Posted 4:48 PM by Scoobie Davis

The Googlebomb Blog is Back!
Back in 2003, I discovered the power of Googlebombs. In 2005, I created the Google bomb Project Blog. The blog has been very effective in increasing the visibility of negative but truthful web sites to people who do keyword searches of prominent right-wing personalities and ideas. However, in the fall of 2006, other progressive bloggers such as Chris Bowers of MyDD seized upon my idea and publicized the idea of g-bombing GOP congressional candidates (BTW, they failed to give me any credit for coming up with idea). This concerned me because g-bombs are most effective when they occur under the radar (articles in Slate and The New York Times were not helpful). Also, these progressive bloggers didn't know the nuances of g-bombing and their actions threatened to majorly fuck things up with Google (since the publicized attempted to manipulate ranking, Google has changed its indexing to attempt to thwart this manipulation).

I laid low and the blog has been dormant for the past three years. However, I have decided to revamp the blog. The latest target is Glenn Beck.

Here's how to G-Bomb Glenn Beck

1. Copy and paste the following to your web site or on an internet bulletin board:


<a href="http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200911060002">Glenn Beck</a>
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/search/tag/glenn_beck">Glenn Beck</a>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA7-BvVDV10">Glenn Beck</a>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgbg604XqPY">Glenn Beck</a>
<a href="http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/obamas-army-glenn-beck-sees-scary-bl">Glenn Beck</a>
<a href="http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/10/12/glenn_beck/index.html">Glenn Beck</a>
<a href="http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-august-13-2009/glenn-beck-s-operation">Glenn Beck</a>
<a href="http://www.dickipedia.org/dick.php?title=Glenn_Beck">Glenn Beck</a>


The results will look like this:

Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck

Posted 7:01 PM by Scoobie Davis

Michael Savage:"Liberalism" to Blame for Fort Hood Massacre
I heard him say it on his radio show this afternoon. That didn't take long.

Posted 2:19 PM by Scoobie Davis

For Fuck's Sake, Don't Legitimize Fox News!
Potentially bad news:

Fox News Channel and the Obama administration are talking.

The network confirmed a Politico report that Fox news executive Michael Clemente met at the White House on Wednesday with Robert Gibbs, President Barack Obama's press secretary. There were no details given about the meeting.


Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/29/white-house-fox-news-meet_n_338111.html

I think it would be a big mistake for the Obama White House to abandon its war on Fox News. Here are just a few reasons.

UPDATE: Frank Rich agrees.

Posted 2:33 PM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
30 reasons why Fox News is not legit

Posted 1:42 PM by Scoobie Davis

New Posts
Check out the Moon and Amway blogs.

Posted 6:47 PM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
Joe Conason, "Criticizing Fox News isn't 'Nixonian.' But Fox News is"

Posted 1:08 PM by Scoobie Davis

Just a Thought
Since Media Matters arrived on the scene in 2004, I've listened to a lot less right-wing talk radio. However, for the past couple days, I've been listening to Glenn Beck's radio show and watching his television show on Fox News. Beck really reminds me of the type of guy who would try to sell me an AMC Matador.

Posted 3:39 PM by Scoobie Davis

Keyword Searches that People Used to Get to This Site
Every once in a while, I post a list of keyword searches that web searchers have used to get to my site (I last posted on this topic here). As usual, it shows that there are some strange people out there:

davis,ca horny woman
is john hagee hedonistic?
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nude shot of president bush's daughter
kellyanne conway tits pics
kellyanne conway pussy oops pics
fox hannity nipples
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is mark levin nuts
julia ann cuckold sessions
tamron hall see through shirt while reporting on inauguration
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Posted 10:28 AM by Scoobie Davis

No Need to Make Up Quotes: Rush Limbaugh Has Said Plenty of Racist Things
During the controversy over whether radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh should be allowed to be minority owner of the NFL St. Louis Ram franchise, a couple racist quotes (extolling slavery and MLK assassin James Earl Ray) were falsely attributed to Limbaugh. When I heard about them, I knew they were false. The reasons: they were said to be from the 1990's; had Limbaugh actually made the statements on his radio show in the 90's, I would have heard about them earlier.

Who posted the phony quotes? I don't know but one thing I know is that, like the Killian documents, the fact that some in the media have jumped on the quotes has allowed Limbaugh to play the victim and sidestep the real issue: Limbaugh's longtime pattern of appealing to racists. Yesterday, when I tuned into Limbaugh's radio show, Limbaugh was whining that he was shut out of the NFL because of the phony quotes and that he was unfairly being called a racist. This was the same line of reasoning that I have heard on other right-wing talk radio shows since then. Did Limbaugh or a Limbaugh ally plant the phony quotes in order to garner sympathy for Limbaugh and muddy the waters? I can only speculate.

The fact is that Limbaugh has a history of making racist comments so there's no need for anyone to make anything up. Let's discuss some of Limbaugh's racist comments and actions (this is by no means an exhaustive list):

1. Limbaugh was one of the biggest defenders of the rogue cops who beat Rodney King. In the 1990's, Limbaugh devoted large segments of his radio and television show to try to excuse their actions. For instance, Limbaugh made this incredible statement on his radio show, "The videotape of the Rodney King beating played absolutely no role in the conviction of two of the four officers. It was pure emotion that was responsible for the guilty verdict."

2. Before Trent Lott was exposed for waxing nostalgic about Strom Thurmond's 1948 Dixiecrat presidential run, here's what Limbaugh said about Thurmond's past: "He's not encumbered by being politically correct.... If you want to know what America used to be--and a lot of people wish it still were--then you listen to Strom Thurmond." Irony alert: One recent Limbaugh apologist referred to a "media lynch mob" against Limbaugh; Thurmond's 1948 platform explicitly opposed federal anti-lynching laws.

3. I noted on my blog in 2003 that Limbaugh did a sketch that parodied the 2004 Democratic presidential candidates--comparing them to characters in Gone with the Wind--when Carol Moseley-Braun's name was announced, a sound-alike of the character Prissy shouted, "I don't know nothin' about runnin' for no president!" No surprise, whenever Limbaugh would address Moseley-Braun on his radio show, he would play the theme to The Jeffersons TV show.

4. Limbaugh has a problem with the NAACP. In the past he has called the group "the NAALCP (National Association for the Advancement of Liberal Colored People)." Despite a history of nonviolence (The organization has recently celebrated a century of nonviolent activism), Limbaugh said, "The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies."

5. I wrote about Limbaugh's reaction to the prospect of Trent Lott resigning form the Senate and Mike Espy, an African-American, taking Lott's seat.

6. Limbaugh on Jesse Jackson: "Have you ever noticed how all composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?"

7. Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting reported the following: "In 1994, Limbaugh mocked St. Louis for building a rail line to East St. Louis 'where nobody goes.' East St. Louis is home to roughly 40,000 residents -- 98 percent of whom are African-Americans. One of its 40,000 'nobodies' is star NFL linebacker Bryan Cox."

8. Limbaugh to a black caller, "Take that bone out of your nose and call me back."

9. Limbaugh on the NFL: "NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons"

10. Limbaugh on American blacks: "They are 12 percent of the population. Who the hell cares?"

11. In 1992, on his now-defunct TV show, Limbaugh expressed his ire when Spike Lee urged that black schoolchildren get off from school to see his film Malcolm X: "Spike, if you're going to do that, let's complete the education experience. You should tell them that they should loot the theater, and then blow it up on their way out."

Unfortunately, I could go on.

Posted 9:53 AM by Scoobie Davis

Big Post Today
I'll have it up soon.

Posted 2:55 PM by Scoobie Davis

The White House Should Damn The Critics and Go Full Speed Ahead Against Fox News
Since the Obama White House has been candid about Fox News being a partisan operation posing as a news outlet, the push back from Fox has been predictable. A few nonpartisans has also questioned the White House's marginalizing of Fox. Here are the main objections:

1. The Obama White House is creating an "enemies list" against journalists, the same way that the Nixon White House acted toward The Washington Post and New York Times. Glenn Beck, appealing to journalists in other media outlets, compared the White House's actions to those of the Nazis. This, of course, is sophistry. The Nixon White House targeted The Post because they were engaging in legitimate journalism that resulted in Nixon's resignation. On the other hand, the Obama White house is calling a spade a spade.

2. Many of Fox News viewers are Democrats and independents, and the White House needs to reach out to these viewers, and that by marginalizing Fox, they are turning off these viewers. Fox News Democrat Pat Caddell recently made this argument on Glenn Beck's Fox News program. As I have pointed out previously, the best way to reach out to non-wing-nut Fox News viewers is to marginalize Fox and inform these people that Fox is not a legitimate news organization. By publicizing FNC's opposition to real journalism, it will turn off non-wing-nuts, leaving Fox with a rump viewership which will further marginalize it.

3. The Obama White House is only helping Fox News by increasing their ratings. Some people who are no fan of Fox News have made this argument on various cable show. However, this is a fallacious argument because, on cable, Fox News is the only game in town when it comes to legitimizing the wing-nut delusions of the hardcore twenty percent of the population that views Obama as a Kenyan-born usurper who is simultaneously a godless communist and a radical Muslim who wants to impose Sharia Law and socialism on Americans. Because the White House is taking on Fox, it will increase the number of wing-nuts watching it, but it will also decrease the number of non-wing-nuts watching it.

There is simply no reason why the Obama White House shouldn't stay the course.

UPDATE: One recent example of Fox News' agenda.

Posted 12:07 PM by Scoobie Davis

Posting Soon

Posted 5:15 PM by Scoobie Davis

Must View
Bravo! Obama Communications Director Anita Dunn: Fox News is "a wing of the Republican Party."

Read my recent post on why the Obama White House's strategy to marginalize Fox News.

Posted 5:06 PM by Scoobie Davis

Former President Bush Kisses Sun Myung Moon's Ass (Again)
Read about it on the Sun Myung Moon blog.

Posted 3:02 PM by Scoobie Davis

Fox News and Opinion Dynamics Violated Ethical Standards With Health Care Reform Poll
Last night Rachel Maddow addressed some leading questions that Fox News used in a poll of respondents prior to asking their opinion of health care reform. Maddow referenced Nate Silver's article on how the poll used loaded questions to skew the findings, e.g., "Do you think President Obama apologizes too much to the rest of the world for past U.S. policies?" and "Do you think Barack Obama's travel and speaking schedule makes him look more like he is a candidate on the campaign trail or more like he is the president of the United States?"

What I found incredible is that Joe Trippi appeared on the show and balked at denouncing the clearly biased polling. Not only was the poll flawed but it clearly violates the American Association for Public Opinion Research's Code of Professional Ethics & Practice for, among other things, "knowingly select[ing] research tools and methods of analysis that yield misleading conclusions" and for not exercising "due care in developing research designs and survey instruments, and in collecting, processing, and analyzing data, taking all reasonable steps to assure the reliability and validity of results."

Posted 1:43 PM by Scoobie Davis

Glenn Beck Thinks Teabaggers and 9-12 Flunkies Deserved The Nobel Peace Prize
(Updated below)
This morning when I heard that President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize, I knew the wing-nuts would go crazy. Although I try to avoid right-wing talk radio, I tuned in to Rush and Beck. No surprise for El Rushbo (e.g., here and here). However, Beck said that the teabaggers, 9-12ers, and town hall zanies should have received the award.

UPDATE I: A fellow blogger has a transcript:

The Nobel Peace Prize should be turned down by Barack Obama and given, you ready for this, this one is going to make headlines, should be given to the tea party goers and the 9/12 project.

UPDATE II: ThinkProgess has audio and a transcript.

Posted 5:41 PM by Scoobie Davis

Posting YouTube Videos Fairly Soon
I've had a lot of important things to do in the past few days. I will post a couple new YouTube videos soon. I won't let you know about the topic now, but I think you will find the videos amusing.

Posted 5:48 PM by Scoobie Davis

Andrew Breitbart Throws Stones At ACORN from Sun Myung Moon's Glass House

(Updated below)
The right has been in a feeding frenzy since some hidden-camera tapes from right-wing operatives (don't call them journalists) were aired on Fox News. Clearly, the operatives cast a wide net, hoping that lower-level ACORN workers in field offices would make incriminating statements (here's an article on the nature of these sting operations and how people get caught up in them).

The operatives are now in the employ of Andrew Breitbart, a commentator for Sun Myung Moon's Washington Times. Breitbart was so outraged by alleged "deep corruption and unspeakable immorality at the ACORN housing division" that he wrote about it in The Washington Times. As an employee of the Washington Times, whether he knows it or not, Breitbart is contributing to Moon's attempt to legitimize his worldview to the world; Moon said, "That is why Father [Moon referring to himself in the third person] has been combining and organizing scholars from all over the world, and also newspaper organizations, in order to make propaganda." Since Breitbart used the pages of a paper devoted to promoting the Unification Movement's worldview to slam ACORN, I thought a comparison of ACORN and the Unification movement would be in order:


UPDATE: True to form, Moon's Washington Times has been prominent in spreading the smear that Department of Education official Kevin Jennings had covered up sexual abuse in a school where he had been a teacher.

Posted 12:38 PM by Scoobie Davis

New Post on ACORN and Its Critics
Later today

UPDATE I: I was working on some sticky HTML stuff. I should have the post done Saturday morning. Sorry.

UPDATE II: Sorry, I should have it up by Monday or Tuesday--technical stuff, etc.

Posted 5:14 PM by Scoobie Davis

Obama's Fox News Snub: One Ginormous Reason (Out of Many) Why It's Better That Obama, Not Hillary, Is President
Yesterday, President Obama broke a presidential record by appearing on five talk shows, there was a notable omission from the president's itinerary: Fox News. To no surprise, the response by the fair and balanced channel was swift and nasty. Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace accused the Obama White House of being full of "crybabies" and berated them over their supposed "childishness" and "pettiness." On the Fox News Sunday panel, Wallace, Paul Gigot and Brit Hume berated Obama for not reaching out to as large an audience as possible by appearing on Fox. Wrong!

Snubbing Fox News is a Great Way of Reaching Out to the Right Kind of Fox News Viewer
The core of the Fox News viewership are those twenty percent of the American public that still had faith in George W. Bush after eight years. They are unreachable; they're the birthers, deathers, tenthers, and followers of assorted batshit conspiracy theorists. They the "heavy viewers" who watch the channel all day long.

However, by snubbing Fox News and generating publicity about the snub, Obama is reaching out to the causal Fox News viewer. As I noted a couple years ago, when prominent politicians snub Fox News, it generates publicity that lets the a casual viewer of Fox News that the channel is a political operation masquerading as a legitimate news outlet. This helps to delegitimize Fox with casual viewers and independent voters.

The White House statement diplomatically calling Fox News an "ideological outlet" whose operatives were "whining" over the snub was the cherry on top of great media victory over Murdoch, Ailes, Beck, Wallace, O'Reilly, Hannity, and the reason of the Fox News freak show.

Obama Versus Hillary Regarding Fox News
Recently, a PUMA blogger e-mailed me to see if I still thought that Obama is preferable to the Clintons. My answer: fucking-a right I do! This episode shows that Obama and his posse know the score: they put a foot to the asses of Roger Ailes and his lame-ass FNC operatives.

This is a stark contrast to when the Clintons were in the White House. They failed miserably when it came to the right's rat-fucking (I have posts on the Clintons' appalling ineptitude here and here). Worse, the Clintons did not learn any lessons from the past. During the 2008 campaign, even after there was no chance of winning the nomination, they gave credibility to the very miscreants--e.g., Ailes, Sun Myung Moon, Limbaugh, and Richard Mellon Scaife--who drove American politics into the gutter during the 90's (I have posts on this phenomena here and here). The Clinton campaign's cluelessness allowed them to work hand-in-hand with Limbaugh's Operation Chaos strategy to mortally wound Obama. Fortunately, Limbaugh's strategy failed--no thanks to the Clinton campaign.

There is simply no comparison between Obama and the Clintons when it comes to dealing with the hard right.

Posted 2:18 PM by Scoobie Davis

Posting Later Today
I promise

Posted 5:17 PM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
The rise of a new counterculture--a really lame counterculture

Posted 12:52 PM by Scoobie Davis

Pumping Up The Statcounter Stats
Here's the drill: whenever Playboy has a college conference pictorial, I rate the babes in order to pump up my traffic (because of horndogs looking for photos, pictures, video, and images). The latest issue of Playboy has the pictorial "The Girls of the ACC" (once again Hef ignored my plea for a pcitorial on the women of the Mid-American Conference). Anyhow, my ratings of the women:

Hottest: Jennifer Lynn of Maryland
First Runner-up: Sydnee Stone of Clemson
Second Runner-up: Alyssa Omlie of Virginia Tech

Honorable mention:
Stephanie Christie of UNC
Shayne Devereux of Georgia Tech
Alexandra Ford of Miami
Candice Maria of Duke
Shayna Taylor of Florida State
Connie Du and Noel Simone of Maryland
Carson of Wake Forest
Mya Matthews of Clemson
Ashley Smith of Georgia Tech
Jenna Arianna of UVA
Ashley Nicole of North Carolina State

Posted 10:22 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
Glenn Greenwald on the Right.

Posted 12:33 PM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
Then and now

Posted 4:40 PM by Scoobie Davis

Dueling Obits: History's Liberal Bias Once Again Rears Its Ugly Head
Until now, I haven't written anything about the passing of Teddy Kennedy. There are two reasons: 1) I have been very busy; and 2) I couldn't write anything that wasn't already written.

That changed on Sunday when I watched Fox News Sunday. Host Chris Wallace and Fox News' vice president of News (and former Moonie Times operative) Bill Sammon essentially cribbed from a Newsbusters article bemoaning the alleged double standard regarding the New York Times obituaries for Kennedy and former senator Jesse Helms:

CHRIS WALLACE: I also want to talk about the media coverage of Ted Kennedy since his death this week -- not only the amount of it, which was extraordinary, but also the tone of it. And I want to put up the first paragraph of the New York Times story on Ted Kennedy's death. This was the first paragraph this week. "Senator Edward M. Kennedy, a son of one of the most storied families in American politics, a man who knew acclaim and tragedy in near equal measure, and who will be remembered as one of the most effective lawmakers in the history of the Senate, died late Tuesday night."

Now, here's the first paragraph of the Times story on the passing of Jesse Helms last year. "Jesse Helms, the former North Carolina senator with the courtly manner and mossy drawl, who turned his hard-edged conservatism against civil rights, gay rights, foreign aid and modern art, died early Friday."

Bill Sammon, I'm sure some people will be offended that I'm even making the comparison between these two men, but that is a striking difference.

BILL SAMMON: It is, and there's two ways to rectify that obvious double standard. One would have been for the New York Times to find something nice to say about Jesse Helms substantively other than his mossy drawl. The other, if you're going to go the -- and I think that's the preferable way to do it, because you want to -- when someone dies, you want to find something nice to say. The other way, if they wanted to be fair, would -- they would have had to put something in the Ted Kennedy lead about Chappaquiddick, about his demagoguery of Robert Bork being, you know, lunch counter America and back alley abortions and all that kind of thing. But they didn't. So either way you do it, it's unfair, and that was a striking example.

What bullshit. Kennedy and Helms were opposites. Kennedy was a man from a privileged background who fought for the underdog and for the expansion of civil rights. Helms was from a modest background but was a shill for predatory interests and fought against human rights. When Helms wasn't shilling for the tobacco industry and factory hog farms, he was promoting the neo-Confederate movement, Salvadorean death squads, tribalism, philistinism, and sterile fundamentalism (Helms helped Jerry Falwell become a national figure in the 1970's).

Helms was a classic "Dixie demagogue." Michael Lind succintly described Helms:

Having crushed the Republican and Populist parties, the oligarchs imposed a one-party dictatorship on the region, with secret state surveillance units and occasional collaboration between the police and the Ku Klux Klan. In its economy, the South was a banana republic, a commodity-exporting resource colony in which a "comprador bourgeoisie" of local landowners and local businessmen collaborated with investors in New York and elsewhere in fleecing the region.

To serve their interests, the old latifundist families and corporate elites hired "Dixie demagogues," who were to genuine populists like William Jennings Bryan what a Disney pirate is to a pirate. All of them were entertaining. Some began as entertainers, like musician-slash-flour miller W. Lee "Pass the Biscuits, Pappy" O'Daniel, who went from hosting the "Hillbilly Flour" radio show to the Texas governor's mansion in 1939. The "Dixie demagogues" denounced various supposed enemies of the white tribe, but with two exceptions -- Huey Long and George Wallace -- they never threatened the rule of the country clubs and courthouse gangs. Jesse Helms was one of these theatrical quasi-populists, an uncomplicated establishment conservative who parlayed a liberal-baiting radio show into a political career. Like other faux-homespun Southern conservatives, he employed rhetorical populism against blacks, homosexuals, liberals, professors, modern artists and "common-ists" in the service of his business backers, most noticeably North Carolina's tobacco industry.

History has a liberal bias because liberals like Ted Kennedy have promoted the campaigns that have expanded human rights while right-wingers like Helms cynically fought reforms that enfranchised his fellow Southerners.

The Public/Private Divide
Helms and Kennedy are opposites in another area: the public/private divide. On Rush Limbaugh's radio show this week, guest-host neoconservative Mark Steyn faulted some liberals for saying that Kennedy's public achievements make up for his failures in private life--namely his boozing and womanizing.

This is true. Although Kennedy fought for the poor and disenfranchized, his personal conduct was notorious. This is the mirror opposite of Helms, who despite his racist and reactionary views, was--by all accounts, the quintessential Southern gentlemen in his personal life. My response: if Kennedy boned an occasional barista on his own time, who the fuck cares? What matters is defending the rights of Americans in public policy (I previously discussed the issue of private versus public vice here) It comes down to this: If you were a Mississippi black in 1965 who were you going to depend upon, people like Kennedy or Helms? That's why history has judged Kennedy more favorably than Helms.

Posted 7:18 PM by Scoobie Davis

New Chick Tract
An apparent tribute to Billy Wilder titled, "Some Like It Hot." Enjoy.

Posted 3:50 PM by Scoobie Davis

Posting Later
I'm kind of busy. Quick note: since it came out a couple days ago that GOP gubernatorial candidate Robert McDonnell wrote some fucked-up things in grad school at Pat Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network University (now Regent U.; watch Jon Steward on CBNU), his stock is going down.


UPDATE: Tom Schaller asks if the thesis is McDonnell's "Macaca" Moment?

Posted 12:58 PM by Scoobie Davis

Busy Busy Busy
I will post tomorrow

Posted 5:05 PM by Scoobie Davis

I don't Know What to Make of This
Check it out for yourself

Posted 10:15 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
Column on Limbaugh, LaRouche, and Laffer

Posted 2:11 PM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
Rep. John Conyers in the Huffington Post: "Karl Rove, Rupert Murdoch, and Media Bias"

Posted 1:16 PM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
David Weigel on the similaries in the rhetoric of Republicans and the LaRouchies. I recently noted that at Sean Hannity's Freedom Concert, LaRouchies were handing out literature comparing Obama to Hitler. i have written about the nutjob followers of Lyndon LaRouche here.

Posted 9:56 AM by Scoobie Davis

New Post on The Sun Myung Moon Blog
Click here

Posted 9:35 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
Andy Ostroy on the whiny-babies at Fox News. Also, check out my old post on how to reach out to Fox News viewers.

Posted 12:52 PM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
Paul Krugman on the hard right:

Sure enough, President Obama is now facing the same kind of opposition that President Bill Clinton had to deal with: an enraged right that denies the legitimacy of his presidency, that eagerly seizes on every wild rumor manufactured by the right-wing media complex.

This opposition cannot be appeased. Some pundits claim that Mr. Obama has polarized the country by following too liberal an agenda. But the truth is that the attacks on the president have no relationship to anything he is actually doing or proposing. . .

. . .The truth is that the factors that made politics so ugly in the Clinton years — the paranoia of a significant minority of Americans and the cynical willingness of leading Republicans to cater to that paranoia — are as strong as ever. In fact, the situation may be even worse than it was in the 1990s because the collapse of the Bush administration has left the G.O.P. with no real leaders other than Rush Limbaugh.

Read the whole column.

Posted 10:55 AM by Scoobie Davis

Democrat [sic] Derangement Syndrome
Thank god for Media Matters for America. They listen to Rush, Hannity, and Beck so that I don't have to. However, I was listening to El Rushbo last week and I caught something that was particularly amusing. Limbaugh, like most wing-nuts, has the habit of using the word "Democrat" as an adjective when referring to matters relating to the Democratic Party (Hendrik Hertzberg has a succinct article on the matter). The habit apparently is deeply so ingrained in Limbaugh that he used it even when he was speaking about a small "d" democratic concept; last week, Limbaugh spoke about people who allegedly want to "sabotage the democrat [sic] process."

Posted 3:15 PM by Scoobie Davis

UPDATE
I updated my post on Sean Hannity's Freedom Concert.

Posted 1:48 PM by Scoobie Davis

Attending the 2009 Sean Hannity Freedom Concert
(UPDATED)
I attended the 2009 Sean Hannity Freedom Concert in San Diego yesterday. I can't disclose how I got in or how I got my really good seat that put me next to the stage and near to the Hannity clan (who were having a great time) and allowed me to post the first online photo of the Hannity's rather fetching wife.


Damn, I didn't see too many non-white people. Reminded me of the Bill O'Reilly event I covered for this blog in 2003 or the Nader 2000 campaign rally I attended.


I saw Carrie Prejean (who earlier was a guest on hanity's Fox News TV show before the concert (she also breifly spoke at the concert). Other non-musicians who appeared were actors Jon Voight and Jim Caviezel and Hannity's friend and fellow talk radio jock Mark Levin (I have written about Levin (click here and scroll down).

Performing at the concert were Lee Greenwood, Charlie Daniels, Billy Ray Cyrus, and Michael W. Smith. Hannity came out and sang "The Devil went Down to Georgia"; Hannity changed the lyrics a little near the end of the song, he tells the Devil, "I done told you once you liberal son of a bitch, I'm the best there's ever been"). The weirdest moment was during Michael W. Smith's performance. Smith introduced actor Jim Caviezel (who played Jesus in Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ). Caviezel spoke of his troubles during the filming such as dislocating his arm and being struck by lightning and how Smith's songs got him through the difficult shoot. Smith then sang a song as Caviezel sat on stage.

When I was in line to get into the venue, a follower of fringe presidential candidate Lyndon Larouche handed me the pamphlet pictured on the right that superimposes a photo of Obama with Hitler. That alone doesn't becasue LaRouchies go to progressive events too. However, it was rather revealing that when Hannity's fellow radio talk show host Mark Levin told the crowd about taking on "Obama and his brownshirts."

I will update this post later. One final quick thought: I knew I had to take some of the finest SoCal chronic with me to the event. There were 13,000 people attending a music concert and I was probably the only one there who was baked.

Posted 9:36 AM by Scoobie Davis

LOL! I Attended Sean Hannity's Freedom Concert 2009 in San Diego Last Night
I had one of the best seats in the house to boot! I was right by the stage sitting near to Hannity's wife Jill. I was able to get a picture of her (this seems to be the only online pic of her; BTW, that's Billy Ray Cyrus on the screen).

The experience was a total trip. I will have more later. Tease: there was more than one Obama/Nazi reference last night.

UPDATE: here's my post on the event.

Posted 12:55 PM by Scoobie Davis

New Post
On the Anti-Amway blog, I have a short post regarding the charges that Erik Prince, and in-law in the DeVos family, has been involved in murder, arms smuggling, and child prostitution.

Posted 2:01 PM by Scoobie Davis

Light Posting
I'm busy--the beach and other stuff.

Posted 5:27 PM by Scoobie Davis

Happy 100th Birthday, Lincoln Penny
It's today. According to Measuring Worth, a cent in 1909 is roughly equal to 24 cents today.

Posted 10:43 AM by Scoobie Davis

Must View
Bill Maher on the Birthers and the need to talk back to dumbassery:

Posted 1:00 AM by Scoobie Davis

Keyword Searches Used to Get to This Site
Every couple months, I do a list of keyword searches people used to get to this site (for the last list of keyword searches, click here). Here's the list of the weirdest during June and July:
callista bisek date of birth [note: Bisek is Wife # 3 for Newt Gingrich]
nikkala stott sideburns
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uncensored godaddy commercial candice michelle nude
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lowell ponte is a nut
alticor illuminati
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fred ricart's burnt asshole [Ricart is a prominent Columbus, Ohio car deal who was the victim of an urban legend that his betrayed wife shoved a hot curling iron up his poop-chute]
can you do amway global and be a filmmaker
karen hanretty big nipples
john cloud van dam nude [apparently the person was referring to Jean-Claude Van Damme]
alec baldwin handwritten letter
rush limbaugh cornholer
tamron hall nipples tits
erika christensen draw nude
directors showing off william holden's genitals
eva braun nude pictures
why do michael savage and mark levin dislike one another?
who is bob basso douchebag?
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bob basso is gop shill

Posted 4:59 PM by Scoobie Davis

Touchy Touchy
The hard right loves to dish it out but they can't take it. Take Jerome Corsi. For those not familiar with Corsi, he's the wing-nut who hit the national scene in 2004 as the co-author of the libelous and nutty Unfit for Command, the Regnery book that denigrated John Kerry's war record. True to form, Corsi attempted to derail Barack Obama's presidential candidacy by promulgating the birther conspiracy theory. As I have pointed out, the media landscape has changed drastically over the past few years. Wing-nut conspiracies, especially the birther conspiracy, are receiving the ridicule they deserve.

Anyhow, last week, I sent Corsi an e-mail noting the laughter the birther movement is generating and sent a link to this must-view video of Jon Stewart mocking the birthers. A couple days later, I recieved the following terse reply: gfys [a text abbreviation for "go fuck yourself"]. Perhaps I should have began the body of my email with "Dear Mr. Corsi" instead of "Hey Douche."

Posted 3:44 PM by Scoobie Davis

Must See
It's funny as shit but not work-friendly.

Posted 10:07 AM by Scoobie Davis

New Posts Soon--today or tomorrow

Posted 10:04 AM by Scoobie Davis

Woo Hoo!
I'm going to Comic-Con! It's sold-out and I didn't register but I'm able to get in today and tomorrow. I'll be one of the few people there who has gotten laid in 2009.

7/26 UPDATE: I just got back from Comic-Con. I'm am tired as fuck. I'll have a brief report soon. Quick note: A lot of people at Comic-Con are pissed off at the way that some Twilight fans behaved.

Posted 11:00 AM by Scoobie Davis

The Birther Movement and Wing-Nut Theodicy
(Updated below)
On Monday, Orly Taitz, the attorney from Orange County representing U.S. Army major Stefan Frederick Cook in the lawsuit contending that President Obama wasn't born in the United States, appeared on Rick Roberts' San Diego radio talk show. Taitz was completely unhinged, claiming that not only was Obama not born in the United States but that the Obama administration is "a Nazi regime." Taitz also made the following statement: "I could see where it is going. This guy [Barack Obama] is extremely dangerous. He is more dangerous than Stalin." Why would an educated person have such delusional beliefs? This makes sense only if one understands the American right's theology and theodicy.

The Right's Theology
It may seem unusual to discuss theological matters when discussing a contemporary American political movement but the American right has become a sectarian movement. Since the late 1970's, the Republican Party has embraced sectarianism and anti-intellectualism. The GOP has become God's Own Party. When George W. Bush said that he heard the call and that God wanted him to run for president, the hardcore elements of the Republican Party not only didn't think that was a doofy thing to say but that it was The Truth. In short, the GOP hardcore believes that the Republicans have been called by God to rule America.

When Bad Things happen to Wing-Nuts: The Sectarian Right's Theodicy
According to the belief system of the American Right, if a Democrat wins a presidential election, it's not a matter of the loyal opposition winning because there is not loyal opposition--God wants Republicans to rule. To the wing-nuts, it is a matter of theodicy (an attempt to explain why a loving God and evil co-exist). Democrats who win the presidency are of the Devil and are ipso facto illegitimate. When Bill Clinton was elected in 1992, the first tactic was to claim Clinton was illegitimate because he didn't receive a majority of the vote (quick note: we quit hearing this argument from the Right after November 2000). The next attempt to delegitimize Clinton was to accuse Bill and Hillary of being mass murderers who were bumping off anyone who got in their way (it's no coincidence that the same people who promoted the satanic ritual abuse scare of the 1980's were the same people who promoted the Clinton Body Count mythology in the 1990's).

The contemporary Birther movement is the logical continuation of the attempts by the hardcore right to impute meaning to their lack of success at the presidential level. It makes not sense from the standpoint of a rational adult but it makes a lot of sense through the prism of contemporary wing-nut theology.

1993 versus 2009
The big difference between the wingnut attempts to delegitimize Clinton and Obama is that those who were involved in the former didn't pay a price for their irresponsible actions. However, most Americans rightfully view the Birthers as nutjobs (the other day on her TV show, Rachel Maddow quipped that it must have been a savvy Democratic operative who concocted the Birther movement). This is a healthy phenomenon. Why the difference? I have discussed the differences between the Clinton years and the Obama years in recent posts (e.g. here), but it comes down to two things: 1) The Clinton administration handled the radical right ineptly (e.g., here and here); and 2) The emergence of the left's blogosphere, MSNBC, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, and Media Matters for America.

UPDATE I: Media Matters has a comprehensive post on the Birther movement.

UPDATE II: Must view: watch Jon Stewart's hilarious take on Taitz and Birthers such as Lou Dobbs. LOL, the "lost Gabor sister."

Posted 11:40 AM by Scoobie Davis

Tasteless? Yeah. Funny As Shit? Hell, Yeah!
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Posted 11:29 AM by Scoobie Davis

New Post on the Sun Myung Moon Blog
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Posted 1:38 PM by Scoobie Davis

Working on a Long Post
It should be up tonight.

UPDATE: It should be done tomorrow. In the meantime, if you were pissed off by the phony attempt by Freepers and Fox News to gin up a scandal by claiming that President Obama was checking out some underage tail, then I'm sure you will enjoy this.

Posted 11:10 AM by Scoobie Davis

As Nelson From The Simpsons Would Say, "Ha Ha"
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Posted 1:06 PM by Scoobie Davis

What a Name!
Now I know why Sessions, the Klan-loving senator from Alabama who is grilling Sonia Sotomayor about supposedly being racially biased, goes by "Jeff." His full name is
Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III.

Posted 4:03 PM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
Eric Boehlert, "The Free Republic/Matt Drudge Connection"

Posted 12:38 PM by Scoobie Davis

If You Have Some Extra Cash
Here are some good reasons to support Consortium News.

Posted 4:05 PM by Scoobie Davis

The Silent Coup Hoax
When Ann Coulter claimed in her 2002 book Slander: Liberal Lies about the American Right that the overwhelming majority of literary frauds were found on the left, I responded with a blog post with a far-from-exhaustive list of recent right-wing hoax books (e.g., I failed to mention Inquisition, Carlton Sherwood's apologia for Sun Myung Moon's criminal activity).

Another book that deserved to be in the list was 1991's Silent Coup by Len Colodny and Robert Gettlin. Although Colodny has left-of-center politics (he writes for CounterPunch), I consider it a right-wing literary hoax because the premise of the book benefited the right and prominent members of the right endorsed the book. At the time I wrote the blog post, I was somewhat familiar with the book and its outlandish premise but didn't know enough about it to put it on the list. I was familiar with the book because G. Gordon Liddy heavily promoted the book on his radio show during the 1990's.

I got the full story when I finally had the chance to read John Dean's book Conservatives Without Conscience recently (I had previously read Bob Altemayer's online book The Authoritarians; Dean based his book on Altemayer's research). In the preface of Conservatives Without Conscience, Dean gives the story behind Silent Coup. The premise of Silent Coup is that the Watergate burglaries were masterminded by Dean, then Nixon White House Counsel, to remove evidence at DNC headquarter that Dean's soon-to-be wife was involved in an escort agency that provided women to prominent Democrats. This premise is libelous and manifestly absurd; it contradicts extensive testimony and documentation culled from numerous investigations. In short, if Silent Coup's premise were accepted, the history of the Watergate scandal would have to be re-written.

One of Silent Coup's biggest promoters was Watergate conspirator G. Gordon Liddy, who used the controversy to get back in the limelight and parlay the publicity into a talk radio program. Liddy knew the claims in Silent Coup were false but presented them as fact to his radio audience throughout the 1990's (this illustrates the contempt that right-wing talk radio hosts like Liddy have for the people who put money in their pockets; not surprisingly, Liddy, along with Rush, was a major proponent of the conspiracy theory that held that Bill and Hillary Clinton killed Vince Foster).

Why discuss a book from 1991? Because the contrast in approaches to Liddy and the Silent Coup hoaxers is applicable to the current scene.

John Dean's Effective Response to The Silent Coup Hoax
Dean, then an investment banker who eschewed politics, didn't take this libel lying down. He not only sued the authors, Liddy, and the publisher (resulting in undisclosed settlements) but he pointed out to media outlets that had planned to provide publicity for the book that the book premises were false; this resulted in negative publicity for the book. Although the book sold well due to wing-nut publicity on Liddy's radio show and other far-right outlets, the book didn't sell as well as predicted and was a critical failure. Dean has gone on to write several acclaimed books on the anti-intellectualism, authoritarianism, and know-nothingism of the contemporary American right.

The Clinton Administration's Weak Approach to Liddy
When Liddy and on the talk radio scene were broadcasting lies about the Clinton administration, the Clinton administration response was feckless and weak. Keep in mind that Liddy was not only a Watergate conspirator, but he was an unrepentant terrorist who had planned to firebomb the Brookings Institute. In addition, Liddy has written about his fondness for eugenics and the Horst-Wessel-Lied. In short, discrediting and marginalizing Liddy is a no-brainer because Liddy is a Nazi-loving nutjob and terrorist.

The Clinton administration instead chose to legitimize Liddy and provided Liddy with an on-air punching bag, Lanny Davis (I have an extensive post on the disastrous effects of Davis and his dysfunctional relationship with Liddy). This would all be ancient history were it not for the fact that, to this day, Davis and other Clintonites, such as Terry McAuliffe and Howard Wolfson, are providing legitimacy to the Fox News Channel. Some people never learn.

UPDATE: Liddy is also a Birther. This performance with Chris Matthews on Hardball was so embarrassing that I almost felt sorry for him.

Posted 6:20 PM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
I have a post on the Sun Myung Moon blog regarding Moon's alliance with another media organization run by a cult leader.

Posted 4:09 PM by Scoobie Davis

Quick Observation
By being a co-sponsor of the Employee Free Choice Act in the first few hours as a U.S. Senator, Al Franken now has more positive accomplishments in the U.S. Senate than Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond had in a combined 77 years in the chamber.

Posted 12:53 PM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
Robert Parry: "Republicans: A Threat to the Republic?"

Posted 4:37 PM by Scoobie Davis

Why Do The Wingnuts Rage?
Two big reasons:
1. Demography. Going after the white vote and alienating the non-white vote was a winner in the 1970's and 1980's but with changing demographics, the GOP has painted itself in a corner.
2. The right's media infrastructure has met its match. I addressed this phemomenon is a several blog posts--namely this one.

Today, Eric Boehlert wrote an article on the unhinged reaction by the right over Sarah Palin's resignation. An article that apparently came out after Boehert's that proves his point about the right's whining is this one by the National Review's David Kahane.

Posted 5:20 AM by Scoobie Davis

Quick Notes on Michael Savage
I don't listen to right-wing hate radio much these days--I leave that to Media Matters for America which has been doing a bang-up job of responding to right-wing misinformation and hate-mongering.

One talk show jock that irritates me is Michael Savage (I have written about him here, here, and here). I did listen to Savage a little bit last week and a little bit yesterday. Here are some insights:
1. Savage is claiming that the reason that then-UK Secretary of State for the Home Department placed Savage on a list of people not allowed to enter Great Britain is that she received critiques of his radio broadcasts put out by Media Matters for America that took his words "out of context." Here's my position: 1) Although he's a major league douche, Savage isn't as bad as most of the other people placed on the list. However, Great Britain is a sovereign nation and should be allowed to keep whomever it wants to keep out of its territory; 2) If Savage thinks that MMFA is treating him unfairly and taking his words out of context, he should give some examples. 2. I believed that Savage is working on a book titled, Banned in Britain."
2. Savage is a fan of Curtis LeMay.
3. Echoing Rush, Savage said that he wasn't planning on jogging in Fort Marcy Park anytime soon.
4. Academician and WorldNetDaily contributor Ellis Washington is apparently working on a book about Savage.

Posted 5:24 PM by Scoobie Davis

From Mad Magazine #500


Also some sad news about Mad--it's going from monthly publication to quarterly.

Notes: I got the image from this site. For those of you not in the know, the image parodies Shepard Fairey's iconic Obey Giant motif.

Posted 5:12 PM by Scoobie Davis

Must View
The Young Turks obtained Fox News show Fox & Friends talking points:

Posted 10:42 AM by Scoobie Davis

For the Love of God, Please Don't Take Pat Robertson's Financial Advice!
I went to a Barnes & Noble the other day and prominently displayed in the window was a copy of Pat Robertson's new book Right on the Money: Financial Advice for Tough Times. It's not enough that in the 1990's, many evangelical Christians lost their shirts in Robertson attempt at network marketing American Benefits Plus. Also, in the previous decade, Robertson had business schemes involving diamond mining in Africa.

When I did a little more research, I discovered that Robertson promoted the book on Fox News. I don't even want those viewers to take Robertson's financial advice.

Posted 6:34 PM by Scoobie Davis

New Chick Tract
The Chickster's latest "The Bully" is kinda sappy.

Posted 1:38 PM by Scoobie Davis

Who Has The Messiah Complex?
Since Barack Obama hit the national scene, critics on the right have accused him of having a "Messiah complex" and claimed that his followers are like members of a cult. I have pointed out (here and here) the irony of people in a political movement that receives heavy funding by a megalomaniac who literally believes himself to be the new Messiah, who was sent by Jesus to fulfill JC's unfulfilled mission of redeeming humanity. Also, there is the issue of Reagan worship in the ranks of the contemporary movement--e.g., the creepy "What Would Reagan Do?" talk among the right that mirrors the WWJD armbands that evangelical teenagers wear.

The other day, there was the revelation in Todd Purdum's Vanity Fair profile of Sarah Palin that she sent a mass e-mail to friends announcing the birth of her baby Trig:

When Trig was born, Palin wrote an e-mail letter to friends and relatives, describing the belated news of her pregnancy and detailing Trig’s condition; she wrote the e-mail not in her own name but in God’s, and signed it “Trig’s Creator, Your Heavenly Father.”

One final note, those of you familiar with this blog know that I have two blogs that addresse Amway Global (also here). Here's a YouTube video of Birdie Yager, the wife of Amway kingpin and bigoted reactionary Dexter Yager explaining why she is the "Bride of Christ."

Posted 8:53 PM by Scoobie Davis

Posting Tomorrow
I've had a bad cold the past few days

Posted 5:35 PM by Scoobie Davis

What a Relief!
Pat Boone wants to see Barack Obama's birth certificate.

Posted 10:09 AM by Scoobie Davis

Bruno World Premiere
I was in Hollywood last night for the premiere of Sasha Baron Cohen's upcoming film Bruno. I didn't get into the after-party but I walked by director Larry Charles.

Posted 3:47 PM by Scoobie Davis

Michael Jackson is Dead
MsNBC just reported it. I wasn't a fan.

Posted 2:56 PM by Scoobie Davis

You Gotta Hear This
Rush, the exemplar of the Party of Individual Responsibility, blames Governor Mark Sanford's Argentina trip for trim on Obama:

Posted 8:56 AM by Scoobie Davis

Public Enemies
I'm in LA right now. Last night I went to a preview screening of Public Enemies, the film about John Dillinger starring Johnny Depp. I thought the film was okay but not great. Favorite line: when Depp/Dillinger tells his love interest: "What else do you need to know?"

Posted 12:57 PM by Scoobie Davis

Quick Read
Salon's Andrew Leonard on whose economy it is.

Posted 1:26 PM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
Gene Gaudette of American Politics Journal on why Megyn Kelly of Fox News owes America and explanation regarding Senator John Ensign. included is a letter that cuckolded husband Doug Hampton regarding his wife Cynthia's affair with the senator.

Posted 1:07 PM by Scoobie Davis

Quick Thought on Fox News
There's a lot of talk about President Obama's clear reference to Fox News in his recent interview with CNBC. Here's the portion of the interview with John Harwood that Obama clearly refers to Fox:

OBAMA: It’s very hard for me to swallow that one. First of all, I’ve got one television station that is entirely devoted to attacking my administration. I mean, you know, that’s a pretty…

HARWOOD: I assume you’re talking about Fox.

OBAMA: Well, that’s a pretty big megaphone. And you’d be hard pressed if you watched the entire day to find a positive story about me on that front.

Fox News is the type of organization that would elevate someone like Bill Sammon to be its vice president of news and Washington managing editor.

Posted 7:10 PM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
Joe Conason on the attempt by wingnuts, lead by the Moonie Times, to invent a "Walpin-gate" scandal revolving around the firing of Americorps inspector general Gerald Walpin.

UPDATE: Media Matters for America has more.

Posted 11:58 AM by Scoobie Davis

Sean Hannity Get Zinged on His Fox News TV Show Last Night about GOP Sexual Hypocrisy
Last night on Sean Hannity's Fox News television show, there was a "Great American Panel" discussion. The token liberal punching bag wasn't a punching bag last night (unfortunately I tuned in during the middle of the discussion and don't know his name and I can't find video of the discussion). The topic was John Ensign's philandering. Hannity was dumbfounded when the token liberal said that Ensign's behavior fit in with Newt Gingrich and his pattern of collecting wives. It reminds me of when I had similar thoughts when I spoke to Hannity on his radio radio show a few years ago.

Posted 12:04 PM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
A. Serwer: "The GOP: History's Greatest Victims"

UPDATE: Another must-read on the GOP: Hendrik Hertzberg "Tweety Birdbrains."

Posted 7:50 PM by Scoobie Davis

Light Posting
I've been at the beach.

Posted 3:22 PM by Scoobie Davis

Must Read
Robert Parry "Excusing Outrages of the Right."

Posted 10:07 AM by Scoobie Davis

I'm Stumped
I'm writing a long blog post and I was trying to figure out if there are any legitimate reasons why any progressive should appear on Fox News, other than to denounce the channel. E-mail me at scoobiedavis77@yahoo.com if you can think of any good reasons.

Posted 12:42 PM by Scoobie Davis

Alternate Reality Indeed
Fox News contributor Charles Krauthammer: "What Fox [News] did is not just create a venue for alternative opinion. It created an alternate reality."

Posted 11:15 AM by Scoobie Davis

Woo Hoo! Terry McAuliffe's Campaign Tanks and He Loses the Primary!
If you want to know why I'm so happy, read my recent open letter to Virginia Democratic primary voters.

UPDATE: The Boorman Tribune has more.

Posted 3:11 PM by Scoobie Davis

Moonie Times' Frank Gaffney Spreads Debunked Rumor that Barack Obama is a Muslim
One of the biggest urban legends of the past few years is the rumor that Barack Obama was raised as a Muslim (variants of this smear are the claims that Obama is Arab and that he was born outside the United States). This canard was first publicized in the Sun Myung Moon-owned (and now-defunct) Insight magazine.

Today in the Moon-owned Washington Times, Frank Gaffney wrote an op-ed in which he make the jaw-dropping claim that "[t]here is mounting evidence that the president not only identifies with Muslims, but actually may still be one himself." Media Matters for America is one of the media watchdogs that have debunked Gaffney's claim (MMFA also cited Gaffney's baseless claims made during the 2008 election about Obama's birth certificate and Gaffney's attempts to link Obama to a "convert to radical Islam" named Khalid al-Mansour).

Tamron Hall of MSNBC addresses the issue:


Cross-posted on the Real Sun Myung Moon blog.