Birther Barf & Obama Derangement Syndrome

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Goldie Taylor exposing the racism at the core of Trumper Birtherism on the Rachel Maddow Show* [* Excuse the fracking fracking commercial.  I don’t have to wonder how Rachel feels about being sponsored by Exxon.] As should be apparent to anyone with half a brain, the whole Birther …

The Great Glenn Beck Train Wreck

Engineer Glenn runs off the rails In a post titled The Nutty Professor: The Rise & Fall of Glenn Beck, published a couple of days before Fux News announced that they were dumping his show, it might have appeared that we had jumped the Beckian shark a bit soon by asserting his demise as a fate accompli. But it wasn’t …

The Nutty Professor: The Rise & Fall of Glenn Beck (Update)

Not just an April Fool— he’s good to go 365 days a year. If you want to drink the fear, you must click it. UPDATE (4/6/11) Well, that didn’t take long: Fox News and Glenn Beck announced Wednesday that Beck will “transition off of his daily program” later this year. Apparently, Beck will still be working with Fox to develop …

Dupes And Dolts

The Colbert Report Tags: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive   With all the confusion about who’s who and who’s doing what in Libya and whether regime change is the real goal or not. When even The Newtster says bomb one day then cries that we should never gotten involved in the first place, thank the Gods …

The Paranoid Stylings Of Glenn Beck

Solange Uwimana over at Media Matters draws our attention to an interesting conjunction between Glenn Beck and the late Richard Hofstadter : The year Glenn Beck was born, Harper’s published an essay by Richard Hofstadter in which the historian explained a “style of mind” common among “extreme right-wingers” of his time. He referred to it as “the paranoid style” for …

Tip Toeing Through The Tulips Of Fux News

Ed Schultz offers us a priceless DVD collector’s edition, featuring the vocal stylings of Spin O’Reilly trying to defend the indefensible;  Brian Kilmeade singing falsetto on a recent Gallup Poll showing that 61% of Americans actually favor rather than oppose collective bargaining; and a rare moment of truthful political analysis of the Wisconsin protests by the dynamic duo of Shep …

POLITICAL PLAYTHINGS

In free enterprise America, you can go shopping for and purchase an angry mob. I don’t mean just a few “action figures,” either.