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Juan Williams’ son tapped for Republican African-American outreach

Raffi Williams, the son of Fox News analyst Juan Williams, has been hired by the Republican National Committee to help the party reach out to black voters. “It’s about making those new connections and getting the support I need,” the younger Williams told Buzzfeed. “People are really enthused about it,…

Michelle Malkin freaks out, calls Juan Williams ‘snotty’ in heated ‘Hannity’ exchange

Blogger and “Twitchy.com” proprietor Michelle Malkin and Fox News political analyst Juan Williams engaged in a spirited bit of back-and-forth on Wednesday night’s edition of Fox News’s, “The Sean Hannity Show.” During a discussion of revelations about the cyber warfare program against Iran, Malkin accused Williams of being mired in…

Gingrich: ‘Work’ is ‘a strange, distant concept’ to Juan Williams

After lambasting Juan Williams earlier in the week, Newt Gingrich continued to attack the Fox News analyst Friday afternoon at a campaign event in South Carolina. Still offended after being asked by Williams if he could see why African-Americans would be offended over his constant mentioning of food stamps and…

Perhaps the ugliest Republican debate yet

I expected, going in to the Republicans having a debate on MLK day in the first state to secede and fire shots in the Civil War, that there would probably be a few jaw-dropping dog whistles blown to race-bait a crowd that’s got a lot of people still bitter about…

Chris Wallace: Americans ‘fed up’ with Occupy Wall Street

Fox News host Chris Wallace claimed Sunday that the Occupy Wall Street movement is no longer a plus for politicians who support it because Americans are “fed up” with the protesters. “If you look at the polls, it’s two-thirds of the American people think there should be higher taxes on…

Taking the wingnut temperature

Roy Edroso’s Village Voice column this morning is awesome; he chronicles the rightblogger obsession with the Juan Williams situation. In doing so, he conclusively proves Glenn Greenwald’s theory that conservative outrage has nothing to do with freedom of speech, and everything to do with their firm insistence that bigotry towards…

Just so we’re clear

Let me get right wing punditry’s arguments straight here. It’s right and good to fire Dave Weigel from the Washington Post for making private criticisms of a single individual who had personally fucked him over, so long as the individual insulted was conservative. But it’s wrong to fire Juan Williams…