For all of those people who think that Trump went to East Palestine because he cares about people, the former president bragged in an interview about his crowd size at the train derailment.
The Republican party and their cable news surrogates are big on hyperbole. This was seen tonight when multiple GOP Reps. lost their minds over a metal detector placed in the House. But you can always count on Fox News to take it to the next level. Especially when the segment involves Glenn Beck and Tucker…
Beck thinks George Soros and radical Islam organized the march. The dead giveaway for Beck must be the pink pussy hats favored by Islamic extremists
Bee: “Our future is going to require a broad coalition of nonpartisan decency…it’s all of us against Trumpism.”
Beck: “I agree.”
“Make no mistake,” intones Beck. “We are being watched.” Queue the X-Files theme because the guy watching us wishes us no good if Cruz is his choice
They’re falling over themselves with dire predictions, like Tony Perkins’ “I’m afraid we may not have another election for our republic.”
Since its inception, Cruz has portrayed his campaign for the presidency as a religious war, and Christian crusade with Cruz as the messiah
Glenn Beck thinks the endlessly whiny Ted Cruz has enough “seriousness of manner” to be President when he has no discernible virtues at all
Glenn Beck offers to give the RNC what it wants: a debate in the form of a Republican infomercial, free of pesky, unwelcome questions
Drowning in evidence, Cruz denies there is evidence, and then claims if we say he “denies” it we’re proving climate change is a religion
Beck, spokesman for patriarchal control, says “the [gay] agenda is control and the destruction of anyone else who disagrees,”
Rick Santorum says says you refusing to believe what he wants you to believe is a violation of the First Amendment
Bill Maher poked the Religious Right’s persecution myth full of holes. Joseph Farrah’s attempt to discredit Maher only discredits himself
PolitiFact busted conservatives like Glenn Beck for their “mostly false” claim that Hillary Clinton makes more money in speaking fees than the average CEO does in a year. This, they determined, “ignores critical facts.”
We need to call out the appalling in our midst. And we should never, ever, apologize for telling the truth about them
A Las Vegas man who concocted the story about Harry Reid getting injured in a fight with his brother confessed that he made the story up.
In an interview with Glenn Beck, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker suggested that he wants to find ways to further limit legal immigration.
The Religious Right is reacting as expected to opposition to Indiana’s embrace of religious tyranny – with lunacy and lies
This week’s Friday Fox Follies takes on Tucker Carlson’s refusal to allow anyone who works for him to criticize Fox News.
There’s nothing Fox “News” likes better than to Whitesplain race relations, especially when telling Black folk about the Black experience. The dog whistles go from barely discernible to loud and clear.
For the umpteenth year in a row, Fox News more wrong than ever: New Politifact review finds pundits spewing mostly lies.
Former one-term Republican Congressman Joe Walsh sent out a series of tweets Wednesday calling for Islamists to target the “appeasing cowards” at CNN and MSNBC first if the United States was to suffer another terrorist attack.
Despite the backing of Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin, Louie Gohmert received just three votes in his bid to unseat House Speaker Boehner.
This is really about opposition to Obama, and in violation of the Constitution, forcing him into the role of a compliant puppet of Congress
Barry Loudermilk says he will fight against people who think they have a right to ruin Christmas by not being Christians like everybody else
Beck reveals, like other religious extremists, he hasn’t actually read the Bible, criticizes Christian Bale for reading the Torah instead
If the last 2 weeks of reporting and punditry tell us anything, Fox “News” is willing write off one side of the racial divide for generations; the same way the Republicans have written off the Latinos that Fox “News” is hypocritically trying to attract.
A new Pew Research Journalism Project study found that Americans trust Jon Stewart’s fake newscast to deliver the news about government and politics more than they trust Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.
Everything old is new again!!! When Bill “White Privilege” O’Reilly hosted Glenn Beck On Fox [to say] President Is Neglecting Dallas Ebola Danger Because Of City’s Unfavorable View Of Obama, it all came rushing back to me in a tsunami of nostalgia.
It’s not Christian, McDaniels whines, to remind black people that he hates them. It’s not Christian to reach out to black voters.
There can be no possible comparison between what was said about McDaniel and the Protocols, because what was said about McDaniel is true: he is a racist
During the broadcast of his AM talk radio show The Answer Thursday evening, former one-term Republican Congressman Joe Walsh live-tweeted that he was being censored by his radio station from having an “honest conversation” about racial slurs.
The sad truth is that Iraq is in the shape it is today in because of what the US has already done. How, we must ask ourselves now, is doing it again going to undo it?
This weekend, a far-right, anti-government group calling itself Patriots For America, plans to organize a ‘huge’ march on Washington, D.C. The march is supposed the be the first phase of a plan they are calling Operation American Spring.
On Tuesday, Lord Christopher Monckton, a contributor for World Net Daily, penned an article for the far-right website complaining about the mainstream media and how it is too far to the left. He suggests a new far-right network.
A foolish and misguided Glenn Beck said Hillary Clinton would announce she was a lesbian if she thought it would get her elected.
You have to go all the way back to 1976 – the year Paul McCartney and Wings made it to #1 with “Silly Love Songs” and Elton John and Kiki Dee followed close on their heels with #2’s Don’t Go Breaking My Heart, to find a below average temperature for January.
Although President’s have been issuing executive orders for over 120 years, Republicans consider it the height of tyranny and dictatorial power because this President happens to be African American.
On Thursday, conservative political author and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza was indicted on fraud charges under campaign finance law.
In true Beckian style, he has invented a Glenn Beck who can be outraged and hurt by an intolerance on the left he has invented out of whole cloth
Five years ago we elected a man almost as young, certainly as intelligent, and for many as charismatic as JFK. Another with a young and beautiful family.
They will reduce working class Americans to serfs, put our children to work, rape our wives, sisters, and daughters, and let us die when we get too sick to be of any further use for them.
Barton is not a scientist. He is not a historian. He pretends to be a constitutional scholar but has no law degree. So why is Ted Cruz listening to him?
“I’m really scary,” Barton declared. “I am very scary for people who have a secular worldview.”
Lapin says atheists are parasites and we’d be better behaved (do what conservatives want) if we acted like we had God looking over our shoulders
Beck says he will reveal the “background and workings” of Norquist and this is “just the beginning.” Oooooh. Beckian ominous with icing on top
Citing concerns for gun owners faced by “black mobs” Gun Owners of America isn’t even trying to hide its racist approach to gun control
When the Tea Party emerged four summers ago, many of us dismissed them as a corporate-seeded astroturf movement. We were wrong. The GOP’s grassroots are the fringe.
Remember when Mitt Romney said that Russia is “without question our number one geopolitical foe”? Thanks in part to Edward Snowden, Republicans love to think now that Romney might have been right.
Republican opponents of the Murfreesboro, TN mosque have upped the ante while sinking to a new low, and want the government to seize the mosque
It is possible for a Muslim to write a book about Jesus and yes, it is possible to conduct a civil interview – if you’re not Glenn Beck
The Supreme Court’s DOMA decision, as can be imagined, has really sent them off the deep-edge.
Bachmann says, ‘We will not successfully pass the torch of liberty if we have perpetual amnesty. It won’t happen.’
Glenn Beck has convinced himself that worship of Baal and Moloch led to Occupy Wall Street that he wrote a novel to prove it
Cathie Adams’ stunning conclusion that Grover Norquist is a Muslim because he has a beard, left me speechless despite five years of Tea Party stupidity
While unable to comprehend that we do not share their outrage over their manufactured scandals, Republicans prove completely incapable of recognizing our outrage over actual crises
The truth behind the calls for impeachment is that Republicans won’t be happy until President Barack Obama is reduced to shining their shoes.
Republicans are convinced that it makes perfect sense that the wholesale slaughter of 9/11 made Bush a hero but because of four dead, Obama should be impeached.
Glenn Beck has accused the White House covering up suspects in the Boston terrorist attack, and is calling for President Obama to be impeached.
Tea Party Republicans like Rep. Tim Huelskamp are spewing more hate and intolerance by decrying Republican outreach to “so-called” Hispanic voters.
This is not a joke. Glenn Beck’s The Blaze is being awarded the Charles Darwin Prize by the Tribeca Film Festival for being one of the most disruptive innovations.
It would be great if Rand Paul was truly against the harming of innocent Americans, but his track record against women and the civil rights movement suggests otherwise.
Glenn Beck may be this close to finally fulfilling his sideshow clown destiny as he has been offered a chance to appear on World Wrestling Entertainment’s Monday Night to defend the Tea Party.
If any facet of the GOP’s war on America has grown to lunatic proportions, it is gun control. The more people die from gun violence, the more the GOP sinks into denial.
The Republican Party seems to think if Obama doesn’t do what they want him to do, he is violating the Constitution
Glenn Beck reacted like a jilted lover to the news that Current was sold to Al Jazeera.
Tea Partiers indulge in wild fantasies of sending President Obama to prison since they haven’t managed to impeach him for Benghazi
Bryan Fischer introduces Barack the Destroyer, the man who wants to destroy America and make Americans suffer because of their racism
Glenn Beck takes the new Egyptian Constitution as an opportunity to push his UN conspiracy and to predict a US dictator within 5 years
The Religious Right says some laughable things, but there is nothing laughable about their money, power – or influence on American politics
Longtime foe of multiculturalism, William J. Bennett, says Republicans lost culture war and accuses Democrats of playing identity politics
Reality is the ultimate enemy of Republican ideology, so Tom Tancredo picks up his vorpal blade and shows himself asylum-ready
Ask yourself why the laws of mathematics work differently for Mitt Romney than for the rest of the universe before casting your vote in 2012
The GOP has surrendered its platform to the most extremist elements within the Religious Right and offers a candidate who has done the same
Conservative group Let Freedom Ring is airing a new ad that borrows from the Glenn Beck chalkboard approach to logic in suggesting Obama is cozy with the Muslim Brotherhood.
Ryan poured gasoline on the fire today and then, like a little boy dropping the pyro’s match and running, disingenuously renamed the goal of a Romney Ryan administration as ‘peace’.
The unsavory ingredients that go into making a Republican politician create a perfect storm for America and the world in 2012
Christian end time fantasies are not limited to the world of fiction; these people get elected to office and influence, even control policy
David Barton’s Christian publisher may have dropped his book of lies and who better to save lies about a Founding Father than Glenn Beck?
Glenn Beck thinks Romney’s selection of Ryan was political genius. When Glenn Beck is hailing your political genius, you’ve got some serious problems.
Fischer claims the the neo-Nazi Sikh temple shooter was a liberal because he was a Nazi but a glance at the rhetoric tells a different story
In the Jefferson Lies (2012), David Barton lets loose a barrage of lies and invents terms to turn Thomas Jefferson into a non-racist, clergy-loving Christian
The Republican Party has gone to war with the Girl Scouts, accusing them training girls to be radicalized, anti-religious baby-killing feminazis
The toxic environment that right wing talk radio has created is now destroying it as Premiere Networks is circulating a list of 98 advertisers who don’t want their ads to appear on Hannity, Beck, or Limbaugh.
You hear it every day. Republicans bash Obama. Republicans bash anything they perceive as pro-Obama, and they bash America, so the question is why do Republicans hate their own country?
Glenn Beck has taken everything conservatives have done and want to do and leveled them as accusations at the left. Google or Bing it, and see for yourself.
In the spirit of Christmas, Glenn Beck will be bringing his radio and TV shows to economically devastated Wilmington, Ohio tomorrow, and he is even inviting residents to join him at his radio show taping. Of course, Beck being the populist that he is, will be charging the residents of a county where unemployment is at 15.8% $125 to attend.
American politics is becoming a carnival with clowns and actors setting the narrative and policy of one political party, and it has damaged democracy in the process. Voters base their beliefs on lies from Beck, Limbaugh, and Palin, and refuse to look elsewhere for verification or repudiation of alleged facts from the right.
As the historical facts – the actual facts – are inconvenient, Beck, like other Republicans, have fabricated a history more congenial to Republican ideology.
Glenn Beck recently celebrated the fact that millions of people will lose their unemployment benefits by Christmas, by using his Fox News program to call the idea that the poor are suffering a lie. Beck labeled the poor greedy and said, “What’s poverty in America today? Well, we just want our stuff.”
On his radio show today Glenn Beck and co-host Pat Gray made what could perhaps be labeled as their most fantastic claim yet. They claimed that Fox News is crawling with liberals, “How many liberals does Fox have on the network? Many. Not just guests either, there are some who actually host programs.”
On his radio show today, Glenn Beck continued his assault on the liberalism of It’s A Wonderful Life by claiming that the Christmas classic has no liberal values. Beck said, “Progressive is about going past the Constitution, and having people at a government level babysit people because they’re all too stupid. That’s the opposite message…
Poor Glenn Beck just can’t let go of his jealousy of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. Today on his Fox News program, Beck went on the attack against Stewart and Colbert by claiming that they keep people in denial. He said, “What better way to keep people sheep then making sure that people get their news from a comedian?….Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, that’s not news. That’s a monologue. That’s jokes.”
On his radio show today, while responding to Jimmy Carter’s claim that Glenn Beck and Fox distort the news, Beck stated that Comcast has marked MSNBC and Keith Olbermann for death. Beck said, “MSNBC is marked for death. Comcast is going to run it like a business…It won’t feature Keith Olbermann and they know that.”
Former President Jimmy Carter was on CNN’s Reliable Sources today where he took aim at both Fox News and Glenn Beck for what he described as deliberately distorting the news. Carter said,”The talk shows with Glenn Beck and others on Fox News, I think, have deliberately distorted the news.” Here is the video courtesy of…
Poor Glenn Beck can’t stop being bested by Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart. First, Colbert and Stewart blew Beck’s rally on the National Mall out of the water with the Rally to Restore Sanity, and now they are beating Beck in Time magazine’s reader poll for 2010 person of the year.
On his radio show today Glenn Beck fantasized that Muslim extremists could assassinate President Obama while he visits India because, “If anybody thinks he was a Muslim over here, well God forbid, they think he was a Muslim over there because he left his religion for Christianity, death sentence, behead him.”
On his Fox News program today Glenn Beck claimed that while Jon Stewart’s rally had been co-opted by the left, he still wished him luck with rally and then jumped on the Jon Stewart bandwagon by saying, “Jon we disagree on a great many things, but I don’t think we disagree of the type of people that we need to be as individual Americans.”
Conservative Christians fear for this country and its future (that should be read as their privileged position in this country). They seem uncertain as to what the answer is. Do they vote? Do they pray? Do they just scream a lot and stomp their little feet?
Words and actions have consequences, sometimes to the person who speaks, sometimes to the people spoken of. In an environment of hate and xenophobia, the consequences can be deadly and widespread.