Here's a comprehensive montage of the anti-Sherrod outrage on the Fox News White Channel. What's most infuriating about this footage is the obscenely twisted and unspoken subtext: alleged black...
Author - Bob Cesca
Worst Persons
Politico rewards a serial liar. Politico has given a coveted slot on its just-released “50 Politicos to Watch” package to none other than … Andrew Breitbart. Politico’s write-up glowingly described...
Glenn Beck Is The Church Lady
Could it beeeee... SATAN?!
It Takes A Disaster
This almost slipped through unnoticed, but Republicans and Conservadems successfully filibustered the Senate climate crisis bill and Harry Reid doesn't plan to bring it up again before the August...
Morning Awesome
Gene Krupa vs. Buddy Rich
How to Argue with Andrew Breitbart
Via Conor Friedersdorf at True Slant:
The Bob and Elvis Show – July 22, 2010
This week! Douchebags everywhere. Elvis has survived his bacterial pneumonia, Bob has survived the row of high-fiving douchebags at the Rush concert, and no one has survived Andrew Breitbart's latest...
Fiscal Hawkery
Someone needs to show this graph to Kent Conrad and all of the Republicans who are screeching about the deficit.
Blame Obama for Everything
Thirded and fourthed: Still, you just have to back up from that and realize that as disappointing as Tom Vilsack’s first crack at this was, the idea that he or Obama is the bad guy in this story is...
Financial Reform Overview
Karoli brings us this very helpful and informative overview of what's in the FinReg bill. In particular, this jumped off the page: The end of "too big to fail" Yes, it really does end too big to fail...
The Timing of Breitbart's Scam
This might have something to do with it. Congress will soon vote on whether to fund part of a settlement between the USDA and African-American farmers who faced acknowledged discrimination -- farmers...
Worst Person
Is there any right-wing meme that Kent Conrad won't repeat? This time, he agrees with the GOP that the Bush tax cuts -- all of them -- should be made permanent, and not paid for. This is the guy who...
Morning Awesome
30 Seconds to Mars - "Kings and Queens" (I posted this earlier in the year. But they've been using this song in the coverage of the Tour de France this year, and today being the last and decisive day...
Two Smart People Talk Sherrod and Breitbart
This. A thousand times this.
WTF?
Sarah Palin lies about climbing a goddamn mountain. This might be her most bizarre lie yet.
Another Achievement To Be Ignored
Today: President Obama this morning signed into law the most sweeping reforms of the financial industry since the New Deal. In an 18-month stretch that includes a variety of historic achievements...
New Huffington Post Column
Fooled Again by Breitbart and the Wingnut Right Tweet and Digg often!
Dueling Wingnut Conspiracy Theories
Breitbart is now suggesting that the Spooners, the farmers who Shirley Sherrod helped, aren't who they say they are. And Glenn Beck thinks this is some sort of twisted conspiracy orchestrated by the...
Best Persons
The Massachusetts legislature for this. De-barking surgeries are barbaric and cruel. Pet owners who irresponsibly forgo proper training shouldn't be allowed to mutilate their pets.
White House Denies Ousting Sherrod
Greg Sargent: A White House official insists that the White House didn't pressure Shirley Sherrod to resign, or pressure USDA chief Tom Vilsack to fire her, over the Andrew Breitbart video allegedly...