Video- Fox's Napolitano and Asman push conspiracy theory that Obama is creating a civilian army of health care workers

Ooooh, scary nurse's aides and lpns! Via Media Matters.

VIDEO: Neil Cavuto pushes conspiracy theory about Rep. Matheson’s vote

By GottaLaff



BlahblahblahLIESblahblahblahCLUSTERFOXblahblahblah:

Rep. Matheson issued a statement to Fox, stating, “The Weekly Standard’s piece is rubbish.” White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said today that the right-wing allegation is “very silly.” Still, in a sign of its eminent “fairness,” Fox News is willing to “balance” the truth with a heavy dose of gossip.

Republican Sen. Robert Bennett also disputed the right-wing allegation:

“Sen. Bennett has heard of all kinds of pressure being applied and offers being made to Democrats for votes on health care, but Scott Matheson’s nomination is not one of those because it has been in the works for a long time,” spokeswoman Tara DiJulio said.

The GOP is feeling threatened, because health care reform, such as it is, is about to become a reality. They're reverting to default mode: Smears, fears, and acting like rears.

These people are a twisted, dangerous joke.

More at Think Progress.

Video- Beck's two-blackboard conspiracy of how Obama is "in danger" from "revolutionaries" like Dunn, Stern

Atty.: Oklahoma City Bomb Tapes Appear Edited

This is strange. Wonder how long before the Oklahomers start up?

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Long-secret security tapes showing the chaos immediately after the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building are blank in the minutes before the blast and appear to have been edited, an attorney who obtained the recordings said Sunday.

"The real story is what's missing," said Jesse Trentadue, a Salt Lake City attorney who obtained the recordings through the federal Freedom of Information Act as part of an unofficial inquiry he is conducting into the April 19, 1995, bombing that killed 168 people and injured hundreds more.

(snip)

The tapes turned over by the FBI came from security cameras various companies had mounted outside office buildings near the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. They are blank at points before 9:02 a.m., when a truck bomb carrying a 4,000 pound fertilizer-and-fuel-oil bomb detonated in front of the building, Trentadue said.

"Four cameras in four different locations going blank at basically the same time on the morning of April 19, 1995. There ain't no such thing as a coincidence," Trentadue said.

He said government officials claim the security cameras did not record the minutes before the bombing because "they had run out of tape" or "the tape was being replaced."

"The interesting thing is they spring back on after 9:02," he said. "The absence of footage from these crucial time intervals is evidence that there is something there that the FBI doesn't want anybody to see."

A spokesman for the FBI in Oklahoma City, Gary Johnson, declined to comment and referred inquiries about the tapes to FBI officials in Washington, who were not immediately available for comment Sunday.

Added- Here's some of the tape from the AP.

Hey kids! Take the Obama Conspiracy-Theory Challenge!

By GottaLaff

Got the end-of-summer doldrums? Feeling glum over "You lie!" outbursts? Wish you could join the fun?

Well then, turn that frown upside down, chum! I've got stupendous news for you!

What will be the right's next big Obama conspiracy theory?

That the government plans to tattoo the presidential seal on the soles of the feet of all gun-owning Christians? That Obama supported the switch from analog to digital TV because government scientists had placed interlocutor rays in every conversion box that would darken white people's skin (and don't Republicans have proof of this in John Boehner, who's been used as a guinea pig in these diabolical experiments)? Or might it be that the failure to maintain a balanced diet will become a felony, punishable by forced labor on the construction of a massive food pyramid somewhere in central Illinois?

Surely you can top that. Send your predictions here, to Comments. Then, when the mainstream media "reports" on just such a "controversy," you, instead of WorldNetDaily.com or the RNC, will be on the record for making it up first!

Conspiracies can be fun! Now go have yourselves a good time.

Video- Fox Pushes Bogus Muzak Story

Paranoia, it destroys ya. (Hopefully) Seriously, go peruse Memeorandum for a greatest hits of scary things the scary black man is doing to your poor widdle country. Oy. Vid via Think Progress.

Video- Full Mental Beck

Via Jed.

Cartoon of the Day

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VIDEO: ‘Socialized Medicine’! ‘Dead Baby Juice’! GOP Moderate vs. Rabid Right-Wing Conspiracies

By GottaLaff



Whoa.

Moderate Republican Mike Castle (R-DE), who holds Delaware's only Congressional seat, hit a wall of right-wing rage during a town hall meeting in Georgetown, DE. The June 30 meeting, part of his health care "listening tour" across the state, came just days after Rep. Castle was one of just eight Republicans to vote in favor of the American Clean Energy and Security Act. The event rapidly devolved into a moblike atmosphere as conservative activists challenged Castle with the full spectrum of right-wing conspiracy theories.

Topics included:

• ‘Socialized Medicine’ Will Destroy The Nation ‘Faster Than The Twin Towers.’

• The Cap And Trade ‘Tax’ Will Kill The American Economy.

• Global Warming Is A Hoax.

• Global Warming, Like Darwinian Evolution, Is Just A Theory.

• The Swine Flu Epidemic Is A Conspiracy To Force AIDS-Infected Vaccines On The American Public.

• President Obama Is Not A Citizen Of The United States.

Rep. Castle and the other Republicans who supported clean energy reform have been branded “cap and traitors.” The Meetup-organized conspiracy theorists attacking them are being fed a constant stream of misinformation and incitement from Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Prison Planet, Americans for Prosperity, and the rest of the right-wing machine. Today’s conservative movement refuses to make any room for old school Republicans like Mike Castle.

The Party of No Sanity.

I'm not sure whether to scream or cry.

A Winger So Stupid, Not Even Jonah Goldberg Will Play Along

And that's pretty damn bad.

Within days of my going public last September with the speculation that terrorist emeritus Bill Ayers helped Barack Obama write his acclaimed memoir, Dreams From My Father, I learned that I was not alone in that intuition.

Oh, there's more. Tortured logic, twisted rationalizations more.

New Winger Conspiracy Scandal "DealerGate"

See, a winger (starting from the basis that Obama is teh evil Socialist Overlord) started digging around looking at the political affiliation of the owners of Chrysler dealerships that were being closed. And what did he find?

The initial pass at the list of shuttered dealers showed they had donated, in the aggregate, millions to Republican candidates and PACs and a total of $200 to Barack Obama.

In fact, I have thus far found only a single Obama donor ($200 from Jeffrey Hunter of Waco, Texas) on the closing list.

Another review of all 789 closing dealerships, by WND, found $450,000 donated to GOP presidential candidates; $7,970 to Sen. Hillary Clinton; $2,200 to John Edwards and $450 to Barack Obama.

ZOMG!! You see!! The Republicans are being targeted!! (and then they go into spastic map and percentage induced conspiracy theory dementia that makes the local old folks home look like Harvard)

But...

There is just one problem with this theory. Nobody has bothered to look up data for the control group: the list of dealerships which aren't being closed. It turns out that all car dealers are, in fact, overwhelmingly more likely to donate to Republicans than to Democrats -- not just those who are having their doors closed.

Damn you Nate Silver!! /shakes fist

Beck's Conspiracy Theory About Gay Marriage

Yeah, because what all we heathens want is your churches. We feed on marble and gilt. Via Newshounds.

Friday Evening Distraction

I found this when we were over at the original blogspot, and it freaks me out every time.