Right Wing Media

The People Speak: When Television Makes History

Dave Zirin | Posted 12.09.2009 | Media

Read More: John Legend, Josh Brolin, Right Wing Media, Matt Damon, The People Speak, Marisa Tomei, Howard Zinn, Barack Obama, Media News
Dave Zirin

The People Speak is more than just must-see-TV. It is nothing less than the life's work of Howard Zinn brought to life by some of the most talented actors, musicians, and poets in the country.

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Imagine if the Today's Right-Wing Were Around for Nuremberg

Cenk Uygur | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama-Bows-to-Japanese-Emperor, Right Wing Media, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Nuremberg Trials, Marshall Plan, Rush Limbaugh, Demagogue, George W. Bush, Bow-Gate, King Abdullah, Right Wing, Glenn Beck, Ksm, Bill O'Reilly, Barack Obama, Politics News
Cenk Uygur

The right-wing radicals, unanimous in their agreement that KSM should not be tried in the U.S. courts, aren't just crazy, they're un-American. We don't take people out and shoot them without trials.

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Right-Wing Media Respond To Fort Hood Shooting By Attacking Muslims

Media Matters | B.C.O. | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Texas Shooting, Fort Hood Shooter, Pamela Geller, Fort Hood, Fox News Fort Hood, Fort Hood Islam, Michelle Malkin, Fort Hood Terrorism, Fort Hood Muslims, Fort Hood Attack, Right-Wing Media Fort Hood, Gretchen Carlson, Military Base Shooting, Fort Hood Shooting, Fox News Hasan, Nidal Malik Hasan, Right-Wing Media, Debbie Schussel, Brian Kilmeade, Mark Steyn, Politics News

Right-wing media figures have used the shooting at Fort Hood as an excuse to attack Islam and American Muslims in particular, with Debbie Schlussel, f...

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Obama is Not God: the Projection Principle

Matt Osborne | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama Smears, Right Wing Media, Antichrist, Political Psychology, World Net Daily, Michele Bachmann, Right Wing, Right-Wing Media, Psychology, Obama Antichrist, Psychological Projection, Jon Voight, Barack Obama, Obama Smears, Politics News
Matt Osborne

There is a limitless supply of videos chronicling the August teabaggery, but this is the one I found most interesting: a woman declaring that "Obama i...

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A New Year's Resolution

Larry Gellman | Posted 11.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Commandents, Yom Kippur, Right Wing Media, Nazi, Bible, Hitler, Chofetz Chayim, Judaism, Bloggers, Rosh Hashanah, Propaganda, Temple, Right Wing, Obama, Hebrew-Bible, Barack Obama, Michael Gerson, God, Mind.Body.Soul, Jewish, Torah, New Year's Resolution, Washington Post, Repentence, Confession, Hate Speech, Slander, Adolf Hitler, Loshon Hara, Ira Forman, Living News
Larry Gellman

This Yom Kippur there is reason for concern. The politics of rumor, innuendo, and lies -- sinat chinam -- is on the rise in our community and it hurts us all.

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The Damage that Time has Done

Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 11.22.2009 | Media

Read More: Right Wing Media, Att, Time, Hitler, Time Magazine, Princess Diana, Sprint, Right Wing, Obama, Political News, Civility, Rucker, Joe the Nerd, Assassination, Israeli Politics, Beck, Fox News, Fox, Comcast, Glenn Beck, Right-Wing Extremism, Color of Change, Political Incivility, Katie Couric, CBS News, Media News
Joe The Nerd Ferraro

Time's cover is the beginning of a rehab job for Glenn Beck. The magazine is trying once again to make it okay for people to sponsor this "person".

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Why Isn't There a Left-Wing Conspiracy?

Bob Burnett | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, Right Wing Media, Right Wing, Conservatives, Liberals, Barack Obama, Progressives, Politics News
Bob Burnett

Conservatives have an advantage because they only attack; they don't propose solutions to real problems or alternatives to Democratic initiatives.

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My Letter to Rupert Murdoch

Trish Nelson | Posted 11.16.2009 | Media

Read More: Rupert Murdoch, Fox News, Media Criticism, Right Wing Media, Right-Wing Extremism, Media, Media News
Trish Nelson

Dear Mr. Murdoch: I have been sickened and saddened by the choices your news organizations have made to show, over and over, on TV, horrible, hate inspired images against President Obama.

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"Taxpayer March" - Real Outrage or McCain-Palin White Angst II?

Brian Ross | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tea Party Movement, Gop, Joe the Plumber, John McCain, President Obama, Taxpayer March, Politics, Media, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Republican, Politics News, Senator McCain, Media Circus, White Angst, Joe Wilson, Fox News, Right-Wing Media, Republicans, Jerry Springer, Americanists, Politics News
Brian Ross

The GOP machine politicos who are organizing them want us to see a country in outrage against our black, liberal, socialist president.

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Green News Report - September 8, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Right Wing Media, Green Jobs, Van Jones, Swine Flu, Right Wing, Green News Report, Energy Policy, Energy Efficiency, California Wildfires, Big Oil, Water, Electric Cars, Jaws, Green News, Wildfires, Fox News, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Glenn Beck, Toxic Waste, Astroturf, Great White Sharks, H1n1, Solar Power, Global Warming, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

In today's report: the rising cost of fighting wildfires, and is Jaws back?

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The Red Bottoms of Red-Staters: How Corporal Punishment Contributes to Right Wing Paranoia

Stephen Ducat | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Right Wing Authoritarians, Spanking, Right Wing Paranoia, Right Wing Media, Dick Armey, Acorn, Seiu, Corporal Punishment, Right Wing, Big Government, American Civil Liberties Union, Human Rights Watch, Sarah Palin, Michael Savage, Glenn Beck, Corporal-Punishment-Schools, Right-Wing Extremism, Blue Dog Democrats, Politics News
Stephen Ducat

No paranoid fantasy seems too bizarre, too implausible, or too disconnected from consensual reality to find a credulous audience among right wing true believers.

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Speaking Power to "Truth"

Melissa Bradley | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nonprofits, Right Wing Media, Health Care Reform, Birthers, Right Wing Attacks Nonprofits, Stimulus Package, Afghanistan War, The Story of Stuff, Glenn Beck, Apollo Alliance, Politics News
Melissa Bradley

The Right is intensifying their attacks on the nonprofit organizations. These attacks are no longer just the sphere of the right wing blogosphere; now they're going mainstream.

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The Difference Between Criticism and Hate Speech

Larry Gellman | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Republican National Committee, Mark Levin, Right Wing Media, Audra Shay, Rush Limbaugh, Right Wing, Obama Health Care, Barack Obama, Obama Hitler, Joseph Stiglitz, Sarah Palin, Harpers Magazine, Health Care Reform, Rush Limbaugh Obama, New York Times, Hate Speech, Ben Stein, Republican Party, Virginia Foxx, Republicans, Politics News
Larry Gellman

They are whack jobs or hard-wired haters, but their influence and numbers are growing among what's left of the Republican party, the news media, and the former Confederacy.

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Race is Not the Only Reason for Jump in Assassination Threats to Obama

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 09.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Right-Wing Bloggers, Obama Assassination Threats, President Obama, Gop, Right-Wing Media, Democrats, Racism in Politics, Presidents, Politics News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The GOP has slapped Obama with a socialist tag. That sets off a Pavlovian drool; reason quickly goes out the window and the red flags run up the mental flagpoles of countless Americans.

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G. Gordon Liddy Thinks Bill Clinton Brought Back a Dead Giant Panda and a Penis from North Korea

Disgrasian | Posted 09.07.2009 | Media

Read More: Bill Clinton, Dementia, Right Wing Media, Laura Ling, Gordon Liddy, Racist, Asian Americans, Conservative Talk Radio, Bill Clinton North Korea, G. Gordon Liddy, Fox News, Euna Lee, Right Wing, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, North Korea, Media News
Disgrasian

While most of the country was busy heralding the safe return of American journalists, Euna Lee and Laura Ling from North Korea, Gordon Liddy appears to be losing his mind.

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The New Yorker Raises A Toast To Birther Nut Michael Savage

Eric Boehlert | Posted 09.03.2009 | Media

Read More: Right-Wing Media, The New Yorker, Manchurian Candidate, Kelefa Sanneh, Michael Savage, Media News
Eric Boehlert

The New Yorker's soft-pedaling of Savage, as well as the larger unhinged right-wing movement to demonize and dehumanize Obama, is just embarrassing.

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Punching the Tar Baby

Larry Gellman | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Confederacy, Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court, Mark Levin, Right Wing Media, Congress, Audra Shay, Peggy Noonan, Colin Powell, Rush Limbaugh, Limbaugh, Jeff Sessions, Right Wing, Hispanics, Democrats, Democratic Party, Uncle Remus, David Brooks, Sonia Sotomayor, Sotomayor, David Frum, Racism, Hate Speech, Black, Glenn Beck, Republican Party, Right-Wing Extremism, Republicans, Politics News
Larry Gellman

From the moment Judge Sotomayor was nominated to the court, the Right wing made it clear that they were going to play the only card left in the Republican deck -- the race card.

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Newsmax Tries to Rehabilitate Bernard Kerik

Terry Krepel | Posted 07.25.2009 | Media

Read More: Right Wing Media, Bernard Kerik, Newsmax, Media News
Terry Krepel

Newsmax has long been a booster of Bernard Kerik. When the former New York police chief was nominated by President Bush to be homeland security secret...

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I Just Don't Get It

Larry Gellman | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: U.S. Economy, Right Wing Media, John McCain, Global Economy, Rush Limbaugh, Iran Election, Cnbc, Economy, Economic Crisis, President Obama, Bank of America, Right Wing, Iran, Obama Economy, Lindsey Graham, Iranian Election, Barack Obama, Investment Banks, Goldman Sachs, Investing, Economic Stimulus Package, Finance, Larry Kudlow, Rush Limbaugh Obama, Fox News, Henry Paulson, Financial Crisis, Economic Stimulus, Saxby Chambliss, Fox, Citigroup, Politics News
Larry Gellman

It seems pretty clear that Obama is actually insisting that we change the approach that led the economy off a cliff. I just don't get it.

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Intelligence Bureaucracy, Not Clinton 'Wall,' Caused Intelligence Failures, Says Declassified 9/11 Commission Report

Frank Naif | Posted 07.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nsa, Intelligence, Right Wing Media, Joe Scarborough, Central Intelligence Agency, Conservatives, Cia, Counterterrorism, 9/11, Fbi, 9/11 Commission, Right Wing, Declassified Documents, State Department, Politics News
Frank Naif

Different parts of the government had important clues about the 9/11 attacks well in advance, but didn't share them with intelligence or law enforcement units that could have acted on them.

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Bigotry, Demonizing Rhetoric and Right-Wing Violence

Chip Berlet | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Conspiracy Theories, Scapegoating, Right Wing Media, Demonization, Holocaust Museum Shooting, Right-Wing Extremism, Dr. Tiller, Politics News
Chip Berlet

Since the inauguration of Barack Obama there have been nine murders by men and women who have intersected with ideologies of White Supremacy, xenophobia, and antisemitism.

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WorldNetDaily Feeds the Extremists

Terry Krepel | Posted 07.17.2009 | Media

Read More: George Tiller, James Von Brunn, Right Wing Media, Joseph Farah, Worldnetdaily, Holocaust Museum Shooting, Scott Roeder, Federal Reserve, Right-Wing Extremism, Walter Williams, Devvy Kidd, Ellis Washington, Media News
Terry Krepel

If Fox News is guilty in hastening the death of Tiller, Farah and WorldNetDaily also are. Too bad WND Joseph Farah lacks the guts to honestly address the subject.

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Was Anyone Surprised at the Right Wing Attacks on Latinos Over H1N1?

Daniel Cubias | Posted 06.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Latinos, Conspiracy Theories, Right Wing Media, Terrorist Plot, Right Wing Extremism, Hate Mongering, Xenophobia, Swine Flu Pandemic, Mexico, H1N1 Influenza, Immigration, Hispanics, Germ Warfare, Edgar Hernandez, Politics News
Daniel Cubias

Mexicans, already accused of bringing down America's economy and values, were set to destroy our health as well.

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What Is So Outrageous About Paying Our Bills?

Larry Gellman | Posted 06.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Arlen Specter, Taxes, Bailout Outrage, Right Wing Media, Rush Limbaugh, Bonus Outrage, Right Wing, Barack Obama, Tax Day Tea Party, Conservatives, Sean Hannity, Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh Obama, Bob Herbert, Religious Right, New York Times, Glenn Beck, Tea Party, Republican Party, Republicans, Arlen Specter Democrat, Politics News
Larry Gellman

I always thought that taxes were the way we paid our bills. In a democracy we have elected representatives who spend money on our behalf on things like defense, security, wars, bridges, and health care benefits.-

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