A pro-Islam bias in Texan schools?Members of the Texas Board of Education think that the current prescribed school textbooks are too pro-Muslim and anti-Christian in their focus. A worthy recipient of our ‘USA: WTF?’ tag, we think.
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Video of the Day: This is Alabama: we speak English
Another golden ad from the US gubernatorial race (it’s the gift that just keeps on giving): Tim James wants drivers license exams to be run in one language, and one language only…
The Tea Party gets a TV network
The US’s right-wing Tea Party movement is starting a TV network called RIGHTNETWORK, for “Americans who are looking for content that reflects and reinforces their perspective and worldview.” Fox is suddenly looking decidedly “fair and balanced”.
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Crazy letters to the Pentagon
Stars and Stripes sifts through some of the craziest letters ever sent to the US Defense Department. Suggestions include building a “Noah’s Ark Biosphere”, a raft of 9/11 conspiracy theories, and parachuting trained bears into the Middle East to capture Bin Laden.
Tea Party backlash brewing: meet the Coffee Party
Has the American conservative Tea Party movement boiled over into a bevvy of beverage-based politics? Meet the Coffee Party: a pro-democracy, anti-corporate movement building grass-roots traction across the States,
Henry Rollins: Sarah Palin, a dynamo of dumbassity
Henry Rollins rants about Tea Parties, Sarah Palin, homophobia and America’s race to the bottom.
Video of the Day: Sarah Palin goes to a tea party
Sarah Palin goes rogue at the first ever Tea Party National Convention (and all for the low, low price of $100,000!). Is she gearing up for a presidential run in 2012? Did the crib notes help? Have the lunatics finally taken over the asylum in the U-S-of-A? Is First Dude Todd really pulling all the […]
Just what is Sarah Palin up to?
Despite leaving politics in July, Alaska’s favourite hockey mom, Sarah Palin, is possibly more visible now than ever. Is she preparing to challenge Obama in 2012, or just riding high on the wave of kooky conservatism sweeping through the States?
“Retardgate”: Palin sparks another media flame war
Sarah Palin has started another media storm by slamming Obama’s Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, for using the phrase “f-cking retarded”. Now the Special Olympics and Tea Party movement are involved.
Fox News: America’s most trusted news source. Eep.
A new survey has found that Fox is the only TV news network that more Americans trust than distrust, with 49% of all people — and 79% of Republicans — saying they trust the station.
Dear Conservative Movement: it’s time we saw other people…
American Conservative editor Michael Dougherty pens an acerbic break-up letter to the conservative movement: “you’ve made yourself a prostitute for the GOP, a cynical and corrupt organization…”
US military weapons are being inscribed with secret biblical codes
A company producing weapons for the US military has been inscribing every one with coded references to Bible passages about Jesus, ABC News has uncovered. Because Jesus was all about war and killing.
‘If Liza can marry two gay men why can’t I marry one?’: the best protest signs of 2009
With gay marriage, the Birther movement, Tea Parties and health care, it was a year ripe with hilarious (both intentional and not) protest signs for those crazy Americans.
Video of the Day: Tea Party: The Documentary
So far as we can tell, this is NOT a parody. This is a real film.
A quarter of Americans think Obama stole the election
26% of Americans believe Barack Obama “stole” the 2008 Presidential election, via voter fraud from community organiser ACORN — by comparison, only 18% of Americans thought Bush stole the 2000 election.
The Tea Partiers’ next target: the climate
After kicking up a stink about health-care reform and just in time for Copenhagen, members of America’s Tea Party Movement have zoned in on a new target: Obama’s climate bill.
Inside Palin’s closed-door anti-abortion rally
Sarah Palin banned the media from a recent speech before a right-to-life group, but Politico snuck an operative in. Amongst the usual Bible-bashing and fist-pumping, she also floated an interesting conspiracy theory about the new design of US dollar coins.
The Tea Party descends on DC
10,000 members of America’s right-wing Tea Party movement have swarmed DC to “scare” members of Congress from voting for health care reform. 10 have been arrested, while an All-Star line-up of GoP Reps showed up. Can they actually “kill the bill”?
Alex Jones: the new Glenn Beck
Meet online radio host Alex Jones. He believes the JFK assassination is connected to water fluoridation, the Starbucks logo contains hidden messages and that Obama is creating ” a planetary totalitarian state”. And Americans are listening.
America’s big bullet shortage
America’s bullet-makers are working round the clock to feed gun nuts’ appetite for ammunition, but they just can’t keep up with the increased demand since Obama took office. Wonderful.
Is extremism now the norm in America?
A poll has found only 59% of voters believe Obama was born in the US. Meanwhile, 25% of Democrats think President Bush allowed the 9/11 attacks to take place. Seems like, extreme political views are going mainstream.
Who is Glenn Beck and where did he come from?
No-one in the US right now is getting more media oxygen — or perhaps creating more hot air — than Fox News anchor Glenn Beck. Meet the new pin-up boy for the American Right.
Washington Post / Tuesday, 2 February 2010
The Washington Post looks at how an email by a conservative blogger at 5am can run through the blogosphere, the beltway and the parties, and end up being broadcast to Tea Partiers across the nation by Rush Limbaugh in the very same day.