Tag Archives: Teabagistan

Chris Johnson reports at the Washington Blade: Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio has pledged to reverse President Obama’s executive order barring anti-LGBT workplace discrimination among federal contractors, saying faith-based businesses are “being compelled to sin by government in their business conduct.” Rubio made the remarks during Thanksgiving week in the same interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network in which he …

Donald Trump says he has the “greatest memory in the world” but he can’t remember a disabled reporter who interviewed him many times and he definitely can’t think of any Muslim sports heroes, not even the ones that he sits with at fancy events and calls his “good friend.”

Over the weekend wingnut commentator Erick Erickson was so incensed by a New York Times gun control editorial that he literally shot seven holes in his copy of the paper. Erickson then posted an image of the bullet-riddled paper and asked his followers to do the same. Today a Times reporter trolled Erickson right back.

Speaking yesterday at an Iowa town hall event, Ben Carson pined for the good old days of DADT and denounced soldiers who “have to go around flouting their sexuality.” Carson’s statement was triggered by a question about military service for transgender Americans. “You know, we have too many important things to do,” Carson said at a “Veterans and Military Town …

Yesterday the New York Times published a rare front page editorial in support of gun control. Wingnut commentator Erick Erickson responded in typically rational fashion by literally shooting seven holes in a copy of the paper.  JMG reader Joe directs us to the many amusing reactions on Twitter, one of which is below. Hit the link for many more.

As the nation is wracked by mass shootings, GOP Nevada Assemblywoman Michele Fiore decided it would be a fun idea to post a holiday photo in which every adult plus a young boy is holding or wearing a gun. The photo’s caption reads: “It’s up to Americans to protect America. We’re just your ordinary American family. – With love & …

A few days ago Ireland made it illegal to fire teachers for being gay. As it turns out, that action was an attack against the Baby Jesus. Breitbart wails: Ireland has stripped away laws which protected the rights of people to freedom of religion when in conflict with gay rights. The move comes just weeks after the first Irish gay …

The New York Daily News reports: The GOP front-runners are reloading in their defense of the gun lobby after the latest mass shooting. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Iowa) pushed forward with unveiling his “National 2nd Amendment Coalition” at a shooting range in Iowa, mocking those who call him “insensitive” for defending guns after the San Bernardino massacre. “I really don’t view …

File this one next to the pyramids story. Via ABC News: Addressing the Republican Jewish Coalition today, Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson told a story about how the Star of David came to be on the U.S. dollar bill. Only one problem: There’s no Star of David on the dollar bill. Carson was telling the story of wealthy Jewish …

Right wing sites are slightly pausing their San Bernardino celebrations to trumpet the “media fail” evidenced by the latest national poll which shows Donald Trump leading the field by 20 points. CNN reports: Donald Trump is once again alone at the top of the Republican field, according to the latest CNN/ORC Poll, with 36% of registered Republicans and Republican-leaning independents …

“You look at the military and one of the things we’ve seen is morale in the military under the Obama administration has plummeted, and it has plummeted because you have a commander-in-chief that doesn’t support our soldiers and sailors and airmen and marines. He treats the military as a cauldron for social experimentation. He’s more interested in promoting homosexuality in …

This one will actually get to Obama’s desk. The Hill reports: The Senate on Thursday passed legislation repealing the core pillars of ObamaCare, taking a major step toward sending such a bill to the president’s desk for the first time. Republicans hailed it as a political messaging victory and a fulfillment of their promise from the 2014 midterm election to …

Todd Starnes appeared on Fox this afternoon where he literally ripped up the “garbage” New York Daily News for its front page story calling out useless prayers by GOP leaders in the wake of the San Bernardino massacre. Starnes followed that up with a tweeted call for Macy’s and JC Penney to boycott the paper. WATCH: @toddstarnes rips controversial New …

Appearing on The 700 Club today, Sarah Palin declared that Hillary Clinton is “a scary kind of naive” to not believe that America isn’t already at war with Islam. Palin say that her plan to stop ISIS would be to “quit being so namby-pamby.” Palin: “It is time to declare war on that enemy. And first to recognize who that …

Donald Trump today announced that he will release medical records which will prove his “perfection” and “great genes.” Business Insider points to the reason for today’s promise: Earlier in the morning, Politico’s Ben Schreckinger published a story critical of Trump for not releasing his health records despite once saying that all presidential candidates should do so. Several of Trump’s rivals …

In an interview published yesterday by Bloomberg, Ted Cruz vowed that upon election he’ll begin the work of stacking the US Supreme Court with right-wing appointees who have a “long paper trail” of conservative values. From the interview: While the stark divisions between the types of justices preferred by modern Democratic and Republican presidents are well-known, Cruz argued that within …

Yesterday Erick Erickson declared that Planned Parenthood should just be thankful that more Christians aren’t murdering them. He may have topped his record of assholery with this tweet. Maybe. After all, it’s a very long record.

Brian Tashman reports at Right Wing Watch: It is really difficult to know where to begin when cataloging all of the truly insane statements and conspiracy theories levied by radio host Alex Jones, who has talked about everything from how 9/11 and Oklahoma City were false flag operations to how juice turns kids gay and space lizards are running the …

The latest result in Breitbart‘s monthly “primary” shows that the far-right site’s readers are split between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz with Ben Carson now a far, far distant third. Today Breitbart is trumpeting former DNC chairman Howard Dean’s prediction that Trump could wrap up the GOP nomination with Florida’s March 15th winner-take-all primary. More mainstream conservative sites continue to …

“What are the odds that he is a spoiler? What are the odds that he got into this because he’s friend with the Clintons and he’ll get massive payback? If Hillary Clinton gets in because he ran third party, do you know the favor they’re going to owe him? It makes no sense otherwise!” – Glenn Beck, speaking on his …