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Rush Limbaugh's 'Borderline Antisemitism' - Yes, Rush Limbaugh again.
This time he’s embroiled in a controversy over statements about “Wall Street bankers” (aka “Jews”).
Abe Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League issued a statement calling Limbaugh’s comments “borderline antisemitism.”
Now Ben Smith reports that Norman Podhoretz has ridden to Limbaugh’s defense and accused Foxman of ‘chutzpah’.
Oh my achin’ head.
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Video: Vanishing Point - A groovy little video filled with imaginative motion graphics by Japanese visual performance group Bonsajo. [Video]
Read of the Day: Glenn Beck Hitlerfest - Michael Calderone has a good piece on Glenn Beck’s latest fever swamp Hitlerfest — a four-hour “documentary” titled "The Revolutionary Holocaust: Live Free…or Die." Use the Holocaust to promote your TV show. Classy! Viewers tuning into MSNBC at 5 p.m. on Friday would have seen Chris Matthews riffing on President Barack ...
Fact-Checking the New York Times - I have a few more points to make in response to Jonathan Dee’s article about me in the New York Times. (Then I’ll drop it, I promise.) First, one assertion Dee makes is actually checkable: L.G.F. still has more than 34,000 registered users, but the comment threads are dominated by the ...
Desert Road -
Friday Night Music: Bruce Hornsby and the Noisemakers, 'Cyclone' - Here’s another great tune from the latest album by Bruce Hornsby and the Noisemakers, Levitate. (Here it is at the iTunes Store.) [Video] Most of our years have flown away with nothing much decided Except the board we′re playing on, how it′s to be divided Win more years yet die alone? ...
Onion: Final Season of 'Lost' Promises to Make Fans Insufferable - [Video]
For Whom Does the Paperboy Toll? - Shrieking harpy said what? "He's a traitor, a turncoat, a plant. We may not know for years what actually happened." Insert sigh. I have a few significant disagreements with the angle taken by Jonathan Dee in his profile for the New York Times, most of all his willingness to accept unverifiable anecdotal ...
Video: The Third and the Seventh - You may not believe it after you see it, but everything in this 12-minute film was computer-generated. Absolutely everything. And even more amazing: it was all done by one person, using off-the-shelf software and hardware to define a new state of the art for realistic CGI. [Video] If you’re skeptical that the whole ...
In Haiti Disaster Zone, Mother Has Baby at Israeli Field Hospital - So much of the news from Haiti is bad, but here’s a little bit of good news from one of the field hospitals set up by Israeli medical teams: Haiti Earthquake: Mother Delivers Baby In Disaster Zone. By Sunday afternoon, Moritz received the first few hopeful e-mail messages from Besser ...
Read of the Day: Obama's Bank Solution - Here’s a wonky but not overly technical discussion of the virtues and flaws in President Obama’s plan to address the failures of large banks, by Sebastian Mallaby at the Washington Post: Obama’s bank solution goes too far — and not far enough.
Lawhawk: The Rebuilding of Ground Zero - In light of Mahathir Mohamad’s idiotic remarks about 9/11 being a Hollywood CGI fantasy, LGF reader Lawhawk reminded us today that he’s been doing a terrific job covering the ongoing semi-debacle of the rebuilding of Ground Zero in Manhattan.
Barrett Brown Profiles LGF in Vanity Fair - Here are a few words about yours truly in a piece by Barrett Brown at Vanity Fair. Meanwhile, a blogger mentioned in Brown’s article, neo-Confederate Robert Stacy McCain, is trying to get his followers to “retweet” anti-LGF propaganda he’s posting: Robert McCain (rsmccain) on Twitter. McCain wants people to link to his ...
Mahathir: If the US Could Make 'Avatar' They Could Fake 9/11 - We haven’t heard from former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad for a while, but he’s back in the news today with a whacked out pronouncement to a pro-Palestinian conference that equals or surpasses his other freakazoid statements: If US Could Create ‘Avatar’, It Could Fake 9/11 Attacks. Malaysia's former premier ...
Desert Weather -
The Guantanamo 'Suicides' - A Cover-Up? - The Justice Department has released a statement about this article by Scott Horton at Harper’s Magazine, saying that an investigation has uncovered no evidence of wrongdoing — but Horton’s piece contains some very disturbing details that strongly suggest the full story has yet to come out: The Guantánamo “Suicides”: A ...
Tea Party 'Hero' Arrested For Rape, Stolen Grenade Launcher Discovered - A former Marine and current member of the Oathkeepers militia group, who was a featured speaker at the July 4th tea party in Oklahoma, has been arrested on suspicion of rape — and when his home was searched, police discovered a grenade launcher stolen from a California Army base: ...
Tea Partiers? Where? Oh, You Mean The Ones in the Front Row? - At his victory party, supporters of Scott Brown wave the New Flag of the Second American Revolution. And people tried to tell me Brown wasn’t sailing on the seas of tea. (Hat tip: KT.) UPDATE at 1/20/10 2:38:01 pm: Also see: Scott Brown Held Tea Party Fundraiser Before Professing To Be Unfamiliar With Tea ...
And Now, the Blame Game - Chris Cillizza has a piece on the Democratic blame game in full force in Massachusetts. Less than 24 hours removed from state Attorney General Martha Coakley’s (D) stunning loss in the Massachusetts Senate race, Democrats were at daggers-drawn over whose fault it was. Two rival camps quickly emerged: Coakley’s campaign ...
Scott Brown Wins in Massachusetts - Republican Scott Brown has defeated Democrat Martha Coakley in Massachusetts, running on a platform driven by populist resentment, with a main plank of “killing” health insurance reform.
'Tea Party Leader': The GOP Never Calls Me Back - Dale Robertson is in the Washington Times again, described as a “leading figure” in the tea party movement: ‘Tea party’ activists feel slighted by GOP. Leading figures in the burgeoning “tea party” movement complain they are being ignored by the Republican National Committee, despite having already shown their clout in ...
Massachusetts Open - The Massachusetts election is going down to the wire. Here’s a thread to discuss it. (I’m typing this on my iPhone in an airport, so excuse the terseness.)
CBS Poll: Majority Don't Want Palin to Run for President - If Sarah Palin is harboring ambitions to run for President, a new CBS News poll shows an obstacle in the way: Most Don’t Want Sarah Palin to Run for President. A new CBS News poll finds that a large majority of Americans say they do not want former Alaska Governor ...
Massachusetts Prepares to Drink the Tea - Anybody want to talk about Coakley vs. Brown? It’s looking like right wing tea party candidate Scott Brown will ride to victory on a wave of Fox News-fueled populist anger, so here’s a thread to discuss it. (Yes, I’m still traveling, and won’t be back on solid ground until late ...