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Glenn Beck, Cult Leader

Matt Osborne | Posted 10.22.2009 | Media

Read More: Social Conservatives, Cult of Mormonism, Conservatives, Social Conservative, Cult of Personality, Christian Conservatives, Glenn Beck Fox News, Glenn Beck, Cult of Beck, Media News

Democracy Corps did a series of focus-groups with movement conservatives in Georgia and found them happily living in their own special reality. the conservative movement has become a cult.

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I've Changed My Mind on the Obama-Fox Showdown

Michael Wolff | Posted 10.20.2009 | Media

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The Fox audience is, tops, only 2 million people, and yet, because of its flamboyance and success, it manages to convince the rest of the media that conservatism is the national mood.

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Dear Capitol Hill: We Confess, Muslims Want to Serve America

Salam Al Marayati | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: John Conyers, Conservatives, Cair, American Muslims, Neoconservatives, Muslims, Gop, Mccarthyism, Right Wing, Political Satire, Loretta Sanchez, Congressional Anti-Terrorism Caucus, Interns, Politics News

What's next? Muslims trying to infiltrate the Congress by scheduling lobby days, or by simply meeting with their members of Congress?

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Joe Scarborough, the "Real Conservative," Has Been Blinded by the Right

Max Blumenthal | Posted 10.16.2009 | Media

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"We don't do Crossfire here," Scarborough muttered to me after the cameras went off. He was visibly upset and unable to make eye contact with me.

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More Right-Wing Distortions on Health Reform

Stan Dorn | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Conservatives, Health Care, Politics News

Now that the summer's "death panel" rumors about health reform legislation have been thoroughly debunked, right-wing extremists are resorting to other distortions in their fight against progressive change.

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Is Obama a "Narcissist"?

John McQuaid | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Narcissism, Nobel Peace Prize, 2016 Olympics, Conservatives, Republican Party, Barack Obama, Politics News

If conservatives want to win back power, they should focus on issues. They could start by kicking Obama off the analyst's couch and taking a spin on it themselves.

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GOP Scozzafava Support Sparks Party Rift, Revolt On The Right

POLITICO | Alex Isenstadt and Josh Kraushaar | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Conservative Dough Hoffman, Scozzafava Special Election, NRCC Scozzafava, Doug Hoffman, Nrcc, Republican Rift, Dede Scozzafava, Conservatives, Gop, NRCC Support Scozzafava, Mchugh House Seat, New York Special Election, Gop Rift, Scozzafava House Election, Republicans, Politics News

The nominee in a looming House special election is at the heart of an angry dispute between conservatives and Republican House leadership, a rift so s...

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The Demonization of Barack Obama

Sheldon Filger | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics

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While wrapping their vituperation in the American flag, these extremists masquerading as patriots are actually damaging the heart and soul of the conservative movement in the United States.

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Michael Smerconish: Talk Radio Host Without A Shout

Politico | PATRICK GAVIN | | Posted 10.06.2009 | Media

Read More: Talk Radio, Politico, Rush Limbaugh, Conservatives, Liberal Talk Radio, Smerconish, President Obama, Michael Smerconish, Media News, Grover Norquist, Michael Smerconish Radio Show, Michael Smerconish Obama Interview, Media News

Michael Smerconish has been on the radio for years in Philadelphia, but he shot to national recognition on Aug. 20 when he broadcast his interview wit...

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Splitsville

Steven Weber | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Intelligent Design, Conservatives, Liberals, Public Discourse, John F. Kennedy, Fox News, Tea Party, Fair and Balanced, Politics News

Avowed liberals consider themselves to be loyal to the truth while die-hard conservatives seem only to be loyal. Somewhere in the middle lies the perfect American.

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The Public Option "Opt-Out" Compromise Is Reasonable

Sahil Kapur | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Opt-Out Compromise, Gop, Public Option Compromise, Public Option, Health Care Reform, Health, Conservatives, Health Care, Democrats, Politics News

A new compromise has been floated for the public health insurance option: it's not co-ops, it's not a trigger, it's a provision that allows defiant states to opt out of offering the program to consumers.

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Obama Should Adopt the "Public Option" in Afghanistan

Leon T. Hadar | Posted 10.02.2009 | Politics

Will Obama disappoint the foreign policy elites or will he, like Bush, send a "Drop Dead" message to the American people?

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The Way It Is: Are Liberals Disgusting?

Dan Agin | Posted 10.02.2009 | Politics

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Is rapid change really repulsive? A hundred years ago, thousands of British and American women decided they had waited long enough for political justice and they joined the Suffragette Movement.

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Putting the First Amendment to Work

Charles Butler | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics

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Over the last several weeks we've heard our national Democratic leaders make false, misleading and inflammatory statements about the conduct of peacefully assembled Americans.

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The Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute Reveals 2010 Calendar, Believes Liberal Women "Look Like Men"

Disgrasian | Posted 11.29.2009 | Media

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In an attempt to counter the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute, HuffPost is putting together a "Great American Liberal Women" Calendar of its own. The Institute's Facebook Fan Page seems dubious about this counterpunch.

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Fear Of Fascism, "Gay Agenda" At Conservative Conference

The Washington Independent | David Weigel | Posted 11.28.2009 | Politics

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ST. LOUIS -- Kitty Werthmann has made quite a career out of warning Americans that fascism is on its way. The 84-year-old native Austrian survived the...

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Census Worker Hanging... What Pelosi Warned?

Landon Ross | Posted 11.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Murder, Conservatives, Nancy Pelosi, George Tiller Murder, Fox News, Census Worker, Glenn Beck, Right Wing, Democrats, Right-Wing Extremism, Barack Obama, Republicans, Politics News

We don't have all the facts regarding Bill Sparkman's death. Yet the fact that, upon hearing of this incident, politically minded people wonder whether the death was a result of right wing invective is telling.

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A "Liberal Jew" Responds to Norman Podhoretz

Abby L. Ferber | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jews, Jewish Liberals, Norman Podhoretz, Conservatives, American Values, Neocons, Neoconservatives, Liberlas, Jewish Values, Democrats, America, Jewish, Republicans, Politics News

The American system did make good on its promises for Jews; this is why so many Jews refuse to support the conservative politics of exclusion and fear. Podhoretz would have us chop down the ladder behind us.

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Just Listen -- It's Not About Liberal vs. Conservative

Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 11.25.2009 | Living

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The real problem is those from both sides of the political spectrum who are filled with rhetoric -- full of sound and fury, signifying nothing -- who rarely take action.

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Before Subprime There Was ACORN

Jerry Chautin | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics

Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, known as ACORN, is in the news again and conservative politicians are going for the jugular vein.

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Obama Can't Talk About Race Even If He Wants To

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Conservatives, Mccain, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Presdident Obama, Racism, Gop, White Supremacy, Race, Fox, Palin, Politics News

The bitter truth is that President Obama can't talk about race even if he wants to. This has absolutely nothing to do with his mixed racial upbringing, or his straddling of many worlds. It has everything to do with politics

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The Way He Douthat Thing He Do

Ellis Weiner | Posted 11.21.2009 | Media

Read More: Mistakes, Conservatives, Douthat, Ross Douthat, Revisionism, George W. Bush, Bush, Media News

Not long after Bill Kristol packed up his wrongness as a New York Times columnist, he was replaced by a screwball-throwing rightie out of the Atlantic's farm team named Ross Douthat.

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Media Mud Pies: CNN's Embarrassing Response to Fox

Linda Milazzo | Posted 11.21.2009 | Media

Read More: War on Afghanistan, First Amendment, President Obama, Teabaggers, Chicago, Progressives, Phil Donahue, 9/11, Peace, America, Journalism, Msnbc, Infrastructure, Social Media, Corporate Media, Washington Post, State Senator Obama, Rick Sanchez, Fox, War on Iraq, Jessie Jackson, Washington DC, Netherlands, Barack Obama, Fourth Estate, Afghanistan War, Anti-War, Fox News, Cnn, 9/12, Saddam Hussein, Military Industrial Complex, Tv, Protests, Iraq War, Conservative Right, Glenn Beck, Conservatives, Spain, Media News

In response to Fox's childish and embarrassing ad in the Washington Post that challenged competitors' coverage of the 9/12 teabaggers, CNN is airing this equally chilidish and embarrassing ad.

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Hypocrisy, Lies and Videotape

Michael Sigman | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mark Sanford, Bill Clinton, John Ensign, Family Values, Orange County, David Lynch, Larry Craig, Mike Duvall, Republicans, Conservatives, Sex, Politics News

The closer we look at the self-righteous leaders of the Right, the more we see the ugliness of -- well, let's use Mike Duvall's euphemism -- inappropriate story telling.

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Irving Kristol's Alliance With Anti-Semites

Max Blumenthal | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Anti-Semitism, Jerry Falwell, Jews, Conservatives, Evangelical Christians, Irving Kristol, Christian Right, Israel, Barack Obama, Republicans, Politics News

The story of one of Kristol's most momentous maneuvers, the brokering of a tactical alliance between Jewish neoconservatives and openly anti-Semitic evangelicals, has been omitted from his obituaries.

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