Fearmongering

Page: 1 2 3

Alexios Marakis Assaulted: Greek Orthodox Priest Attacked By Marine Reservist In Fit Of Anti-Muslim Hysteria

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fearmongering, Fort Hood, Anti-Muslim-Attack, Anti-Muslim Fearmongering, George Casey, Fort Hood Shootings, Politics News

It's not for nothing that General George Casey warned against an anti-Muslim backlash in the wake of the Fort Hood massacre. But a whole slew of chil...

Read Whole Story

"Fox And Friends" Hosts Worry That Military Needs "Special Debriefings" For Muslims

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.06.2009 | Media

Read More: Fort Hood Shooting, Fearmongering, Video, Fort Hood, Fox and Friends, Nidal Malik Hasan Fort Hood, Media Criticism, Nidal Malik Hasan Shooting, Fort Hood Shootings, Nidal Malik Hasan, Smears, Geraldo Rivera, Media News

On this morning's Fox And Friends, hosts Brian Kilmeade and Gretchen Carlson were all a-whip with Salem Witch Trial panic over the thought that Nidal ...

Read Whole Story

WND's Jerome Corsi Claims Fort Hood Shooter Advised Obama [UPDATE]

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fearmongering, Fort Hood, Nidal Malik Hasan Fort Hood, Smears, Fort Hood Shooting, Nidal Malik Hasan, Jerome Corsi, Nidal Malik Hasan Shooting, Fort Hood Shootings, Politics News

If you were wondering what paranoiac smear artist would be the first to attempt to name Obama as the man who guided Hasan to his murderous rampage yesterday, the answer -- naturally! -- is Jerome Corsi.

Read Whole Story

The Power of Fear and the Obligation to Hope

Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

It was not surprising to learn that New Jersey and Virginia both elected Republican Governors. But I could not have predicted the loss in the tiny, liberal, free state of Maine.

Read Post

Mitch McConnell: Public Option "May Cost You Your Life" (AUDIO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Mitch McConnell, Fearmongering, Public Option, Politics News

If you've spent any time following the critics of health care reform, you'd know that there's been some perfectly rational concerns over matters like ...

Read Whole Story

Pat Buchanan Worries The White People Are Losing Their America, Like Always

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Racial Politics, Fearmongering, Oath Keepers, Race, Pat Buchanan, Media News

Pat Buchanan has a post up today on WorldnetDaily, about the "Oath Keepers," the latest strain of extremist nimrods who have lost their minds over the...

Read Whole Story

We Cannot Let Fear Turn Into Hate: Iran's Nobel Peace Laureate, Dr. Shirin Ebadi, Speaks

Kiri Westby | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living

Last Friday I went to hear a keynote address from Iran's only Nobel Peace Laureate, Dr. Shirin Ebadi. I was blown away.

Read Post

Michael Steele Calls Thomas Friedman A "Nut Job" For His Concerns Over Psychotic Rhetoric (VIDEO)

Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Thomas Friedman, Video, Fearmongering, Newsmax, Michael Steele, Michael Steele Video, Michael Steele Thomas Friedman Video, Politics News

RNC Chairman Michael Steele appeared on CNN's American Morning Wednesday and was confronted with Thomas Friedman's recent New York Times column, in wh...

Read Whole Story

Obama Trip To Copenhagen Sparks Olympic-Sized Derangement

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fearmongering, Chicago Olympic Bid, Media Criticism, Chicago, Chicago Olympics, Obama Chicago Olympics, Obama Olympics, Obama Copenhagen, Politics News

Of course, if you are not concerned about the awesomely ruinous opportunity cost to safety and prosperity that a brief jaunt to Denmark represents, surely you are worried about all the Chicago Machine Olympic corruption.

Read Whole Story

"Dancing With The Czars": Dems Mock GOP, Glenn Beck Over Czar Obsession

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fearmongering, Bush Czars, Bob Bennett, Obama Czars, Barack Obama, Czars, Senate Czars, Video, White House Czars, Bennett Czars, Dnc, Campaign Ads, Issue Ads, DNC Ad, Czar Ad, Democrats Czar Ad, Obama's Cabinet, Politics News

Over the past few days, I've written about the wildly outsized claims of czars in the Obama administration undermining the government. Republican Sena...

Read Whole Story

Anti-Czar Bill Gets 100 Cosponsors In House [UPDATE]

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fearmongering, White House Czars, Karl Rove, Bennett Czars, Bush Czars, Bob Bennett, Obama Czars, Barack Obama, Czars, Senate Czars, Politics News

Yesterday, I posted on how a group of senators sent the White House a letter expressing concern over a multitude of presidential appointments -- which...

Read Whole Story

Obama Czars: Group Of Republican Senators Sends Disingenuous Missive Over Appointees

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bob Bennett, Fearmongering, Czars, Barack Obama, White House Czars, Obama Czars, Bush Czars, Bennett Czars, Senate Czars, Politics News

A group of Republican senators, led by Utah Senator Bob Bennett, have sent a letter to the White House, concern-trolling over the existence of "czars....

Read Whole Story

Keep Your Shoes On: A Modest Proposal for Rational Airport Security

Jay Michaelson | Posted 09.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Shoe Bomber, Department of Homeland Security, Fearmongering, Tom Ridge, Homeland Security, 9/11 Anniversary, 9/11, Airport Security, Bush War on Terror, September 11th, Living News

The rest of the world is laughing at us. Literally, in some cases -- when I reflexively took my shoes off at a security line in Berlin, the guard chuckled. Stupid American.

Read Post

World Net Daily Targets Valerie Jarrett

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mark Lloyd, Fearmongering, Worldnetdaily, Barack Obama, Valerie Jarrett, Fairness Doctrine, Glenn Beck, Politics News

I recently made note of the fact that Fox News contributor Bill Kristol "set up Valerie Jarrett as the right's next target of insane hounding." And lo, as predicted, here are your friends at World Net Daily leading the way.

Read Whole Story

Joe Klein: Public Option Support Has Lost To Right-Wing Smears

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Health Care Reform, Fearmongering, Joe Klein, Media Criticism, Public Option, Media News

Over at Time's Swampland today, Joe Klein takes on the public option in a post titled "What The Public Option Actually Does." The actual work of expl...

Read Whole Story

Opposing Obama's School Speech Isn't Partisan -- It's Just Crazy

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.08.2009 | Media

Read More: Fearmongering, Insanity, Obama School Speech, Media Criticism, Barack Obama, Media News

With Obama's school address now behind us, the claims made by opponents of the address look more absurd than ever. And yet it should have never come to this point.

Read Whole Story

Everything You Need To Know About Czars

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dave Weigel, Fearmongering, Politico, John Holdren, Media Criticism, Cass Sunstein, Czars, Barack Obama, Politics News

Driving today's fearful discussion about czars this morning is a Politico article that 's a fine example of what it does best: provide a distillation of political scuttlebutt and press releases into a story.

Read Whole Story

WATCH: President Obama's Video Address To Our Schoolchildren

Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 10.20.2009 | Comedy

We have obtained "leaked footage" of President Obama's speech to our nation's children. Take a look. But be warned, it may shock and horrify you.

Read Post

Obama Schoolchildren Speech Drives Right-Wingers Batty

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jim Greer, Fearmongering, Arne Duncan, Crazy, Barack Obama, Politics News

UPDATE, 8:17 P.M. EST: ABC News is reporting that some school districts in six states (Texas, Illinois, Virginia, Wisconsin, Missouri and Minnesota), ...

Read Whole Story

Jim Greer, Florida GOP Chair, Warns That Obama "Back To School" Speech Will Foment Socialism

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Arne Duncan, Fearmongering, Crazy, Barack Obama, Jim Greer, Politics News

The Orlando Weekly's Bloggytown is reporting today that a rather generic letter, sent to school principals across the United States by Secretary of Ed...

Read Whole Story

Glenn Beck Tells Listeners That 2008 Election Was A "Coup"

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.16.2009 | Media

Read More: Fearmongering, Crazy, Glenn Beck, Media Criticism, Media News

This morning, on his radio show, Beck told his listeners that "they" -- a word he'll use fourteen times inside a minute and a half -- have staged some sort of coup d'etat, that "they" have cleverly disguised as an election. It's only Monday!

Read Whole Story

As Sponsors Flee, The Glenn Beck Show Gets More And More Awesomely Bonkers

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.28.2009 | Media

Read More: Video, Fearmongering, Crazy, Glenn Beck Americorps, Glenn Beck, Glenn Beck Fox News, Glenn Beck Sponsors, Media News

I don't have any idea if the ongoing flight of sponsors from the Glenn Beck Show is having any effect on its bottom line, but it sure isn't tempering its content! Yesterday's Glenn Beck show was MAGICAL.

Read Whole Story

Mike Huckabee To Headline Conference On EMP Attacks

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fearmongering, Terrorism, Mike Huckabee, Emp Attacks, Newt Gingrich, Politics News

Matt Corley over at ThinkProgress noted yesterday that former Arkansas Governor and Republican Presidential Candidate Mike Huckabee has got a brand ne...

Read Whole Story

Pro-Birther Movie Steals Media Matters Content (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.25.2009 | Media

Read More: Dave Weigel, Birthers, Video, Obama Birth Certificate, Fearmongering, Orly Taitz, Birther-Movement, Paranoia, Alan Keyes, Barack Obama, Media News

Once you get to know the "birthers," you become aware that a singular trait that they all share is a chronic and indefatigable laziness. After all, w...

Read Whole Story

Michael Steele: VA Encouraging Vets To Commit Suicide (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Death Book, Video, Fearmongering, Death Panels, Michael Steele, Health Care Reform, Death Panel, Veterans, Politics News

Michael Steele is running a bit late to the latest "Let's Frighten The Villagers With Lies" party, but, as TPM's Rachel Slajda points out, he's plungi...

Read Whole Story

Page: 1 2 3