Anti-Semitism was once a serious problem in this country that contributed to dire consequences. But that was then. The assertion that anti-Semitism is a bigger problem in America than Islamo-hatred trivializes the serious situation Muslims face.
They say all press is good press. It's not true. Sometimes there's bad press. Rand Paul, for example, is experiencing "bad press." The Kentucky Sena...
We live in scary times. Anderson Cooper, CNN Headline News and Dr. Phil all spent this past weekend fretting over a YouTube video of little girls da...
While I was filming at CPAC for a forthcoming project, I was confronted by Hannah Giles, Andrew Breitbart and a mob of crazed teabaggers.
When Max Blumenthal was on "Morning Joe" last month, the interview ended with host Joe Scarborough saying, "I need to get you back, we need to get mor...
One thing is certain: You will read far more about the real Sarah Palin in Going Rouge than you ever will in her own memoirs, being published by (who else?) Rupert Murdoch.
"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.
Republican Gomorrah is full of crimes--both those we've already heard of, such as Abramoff's and Ted Haggard's, and those we haven't.
Today the right wing America haters actually are doing to America what no "illegal" immigrants ever do: work to overthrow our democracy and replace it with a theocracy.
Once in a while a book comes along about which one can say: If you love our country read this! Blumenthal's Republican Gomorrah is one such book.
IN this summer of town hall disruptions and birth-certificate controversies, a summer when it seemed as if the Republican Party had been captured by i...
Republican Gomorrah shows that many of the radical Right's leading figures have more in common than just the power they command within GOP ranks.
It's become a fashion, here and abroad: Jews who are convinced that they love Israel more than the rest of us have told anyone who would listen that one way to express love of the Jewish state is to revile Barack Obama.
What was once a proud, smart, intelligent, nuanced, and diverse movement has devolved into a combination cult-booster club.
The Daily Beast's Max Blumenthal attended the 2009 Conservative Political Action Conference and interviewed Hi-Caliber, the first self-proclaimed Repu...
[Via Wonkette.] OH NOES. It appears that the fragile calm of this week's CPAC was shattered this afternoon when Sarah Palin Media Gripe Video Maker J...
The surprising trend in American opinion on Gaza may be because the same pundits who are cheerleading Israel's assault once sold the occupation of Iraq, and with a nearly identical set of arguments.
With less than three weeks to go in the run-up to the presidential election, the McCain campaign, with help from the Republican National Committee, co...
Palin has been palling around with the most unsavory, unhinged crowd in America for the last 25 years. And this is the person Senator John McCain unleashed on the country.
More information is emerging about the peculiar religious upbringing of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. On Tuesday, progressive writer and documentarian Ma...
