My inner Captain Renault is shocked, SHOCKED!
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on March 30th, 2010 4:52 am by HL
My inner Captain Renault is shocked, SHOCKED!
Oliver North and Sean Hannity — con artists? Oh there’s a real shocker.
Who would have thought that the gentlemen at left and Sean Hannity would be accused of being frauds…yet again?
A potentially damaging scandal erupted today that implicates Fox News Channel personalities Sean Hannity and Oliver North in the worst kind of charitable fraud. According to complaints filed with the Federal Trade Commission and the IRS, the two right-wing icons have exploited American veterans for personal and partisan gain.
Is Iran involved? Is Hal Turner?
In its IRS complaint against Freedom Alliance, CREW says that the group’s charitable tax status should be voided because it has engaged in “prohibited political activities” such as its annual “Freedom Cruise” with Republican politicians, including Newt Gingrich and Michael Steele.
Michael Steele “makes it rain” and Newt then leaves his last wife for the one who collects the most bills. It’s quite a system.
This sure sounds like the ultimate summation of how conservatives have exploited the armed forces over the last ten years. And who better as representatives than Hannity and North?
Late Late Night FDL: Love Song for Camus
Featuring new love videos with Don Henry’s “Back on The Farm Again” and “Love Song for Camus” by I Am The Dot.
Featuring new love videos with Don Henry’s “Back on The Farm Again” and “Love Song for Camus” by I Am The Dot.
What’s on your mind tonight?
Early Morning Swim: Rachel Maddow Examines the Hutaree Militia
Eugene Robinson has a great column about this today.
Eugene Robinson has a great column about this today.
The episode highlights the obvious: For decades now, the most serious threat of domestic terrorism has come from the growing ranks of paranoid, anti-government hate groups that draw their inspiration, vocabulary and anger from the far right.
It is disingenuous for mainstream purveyors of incendiary far-right rhetoric to dismiss groups such as the Hutaree by saying that there are “crazies on both sides.” This simply is not true.
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But for the most part, far-left violence in this country has gone the way of the leisure suit and the AMC Gremlin. An anti-globalization movement, including a few window-smashing anarchists, was gaining traction at one point, but it quickly diminished after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. An environmental group and an animal-rights group have been linked with incidents of arson. Beyond those particulars, it is hard to identify any kind of leftist threat.
By contrast, there has been explosive growth among far-right, militia-type groups that identify themselves as white supremacists, “constitutionalists,” tax protesters and religious soldiers determined to kill people to uphold “Christian” values. Most of the groups that posed a real danger, as the Hutaree allegedly did, have been infiltrated and dismantled by authorities before they could do any damage. But we should never forget that the worst act of domestic terrorism ever committed in this country was authored by a member of the government-hating right wing: Timothy McVeigh’s bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City.
But…but…McVeigh was working with Iraqi agents.
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