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5/17/13 @ 2:37pm
Pete Santilli is the kind of person we normally wouldn’t cover here – an unhinged Internet ranter who exists somewhere to the crazier side of Alex Jones. Santilli’s broadcast – on which he details conspiracy theories on everything from 9/11 to Sandy Hook -- doesn’... MORE
5/17/13 @ 5:35pm
Eric Hananoki @ Media Matters: 8 Reasons Allen West Is The Perfect Fox News Contributor. Steve Benen @ The Maddow Blog: There were meaningful Benghazi lies after all. Tim Murphy @ Mother Jones: The Next Senator From Georgia Will Probably be Nuts. Eric Lach @ TPM: The Daily Caller Accu... MORE
5/17/13 @ 5:29pm
How worried is Michele Bachmann about retaining her seat in Congress? She is already running campaign ads. Gary Bauer and Frank Gaffney will headline the American Decency Association summer conference. Nice try, Sarah Palin. Glenn Beck featured a round-table of Religious Right p... MORE
5/17/13 @ 4:53pm
Religious Right activist John Stemberger is continuing his fight against a proposal to end the Boy Scouts of America's ban on gay members, telling Tim Wildmon of the American Family Association that "anything that has the word 'gay' on it in our culture ... [is] guaranteed to be ina... MORE
5/17/13 @ 4:35pm
Along with Steve King, Republican congressman Steve Stockman of Texas also appeared on The Steve Deace Show last night to criticize the push for comprehensive immigration reform and President Obama’s speech in Mexico City.
Stockman claimed Obama “basically told everybody in Mexico our do... MORE
5/17/13 @ 3:45pm
Rep. Steve King attacked the proposed immigration reform legislation during an appearance on The Steve Deace Show last night, warning that the bill will do great damage to “American liberty” and “the underpinnings of the pillars of American exceptionalism.” He said that undoc... MORE
5/17/13 @ 2:35pm
Upon news that Republicans altered emails from government officials to make it appear that the State Department was engaged in a cover-up of the attack in Benghazi, Sen. Rand Paul attempted to revive the non-scandal in his column for the Washington Times.
Paul writes that “[Gregory] Hicks test... MORE
5/17/13 @ 1:00pm
Alan Keyes, who recently warned that gay marriage is leading to the creation of a totalitarian government, is now arguing that President Obama is using the IRS scandal as a distraction from his plan to allow terrorist attacks to take place and impose martial law.
Speaking with Stan Solomon on Wednes... MORE
5/17/13 @ 11:45am
Following the passage of his state’s marriage equality law, Minnesota Republican state representative Glenn Gruenhagen is urging constituents to “resist the implementation of the gay agenda in public and parochial schools.” The blog Bluestem Prairie noticed Gruenhagen’s lette... MORE
5/17/13 @ 11:17am
For Glenn Beck, anything that doesn't quite fit into the grand global narrative that he has concocted and that only he understands must therefore be part of some effort to distract people from that very narrative.
Thus, the release of information about the current IRS and AP scandals must itself... MORE
5/17/13 @ 10:40am
Washington Times columnist Jeffrey Kuhner says that the real political scandal isn’t about the IRS, Benghazi or the Associated Press, “but the president himself.” Kuhner, who has been demanding Obama’s impeachment for several years, calls the scandal “Obamagate,”... MORE