Halfway There: My father was angry at Rep. Giffords last summer. He didn't remember her name at the time, but he "knew" that she was a commie-liberal idiot. At least he hasn't gone after any of his imaginary enemies with guns yet.

distributorcap NY: Alexander's Teabag Band

The Immoral Minority: Megyn Kelly tries desperately to convince Sheriff Dupnil to walk back his criticism of the hate speech that has become synonymous with the cable news network that employs her.

Monkey Muck: Remember when the extremely left-wing Secret Service blamed Sarah Palin's attack on President Obama's patriotism for a spike in death threats against him and his family?

Just An Earth-Bound Misfit, I: When suveying transit-levels are outlawed, only outlaws will have surveying transit-levels

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It's obvious why Andrew Breitbart successfully smeared Shirley Sherrod on utterly fake grounds -- he wants desperately to prove that it's the NAACP is actually a racist organization, after its condemnation of racism within the Tea Parties. Indeed, this has been a long-running schtick of Breitbart's -- that the "real" racists are not white people, but people of color.

He was even on CNN yesterday whining that "It is un-American" that the NAACP accused the Tea Party movement of racism "absent evidence".

Um, actually, Andrew, the NAACP provided plenty of evidence of racism within its ranks.

And then, as if to prove the point, a caller who clearly is an angry Tea Partier left the following message at NAACP's Hollywood bureau:

Caller: Of course you won't answer the phone yourself. Because you're chickens--t racist n---ers. The entire black race is nothing but a have-not bunch of bums. You can't work for yourselves. All you do is suck off the white man. F--k you, motherf---er! F--k you! You want a race war, you got it, motherf---er! You want to f---ing kill our babies, and kill white people? You, you're gonna f---in' -- the streets will run red with blood. The streets will run red with your blood. F--k you!

Not only was this caller severely lacking in the logical consistency department -- first he calls the NAACP racist, then embarks on a rant about "the entire black race" (in this regard, he's a lot like the typical Fox pundit). But the reference to "kill our babies" and "kill white people" was also an obvious reference to that incendiary video Fox News ran as a way of ginning up racial hatred and resentment among its white audience.

In other words, they fully succeeded. They should be so proud.

And is it just me, or does this guy actually sound a lot like Breitbart himself? Hmmmmmmm.

[H/t Common Dreams.]

Ephphatha Poetry: Imagine if the Tea Party Was Black

cab drollery: The LA Times business columnist David Lazarus aske the right questions and provides some damn good answers

slatev: Cartoonist Mark Fiore explains how the big banks manage to win by losing

The Washington Monthly: Guy Fawkes, New Republican Hero

Connecting.the.Dots: Jules and Julia

HOLY CRAP: Franklin Graham cut from prayer event...Islamic death threat...God talks to Glenn Beck...Prayerful Fox gets served...We can’t hear you...Imagine this!...Helms was right...Fly Me to The Moon...Vatican rewards homophobia...Donohue makes a funny...Christian nation?...Book Lernin’...

Let’s say that you’re a run-of-the-mill teabagger looking to set yourself apart from the mob. Nazi/Hitler signs tend to go over well, but that’s so not original. You could strap an assault rifle to your back – like this guy did outside an Obama speech – but that’s so not subtle.

Do not fret. Thanks to Zazzle.com, you can find just the right product to push you over the edge from workaday winger to racist extremist.

Want to encourage, or joke about, President Obama’s death? Check out this line of "Bullet holes anti Obama Bumper Stickers:"

Don’t forget to pick up a t-shirt for that special woman in your life:

Maybe you’re a little paranoid about the Secret Service and would rather joke about killing the president’s supporters rather than Obama himself, no problem:

Or maybe you’d prefer to have your dog joke about killing the president instead. What’s the Secret Service gonna do, arrest Fido?

If you’d prefer to be a little more oblique about threatening Obama, while no less offensive, these are for you:

The above designs are all the handiwork of a single user of Zazzle named NOBAMAMAN (thanks go to the Active Art blog for discovering them). Bad taste isn’t against the law, but many of these designs are clearly beyond the pale – especially in an environment of heightened threats against the president.

Last month Zazzle banned a line of products which called on people to pray for Obama’s death. The company said the so-called Psalm 109 products “may be interpreted in such a way as to suggest physical harm to the President of the United States.” In light of this, we should be sure to call Zazzle’s attention to some of the above products. You can email Zazzle here, post in their forum, comment on their blog, or use Twitter.

UPDATE: Zazzle appears to have taken down the offerings.

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One of the hallmarks of the American right's utter descent into complete wingnuttery is the increasing willingness of its footsoldiers to buy into palpably, provably false nonsense and embrace it as fact. This ranges from the Birthers' insistence that Barack Obama hasn't produced a birth certificate to the teabaggers' claims that health-care reform means we'll be euthanizing senior citizens.

One of the most persistent components of this is the right's ardent embrace of the fraudulent thesis of Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Fascism -- to wit, that "properly understood, fascism is not a phenomenon of the right at all. Instead, it is, and always has been, a phenomenon of the left." The embrace of this fraud as somehow truthful has produced those teabaggers' signs bearing swastikas (suggesting that health-care reform is fascist) and signs showing Barack Obama as Hitler and, moreover, the claims that Obama is marching the nation down the road to fascism.

It's been particularly embraced by movement conservatives in their efforts to whitewash from public view the existence of right-wing extremists among their ranks.

The impact of this embrace on our national discourse has been deeper than probably anyone suspected when the book was first published last year. Not only is Goldberg's thesis now taken as an article of faith by such right-wing talkers as Rush Limbaugh (who probably helped inspire Goldberg's thesis in any event), Glenn Beck, Michael Savage,, but also among the teabagging protesters whose ranks are increasingly filled by real right-wing extremists.

What's most noteworthy, perhaps, is that Goldberg's thesis is being used to attack anyone who points out the frequently violent and intimidating behavior of these extremists. It's not the right-wing protesters carrying open weapons, Obama=Hitler signs, and openly disrupting the discussion of health-care reform at town-hall sessions who are behaving like Brownshirts, they insist -- it's the liberals who show enough nerve to stand up to them!

We saw this a couple of weeks ago here in western Washington, where Rep. Brian Baird -- who had decried the ugly nature of the town-hall disruptions by in fact comparing some of these extremists to "Brownshirts," and then appearing on the Rachel Maddow show, where he compared them to Timothy McVeigh -- was attacked at his town-hall meeting on health care by a former Marine named David Hedrick who accused Baird and House Speaker of Nancy Pelosi of being the real Nazis.

Of course, this ensured him a guest slot on Fox News, and so Hedrick shortly thereafter appeared on Sean Hannity's program to explain his thinking. As you can see, he has absorbed and swallowed Goldberg's thesis whole:

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The General ranks the importance of some of Secret Service's duties. Making sure Jenna has a good time in Mexico ranks up there. So does interrupting a Michael Moore interview. Going after a death threat against a Democratic candidate? That requires asking bloggers to do the leg work.

Ava and YearlyKos

Ava Lowery, the fifteen year old girl who received numerous death threats for making this haunting video just put this together for Yearly Kos.

Go Ava! Here's her own site called "Peace Takes Courage."

Let's have a poll. How long will Brady continually play the victim? I agree Jim, you don't understand the internet. It's not calculus, but your phony outrage tries to make it seem like it is.

You write

"Howell's inadvertent error prompted a handful of bloggers to urge their readers to go to post.blog to vent their discontent, and in the subsequent four days we received more than a thousand comments in our public forum. Only, the word "comments" doesn't convey the obscene, vituperative tone of a lot of the postings, which were the sort of things you might find carved on the door of a public toilet stall. About a hundred of them had to be removed for violating the Post site's standards, which don't allow profanity or personal attacks.

I get that many comments in a couple of threads in one day. How many death threats did she receive? I save mine and I'd be willing to share them with you.

"How did it feel to be mugged by the blogosphere?"

You call what happened to you a mugging? I'd like to ask some people who have actually been mugged and see if some emails and comments you received are synonymous with somebody who has been beaten, robbed and left for dead. Just face it already, the way you acted was childish. You feel like a fool because Jane made you look like one. Instead of talking to her directly- you had to organize an online panel to discuss the issue.

I believe you really need some blogger training. Call me up and let's discuss it. There are many journalists that know me including some from the Washington Post, so they'll vouch for C&L. I'll show you exactly how many truly obscene comments I get-what I do about them and how you can better run your own operation without making yourself look foolish.

Whittemore:The new target

via World O' Crap:

From the Miami Herald piece Crazies Have new Target:

Pity James D. Whittemore, next in line for unholy defamation via e-mail, eternal damnation through the Internet and vilification by postcard. Not to mention death threats from those who claim insight into God's own hit list.

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.....Congress was effectively manipulated by wingnuts who are manipulated by Alan Keyes et.al. I hope those in the legislative branch who caved in to the pressure will do a little research and learn just what kind of people (and views) they are aligning themselves with -- or otherwise. they might be taken by surprise when, at the next "defining moment in history," those "outraged constituents" attempt to overthrow the government and install Alan Keyes as our priest king.

...he needs armed body guards because of people like Paul Krugman.

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We'll pay anyone 50.00 if they can furnish us with any pictures of those current body guards that are with him around the clock because some columnist doesn't like him...or has a death threat against him.

...and for 4.95 a month you can listen to The Factor on his website.