Crackpots

Crooks & Liars reports: Matt Forney, a self-described alt-right radio host, suggested this week that there would be a “white baby boom” after the November election because “women are having sex dreams” about Donald Trump. In a tweet on Monday, Matt Forney mocked Cosmopolitan writer Laura Beck, who said that allegations about Trump groping women were impacting her sex life. …

The Hill reports: Two of the women accusing former President Bill Clinton of sexual misconduct ripped into Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly after an explosive interview in which Kelly faced off with Newt Gingrich. Gingrich, a former House Speaker and Donald Trump surrogate, accused Kelly of being “fascinated with sex” after she asked about the women who have accused the …

Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: Last weekend, Religious Right activist and pseudo-historian David Barton spoke at Harvest New Beginnings church in Illinois, where he absurdly claimed that for the first 200 years of the United States’ existence, the country regularly had 100 percent voter turnout. Barton was making his standard case that Christians have a responsibility to vote …

The Huffington Post reports: Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams’ vocal support for Donald Trump is getting even more bizarre. First, he pledged to join a resistance movement and help kill the GOP presidential nominee if he were elected president and behaved like Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler. Now, he’s shared yet another strange election-related remark: Adams seems to think that the absence …

Via press release from Catholic League blowhard Bill Donohue: Jack Chick, the anti-Catholic cartoonist and publisher, died on October 23 at the age of 92. Chick’s goal was to convince Protestants that Roman Catholicism was a false religion. He published scores of books and magazines, and released many videos, but he was most famous for his small tracts and comic …

Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: On recent episodes of his “Life Today” program, televangelist James Robison has been airing portions of a gathering that he hosted featuring dozens of Religious Right pastors and activists urging conservative Christians to vote in the upcoming election. Robison has addressed Donald Trump campaign events in the past and has vocally supported the …

UKIP led the Brexit campaign and is widely characterized as Britain’s version of the Tea Party. The Telegraph reports: A UKIP leadership candidate has apologised for claiming that a “homosexual donkey” tried to rape his horse in response to a question about whether some gay men prefer sex with animals. John Rees-Evans said the remark, which he made in 2014, …

Kyle Mantyla has the quote at Right Wing Watch: “If you’re a Christian, you just can’t spend your life worrying about the words of Donald Trump from 11 years ago,” Root said, “or what women he groped 30 years ago. I don’t believe any of it anyway. I believe Donald Trump is one of the handsomest billionaires that’s ever lived; …

Nutjob evangelist Jack Chick, creator of the vicious (and often laughable) Chick Tracts, has died at the age of 92 according to his company’s Facebook page. From his Wikipedia entry: Many of Chick’s views were controversial, as he accused Roman Catholics, Freemasons, Muslims, Jews, and many other groups of murder and conspiracies, while Chick maintained his views were simply politically …

“I have been under constant surveillance. Two of my dogs have been poisoned, and someone regularly rummages through my trash where they will find nothing, since I wasn’t born yesterday. We all know that politics is a blood sport, and I am no stranger to fights or controversy. I’ve been called every name in the book, but calling me a …

In one of the looniest exchanges we’ve seen (today, at least) Bernie Sanders backer turned Trump surrogate Harlan Hill battled former Jeb Bush spox Tim Miller at great length before declaring that Hillary Clinton is “planting the seeds” for contesting the election by mentioning Russia’s hacking. Or something. The dumbfounded CNN host responded, “This is the first time we’re hearing …

“Seems silly media sheep are all chomping down on one issue after this debate, at least according to all the reporters who hollered out this same question to me: ‘What about Trump not accepting the election results?’ More power to Trump for explaining how vitally important the legitimacy of every election is to our democracy within our Republic. “What reasonable …

CNN Money reports: Trump campaign CEO Steve Bannon says Donald Trump is “the master of the head fake.” According to Bannon, the news that President Obama’s Trump-supporting half-brother Malik Obama is attending Wednesday’s debate is “just an appetizer.” Trump will be bringing guests who “expose Bill and Hillary’s sordid past,” Bannon told CNN as he arrived in Las Vegas for …

Buzzfeed has published a look at Bill Mitchell, Twitter’s widely-followed and insanely prolific Trump fan who has never met a conspiracy claim that he didn’t love. The article is both long and enormously entertaining, so it’s hard to select an excerpt. Here’s one: Glancing at his Twitter bio page, you’d think Bill Mitchell has been around the conservative talk pundit …

And definitely NOT to promote birtherism. Via Politico: Donald Trump’s campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said the Manhattan billionaire invited President Barack Obama’s half-brother, a Trump supporter, to the third presidential debate because the Trump campaign is “very inclusive.” “He wanted to come and we’re happy to give him a ticket,” Conway said of Malik Obama on MSNBC Wednesday hours before …

CBS Sports reports: Curt Schilling, who pitched for parts of 20 seasons in the major leagues and won 216 career games, has announced his intention to run for U.S. Senate against Democrat Elizabeth Warren in Massachusetts. Schilling, 49, self-identifies as a conservative, and has established himself as a controversial political gadfly since retiring from baseball in 2007. Schilling previously said …

Raw Story reports: In recent days, Trump has pushed the suggestion that Hillary Clinton will be an illegitimate president if she wins because of “large scale voter fraud,” a claim which experts say is not only preposterous, but it also undermines the democratic system. Ellmers cried foul on Tuesday when Cuomo asked her about Trump’s remarks. “We’re talking about the …

The Associated Press reports: WikiLeaks says that founder Julian Assange’s internet access has been cut by an unidentified state actor. Few other details were immediately available. Assange has been up holed up at the Ecuadorean Embassy in London for more than four years after skipping bail to avoid being extradited over sex crimes allegations. The cramped quarters haven’t prevented the …

ABC News reports: Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich stood by Republican nominee Donald Trump’s claim that the election is being “rigged,” blaming what he calls “the unending one-sided assault of the news media” on the GOP candidate. “Without the unending one-sided assault of the news media, Trump would be beating Hillary Clinton by 15 points,” Gingrich told ABC News’ Martha …

Talking Points Memo reports: Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke Jr. tweeted Saturday that it was time for people to rise up and do something more than complain about a “corrupt” system. “It’s incredible that our institutions of gov, WH, Congress, DOJ and big media are corrupt and all we do is bitch,” Clarke said. An outspoken critic of the Black …