Teabagistan

How extremely typical: Conservative radio host Laura Ingraham incorrectly labeled a photograph of the Cleveland Cavaliers’ NBA Championship parade as a photo of Trump supporters in Phoenix on her website on Thursday. Ingraham placed the photo at the top of her site in a slideshow of current news stories with the title, “5 miles of Trump supporters waiting to meet …

In an interview with TMZ today, Roger Stone predicted that any member of Congress who votes to impeach Trump will be putting their life in danger. Law Newz recaps: First, Stone criticized those who are hoping for Trump’s removal. “The people who are calling for impeachment are the people who didn’t vote for him,” he said. “Sorry, he whipped your …

The Hill reports: Former Speaker Newt Gingrich on Wednesday compared liberals who are critical of President Trump to “slave newspapers” attacking Abraham Lincoln. Speaking on Fox News’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Gingrich described a Civil War history professor he knows who told him Lincoln’s inaugural address was criticized in similar ways to the criticism Trump faces. “He has made the case …

CNN reports: A self-described “email prankster” seemingly fooled top editors at Breitbart over the weekend into believing he was Steve Bannon, the fired White House chief strategist who returned to the right-wing website as executive chairman on Friday. In the emails, Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow pledged that he and several other top editors would do Bannon’s “dirty work” against White …

This will totally make up for the still-growing boycott by over 2600 advertisers, right? The Hill reports: Major conservative news outlet Breitbart is selling fidget spinners with Stephen Bannon’s face on it, less than a week after the former chief strategist to President Trump left the White House to resume his leadership position at the site. Fidget spinners, a toy …

Politico reports: Breitbart seems ready for one of Steve Bannon’s famed “wars.” Just minutes after President Donald Trump concluded his Afghanistan policy speech Monday night, the conservative site took an aggressive, critical approach to the address and Trump’s new policy. A banner headline blasted the president’s decision to extend the U.S. military commitment in Afghanistan as a “flip-flop” that “reverses …

The Independent reports: Far-right website Breitbart have been forced to apologise after mistaking Lukas Podolski for a migrant travelling from Morocco to Spain. The article entitled “Spanish Police Crack Gang Moving Migrants on Jet-Skis” originally appeared on Sunday with a picture of the recently-retired German star on a jet-ski before it was swiftly changed. It is understood the picture, rather …

NBC News reports: A right-wing activist who brought attention to debunked conspiracy theories — and who gained new prominence when he was retweeted by President Donald Trump this week — is a U.S. naval intelligence officer detailed to a reserve unit, Navy service records show. John Michael Posobiec III’s security clearance is currently suspended, according to a U.S. official, who …

North Carolina’s Gaston Gazette reports: A bright red Nazi Party flag waved in front of Joe Love’s Gaston County residence Sunday afternoon, a day after white supremacists orchestrated a violent rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, that left three dead and dozens injured. When cellphone-camera toting neighbor Page Braswell stopped in Love’s Forestway Drive driveway, Love vocalized his interpretation of the flag’s …

According to right wing nutjob Star Parker, the Confederate flag and the rainbow flag both stand for “exactly the same thing.” No, really. The HuffPost has the quote: “But you know what’s really interesting and really incredibly ironic here is the same people that are demanding that the Confederate flag comes down are the same people that are insisting that …

We interrupt our weekend of Trump/Nazi news for a bit of fun had at the expense of Ted Nugent, who is apparently furious that he’s never been inducted to the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame. From the music site Metal Injection: Proud statutory rapist Ted Nugent has had a long, and inarguably, successful rock and roll career, but one …

The New York Daily News reports: An NRA television host has apologized for suggesting that one of America’s enemies abroad could switch their sights from the Western Pacific to liberals in the U.S. “Let’s send a note to North Korea that Sacramento changed its name to Guam!” NRA TV personality Grant Stinchfield posted on Twitter Friday morning. It was not …

A couple of years ago now-former Fox News host Andrea Tantaros earned headlines by essentially declaring that feminists don’t have husbands because they are sluts. Tantaros then doubled-down by declaring that efforts to stem “rape culture” on college campuses are really just a “war on boys.” Which brings us to today. From the Hollywood Reporter: A New York federal judge …

From the Hollywood Reporter: It’s not Fox News, but it’ll do for now. On Wednesday night, Bill O’Reilly made a first stab at what could become his regular gig: a 30-minute-long news show, shot inside a studio and made available online to premium subscribers to his website. The show will then be made available to the non-paying public on Thursday. …

Via Mediaite: Today brought the sobering and troubling news that reclusive dictatorship North Korea has now successfully produced a miniaturized nuclear warhead that can be placed in missiles, bringing it to the brink of being a true nuclear power in the world. Well, one man has made the ultimate sacrifice for his country in terms of fighting the nuclear threat …

Breitbart rants: You can take Gary Cohn out of Wall Street but you cannot take the Wall Street out of Gary Cohn. President Donald Trump’s top economic adviser escaped tumultuous Washington, D.C. this weekend to return to his old stomping grounds: the Hamptons social scene, where elite Wall Street relocates for summer weekends. Cohn was long a staple of the …

Vice News reports: A spokeswoman for the NRA denied threatening to fist the New York Times — which she referred to as an “old gray hag” — in an officially sanctioned NRA video ostensibly promoting gun ownership. In the video, released by the NRA and entitled, “Dana Loesch: We’re Coming For You New York Times,” Loesch, the American conservative talk …

The New York Daily News reports: Former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio was found guilty of criminal contempt Monday. Arpaio, who was booted out of office in November, was charged with misdemeanor contempt-of-court for disobeying a 2011 court order issued by U.S. District Court Judge Murray Snow in a racial profiling case. U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton issued the verdict …

The Hill reports: President Trump on Saturday threatened to end key payments to insurance companies made under Obamacare if a repeal and replace bill is not passed. Trump has previously threatened to withhold the payments, known as Cost Sharing Reduction (CSR) payments, which lower the amount individuals have to pay for deductibles, copayments and insurance. The White House announced earlier …

GQ Magazine reports: Trump drops in regularly with Ivanka and Jared Kushner. So do his cabinet members, including Mike Pence, Rex Tillerson, and Jeff Sessions. Steve Mnuchin, the secretary of the Treasury, lives in the hotel. During the inauguration, suites were renting for as much as $18,000 a night, and the hotel filled up with diplomats and Trump’s business partners …