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Hannity Wants to Be the Face of US Torture

Michael Wolff | Posted 05.24.2009 | Media

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Michael Wolff

You wouldn't necessarily think that the right wing would want to distinguish itself by its enthusiasm for torture, but that's clearly the message Sean Hannity is gleefully sending.

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Fox News' Militia Media: Mainstreaming The Fringe

Eric Boehlert | Posted 05.17.2009 | Media

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Eric Boehlert

What Fox News is doing today is embracing the same kind of hate rhetoric and doomsday conspiratorial talk that flourished during the '90s, and dumping all that rancid stuff into the mainstream.

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Conspiracy Theory Conservatism

Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 05.15.2009 | Politics

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Jeffrey Feldman

Should it come to pass that conspiracy theory conservatism wins out once and for all over Goldwater conservatism, the Republican Party will be doomed, broken, kaput.

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Can We Handle the Truth?

Larry Gellman | Posted 03.28.2009 | Business

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Larry Gellman

Only Obama and the financial markets are telling us the truth. Not only can we handle it, most Americans are thrilled to finally have a president who is smart enough to know what's going on.

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Michelle Malkin on the Swastika

Disgrasian | Posted 03.21.2009 | Media

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Disgrasian

If you have a problem with the swastika, according to Michelle Malkin, you're just being "hypersensitive." So quit your bitchin', you emo, touchy-feely liberals.

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The Dick and Dubya Show

Mike Papantonio | Posted 02.15.2009 | Media

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Mike Papantonio

An interesting narrative coming from the Right is that some day in the future historians are going to uncover presidential memoirs that will finally expose the true genius of the Cheney/Bush duo.

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The Day the Music Died

Larry Gellman | Posted 01.12.2009 | Politics

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Larry Gellman

For eight years, our president, his team, and his vocal fan club on Fox and the radio have been singing the same sick and dissonant song. They tried to divide the country by spreading fear.

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The Morning After

Jan Herman | Posted 12.06.2008 | Media

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Jan Herman

It is the Journal, in a column this morning by Thomas Frank, an addition to the Journal's opinion pages to balance all the resident right-wingers, that puts Obama's victory in proper perspective.

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Pro-McCain Group Dumping 28 Million Terror Scare DVDs in Swing States

Erik Ose | Posted 10.13.2008 | Politics

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Erik Ose

Funding is coming from a New York-based group called the Clarion Fund, a supposed 501 c(3) non-profit that this week featured an article supporting John McCain on its website.

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Palin Adds Right-Wing Cruelty to GOP Ticket

Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 09.30.2008 | Politics

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Jeffrey Feldman

Americans should use the Palin nomination as an opportunity to talk about the corrosive impact of right-wing media on our political culture.

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An Equal and Opposite Reaction

Chez Pazienza | Posted 09.15.2008 | Politics

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Chez Pazienza

Would some on the American far-right -- who've had it psychically drilled into them that liberals are to blame for all their ills -- be capable of murder?

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Jesse Helms' Shameful Legacy Can't Be Whitewashed

Erik Ose | Posted 07.21.2008 | Politics

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Erik Ose

No amount of whitewashing Helms' legacy can erase the stain of his reliance on hate-filled, divisive politics, or the hurt he caused so many people in the process.

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McCain: Lock-Step and (Oil) Barrel

Janet Ritz | Posted 06.27.2008 | Green

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Janet Ritz

While Obama was in Illinois shoveling sand in bags to hold back the Bush-neglected infrastructure that was crumbling around him McCain was on his way to accept whoops and cheers from oil industry insiders.

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Are We Not Allowed to Talk About McCain's Iraq Position?

David Sirota | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics

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David Sirota

Somehow, mentioning McCain's statement that he's OK with America being in Iraq for 10,000 years is billed as unfair by the media, and laughed at by Republican strategists.

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Clinton and Drudge: Traffic, And Red Meat To The Base

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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Here's a hypothesis: Drudge is pushing Hillary Clinton so she'll win the nomination — and lose the election.

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Conservative Bloggers Attack 12-Year-Old Who Gave Dem Address On Kids' Health Care

ABC News Political Radar | Rick Klein | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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ABC News' Rick Klein Reports: With debate raging in Washington over children's health insurance, congressional Democrats found a new way to make their...

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Looking In The Mirror, Right-Wing Bloggers Name Wingers They Hate

USA Today's "On Deadline" Blog | Michael Winter | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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The gang over at Right Wing News (via memeorandum) asked 225 right-of-center bloggers to vote for their "Least Favorite People on the Right." RWN got ...

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