having difficulty getting a sane answer out of Republican gubernatorial candidate Debra Medina, whose candidacy is catching on with the know-nothing on the far-right. The blowhard radio host received a lot of emails asking for Medina to be a guest, and so on she came,…
Bill Ayers is the new Vince Foster
And by that, I mean that the repetition of the name will get to the point where it’s drained of all meaning, but is just a bell whistle to extract a Pavlovian hate response towards Obama from right wingers. That sort of toxic wingnuttery is exactly the sort of thing…
I’m just going to say this
9/11 Truthers, with all their nonsense and conspiracy theories, have made it nearly impossible to write about the real evidence that there might have been another, more likely conspiracy of some sort without feeling like you’re going to get lumped with the Truthers. This makes me angry. That is all.…
Converging right wing fundamentalism
Having tangled the other day with 9/11 Truthers at Firedoglake in a thread that was supposed to be a book salon for Matt Taibbi, I got to thinking (because of comments David Neiwert made in the thread) about the allure of conspiracy theories. What bothers me about them is that…
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