Crackpots

Mediaite reports: Mehmet Oz petitioned top White House officials to green light the use of the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine in March of 2020, newly released emails show. The drug, which never showed any success at fighting Covid-19 in spite of multiple trials, was presented by Oz as a “potential pandemic solution” in emails to Dr. Deborah Birx and others. In …

Universal Hub reports: A Medfield man who sued Charlie Baker in 2020 over state face-mask requirements due to Covid-19 and lost is taking another legal crack at Baker, this time over state Covid-19 vaccination recommendations he charges got him unenrolled from the Massachusetts School of Law in Andover because he refused to get a shot for medical and religious reasons.But …

The Kansas City Star reports: Kansas reaffirmed its landslide vote to uphold abortion rights after election officials on Sunday finished a recount that never had any chance of changing the outcome but was sought by an election denier and anti-abortion activist advancing baseless allegations of fraud. The exercise instead delivered a second victory for opponents of an amendment that would …

The Arizona Mirror reports: The woman front and center in a Republican Governors Association ad attacking Democratic gubernatorial candidate Katie Hobbs has ties to QAnon-related events and has spread conspiracy theories about COVID-19. The ad, titled “Traci,” features a San Tan Valley woman named Traci Hansen who in the ad calls herself an “advocate for human trafficking victims” and says …

Media Matters has the transcript: DENNIS PRAGER (HOST): OK, so here’s a good example of we think Charles Blow is lying about Republicans. I mean, it is an out and out — it is as much a lie as the sun is dark. OK? That Republicans are characterized by bigotry, intolerance, and oppression. Does he ever give an example? No. …

The Daily Beast reports: As he seeks a third term as Maine governor, Paul LePage had reportedly left behind the days when he earned national headlines by threatening to blow up a newspaper office, challenging a Democrat to a duel, or telling the NAACP to “kiss my butt.” But it turns out that, for the man once dubbed “America’s craziest …

The Guardian reports: Brazilian federal police have called for President Jair Bolsonaro to be charged with spreading fake information about a coronavirus outbreak that has killed more than 680,000 of his citizens, including bogus claims of a link between AIDS and COVID vaccines. Bolsonaro’s anti-scientific response to a disease he called “a bit of a cold” has been internationally condemned …

“In all, the EPA alone gets more than $40 billion in this bill, including more than $30 billion for so-called disadvantaged communities. “What are those? Well, they’re not really defined — people who voted for Joe Biden. So, what it really means is the EPA is going to spread more identity politics and race hate. “So really, this is about …

Vice News reports: In a script that’s becoming unpleasantly familiar, conspiracy theorists have seized upon actor Anne Heche’s tragic death, claiming she didn’t die from a car crash but rather was murdered. One theory that’s being peddled is that Heche was killed for her role in the film Toxic Skies, about a conspiracy to purge the population with a fake …

Mediaite reports: Steve Kirsch appeared on Tucker Carlson Tonight on Aug. 10 with guest host Brian Kilmeade, who introduced his guest as a disaffected former Democratic donor. “What I found was hundreds of thousands of Americans have been killed by this vaccine and millions have been injured,” Kirsch claimed. Media Matters published a partial transcript of Kirsch’s remarks, along with …

From the far-right Christian site Charisma News: Just as the 1960s cartoon The Jetsons depicted a future full of video phones, robotics and Google-style office space, some modern-day prophets have prophesied about a future full of exposing corruption, fighting for individual freedom and shining a light on truth. One of those prophets is Cindy Jacobs, and her prophecy from 12 …

Phoenix’s NBC News affiliate reports: The Donald Trump-endorsed nominee for Arizona governor wants the state’s schoolchildren to learn from a curriculum inspired in part by Trump. “We want a curriculum that makes sense. We want a curriculum that sets our kids up for success,” Republican Kari Lake, a former TV news anchor, said at an event at the state Capitol. …

Media Matters has the transcript: This is the end. Any scrap of trust Americans had for our anti-Constitution government was swept completely away this week when 30 of Biden’s brownshirt FBI agents descended on the Florida home of Biden’s biggest threat, Donald Trump — rifling through Trump’s Mar-a-Lago office, rummaging through Melania’s closet, cracking open Trump’s safe. To give us …

The Roys Report reports: Jeff Jansen, a self-declared “prophet” and former leader of Global Fire Ministries in Tennessee, died unexpectedly on Tuesday, his family and former church announced. The cause of death wasn’t made public. He was 60. Jansen left his wife last year. Court records show a divorce case is ongoing. TRR previously reported Jansen had a history of …

Mediaite reports: Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard will host Tucker Carlson Tonight on Friday, which is a peculiar spot for a former lawmaker who not long ago presumably opposed much of what Fox News’ reliably conservative audience stands for. Tucker Carlson boasts the highest-rated show in cable news. In his absence this week, the network has relied on its bench to …

“This is a direct threat to freedom. And if it is allowed to stand, it is the end of the constitutional order, crossing the Rubicon. “Calista and I actually went once to the Rubicon, which is a very tiny creek, but it was the symbolic border of Rome. “And to cross the Rubicon with an armed force was to destroy …

“I don’t buy this rank and file crap either. Throw it right in the garbage. I don’t buy it one bit. I was a Secret Service agent, I was the rank-and-file, me. “And you know what, I saw something I didn’t like. And I left. Every single person involved — no ‘I was just doing my job.’ You’re full of …

Media Matters has the transcript: Democrats are not afraid of new IRS agents because they look at themselves as exempt from the wrath of the regime. That’s their team members. The IRS agent, they wear the same jersey. No, no. This will be used against dissidents. This is not the Inflation Reduction Act, this is the dissident imprisonment act. This …

The Denver Post reports: A recount of votes in the GOP primary for Colorado secretary of state shows what election officials knew to be true from the first round of counting: Tina Peters, an election denier, did not come close to winning her primary election. The results reiterated what county clerks initially reported: Peters lost the election by more than …

The Guardian reports: MyPillow chief executive Mike Lindell, a fervent Donald Trump ally, says he has poured $35-40m into a wide crusade – a wave of lawsuits to get rid of voting machines that he faults for Trump’s defeat, a new movie about voting fraud, and a hefty legal stable – to promote charges that the 2020 election was riddled …