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Re: Honey, I Found the Voter Registration Fraud
05/22/12 6:02 am
Question: Does the GOP at any level do anything like a basic background check? It'd make elections a lot less embarassing.Re: Morning Awful: Libertarians
05/18/12 12:42 pm
Quoth Cerberus at Sadly, No!: You know, I want a magic button that deprives people who say they are self-made and didn’t rely on no gover...Re: Morning Awful: Libertarians
05/18/12 5:11 am
:: facepalm :: Libertarians remind me of starry-eyed 19 year-old college students who have lots of lofty ideas that would never work in ...05/17/12 6:40 am
Conrad Black did it to get a fancy title and thought he wouldn't get caught.Re: Wingnut Wind Power Wankery is Not About Free Markets
05/14/12 4:48 pm
You can add this to the list of idiocies. –alopeciaRe: Morning Awful: Closet Romney
05/13/12 9:58 am
As Bill Maher said in his monologue on Friday (one of the more prescient comments), in most salons, the guy wielding the scissors is the ga...Re: The Democratic Party Marijuana Evolution
05/11/12 3:48 pm
Buy stocks in marijuana too. It goes to a good cause and you make some money on the side. If marijuana is so bad, why is it that there are ...05/09/12 2:47 pm
I swear, I wrote this last night, and I had no idea what was coming today.Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 10:37 am
My thoughts on this are going up in a comic later tonight. Good news is, it appears the President listened to them before they even got ...Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 6:03 am
I was so disappointed when I heard the news about North Carolina this morning. There's still a lot of work to do.Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 2:26 am
Thank you. I could not have said this better. The more they bemoan and bully the President for a response, the more divided the Democrats l...05/08/12 12:39 pm
This makes perfect sense. My problem is that I have come to dislike organized religion so much, feel so cynical about it, I don't know...Re: #StopRush, ALEC, and the Howard Stern Category
05/08/12 11:59 am
Like “class warfare,” it is only wrong when we fight back. Sounds an awful lot like every bully, everywhere, doesn't it? –alopeciaRe: Morning Awful: Mitt Romney is Weak
05/08/12 6:46 am
Rachel Maddow is rooting for Ron Paul...and thinks the current president has too much power - like there ARE two other branches of governme...
Category Archives: astroturf politics
Zombie Sequel
Maddow notes the zombie overlords’ renewed vigor:
Most Wanted Hack
My Ten Most Wanted list of shills, hacks, and mixed nuts has a new member: Patrick Michaels, pictured on the right, is the energy industry’s go-to “climatologist.” Mother Jones has a thorough disposal here. My favorite section is the part … Continue reading
Scammy Smell Smites Silly Sophist
I’ve been forecasting this meltdown since last April. From Alan Colmes’s Liberaland, we learn that tea party panjandrum Erick Erickson will not attend the astroturfers convention in Nashville because it “smells scammy:” I am afraid Sarah Palin is going to … Continue reading
NOM Prejean Fiasco Fixup
Carrie Prejean has been pulled from the frontpage of National Organization for Marriage (NOM). Surely you remember NOM’s greatest hits? NOM derided her firing from the “office” of Miss California as “character assassination.” Their July press release made sure to … Continue reading
"Corporate Parasites"
Maddow takes on Tim Phillips of Americans For Prosperity, an astroturf group behind the tea party movement and sponsor of the Right Online conference:
Crowd Inflation
Just as a reminder, the kind of outright invention of crowd sizes for last Saturday’s “tea party” is nothing new. Back in April, Neal Cavuto was captured on camera inflating the number of people at an anti-tax tea party: Faux … Continue reading
Expert Opinion on DC Crowd Size
How big was the crowd at Saturday’s tea party? Chris Weigant should know: I’ve been in more protests on the Mall than I can count. Most in my wild and hotheaded youth, but the memories remain clear. You can easily … Continue reading
Tea Party Racism
One year ago, FreedomWorks astroturfer Dick Armey said the “bubba vote” would prevent the election of Barack Obama. Here’s the video: Dick Armey added that “Republicans would not encourage” such prejudices. Then after the election of Barack Obama, he set … Continue reading
Astroturfing for Assassination?
More hypocrisy from the Cessna Conservative set: the astroturfers are buying TV ad time on Martha’s Vineyard during Obama’s vacation there: Rick Scott, chairman of Conservatives for Patients’ Rights said: “While President Obama is vacationing in the surf at Martha’s … Continue reading
Dick Armey is Not Hurting
You may have heard that Dick Armey had to resign from his law firm job due to pressure from clients. He’s already something of a false martyr among the wingnut bloggers, but hold your pity: Armey is definitely not hurting. … Continue reading
The Teabagger Fail
The teabaggers are clueless about the self-parodying nature of their astroturf protests. Yes, the jokes just write themselves: But the big teabag fail is pre-ordained by the facts on the ground: most Americans think their taxes are fair. Gallup’s annual … Continue reading
