There has been so much news this week that this story went pretty much unnoticed: Connie Schultz, a Pulitzer prize-winning columnist and wife of Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown, posted an E-mail exchange between herself and an unnamed, unwitting conservative blogger to her Facebook page Tuesday night. The blogger emailed Schultz on July 9 to say, […]
During Netroots Nation, a conservative blogger was arrested for harrassing a couple of women because they were wearing Muslim hijabs (headscarves). From Minnesota Public Radio: A St. Paul blogger faces misdemeanor charges after he allegedly harassed two Muslim women last week in downtown Minneapolis. Minneapolis police say John Hugh Gilmore, 52, who writes a blog […]
As you have most likely heard by now Anthony Weiner has admitted to sending the lewd photos of himself over the internet, including the now infamous bulge shot. I can’t begin to explain how frustrating this is. It’s not for the main subject of this story, his bulge and internet habits, but rather for his […]
This week the Blogger Platform suffered an outage that lasted over 24 hours. Blogger, which is owned by Google, is a very popular and free platform for publishing blogs. This outage affected nearly all of the blogs hosted on Blogger, but that didn’t stop the right from springing into conspiracy mode. Here’s RedState blogger Moe […]
Just like deciphering the start of a problem in grade school, you always got to look deep into the facts to distill rightwing rhetoric. Since the Tucson shooting the right has strummed up the chorus to scream and shout that the left needs to stop politicizing the event. While there was some politicization from the […]
Last week a staffer for Senator Saxby Chambliss posted a comment on the blog Joe My God stating “all faggots must die”. We were unsure at the time if the investigation that we were told would take place would actually happen. Well it did and it has resulted in the removal of a staffer to […]
It couldn’t happen to a nicer guy either: The Republican National Committee has cancelled a fundraiser with conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart, who is under fire for promoting an edited video that falsely portrays former Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod as having boasted about discriminating against a white farmer looking for her assistance. Breitbart was scheduled […]
It’s amazing. The big media types all jumped on that ACORN video earlier this year, despite it being edited to be taken totally out of context. Now we this story of Shirley Sherrod, someone who has lost their job due to the journalistic malpractice of one Andrew Breitbart. Over at the San Francisco Chronicle, a […]
Via Techcrunch comes a very interesting story out of Pennsylvania. Republican Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate, Tom Corbett, has subpoenaed Twitter in attempts to identify some anonymous critics: The account @CasaBlancaPA, whose owner is identified as ‘Signor Ferrari’ (a criminal in the film Casablanca, played by Sydney Greenstreet) on Twitter, links to this blog in […]
Jane Hamsher blogging today asks: Will Salazar Let BP Wait 20 Years To Compensate Gulf Fishermen? What she is referring to is the 20 years it took for compensation to come out from the Exxon-Valdez spill. The problem is this wasn’t because of the executive branch or any administration. Jane even states the reason for […]