Fearmongering

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Russell Wiseman, Tennessee Mayor, Assails 'Muslim President' For Pre-Empting 'Peanuts'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fearmongering, A Charlie Brown Christmas, Social Networking, Russell Wiseman, Obama Muslim Smear, Facebook, Idiots, Barack Obama, Politics News

In case you didn't know, President Barack Obama's West Point address, in which he announced his intention to escalate the war in Afghanistan, pre-empt...

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ACORN Hearing: A Barrel of Laughs, A Bucket Of Nuts

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fearmongering, Darrel Issa, Acorn, Acorn Scandal, Joseph Cao, Barack Obama, Steve King, Politics News

Approximately 60 people showed up yesterday to watch Representative Steve King (R-Iowa) brandish a plastic bucket of acorns as his colleagues Lamar Sm...

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Small Town To Liz Cheney: We Want Gitmo Detainees, Not Your Fearmongering

The Plum Line | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Liz Cheney Guantanamo, Fearmongering, Little Standish, Bush Administration, Right Wing Fearmongering, Liz Cheney, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Liz Cheney Fearmongering, Michigan, Liz Cheney Gitmo, Gitmo, Politics News

Officials in a small Michigan town featured in a new video about Guantanamo by Liz Cheney's national security group want her to know that they're not ...

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Right-Wing Talkers Obsessed With Rape

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Fearmongering, Video, Right Wing Talk Radio, Rape, Media Criticism, Media Matters, Michael Savage, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Media News

One of the things that's obviously under-appreciated about right-wing radio and television is the way hosts wield this awesome variety of artful metap...

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The Chances That Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Will Be Released From Custody After His Trial Equal Zero

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics News, Fearmongering, Grassley Oj Simpson, Chuck Grassley Holder Hearing, Charles Grassley, Oj Simpson Jury, Chuck Grassley, Eric Holder, Holder Grassley, Politics News

Is it at all plausible to suggest that KSM is going to come away from his upcoming trial acquitted on these charges, to walk among us as a free man? As it turns out, no!

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Rachel Maddow, Frank Schaeffer Discuss The Latest In Thinly-Veiled Evangelical Christian Obama Death Threats

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Video, Lunatics, Fearmongering, Rachel Maddow, Lunatic Fringe, Frank Schaeffer, Religious Right, Psalm 109:8, Barack Obama, Politics News

Apparently, the latest thing in "Debasing The Institutions You Pretend To Hold Dear In Order To Suggest That President Barack Obama Should Be Murdered...

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John Shadegg Apologizes To Bloomberg With A More Subtle Brand Of Insipid Fearmongering

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Terror-Trials-in-Us-Courts, Fearmongering, John Shadegg, Michael Bloomberg, Politics News

Yesterday, we brought you word of that time Representative John Shadegg (R-Ariz.) strolled on to the floor of the House and just started riffing on so...

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Rachel Maddow, Lynn Sweet Discuss Hysteria Over Gitmo Detainees (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Video, Fearmongering, Gitmo, Detention, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Mark Kirk, Rachel Maddow, Lynn Sweet, Media News

Mark Kirk, frantically making hay, has bought the domain name noterroristsinillinois.com, the thinking being that the other magical Gitmo-based supervillains must be kept elsewhere to keep their superpowers at bay.

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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...

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"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 ...

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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.

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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.

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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 ...

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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...

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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.

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

Posted 11.30.2009 | 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...

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Obama Trip To Copenhagen Sparks Olympic-Sized Derangement

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.30.2009 | 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.

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.16.2009 | 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...

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.16.2009 | 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...

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.15.2009 | 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....

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

Jay Michaelson | Posted 11.11.2009 | 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.

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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.

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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...

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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.

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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.

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