Convicted scam artist James O'Keefe has crapped another pair of videos into the world, and while the videos have been burning up social media via the pro-Trump pro-Breitbart crowd, the cable news media has yet to fully pick up the story -- at least that I'm aware of. Nor is it ...read more
Shortly after President Obama's inauguration, a vile prankster named James O'Keefe released a series of fraudulent videos alleging to show how the community organizing group ACORN was engaged in voter fraud. The videos were aired practically around the clock on Fox News and ...read more
As Jon Stewart's 16-year run as influential host of The Daily Show comes to an end this week, it has become all the rage to look back at the targets of his satirical death ray and assess the effects of his influence. On his next-to-last broadcast, Stewart did a bit of this ...read more
No single ideology holds a monopoly on wacky beliefs, unless you count ‘crazy’ as an ideology. But when it comes to the subset of wacky beliefs commonly known as anti-government conspiracy theories, it’s no accident that the American right embraces them with much greater ...read more
ACORN (the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) was an organization set up in 1970 to advocate for low income families by working on issues like neighborhood safety, voter registration, access to good education, health care and affordable housing. Like every ...read more
Modern conservatives generally suffer from a persecution complex. At every opportunity, they leap at the chance to rend their garments and violently wail about being victimized by liberals. The most evident example of this psychosis is the conservative notion of a "liberal ...read more
And I am, well, I cannot think of anything more ridiculous than considering James O'Keefe anything but a major douchebag so you can just come up with the second part of that sentence yourself. If you have forgotten who O'Keefe is -- good for you! I'll have what you're having ...read more
By Bob Cesca: In the wake of the election, there's no doubt that the Republican Party leadership is capable of making some adjustments to re-brand itself. There are plenty of ways they can do it, but it's obvious to anyone paying attention to what's happening on the far-right ...read more
It's how the right rolls. An ACORN community organizer received a death threat and the liberal activist group's Boston and Seattle offices were vandalized Thursday, reflecting mounting tensions over its role in registering 1.3 million mostly poor and minority Americans to vote ...read more
But it will be the story they tell themselves if/when they lose the election. "There's no evidence that any of these invalid registrations lead to any invalid votes," said David Becker, project director of the "Make Voting Work" initiative for the Pew Charitable Trusts. Becker ...read more
