Again we show how the current right has changed over the past couple of years, embracing the crazy conspiracy theories that come out of their base and hope to turn that into political capital. This time it involves the Ground Zero mosque: Tuesday, Reps. Peter King (R-NY) and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) called Imam Feisal Abdul […]
Since the oil started flowing 83+ days ago there have been those on the right floating conspiracy theories. They range from “Liberals blew up the well” to “Obama doesn’t want to stop it quick so it looks bad”. Well now we have one of these claims coming from an actual GOP member of Congress. Here’s […]
If you thought the internet was getting nastier then you were right. A report by the Simon Wiesenthal Center for Tolerance shows an increase of nastiness online of 20% in 2009: The report, based on some 11,500 problematic Web sites, social networks , chat forums, twitter posts, other Internet postings, found that hate-filled language is […]
That was the advice Joe Scarborough had for his “conservative brethren” this morning. You think Joe would know that his party has always been the greatest embracers of conspiracy theories. That’s all they have to sell their broken ideology. Off the top of my head, here’s a few we heard over the past several years: […]
And it comes from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Suspect in officers’ shooting was into conspiracy theories Talk about stating the obvious. The biggest conspiracy theory he was into was the entire “Obama is going to take away our guns” meme that people like Beck, Malkin, Limbaugh and the rest of the right wing loons have been […]
Since their announcement yesterday of the return of Elizabeth’s cancer, the pundits have taken to the news channels to try and analyze why Edwards is staying in the race. People such as Rush Limbaugh have even gone as far as saying this was some big political stunt and if her cancer doesn’t give him a […]
These are becoming daily occurrences: Thunderous explosions and dense black smoke swirled through the center of Baghdad Monday when at least two car bombs — one parked in an underground garage — tore through a crowded marketplace, setting off dozens of secondary explosions and killing at least 71 people, police said. Another bombing nearby killed […]
After key members of the lunatic right’s internet force took to the binary world this weekend to launch their attack on the New York Times Travel Section for publishing an article talking about St. Michaels, Md. last week, things have gotten ugly. Glenn Greenwald has been all over this story. From their original claims that […]
It’s been five years since terrorism grappled America, spurring a seeming endless trail of hampered freedoms. Even now, to this day, the Bush regime continues it’s role in murky dealings. The legislative nightmares and fumbled policies may pale in comparison to the attacks of September 11th, 2001 and for good reason. On May 16th, […]
It’s about time this story was put to bed once and for all, now a former top UK policeman has investigated her death and concluded it was an accident! Can we now stop the conspiracy theories? The Official inquiry into the death of Princess Diana will conclude that she died in a simple car crash. […]