CNN had a town hall with President Obama that didn't get a lot of attention thanks to the ongoing 2016 presidential election shitshow, but there were two moments that really stood out to me as great reminders of what a great president we're losing. The first was his ...read more
CNN's Chris Cuomo is on fire lately. He scored two newsworthy gets from Hillary Clinton yesterday, and on Tuesday morning, casually beat Rudy Giuliani like a bowl of racist egg whites with his own talking point. In case you're not already convinced that Rudy Giuliani is a gaping ...read more
Looks like President Obama is finally done pussyfooting with Republican idiots who insist that if he would just say "Radical Islam," the whole ISIS nut would crack. During remarks at the White House Tuesday, the President was like "Fuck that!" This isn't the first time Obama has ...read more
It's one of the dumbest right-wing talking points ever, but constant repetition of the idea that unless someone says the exact words "radical Islam," they can't possibly defeat terrorism has taken deep root among many Americans. On Monday morning, Hillary Clinton took a run at it ...read more
Republicans have a new thing to blame President Obama for, and it is Donald Trump's racist, fascist anti-Muslim platform. The theory goes that since President Obama won't acknowledge the role of a twisted interpretation of Islam in attacks like those that occurred recently in ...read more
This is the same kind of stupidity that lets Republicans forget that 9/11 happened on George W. Bush's watch, or that leads people to think that Donald Trump was some sort of Karnac for "predicting" 9/11. Republican strategist Katie Packer literally made Chris Hayes' jaw drop ...read more
If you want to understand the role radical Islam has played in terrorist attacks like the one in Paris on Friday, Vox will be of no help to you. Like many on the Left, the writers there are stricken with a crippling inability to recognize Islam as the motivating force behind ...read more
While President Obama is taking a beating in the press these days, it might make him feel alittle bit better to know that he's still doing enough right to earn the contempt of the contemptible. Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin took to Fox & Friends Tuesday morning to promote ...read more
The terrorist attacks in Paris last week have revived a tired conservative narrative that the mainstream media refuses to call out for the dopey bit of dishonesty that it is. I'm referring, of course, to the notion that President Obama, and indeed all Democrats, can't possibly ...read more
On Tuesday, The Intercept's Jeremy Scahill went on CNN and accused the network's terrorism experts of being "frauds." “CNN and MSNBC and Fox are engaging in the terrorism expert industrial complex, where you have people on as paid analysts that are largely frauds who have made a ...read more
Addendum added below In case you haven’t heard, Christian conservatives pose a greater threat to the United States than Islamic radicals such as members of the Islamic State. That’s the conclusion of C.J. Werleman, who previously argued that ISIS isn't motivated by Islam -- at ...read more
