I've made it to the initial round for favorite progressive blogger in the Air America Cruise Contest. I have to stay in the Top 5 before the second voting round begins, so your vote is appreciated! First voting round:
The Christian Civic League of Maine's Mike Hein calls Pam's House Blend: "a leading source of radical homosexual propaganda, anti-Christian bigotry, and radical transgender advocacy."
He is "praying that Pam Spaulding will "turn away from her wicked and sinful promotion of homosexual behavior."
(CCLM's web site, 10/15/07)
Ex-gay "Christian" activist James Hartline on Pam:
"I have been mocked over and over again by ungodly and unprincipled anti-christian lesbians."
(from "Six Years In Sodom: From The Journal Of James Hartline," 9/4/2006, written from the "homosexual stronghold" of Hillcrest in San Diego).
"Pam is a 'twisted lesbian sister' and an 'embittered lesbian' of the 'self-imposed gutteral experiences of the gay ghetto.'" -- 9/5/2008
Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth Against Homosexuality heartily endorses the Blend, calling Pam:
A "vicious anti-Christian lesbian activist." (Concerned Women for America's radio show [9:15], 1/25/07)
"A nutty lesbian blogger." (MassResistance radio show [16:25], 2/3/07)
Pam's House Blend always seems to find these sick f*cks. The area of the country she is in? The home state of her wife? I know, they are everywhere. Pam just does such a great job of bringing them out into the light.
--Impeach Bush
who monitors yours Bevis ?? Just thought I would drop you a line,so the rest of your life is not wasted.
"I believe the King James version is God's preserved, inspired, inerrant and infallible word of God." -- Pastor Marc Grizzard, Amazing Grace Baptist Church in Canton, N.C.
Our Western NC bible beaters know how to do it right, baby... Video from KBMT:
Raw Story gives you the insight into these nutcases who think Rick Warren is slated for the Hell Express.
A Baptist Church near Asheville, N.C., is hosting a "Halloween book burning" to purge the area of "Satan's" works, which include all non-King James versions of the Bible, popular books by many religious authors and even country music.
Church leaders deem Good News for Modern Man, the Evidence Bible, the New International Version Bible, the Green Bible and the Message Bible, as well as at least seven other versions of the Bible as "Satan's Bibles," according to the website. Attendees will also set fire to "Satan's popular books" such as the work of "heretics" including the Pope, Mother Teresa, Billy Graham and Rick Warren.
The loud-mouthed emperor of bile has no clothes. When Glenn Beck opened his trap and boldly claimed that the President was a racist and that he "has a deep-seated hatred for white people, or white culture," you'd think he'd have a clear sense of what he was protecting by making that charge.
However, when Katie Couric forwarded a basic question from a Twitter user asking for a definition of white culture, all of a sudden Glenn practically soiled his knickers, stuttering and stammering. (Think Progress):
COURIC: A twitter question is, adrianinflorida: what do you mean by white culture?
BECK: Um, I, I don't...
COURIC: You said he had a deep-seated hatred for the white culture, what is that? What is the white culture?
BECK: I guess it's...gosh. I'm so tempted to make news here today.
COURIC: No no, I'm just curious, this was actually adrianinflorida.
BECK: What to do? What to do? Adrian, Go to glennbeck.com. Listen to it. You can hear all of it.
COURIC: No, but you didn't really address white culture, I think, in your explanation about President Obama, I haven't seen the whole show, but can you? Just for our purposes?
BECK: Just for your purposes? So this will be a little secret between us?
COURIC: No, for this show, can you explain what you mean by the white culture? Because some people say that sounds kind of racist.
BECK: Really? It's amazing to me that, for the first time, I think in history somebody can ask a question and say, "Don't you think that maybe we have several pieces here?" We have several pieces; George Bush says my grandmother was a typical African-American that had, that had her views bred into her. You don't think maybe we would ask questions about that comment? How is it that the first time I think in history, you should check on it, somebody says, "Hey. There's some red flags here maybe we should look at?" ... How am I? How am I the target for asking questions?
The full transcript of the exchange is at TP. It's worth the click because Beck goes completely flaccid.
Josh at Right Wing Watch emails me some of the most over-the-top stuff and this is no exception. With the hanging of that census worker Bill Sparkman in Kentucky with "FED" on his chest, it's not hard to compile TEH CRAZY. Take a look at the legitimacy that Faux News gives the deranged Michele Bachmann as she whips up hysteria and paranoia over the 2010 Census.
Over at Jesus' General, one of his commenters is a census worker who works in the deep woods of western North Carolina mountain country. This person gives a first-hand account about the sentiment out there.
The overwhelming anger is directed straight at the President. No question. Fear and racism at the core that has manifested into anti-government radicalism. We're threatened and intimidated almost daily, just for trying to earn a days pay and uphold the Constitution. I've been called an "employee of president nigger" and team members have been bitten by dogs and threatened with shotguns.
It's kind of interesting to see prime examples of what we politely call "low information voters." These are people who form their opinions based on little or no research, when they need to read a variety of news sources on complex issues like health care. They usually receive information about candidates from TV or maybe only commercials. Sometimes it's just talk radio, with Glenn Beck, Rush and Hannity doing the thinking for them.
One of these "low info" voters happened upon Sirius Out Q on the dial and onto Mike Signorile's show -- Harley from Indiana. Mike's description:
She is a trucker who drank about a gallon of the Glenn Beck Kool-Aid. We can laugh at people like her -- and I certainly did, all in good fun -- but let's just take note that she represents the many people out there who are very angry, uneducated about the issues and don't have the time (or say they don't) to find out the facts.
The level of ignorance, arrogance and paranoia she spews is astonishing. You can tell that she doesn't have anything in the realm of sanity to say about the health care reform debate, as Mike tries to tell her that her "death panel" views based on lies have been disproven long ago.
Harley talks about how her mother is terminally ill, and of course she's getting all the wrong facts about the future of health care. From where? Harley mentions "Channel 32" as her news source -- it's the Fox News channel, we later confirm, and I bet Glenn Beck is feeding her delusions. Her rage -- including at me, for having a supposedly "luxurious" job -- is quite notable. Pathetically, these people don't realize many of their problems lead right back to the policies of George W. Bush, Ronald Reagan and the party they all no doubt supported. And of course, the media doesn't ever point this out to them.
(Sorry, Hank, but the "code" isn't fooling anyone... - promoted by Pam Spaulding)
Hank Williams Jr --
While doing his Don't tread On Me spiel in his act.
Talks about "folks like us" then shows his WHITE face and hands (around 2:30 in video). "Ain't too many things my beautiful people can't do..." Subtle as a f*ckin steamroller! Found this drek on Breibart TV too, what a treasure trove of DREK
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BONUS FROM PAM: This is laughably f*cked up -- a theme song for the teabagger "patriots". It's a good bookend to the talent of Hank Williams, Jr. Song by Steve Amerson & Dick Wells. Will this hit the top 40?
Newt Gingrich said "Don't Tell Me It Can't Be Done should be the rallying cry for the conservative movement, this is the anthem for the resurgance of the conservative movement.
God, judgment day, revolution, guns, abortion, taxes, uppity Negroes in the White House. (The last is only implied, of course.) Note to teabagging subtitlers: it's Capitol Hill, not Capital.
On Fox News’ Glenn Beck, [Dallas-area pastor Stephen] Broden plugged a documentary, Maafa 21, that claims the pro-choice movement, and Planned Parenthood in particular, is part of a 150-year-old plot to exterminate the African-American race. “Slavery = Abortion = Genocide — that seems to be the message of this Life Dynamics documentary called Maafa 21,” the Right Wing Watch blog sums up.
“What’s going on in that documentary is what’s going to happen in the health care package,” Broden told Glenn Beck. “I believe what we’re seeing is an orchestrated attempt to radically change this country from what the founders had in mind,” Broden said. “There is a deliberate attempt on the part of Marxist, socialist and … Darwin atheists who are changing this country.”
“Beck wonders aloud whether Broden, who supported McCain during last year’s election, too has become a pariah. Certainly he can’t be called a racist, because he’s black, so what pejoratives does Broden face? The good pastor hasn’t the foggiest. He just hopes people call him a ‘patriot,’ a moniker Beck readily affixes.”
At this point the batsh*ttery is becoming surreal, a slow-mo train wreck of mental confusion, delusion and hilarity that says so much about the state of the fringe-right political movement in this country. Abroad they have to be laughing at us -- or crying.
Well we can confirm one thing about this the fundamentalist who called for the execution of Barney Frank and the President (as well as all you Sodomites out there) -- the Secret Service was right in paying LaBarbera Award-winner Steven Anderson of Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Arizona a visit.
MS: You want all gay people to be executed, correct? SA: That is correct. It is what the Bible teaches. MS: If somebody were to go out with a machine gun and spray down a crowd of gay and lesbian people, would you think that was okay? SA: I would not think it's okay because I believe in due process. MS: Whould that person be a murderer? SA: No, I would not judge them as a murderer, no.
We can laugh at this guy, but we have to take violence-inciting individuals headcases like Anderson seriously because he whips up the unstable, often gun-toting Base that the GOP is catering to these days. Those are the people who may decide to act out as they feel their world spinning out of control (The Homo Agenda, "socialism", "fascism", country overrun with The Brown Menace, etc.).
But as the headline notes, Anderson then shared some special thoughts with Mike. Apparently the agent of hate didn't know Signorile was gay, and that's what generated this.
MS: You know, I'm gay..I'm gay, and I don't molest any children. What do you think of that? SA: Well, I'd say you're lying. MS: You think i must be molesting children, right? SA: Exactly, right. MS: Do you pray that I'll died tonight. SA: If you're a homosexual, I hope you get brain cancer like Ted Kennedy.
Watch it; Mike completely destroyed Anderson on the air, pinning him down to justify his views. The exchange about the assassination of abortion provider Dr. George Tiller is a slam dunk:
I know the keyboards may already be damaged from reading the headline, but I guarantee that it will be destroyed if you surf over to the General's pad, where he picks up where the Freepi left off in their desire to prove the President's qualifications to serve is tied not just to the long-form birth certificates, but to the status of his wingwang. A snippet:
Rep. Bill Posey U.S. House of Representatives
Dear Rep Posey,
The recent controversy about Obama's Terrifying Black Snake of White Insecurity got me to thinking that perhaps there should be a penis registration requirement for some presidential candidates. After all, it isn't the first time our demands to see a presidential member were thwarted. We had the same problem with the Clenis, remember. God, how we wanted to see if it curved.
There's much more. And while you're there, drop a tip in the General's jar for the Fall Fund Drive. :)
OMFG. People thought this guy was just a joke; no one's laughing now. Via Crooks & Liars:
So it turns out that Contessa Brewer had good reason to see a connection between the rabidly hateful rhetoric spewed by the likes of Pastor Steven Anderson and the angry, gun-toting protesters turning out for presidential events: One of the most prominent of these, an African-American man named "Chris", is in fact a member of Pastor Anderson's congregation.
"Chris" was on Alex Jones' "Prison Planet" radio show late last week and discussed how "my pastor was beaten up" at a Border Patrol checkpoint.
Yes, that pastor is indeed Steven Anderson, who was arrested in April by the Border Patrol for being uncooperative at a patrol checkpoint. Anderson attempted to make himself something of a national martyr to the conspiracists out there by posting a video to YouTube about it that quickly went viral.
Jones took note of the Anderson connection:
Jones: Now I'm starting to get a clearer picture. You go to Pastor Anderson's church, I see.
Chris: Yeah, yes I do. Proudly. I think it's the best church in the world.
I just had to share this ridiculous clip of Bishop Harry Jackson's flaming pile of crap about health care reform. He held an entertainingly dumb event at the National Press Club held by the National Black Pro-Life Union & Priests for Life.
While babbling his belief that equal access to health care will result in black genocide as the abortion floodgates open, He adds that it's "reverse classist." I found myself staring at the nasty red weave of that woman behind Jackson. If you have to buy your hair, spend more than $20. There are good weaves, and then there is the obvious fake stuff on her head.
The health care debate goes over the sanity edge again, this time in Las Vegas, as a woman shouts "Heil Hitler" to a Jewish man who merely shared his support for Israel's health care system, which is "both universal and compulsory, and is administered by a small number of organizations with funding from the government. All Israeli citizens are entitled to the same Uniform Benefits Package, regardless of which organization they are a member of, and treatment under this package is funded for all citizens regardless of their financial means."
I'm with Jesse at Pandagon...this sh*t is so bigoted and disjointed that you don't know where to begin.
We have now reached the point in the American dialogue where a Jew from a country full of Jews is a Nazi because his people have banded together to provide for their own health. But those same Jews are also the Jews of liberal fascism, because everyone who lives under a socialized health care system is also a victim of the system, even if they inflicted it on themselves. So, at the end of the day, Israelis are both the Nazis and the Jews of liberal fascism, brutalizing themselves under their terrible regime of paying for their own improved health.
Wow, even I don’t know what the hell is going on here.
God, what is going on in this country? It's like a giant slice of America (clearly the same 20%-25% that always managed to think, even at his lowest point, that George W. Bush was doing a good job) has just lost it. The tinfoil hat, birther and teabagger crowds are being stoked with this insanity. Media Matters:
Blend reader GottaLaff of The Political Carnival was so incensed about the right wing, racist nutbag who ripped up a poster of Rosa Parks during a Sen. McCaskill town hall that he contacted David Shuster about it, and then emailed me to say his report was on.
Earlier today, I Tweeted David Shuster about the video Paddy found of a clip that the corporate media had conveniently ignored (they only aired an out-of-context segment that showed an African American woman being ejected from a town hall meeting, implying that she had instigated the disruption).
Shuster apparently found the clip as informative as we did, and included it as part of a broader discussion, and for that we thank him.
Wow. Just. Wow. All I know is if this is the path these people are taking, the darkest days are ahead. Exclusive video from an incident at Senator McCaskill's town hall in eastern Missouri:
This is the only video of what actually happened at the event this afternoon. The news only showed the woman being escorted away by the police. What happened was the women walked in with signs, the crowd booed and yelled at the women. The women rolled up their posters and put them down. A photographer/reporter approached the woman on the end and wanted to see what the poster was. As the woman went to show the photographer/reporter what the poster was, a man from the bleachers stood up and snatched the poster from the woman and photographer/reporter. As the woman went to retrieve her poster the police stepped in and escorted the woman and the man from the building.
The poster was not of Obama, it was not pro health care, the poster that was taken from the woman and wrinkled up into a ball was of Rosa Parks.
National news coverage only showed the woman being escorted from the forum and left out the fact that it was the man who started the incident. Not to mention it was a poster of Rosa Parks.
Angry Black Bitch has an on-site report of the out-of-control nightmare coming from the kind of people we saw in full-out-racist mode at McCain/Palin rallies during the campaign.
I did have an unfortunate incident with a woman when I was trying to make a phone call outside of the hall while being black. She got up in my face...said something about being tired of all us [insert N-word]...and then called me a baby killer (I was wearing a pink Planned Parenthood t-shirt). She was quickly escorted away by an extremely nice and police officer.
They are so far off the reality-based charts that it's hopeless to think the conflicts will not escalate:
A lot of the folks in attendance were confused. President Obama was portrayed on signs and pamphlets as some sort of Nazi, socialist, foreign born, communist, Muslim, euthanasia enthusiast, fascist who wants to tyrannically impose new environmental standards to perpetuate the dangerous myth of global warming all the while teaching the wee little babies about birth control in pre-school and plotting to knock off Grandma.
These people seem to be scared shitless by the Obama presidency.
Many of them are on Medicare...like Medicare...don't want to see Medicare go away, but are opposed to government healthcare coverage options.
Is it me or have these people gone over the edge and into a complete eliminationist stance? Peter Daou on protests at Obama's NH stop.
I am deeply concerned that the summer of 2009 has set the stage for bloodshed to come. The kind of rage we're seeing, based on Limbaugh, Coulter and Hannity-style soundbites, is dangerous. It's like a cancer that grows with time and we need to be vigilant in defending against it.
In that regard, check out this video from outside President Obama's NH visit. And listen for these words:
"Send [illegal immigrants] home with a bullet in the head the second time"
"Read what Jefferson said about the Tree of Liberty - it's coming baby."
[Jefferson said "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."]
UPDATE: Here's the interview by Chris Matthews of the man who was packing heat at the Obama rally in NH:
But let's be clear: anyone watching the mounting rage over, of all things, health care - perhaps one of the most boring and complex policy subjects - has to worry that these people are going to try to kill Barack Obama. That's not an extrapolation from unhinged rhetoric, or a partisan reading of the imagined intentions of our political enemies. It's a rational reading of the anticipated behavior of a man who brandishes a gun at the location where the president is expected to imminently arrive while holding a sign that openly advocates his assassination. And the astonishing, breathtaking, maddening fact that he hasn't been violently taken to the ground by large men wearing suits and earpieces is an open encouragement to anyone else so inclined to give it a shot.
There are always people who want to kill the president. Generally speaking, they are politically marginalized, insane, and/or too incompetent to come close to achieving their ends. But in the past six months, people who would be inclined to do violence to our political leaders have been affirmatively embraced by the Republican Party and its messaging operation.
Wingnut radio host and supremely anti-gay and offensive Clown Hall columnist Kevin McCullough inadvertently gives a comical interview to Daddy-D's "news organ" CitizenLink. Perhaps the most revealing moment is a portrayal of actor and fundie Stephen Baldwin's immersion into Christian radio, something McCullough takes credit for:
I think everyone's going to want to know how you got Stephen Baldwin involved in all this!
I had moved to New York in 2003 to do a show there. And Stephen's wife, the lovely Mrs. Baldwin, was listening. She listens to Christian radio all the time. And she had my show on and she's using the butcher knife and she's chopping the vegetables for the dinner that night and she's talking out loud to no one in the kitchen. She's like, "That's right, you tell 'em!" "That's what I'm sayin'!" Stephen comes down and he's like, "Sweetie, who are you talking to?" And she's got this butcher knife in her hands and she wheels around and points the butcher knife at him and says, "You need to be more like that guy!" Stephen started listening and he's always been a junkie of talk radio. And so he called in and funny enough, I didn't know who he was! But he, for no explainable reason, befriended me and out of that friendship grew a real, simultaneous passion to reach the fifteen to thirty-four generation.
The interview also covers McCullough's unsurprising but tired opposition to health care reform by referring to the plan as 'Gestapo-care':
If you historically understand that the Gestapo was the part of the SS who were basically empowered to report on their neighbors, to be the nannies of everyone else around them, that's what the White House asked us to do on its blog when it said, 'if you receive emails, if you are seeing web sites or if you're having casual conversations in which people are spreading "disinformation." And given what this administration seems to already have the penchant to do, and that is interpret things to their advantage at all times, if you just have a different opinion about it or draw a different statistical conclusion that doesn't square with their numbers, I could be considered to be someone spreading disinformation. As I told Cavuto on Fox News, the executive branch of government has no business monitoring my own private discussions about health care. So, on that level alone, I think that it is a Gestapo-like tactic that they were trying to very subtly encourage.
WTF? Isn't it interesting that people like McCullough (and his listeners), always seem to want government out of our private lives but they are the first to scream and protest for federal and state control over whether LGBTs can be fired for being out, or whether same-sex couples can marry.
More below the fold -- how this kind of garbage stokes the know-nothing/birther/health care town hall nutcases.
Is it a surprise anymore when we find out the crazies who engage in these violent public mow-downs are riled up by religious extremist and eliminationist movements? Add George Sodini to the list.
As George Sodini wrote on December 29, 2008, "Just got back from tanning, been doing this for a while. No gym today, my elbow is sore again. I actually look good. I dress good, am clean-shaven, bathe, touch of cologne - yet 30 million women rejected me - over an 18 or 25-year period."
Media analysis has so far ignored or glossed over Sodini's religious affiliations but the shooter's Internet diary suggest his last readings were the Bible and a book by a Texas evangelist, R.B. Thieme, Jr. who has written that husbands own their wives, as literal property and promoted an odd teaching that for each man on Earth there exists only one correct "right woman" in all creation.
...George Sodini's weblog lays considerable blame for his self-admitted psychological problems on the Pittsburgh-based Tetelestai Church which by his account Sodini attended for 13 years, up through 2006. The pastor of Tetelestai, James R. Knapp, is one of a few luminaries in the small fundamentalist universe under the sway of Texas evangelist and prolific author R.B. Thieme, Jr. -- a retired US Air Force Colonel known to wear his old military uniform while giving sermons who has been accused of cultic and authoritarian practices and wrote doctrine asserting that "[a] married woman is the property of the man she marries."
I am convinced that more drastic action is required to bring the country back to the Constitutional order that it was 200 years ago. I don't think any group of political leaders will achieve this for us.
And as part of his legacy, this b*stard left this YouTube behind. (CBS):
It screens like a self help video of the damned.
George Sodini, the man police say walked into a Pennsylvania health club Tuesday night, calmly turned off the lights and fired 30 bullets into a room full of women before killing himself, has left one more disturbing legacy, a Youtube video in which he calmly stares at the camera and says "It is easy for me to hide from my emotions for one more day." In the online video, which, according to Youtube, was posted more than a year ago, Sodini seems to be running through a self help checklist, talking about driving in his car, listening to music and day dreaming.
Did I add that this guy also has a problem with black folks? Take a look below the fold.
On Huff Post, Thomas B. Edsall spends a good bit of time breaking down just how demographically stuck in the mud the Republican Party is. Having turned off Latinos its beyond-hostile stance on immigration, it has missed a growth opportunity because of its bigoted base of blue collar, religious conservative voters (primarily in the South), a demographic that is their only growth area.
With Republican party leaders so constrained by ideological blinders that none of their positions is likely to produce gains among non-white minorities, especially Hispanics, the GOP is finding it has no real alternative but to revert to a "white voter" strategy.
To some extent, it's working. The party's opposition to President Obama's agenda -- particularly his cap-and-trade energy proposal and health care reform plan -- is resonating strongly with disaffected white Democratic voters. Republican grievances about Obama, combined with race-baiting commentary from the far-right ideologues who have become some of the most dominant voices of the modern GOP, have led to a precipitous drop in the president's approval ratings among whites.
Polling data shows that members of this group who took a chance on Obama (most never really supporters of Barack Obama in the first place), are "coming home" to the party of last resort. The GOP and its unappointed leadership -- Rush, Hannity, O'Reilly, Coulter -- don't believe in broadening the party, and the alienated sheeple have clung onto the race-baiting and sheer lunacy (the Birthers) that leaves the party looking even more extreme and desperate. Take a look at the photos in this post -- taken by BlueNC's Jerimee Richer last week of the teabagger crowd protesting the President's town hall on health care in Raleigh . This is the Base the GOP has to expand.
The appeal of the anti-Obama agenda has proven to be particularly strong among whites of low and moderate incomes. The Pew Center, tracking evaluations of Obama's job performance, found in a July 30 report that there "has been essentially no shift in opinion among affluent whites [but] among whites with annual family incomes of less than $75,000, Obama's approval ratings have declined substantially (from 57% in June to 47% today). Assessments of Obama's performance remain high among African Americans (85%)."
...Republican pollster Bill McInturff notes that his party must make substantial gains among Hispanic voters or be relegated to minority status. But that just isn't likely.
With a solid majority of Republican senators opposed to the appointment of Sonia Sotomayor, the first Latina nominee to the Supreme Court, and a solid phalanx of adamant Republican opposition to any immigration reform which provides a path to permanent residency of illegal immigrants, the GOP has no real chance of increasing its share of the Hispanic vote.
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Keyboard protection on...look at who's invited and who's confirmed to attend the 2009 Values Voter Summit. It's like the best of the Blend collection of wingers and fundies. Honest to god, did Stephen Baldwin think this head shot was a good idea to circulate? And lookee here -- RNC head also-ran Ken Blackwell and Washington State's fundie laughingstock Ken Hutcherson are on board.
Below the fold are more invitees...it's too delicious.
Following up the last post on the kind of people bedding down with the GOP, here's another wing of the fringe -- the Minutemen nativists now have to comment on a just-arrested multiple-murder suspect that used to be among its leadership. The body count by the eliminationist wing continues to rise.
Two of three people arrested in a southern Arizona home invasion that left a little girl and her father dead had connections to a Washington state anti-illegal immigration group that conducts border watch activities in Arizona.
Jason Eugene Bush, 34, Shawna Forde, 41, and Albert Robert Gaxiola, 42, have been charged with two counts each of first-degree murder and other charges, said Sheriff Clarence Dupnik of Pima County, Ariz.
The trio are alleged to have dressed as law enforcement officers and forced their way into a home about 10 miles north of the Mexican border in rural Arivaca on May 30, wounding a woman and fatally shooting her husband and their 9-year-old daughter. Their motive was financial, Dupnik said.
...Forde is the leader of Minutemen American Defense, a small border watch group, and Bush goes by the nickname "Gunny" and is its operations director, according to the group's Web site. She is from Everett, Wash., has recently been living in Arizona and was once associated with the better known and larger Minuteman Civil Defense Corps.
Of course now the Minutemen are scurrying like roaches when a light is flipped on to disown her and declare her a lone wolf. I guess the positive way to look at it is that they knew it was beyond the pale to have their name attached to this woman.
"This is not what Minutemen do," said member Chuck Stonex, who responded to an e-mail from The Associated Press sent through the Web site. "Minutemen observe, document and report. This is nothing more than a cold-hearted criminal act, and that is all we want to say."
Also, PunkZanyJ in the comments mentioned this bit of business from Mat Staver, Matt Barber and their friends at Liberty Counsel....via Kyle @ Right Wing Watch:
Back in April and May I wrote a whole series of posts about how the Right was systematically trumping-up a controversy over the Department of Homeland Security Report, "Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment" (PDF,)" which eventually led the DHS to pull the report.
Now, in light of the murder of Dr. George Tiller and the recent shooting at the Holocaust Museum, we're seeing a variety of pieces claiming that these events validate the report's warnings. And undoubtedly they do, but the irony here is that this report was never about run-of-the-mill conservatives or right-wing political groups - it was focused on violent, racist, anti-Semitic, and anti-government extremists - but it was the conservatives and right-wing political groups who made it about them.
...The report was not a warning about mainstream conservative political groups or lawful anti-abortion activists or religious organizations - it was a report about violent, radical extremists. But it was the Right that intentionally conflated the two and now, in the wake of two high-profile violent acts carried out by right-wing extremists, it is the Right that is insisting that they have nothing in common with such people.
And that is exactly the point: the report was not about them, but they made it about them because they thought they could score some political points and raise money by doing so.
How ridiculous and crass this phony controversy became can pretty much be summed up by these cards, which the Liberty Counsel is still selling on its website, that, in light of the recent attacks, seem to be in pretty poor taste:
Wow. Just Wow. This is what it says as it asks for a donation:
If you believe in the sanctity of human life, religious freedom, traditional family values, supporting our veterans, the right to bear arms and limited federal government, you might be considered a right-wing extremist by Homeland Security.
George Washington would call you a Patriot!
If you are proud to stand for liberty, the original intent of the Constitution of the United States of America and the Declaration of Independence, you can order your Right-Wing Extremist ID Card for a donation of any amount. If you want to be the proud owner of this humorous card, click here to donate and remember to note "ID Card" in the Comment section. Thank you for standing firm for American liberty.
Church leaders deem Good News for Modern Man, the Evidence Bible, the New International Version Bible, the Green Bible and the Message Bible, as well as at least seven other versions of the Bible as "Satan's Bibles," according to the website. Attendees will also set fire to "Satan's popular books" such as the work of "heretics" including the Pope, Mother Teresa, Billy Graham and Rick Warren.
Josh at 
It's kind of interesting to see prime examples of what we politely call "low information voters." These are people who form their opinions based on little or no research, when they need to read a variety of news sources on complex issues like health care. They usually receive information about candidates from TV or maybe only commercials. Sometimes it's just talk radio, with Glenn Beck, Rush and Hannity doing the thinking for them.
Well we can confirm one thing about this the fundamentalist who called for the execution of Barney Frank and the President (as well as all you Sodomites out there) -- the Secret Service was right in paying LaBarbera Award-winner Steven Anderson of Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Arizona a visit. 
OMFG. People thought this guy was just a joke; no one's laughing now. Via 
So it turns out that Contessa Brewer had good reason to see a connection between the rabidly hateful rhetoric spewed by the likes of Pastor Steven Anderson and the angry, gun-toting protesters turning out for presidential events: One of the most prominent of these, an African-American man named "Chris", is in fact a member of Pastor Anderson's congregation.
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