The lawn concert on Saturday turned out to be a massive Christian revival -- complete with financial bilking (but that's a different story). And there was a lesser known event Friday night at the...
Beck the Televangelist
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The Von Bondies - "Pale Bride"
Second Stimulus
Laura Tyson is a member of the Obama administration's Economic Recovery Advisory Board and she wrote an op/ed for the New York Times titled "Why We Need a Second Stimulus." Two forms of spending with...
Mosque Opponents Torch Site
Not the Park51 site, but the location of the mosque in Tennessee. Federal officials are investigating a fire that started overnight at the site of a new Islamic center in a Nashville suburb. Ben...
87,000 Suckers
Like any good faith-healer revival, Glenn Beck exploited and scammed thousands of people out of their money yesterday using common televangelist tricks of the trade, vague inspirational poster...
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The Empire Strikes Back - The Silent Film Version
America Wants More Stimulus
The just-released Newsweek poll: "Which one of the following do you think should have the higher priority for policy-makers in Washington right now: 37% Reducing the federal budget deficit 57%...
Lawn Concert Open Thread
I'm going to be sporadically away from the internet today, so just in case, here's an open thread for you. A couple of fun links in preparation for the wingnut faith-healer revival at the Lincoln...
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MST3K Saturday - "Mitchell"
Tomorrow's Glenn Beck Book Launch
Just a reminder to Glenn Beck fans who are planning on attending tomorrow's lawn concert: "restoring honor" and all of the inspirational poster slogans found in this video are merely incidental. When...
Speaking of Fire
New record for the climate crisis! Overall July 2010 was the second-warmest on record, next to 1998, and this June was the warmest on record, NOAA says. July was the 305th consecutive month with an...
Firing the Heroes
Maybe extending the tax cuts for Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin will solve this: Fire departments around the nation are cutting jobs, closing firehouses and increasingly resorting to “rolling brownouts”...
Super Stupid
This: With the economy rapidly weakening, some senior Democrats are having second thoughts about raising taxes on the nation's wealthiest families and are pressing party leaders to consider extending...
Glenn Beck Hates National Parks
Glenn Beck's holy heavenly lawn concert tomorrow takes place at the Lincoln Memorial and the Reflecting Pool at the west end of the National Mall in Washington. All it is run and maintained by the...
Buy This Book
The trailer for Will Bunch's phenomenal new book. I'm about halfway through and it's really a masterpiece. The chapter about Beck and Goldline alone is worth the price of admission.
The Mighty Morphin Martyr Rangers
Colbert genius. Beck? Not. Standing ovation. Colbert is easily the most consistently funny and smart comedy show on television.
Surveillance Nation
The body scanner technology gets creepier and creepier by the day. American Science & Engineering, a company based in Billerica, Massachusetts, has sold U.S. and foreign government agencies more...
The Non-Stimulus Solutions
We've been talking about ways the administration can pump up the dwindling recovery -- or more precisely, we've been talking a lot about how there aren't many options given the Republican and...
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Dan Mangan - "Road Regrets" Directed by Jon Busby
The Bob and Elvis Show – August 26, 2010
This week! Actor Glenn Beck's lawn concert and his Martin Luther King delusions, Sarah Palin's cable news fanboys, the stupid economy and home ownership horror stories, racism wasn't exclusive to the...