Crackpots

Mediaite reports: Louisiana Republican Sen. John Kennedy had high praise indeed for Twitter’s Elon Musk this week, praising his courage in releasing the “Twitter Files” info, which has gone to select journalists in chunks over the last couple of weeks. “That’s why I appreciate what Elon Musk has done so much,” said Kennedy. “He’s taken a very courageous stand for …

“I haven’t talked to Ronna – it’s probably been a couple of years – because I believe she went against me when I was trying to get all the attorney generals to stand up and fix at the Supreme Court level. “And she went out there right away and said, ‘Biden won fair and square! Biden won!’ And I was …

“One of the things I love about our country is its commitment to the sharing of knowledge and the free expression of ideas. That is why I’m excited to bring Brave Books Story Hour to public libraries across the country. “Unfortunately, though many of these libraries gladly hosted the ‘Drag Queen Story Hour,’ several have refused to let me read …

The Independent reports: Dr Anthony Fauci, the outgoing director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases who helped steer the country through the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic, brushed off criticism from Twitter’s Elon Musk on Monday. Dr Fauci, who has faced hostility from conservatives for years due to his support of public health measures to limit …

Newsweek reports: Twitter CEO Elon Musk declared on Sunday that his “pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci,” taking aim at the top immunologist. Musk’s early morning tweet about Dr. Anthony Fauci, the soon-to-be retired chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden, is the latest case where the billionaire has won praise from conservatives on the social media platform. In his tweet, the billionaire, …

NBC News reports: Kari Lake, the GOP candidate who lost Arizona’s governor race in November, filed a lawsuit Friday challenging certification of the state’s election results and seeking a court order that declares her the winner. The 70-page lawsuit from Lake, a prominent election denier and Trump ally, contains numerous inaccuracies about the election won by Democratic Gov.-elect Katie Hobbs, Arizona’s …

“These were people who faced times that were much darker than what you and I are facing in America today. Political darkness during the time of the pilgrims in England was at an apex, you would have thought they would have completely given up hope. “They were being run out of the country by a woke mob and what did …

“So Biden is sitting there bragging about the worst US foreign policy decision in my lifetime. This is on par, in my lifetime, with abandoning our soldiers in Benghazi to die at the hands of terrorists. “Unspeakable evil will happen now that Viktor Bout is back into the world. You traded a non-violent pothead wokester WNBA America-hating hippie for one …

“I agree with him on that. Can you imagine our Founding Fathers, what they went through to help bring about this great nation, seeing what happened in 2020, and really seeing what’s happening now in 2022, just saying, ‘OK, well, I guess it didn’t go our way, I guess they cheated, we know they rigged the elections, and they put …

Fox News reports: With a new children’s book out that celebrates family, faith and biblical wisdom, actor-writer-producer Kirk Cameron cannot reach scores of American children or their families in many U.S. cities via the public library system because over 50 public libraries have either outright rejected him or not responded to requests on his behalf. Many of the same libraries …

Media Matters has the transcript: I will not condemn what President Trump said. In fact — well, look, let me point out what’s happening here. Donald Trump believes that he won the 2020 election. I happen to agree with him in large part. I think there were huge problems with that election. What we’re learning right now – if you’re Donald Trump, you can absolutely understand the way he feels. And it only …

Vice News reports: On the QAnon message board the Great Awakening, members concluded that the sudden nature of Kirstie Alley’s death was a clear sign that her death was part of a global plot to silence critics of the COVID vaccines. “I wholly believe the [deep state] has a way of dosing people with poisons that create aggressive cancers,” one …

Rolling Stone reports: Less than a week after Kanye West praised Adolf Hitler in an interview with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, West – flanked by white supremacist Nick Fuentes – sat down with Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes to demand that Jewish people “forgive Hitler.” “Jews should work for Christians,” West told McInnes. “I’ll hire a Jewish person in a …

Law & Crime reports: The U.S. Supreme Court this morning declined to take up a case where a group of voters sued a private and prominent voting machine company under the statute that authorizes federal civil rights lawsuits to be filed against government agents and state actors. In an orders list, with no discussion or noted dissent, the nation’s high …

The Staten Island Advance reports: Protestors had their say Saturday in Livingston opposing a “Drag Story Hour” at the Staten Island Children’s Museum, but their jeers had little effect. In fact, the event’s organizer, Yun-Hee Proffit, said the protest, led by local artist Scott LoBaido [photo], achieved the opposite of its intended effect reinforcing their drive to host the events …

The Hill reports: Twitter CEO Elon Musk blasted former President Trump’s call to terminate the Constitution over his unfounded claims of mass electoral fraud in the 2020 presidential election. “The Constitution is greater than any President. End of story,” Musk wrote on Twitter, which he has now pinned to the top of his profile. Trump’s post came one day after …

Mediaite reports: Anti-Semitism-spouting entertainer/entrepreneur Kanye West surfaced on social media Sunday night to post a bizarre rant about Elon Musk and former President Barack Obama. How we got here: On Thursday, West appeared to reach rock bottom in his descent into anti-Semitism when he performed essentially an extended infomercial for Hitler on Alex Jones’s show. On Sunday, West popped his virtual head up …

Fox News reports: Elon Musk revealed he “personally wanted to punch” Kanye West after the rapper posted a photo of a swastika to Twitter. “How are you going to balance the level to which we speak about the freedom of expression on Twitter?” Musk was asked during a Live Q&A regarding “Twitter files,” which revealed how the tech giant censored …

Mediaite reports: Actor and outspoken conservative James Woods is promising a lawsuit against the DNC following revelations from Elon Musk about Twitter’s handling of the Hunter Biden laptop story. Matt Taibbi shared one internal communication that included a James wood tweet apparently sent to the company “from the DNC.” “Celebrities and unknowns alike could be removed or reviewed at the …

Reuters reports: Alex Jones filed for bankruptcy on Friday, less than two months after a jury ordered him and the parent of his Infowars website to pay nearly $1 billion in compensatory damages to relatives of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook mass shooting. Jones filed for Chapter 11 protection from creditors with the U.S. bankruptcy court in Houston, a …