CPAC 2012 Clown Show

Occupy CPAC featured a Fat Cat Rethug Strangling Working Man balloon The bat (shit crazy) clown signal shone brightly over D.C. this weekend, drawing an A-List of wingnuts to the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) convention like moths to a flame. Our past coverage of the Wingnut Woodstock can be found here , here, here, here, and here. Last year, Coultergeist …

Colbert Storms The Hill

Political satire has a long and effective history of highlighting important social and political issues, going back at least as far as the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans. Contemporary satire has taken many forms, from political cartoonists like the late Paul Conrad; the sixties Yippies throwing burning cash from the balcony of the New York Stock Exchange, performance art that …

Muslim Crow Laws

New web ad by the progressive Agenda Project slamming opponents of the Park 51 Islamic community center As Dr.Martin Luther King, Jr. said: Hate begets hate. And I would add, develops its own momentum, escalating into the kind of violence cited briefly in the ad and detailed in this NY Times article titled Rider Asks if Cabby Is Muslim, Then …

What the GOP Has Brought Together. . .

There is no more evil thing in this world than race prejudice . . . It justifies and holds together more baseness, cruelty, and abomination than any other sort of error in the world. — H. G. Wells . . . Let No Man Put Asunder According to Talking Points Memo reports, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele is expected …

Your Weekly Racism Update

The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Racial Pro Firing www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes 2010 Election Fox News Back from a two week vacation, Stephen Colbert weighs in on the Shirley Sherrod libel, cats that look like Hitler, and an Andrew Breitbart style mashup of the State Department’s resident genocidal maniac, Hilary Clinton. On the day before …

Fux News: A 24 Hour Parade of Feces (Updated)

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy The manipulation of reality to make the racist seem benevolent and to convict the benevolent as racist… Is it just me, or does Breitbart look like an Archie Bunker racist? UPDATE: No, it’s not just you, Props. . . —TPK

Wingnut Woodstock: The Sequel (Update)

A Foxbot eagerly awaiting his marching orders Following up on last year’s preview of the annual gathering of  CPAC convention, this year’s keynote speaker is none other than Glenn Beck. Other featured speakers include Dick Armey, John Ashcroft, Rep. Michele Bachmann, John Bolton, Andrew Breitbart, Tucker Carlson, Liz Cheney, Ann Coulter, Sen. Jim DeMint, Wayne LaPierre, and Newt Gingrich. That’s …