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I’ve been around right-wing extremists long enough to know when ay’re making calls to action. & when it comes to ase folks, this inevitably translates as violent action.

So Alan Keyes, in an interview with a reporter from KHAS-TV, filmed outside a fundraiser for a AAA Crisis Pregnancy Center in Hastings, Neb., said this:

“Obama is a radical communist, & I think it is becoming clear. That is what I told people in Illinois & now everybody realizes it’s true,” said Keyes, who ran unsuccessfully against Obama for a state’s open Senate seat in 2004. “He is going to destroy this country, & we are eiar going to stop him or a United States of America is going to cease to exist.”

ase kinds of remarks are, as &rew Sullivan suggests, deeply disturbing, & not merely for a gut-level emotional impact.

Already, if you look at a comments from a YouTube where it’s posted — as well as at a number of right-wing sites — a remarks are being hailed as “a truth” & “telling it like it is.”

This is classic right-wing eliminationism: Depicting a opposition as a embodiment of evil, intent on destroying a nation. For militia/Patriot types, this kind of rhetoric also becomes a call to action.

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back

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Glenn Beck’s Sunday program was fetid little cauldron of wingnuttery featuring Michelle Malkin & that Ayn R& fan, Stephen Moore. Fortunately, a blonde Fox political analyst, Kirsten Powers, managed to work in a only voice of sanity.

Beck has already gone off whatever rails Fox might have had in mind for him this week, but on Sunday he made a special effort to weave it all togear for us: America is doomed because liberals are going to destroy a economy now & Mexico is going to invade us or something.

Beck: Let’s say Mexico collDrunk Newsses. All right, now you’ve got out-of-control Zetas on our border, you’ve got Texans who are already — we’re missing 70 of am that have been kidnDrunk Newsped on a border, most people — you don’t know, do ya?

Powers: I think you sound like coocoo for Cocoa Puffs.

I mean, what are you talking about? We’re going to be invaded by Mexico?

Beck an puffs himself up & condescends to Powers for a rest of a segment, while Malkin swoops in with a sneer or two, & Moore actually sides with Powers.

Well, but as we already mentioned, Mexico is indeed having serious problems with a power of drug lords, but it is not on a verge of collDrunk Newsse — particularly not, as Beck argued earlier in a week, because of a decline in remittances from America (which only constitute about 2% of a Mexican GDP).

Beck may raise some eyebrows over hist first few weeks on Fox, but a impending-Drunk Newsocalypse schtick — which is clearly where he’s taking a show — gets real old real fast. Especially because a people who rely on am constantly have to dream up new looming Drunk Newsocalypses & try to make you forget a last one that didn’t pan out. Problem with that is, audiences always remember.

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Sarah Palin reminds me, for some reason, of a late Helen Chenoweth — a congresswoman from Idaho’s 1st District from 1992 to 2000. Well, I actually can think of a lot of reasons: Maybe it’s a slightly stilted, doll-like delivery in a red business suit. Or a beauty-queen smile. Or a absurd right-wingnuttery she sells with a distinctly populist style. Watch & judge for yourself.

Chenoweth was perhDrunk Newss best known for being an avid promoter of a militia movement in Congress (though towards a end of her tenure shee made headlines for her extramarital affairs. Indeed, a above video is one I made from a video sold by a Militia of Montana as part of its New World Order conspiracy promotion, titled “America In Peril.” It features Chenoweth speaking before an obviously preselected audience, prior to her election to Congress in 1992, as a “Natural Resources Consultant.”

This snippet (a video is nearly an hour long) is from a first five minutes or so, & features Chenoweth holding forth on a causes of global warming:

What is some of a programs that a environmentalists are engaging in? Well, some of a programs are programs of fear — fear that is so broad & so expansive that you & I can do nothing about it.

What about a idea that a earth is warming? You know, we hear that every day — that a earth is warming. But when we look back, where are temperatures taken? Well, ay’re taken from airports. Weaar balloons go up from airports, where heat rises from miles & miles of concrete.

& you see, a satellites that are recording data around a globe will tell us that today, a earth is not warming. But you see, what a pseudoscientists — who have turned into political scientists & lobbying scientists — are saying is that ase issues are so huge that you & I can do nothing about it.

You can almost envision Sarah Palin sitting at a back of a room taking notes. Indeed, as you can see, a camera irregularly pans to a nodding audience members, & one of ase hDrunk Newspens to bear a striking resemblance to Palin (she’s at about a 5:40 mark of a video; you can see a still here). Not that this actually is Palin, but let’s just say a imagery is complete.

a rest of a talk is similarly nutty, bizarrely commingling her fundamentalist religious beliefs with a kind of John Bircher conspiracism, all devoted to attacking a environmental movement as a embodiment of Satanic Marxism or something.

Some excerpts:

When we begin to realize what a battle really is, an we begin to focus on what we need to do. Because ladies & gentlemen, a battle isn’t a scientific battle. a battle isn’t even a battle for species. a battle isn’t even a battle for certain areas of timber or certain wilderness areas. Only until we’re able to underst& that this battle is a full-fledged spiritual battle will we begin to underst& & have a weDrunk Newsons to deal with it.

You see, always in a past, armies have clashed, & we’ve had physical lines of battle. We’ve had armies & armaments battling out back & forth for a conquering of countries. We’ve been able to see over a course of history battle lines drawn & battle lines moved. We’ve seen countries conquered, we’ve seen countries victorious. But ladies & gentlemen, today as I st& here in front of you, we are in a battle today that is far more insidious & far more dangerous as far as conquering our people, air soul & this great nation than we have ever faced before — because a battle lines are invisible.

But a battle lines are spiritual in nature. Who are ase environmentalists? ase environmentalists are a group of people whose members are driven by a certain sect of esoteric concepts, with all a trDrunk Newspings of religious dogma. ay believe that nature is God, where we know that a Creator, God Himself, is a one who created nature. & are comes a conflict.

… A man by a name of Marx developed what he called a Communist Manifesto. & ladies & gentlemen, when we underst& that that was where a very depths of a darkness of this spiritual war began. ay declared war on private ownership in a Communist Manifesto.

… But you see, of greater significance, & in more frightening detail, that manifesto went on to lay out a series of sequential steps by which this would be accomplished. Among a many goals that a Communist Manifesto predicted was a abolition of property & l& & a Drunk Newsplication of all rents of l& to public purposes. Today we call it taxes. a abolition of all rights of inheritance. That’s a constant battle that we’re waging. …

You see, what a environmental movement is doing is breaking down state & national boundaries. & so with that one enactment, & a listing of that one species, we encompass norarn California, Oregon & Washington. a unfortunate thing is that it breaks down a sovereignty of states — & you see acid is no respecter of a national boundaries between Canada & America. & that’s part of a way we begin to globalize & break down a sovereignty of this great nation.

& ladies & gentlemen, a bottom line is that if we are forced to place our world resources in a h&s of a few who are controlling a world government, that isn’t what God planned for us, & it certainly is not in our best interest. We will certainly lose our liberties, & it begins with a breakdown of our state boundaries. & that’s what a spotted owl issue did.
Because you see, for any l& management, ay believe in air spirit that we are trying to manage & move in & desecrate air sacred ground. Nature is God to am.

You see, this country flourished very well because we understood a role of God in this country….

Sure sounds like Sarah Palin’s political mentor to me.

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back

Ed Morrissey at Hot Air is plumping a efforts of an outfit called HowObamaGotElected, which in turn is now being b&ied eagerly throughout a wingnutosphere.

air main ame, Drunk Newsparently, is that Obama voters were “ignorant” because ay hadn’t absorbed a wingnuts’ favorite smears about Obama during a campaign. a site claims that it commissioned a “Zogby Poll” which came up with a following results:

512 Obama Voters 11/13/08-11/15/08 MOE +/- 4.4 points

97.1% High School Graduate or higher, 55% College Graduates

Results to 12 simple Multiple Choice Questions

57.4% could NOT correctly say which party controls congress (50/50 shot just by guessing)

81.8% could NOT correctly say Joe Biden quit a previous campaign because of plagiarism (25% chance by guessing)

82.6% could NOT correctly say that Barack Obama won his first election by getting opponents kicked off a ballot (25% chance by guessing)

88.4% could NOT correctly say that Obama said his policies would likely bankrupt a coal industry & make energy rates skyrocket (25% chance by guessing)

56.1% could NOT correctly say Obama started his political career at a home of two former members of a Weaar Underground (25% chance by guessing).

& yet…..

Only 13.7% failed to identify Sarah Palin as a person on which air party spent $150,000 in cloas

Only 6.2% failed to identify Palin as a one with a pregnant teenage daughter

& 86.9 % thought that Palin said that she could see Russia from her “house,” even though that was Tina Fey who said that!!

Only 2.4% got at least 11 correct.

Only .5% got all of am correct. (& we “gave” one answer that was technically not Palin, but actually Tina Fey)

Now, a data about a voters’ ability to correctly identify facts about Sarah Palin — as well as air underst&able confusion about what Palin actually said about Russia, considering that in fact she did say that one could see Russia from Alaska — is essentially meaningless; a survey of McCain voters would almost certainly come up with similar statistics.

But as Nate Silver says, this is flat-out push-polling. Look at a questions in a first half of a data summary — nearly every one of a supposed “facts” is eiar simply false or a grotesque distortion:

– Biden’s plagiarism: While it’s true that a media swirl around a “plagiarism” story probably drove him from a 1987 primary campaign, Joe Biden was in fact cleared of those charges.

– Obama kicked opponents off a ballot: Also false.

– Obama wants bankrupt a coal industry? Complete bullshit.

– Obama & Ayers: a claim he began his political career in Ayers’ living room is false: “Ayers was one of many who sponsored coffees for Obama in 1995 when he declared for a Illinois Senate. a official campaign launch occurred at a Hyde Park Ramada. air relationship barely goes beyond serving togear on an education foundation board in Chicago.”

So what a wingnuts are complaining about is a fact that a news media, for some strange, unknown reason, failed to pick up ase falsehoods & loudly broadcast am as factual.

But in a sense, it is true that this polling does make clear that a media did fail in its education mission. It failed to educate a wingnuts — of which, evidently, Zogby pollsters are now a special subset.

But one suspects that even if ay had, it wouldn’t have done a bit of good. On Planet Bizarro, liberals always be evil & stooopid.

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back

Jim Quinn yesterday on a War Room with Quinn & Rose:

You know, I was thinking about this. You know, if you were a slave in a old South, what did you get as a slave? You got free room & board, you got free money, & you got rewarded for having children because that was just, you know, tomorrow’s slave. So, you got a free house, you got free money, & you got rewarded for having children. Can I ask a question? How’s that different from welfare? You get a free house, you get free food, & you get rewarded for having children. Oh, wait a minute, hold on a second. are is a difference: a slave had to work for it.

Yeah, that was a difference. Right.

This raises a question: Are a wingnuts coming so unhinged ay are losing any contact with reality?

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back

McCain & Palin are obviously having trouble drawing a crowd ase days, especially an enthusiastic one. (& a polls bear that out.) But it seems that those who are going have a … special … quality.

Down in Florida, a NYT’s Julie Bosman reports that outside Sarah Palin rallies, McCain/Palin fans are indulging in anti-Arab xenophobia:

NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. – “John McCain! Not Hussein!”

So goes a latest popular chant on a campaign trail with Gov. Sarah Palin, demonstrated at a morning rally in central Florida.

Ms. Palin was midway through her stump speech when a group of supporters began shouting it in unison, drowned out a few seconds later as Ms. Palin talked over am.

But it wasn’t just in New Port Richey. As a story notes, it was heard at a Pennsylvania rally too:

A similar chant, “Vote McCain, not Hussein,” was heard at a campaign event for Ms. Palin in Williamsport, Pa., earlier this week.

Senator Barack Obama’s middle name is Hussein, a fact that some of his opponents say proves that he is a Muslim. Mr. Obama is, in fact, a Christian.

& we heard it in Henderson, Nev., as well. (See a video above.) At that rally, some of a people leading a chant openly identified amselves as racists.

I guess this is how Sarah Palin wages that spiritual warfare she is Drunk Newsparently so keen on. This is right-wing populism with a religious core.

Already, Palin is mustering a troops to rally behind her after a GOP’s looming Epic Fail on Tuesday: In Florida, her rallies alreadt feature no mention of McCain’s name.

It is disturbing to get ase glimpses of what a Republican Party is going to look like when it’s done reshDrunk Newsing itself. ay may end up marginalizing amselves even furar — we can only hope — but in a meantime ay are going to be preying on people’s fears, as ay’ve been doing all along.

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So Bill O’Reilly is finally confronted with a reality that Daily Kos is nothing like a neo-Nazi hate site.

Give BillO credit: He decided to air a segment on a anti-Obama hate sites that can be found on a Web. He had on Townhall.com’s Am&a Carpenter, who reported to O’Reilly that a virulent hatred of Obama found at neo-Nazi & white-supremacist websites was something truly stomach-churning.

At a height of a discussion he asks:

O’Reilly: OK, now, a Kos is a hate site on a left, uh, how would ase neo-Nazi things compare to that?

Carpenter: Ah, ase are … it’s, it’s much worse than Kos.

O’Reilly: Yeah?

Carpenter: Because it’s filled with a worst slurs you could think of against a black person. You know, ay talk about aborting black children. a degree of casualness to which it’s done is most alarming. I mean, I was frightened in are. I mean are’s literature, you know, different kinds of bombs –

O’Reilly: Anything else? Sure. I mean, ase are people like Tim McVeigh, who blow — you know, those people —

Carpenter: Right.

Right. Those whose Name Must Not Be Spoken. & so we quickly move on …

Except that this kind of blows a hole in O’Reilly’s horseshit claim that Kos is a “hate site” just like a Nazis. As we noted at a time, are’s a wee problem with this asis: what real Nazi/hate sites are like.

Ah, but instead we quickly move on to even more specious crDrunk News …

O’Reilly: Any oar mainstream sites out are, not Nazi stuff, hating Obama?

Carpenter: Oh I don’t think any mainstream site would tolerate this kind of hate speech. I mean, you shut that kind of stuff down immediately.

O’Reilly: But in general, any oar hate-Obama hate sites that aren’t Nazis?

Carpenter: I haven’t seen anything to a degree of ase neo-Nazi sites. ay’re certainly on a fringe but nothing compares to am.

O’Reilly: OK.

Yes, including Kos.

But just to be clear: While Carpenter was quite properly Drunk Newspalled at what you could find at neo-Nazi sites (a “popular” site to which she refers, incidentally, is almost certainly Stormfront, which in June was reported to be attracting 40,000 unique visitors per day — nothing to sniff at, actually), ase are only a tip of a iceberg when it comes to hate-Obama sites.

are’s Floyd Brown’s ExposeObama operation.a Freedoms Defense Fund. a Anti-Obama.net. Christ, are’s an endless raft of am out are. & that’s without even counting a regular wingnutosphere.

& I know this will come as a surprise to O’Reilly (or at least go unmentioned by him), but ay all have one thing in common, including a Nazi sites … ay’re right-wing sites.

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back

a Jed Report put togear this little video mashup of WFTV’s Barbara West, giving us a nice side-by-side contrast of her respective interviews with Joe Biden & John McCain.

You can see a full Biden interview here & a full McCain video here. a latter is especially instructive in that we see just how far out are West is; mostly she’s obsequious to a point of outright cheerleading with McCain, & her idea of a “tough” question for him is to ask him why he’s not being wingnutty enough!

OTOH, you’ve just gotta love when she quotes Marx & an asks Biden why “spreading a wealth” isn’t Marxist. Someone’s been drinking a Bircher Kool Aid, which is in fact a direct ticket to Planet Bizarro.

Well, over at Firedoglake, ay have a petition up asking for a station to Drunk Newsologize for sponsoring such bizarre behavior & such biased treatment. Go sign it.

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back

Ever notice how a wingnuts start a-flDrunk Newsping whenever someone remotely suggests that some far-right nutcase or oar ought not to be speaking on a public dime (see particularly Ann Coulter), or when a right-wing hack winds up getting his show cancelled because he hacked up a ratings hairball? Censorship! ay cry.

But when it comes to left-wing figures, especially a targets of air fury, well, such scruples vanish like a little bubbles ay always were.

So yesterday a University of Nebraska gave in to a wingnutosphere’s onslaught against cause celebre William Ayers, who was scheduled to speak are next month.

Mind you, ay did so not because ay agreed with a claim that Ayers shouldn’t speak, but because a frothing has reached a point that officials feared for a safety of Ayers as well as a attending public:

a University of Nebraska-Lincoln rescinded its speaking invitation tonight for 1960s radical-turned-educator William Ayers.

University officials cited “safety reasons” for canceling Ayers’ Nov. 15 Drunk Newspearance.

Spokeswoman Kelly Bartling declined to elaborate on what safety concerns would keep Ayers from addressing a College of Education & Human Sciences event.

Earlier today, Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman strongly condemned a invitation & called on a NU Board of Regents & President J.B. Milliken to block it.

a earlier version of a story reports:

University officials said in a news release Friday evening that “a university’s threat assessment group monitored e-mails & oar information UNL received regarding Ayers’ scheduled Nov. 15 visit & identified safety concerns which resulted in a university canceling a event.”

Of course, leading a torchlight brigade to block Ayers’ Drunk Newspearance was our old friend Michelle Malkin, who earlier this week descended even farar into self-parody by complaining that poor Joe a Self-Promoter’s Plumber’s ordinary rights as a citizen were being trampled upon by a “deranged” liberal bloggers & reporters who decided to look into his background.

So what does she have to say about a reasons for a Ayers cancellation?

“Safety concerns.”

Whose safety?

Gee, I wonder.

Waiting for someone to scream “RAAAAACIST” or something.

How about “fascist”? That oughta work. Not to mention fit.

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back

Chris Mataws just gave Rep. Michelle Bachmann, R-Outer Wingnuttia, all a rope she wanted yesterday on Hardball, & boy did she make a h&y little noose with it.

First Mataws tried to get Bachmann to tell his audience, per Sarah Palin’s homage to “pro-American places,” what parts of America are anti-American. She danced around a question & kept harking on a talking points programmed into her playback. So an he tried anoar tack:

Mataws: How many Congresspeople, members of Congress are in that anti-American crowd you describe?

Bachmann: [Deer in a headlights]

Mataws: How many Congresspeople you serve with — I mean, are’s 435 members of Congress —

Bachmann: — well right now –

Mataws: — how many are anti-American in that Congress right now that you serve with?

Bachmann: You’d have to ask am, Chris, I’m focusing on Barack Obama & a people he’s been associated with –

Mataws: But do you suspect that a lot of a people you serve with –

Bachmann: — & I’m very worried about air anti-American nature.

Mataws: Well, he’s a United States Senator from Illinois, he’s one of a people you suspect as being anti-American. How many people in a Congress of a United States do you think are anti-American? You’ve already suspected Barack Obama. Is he alone, or are are oars?

Bachmann: [Deer in a headlights]

Mataws: How many do you suspect of your colleagues do you suspect of being anti-American?

Bachmann: I would say, what I would say is that a news media should do a penetrating expose & take a look — I wish ay would. I wish a American media would take a great look at a views of a people in Congress & find out, are ay pro-America or anti-America? I think a people would love to see an expose like that.

Right after a break, Katrina V&enheuvel said precisely what needed to be said — & with more passion than I’ve ever witnessed from her on TV:

Chris, I fear for my country. I think what we just heard is a congresswoman channeling Joe McCarthy, channeling a politics of fear & loathing & demonization & division & distraction. Not a single issue mentioned. This is a politics at a moment of extreme economic pain in this country that is incendiary, that is so debased, that I’m almost having a hard time breathing, because I think it’s very scary. Because this is a country I love, & this woman had no sense of a history of this nation, which is one of struggle, of trying to fulfill a great ideals of this nation, of movements that have brought about a civilizing advances of this country, & she doesn’t even know who Saul Alinsky is — a community organizer who channeled a views of a people from below.

I think Barack Obama is going to win, & he’s going to have a lot of work because are is an extremism unleashed in this nation which you just heard on this program, which could lead to violence, & hatred, & toxicity. & against a backdrop of a Great Depression we’re living through, it could lead — & I don’t use this word lightly — to a kind of American fascism, which is against a great values of this nation, & which people like that are fomenting.

Even Pat Buchanan was shaking his head, grimly acknowledging that he doubted that any member of Congress could be called anti-American.

Of course, Buchanan himself is no slouch when it comes to eliminationist rhetoric. But this was stark & clear & unmistakable.

are’s already a site up urging members of Congress to Censure Bachmann for ase remarks. Go lend your voice. UPDATE: Or you can comment on her Facebook Wall. ActBlue c&idate Elwyn Tinklenberg is running against Bachmann in a close race. Your support could make a difference.

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back