Willard’s karmic rats come home to roost After Willard Mitt Romney’s Super PAC, Restore Our Future, carpet bombed former GOP frontrunner Newt Gingrich with millions of dollars of negative campaign ads in Iowa, Willard is getting a taste of its own medicine courtesy of Newt’s own newly formed Super PAC, Winning Our Future. Funded with a 5 million dollar check …
Tweety during his silver tongued false equivalency rant On his Hardball show yesterday, Chris Matthews did a segment called The Hate Machine about the dog whistle relationship between right wing extremists and their “conservative” enablers in the media. Though he didn’t mention the inciters by name, I will– O’Reilly, Hannity, Limbaugh, Savage, and Beck being just the most prominent hate …
Young Alan Greenspan posing for Atlas Shrugged in Ayn Rand’s apartment Digby explores the Bizzaroworld economic logic and the psychology of greed that inflicts the wingnut universe, rooted as it is in Ayn Rand‘s classic 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged here and here. Ronald Reagan, a key enabler of the Bush Depression, implicitly adopted Rand’s disdain for government’s role in fostering …
