This is no surprise to anyone. Not only do they hate gays, but they hate gays Obama has hired to work for him. Fox ”News” personalities, followed by other conservative media outlets and gay-bashing organizations, have launched a relentless assault against acknowledged homosexual Kevin Jennings, an official in the Department of Education. At issue, is an episode Jennings recounted in a book (available...

In yet another rant on Fox “News” today, Glenn Beck lashed out at the media for what he views as persecution. He started by saying what we all know–”I’m not a journalist.” Then he claimed he was just “a dad, a private citizen trying to do the right thing.” Actually, Glenn, you are a public figure, not a private citizen. As for wanting people to lay off you because...

Yesterday, the conservative, often controversial (and even more often debunked) media organization Newsmax published an article by John L. Perry that describes how a coup d’etat against President Obama might occur. Newsmax quickly disowned the article, removing it from its Website and issuing a statement (per Media Matters): In a blog posting to Newsmax John Perry wrote about a coup scenario involving...

Fox “News” and other conservatives are STILL obsessing over this. By now, you have likely heard the whole story. Teachers at a Burlington Township New Jersey public school requested parental permission to have preschool students sing a song that praised President Obama during February’s Black History Month. A teacher recorded the children and, without the school’s permission, posted the...

Sometimes calling people on their craziness puts the accuser at risk of sounding crazy him or herself, but I think it is time to stop ignoring the evidence put before us nearly every day and acknowledge the truth: Glenn Beck hopes to ignite armed revolution against the United States government. To that end, he established the 9-12 project, which has networked people who, like Beck, desire the overthrow of this...

As far as I can tell, this blog is the first to post about Lynn Jenkins and the vote on the Jack Johnson Resolution, for which Jenkins was present. It was posted here, and I referred to it on a couple of other progressive blogs. The next day, a Canadian newspaper picked up the story. I guess I should be flattered that a mainstream newspaper thinks it was a worthy discovery, but it also would have been nice to...

Self-proclaimed former drug addict and alcoholic Glenn Beck never went to college and completed a degree program, and it is becoming increasingly clear that he is someone who might benefit from additional education. It is not just because he cannot spell O-L-I-G-A-R-C-H-Y (too bad for Beck that chalkboards lack built-in spellcheckers) or that he cannot understand why 46 advertisers have stopped sponsoring his...

We have reached a point in society where honest discourse is not allowed in the political arena. Anyone who endeavors for a government position instantly becomes accountable for every word uttered or written in adulthood or they are tainted by decades-old associations, no matter how seemingly innocuous at the time of their occurrence. These “Gotcha!” attacks rarely spring from honest outrage. They...

According to Marc Armbinder in the Atlantic Monthly, an anonymous White House official told him that Kathleen Sibelius was incorrect when she said a public option was not a key part of reform. Perhaps part of the difficulty in getting everyone unified in support of reform and the president’s position is that the White House cannot seem to unify its own team on this issue. In July, it was Rahm Emanuel whose...

Yesterday, in “Dumb of the Day,” we featured a comment from an Investor’s Buiness Daily anti-healthcare reform editorial in which they made the following comment: People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn’t have a chance in the U.K., where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless. We would link...