Right Wing Watch describes itself as a group that “monitors and exposes the activities of Radical Right political organizations.” What that means in practice is RWW combs social media for controversial statements, before explicitly or implicitly calling for the accounts behind them to be banned. However, tables were seemingly turned on …
Read More »Conservatives pounce on Pelosi after she dodges question about whether 15-week-old unborn child is a ‘human being’
Asked the question during her weekly press conference, Pelosi said she is a “big supporter” of Roe v. Wade – the Supreme Court decision making abortion legal – but did not actually answer the question she was asked, which was related to the Supreme Court’s plan to take on a …
Read More »‘He’s clearly suffering from dementia’: Conservatives jeer as Biden mistakes Syria for Libya ahead of talks with Putin
“We can work together with Russia – for example, in Libya. We should be opening up the passage to be able to go through, provide food assistance, and economic… I mean, vital assistance to a population that’s in real trouble,” Biden told a press conference at the conclusion of the …
Read More »‘Warms your heart to see’: American conservatives celebrate Israeli bombing of AP & Al Jazeera offices
After videos were published on social media showing the destruction of the building by Israeli missiles, people from around the world – including many journalists – condemned the bombing, calling it terrorism, a war crime, and an attack against the free press. Several high-profile conservative commentators in the United States, …
Read More »Greenwald blasts Intercept over ‘hit piece’ that claims conservatives’ riot video ‘smears’ Black Lives Matter
“Meet the Riot Squad: Right-Wing Reporters Whose Viral Videos Are Used to Smear BLM,” blares the headline of the Intercept article, written by Robert Mackey and published Thursday. It names eight reporters who “roam from city to city, feeding the conservative media’s hunger for images of destruction and violence on …
Read More »‘2020 election in one clip’: Conservatives jeer as tiny group of protesters heckles MASSIVE crowd at Florida rally of Trump allies
This strange scene was captured by media cameras on Friday, as a large crowd of seniors in the retirement community northwest of Orlando queued up for a rally in the style of former President Donald Trump. Instead of the 45th president, however, the stars of this meeting were young Republican …
Read More »So much for unity! Conservatives jeer as Biden BACKS baseball league’s Georgia boycott over controversial voting security law
Speaking to ESPN on Wednesday, Biden said he would “strongly support” the baseball league moving its All-Star game in July out of the state, in response to a Republican-authored election security law signed by Governor Brian Kemp last week. “I think today’s professional athletes are acting incredibly responsibly. I would …
Read More »Conservatives snicker as Urban Dictionary censors term ‘BLUE ANON,’ the hot new label for left-wing conspiracy theorists
The term made it into the online Urban Dictionary of slang words and phrases earlier this week, only to be removed by at least Sunday. A search of the term, a play on ‘QAnon’ that has been used increasingly in recent months to mock leftists, now comes up empty. Previously, …
Read More »‘Extremists’ – or is that conservatives? – are cognitively deficient: Guardian pumps up pseudoscientific assault on wrongthinkers
Donald Trump may be gone, but his supporters are still hanging around, gumming up the works and interfering with returning both halves of the American uni-party system to their proper anti-populist, war-loving baseline. This means playing whack-a-mole with the “wrongthinkers” on the Right, whether it’s knocking them off social media, …
Read More »‘Disgusted’ Nikki Haley throws Trump under the bus, but conservatives & #Resistance are having none of her ‘flip-flop’
“We need to acknowledge he let us down,” Haley told Politico in an interview published Friday, making an effort to create palpable space between herself – an upwardly-mobile young politician apparently determined to run for president in 2024 – and the former commander-in-chief whose own party couldn’t wait to stick …
Read More »