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The Examiner.com’s First Annual Push Poll on Global Warming 0
Posted 2 weeks, 6 days ago
Limbaugh reject an apology for Revkin 0
Posted 3 weeks, 3 days ago
Teabaggers erupt at Lindsey Graham: ‘Wussypants, girly-man, half-a-sissy’ 2
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago Right-wing activists across the nation are enraged by Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-S.C.) decision to work with Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) to craft comprehensive climate and clean energy legislation.
Cherry Picking Season Is Over

Conservatives ditch CBO data when convenient to attack climate bill 1
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago
Conservatives who loved citing the Congressional Budget Office when it was being hard on health care legislation keep on ignoring it when it comes to climate legislation.
Big business’s hidden hand in the smear job on Van Jones 2
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago
If you thought the targeting of Van Jones for vilification by the right was about his race, his youthful flirtation with socialism, or a petition he signed about the 9/11 attacks, you'd only be a little bit right.
Fox News blurts out agenda: With Jones down, stop cap-and-trade 2
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Having taken Van Jones down, the job destroyers and climate destroyers of the right wing most certainly smell blood.
After Van Jones resignation, Glenn Beck to go after ‘other radicals’ 3
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Following Van Jones’ resignation Saturday night, Glenn Beck has released a statement vowing to go after “other radicals in the administration.”
'Let's be one country'

Van Jones seeks a ‘healing for our politics’ 5
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago
White House green jobs advisor Van Jones is under attack from Fox News as an “avowed radical revolutionary communist” and from ABC News as a “truther” with a “history of incendiary and provocative remarks.”
Bile for all

Will Glenn Beck bring down Van Jones after all? 47
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago
A couple days ago I ran a post defending Van Jones from some of the more absurd charges leveled at him by noted race-baiter Glenn Beck over the last month. He's not an "ex-con," he's not a communist, he's not even a czar. He's not, to pick just one of Beck's darkly hinted smears, on a top-secret mission to secure the U.S. treasury and dispense slavery reparations. He is, however, two things that scare the whitey tighties off of Beck and his tighty whitey audience: black and liberal.

It was mostly a tempest in a teabag until the last couple of days, when Jones got tagged with a few things that could very well end up being the end of his career in the executive branch.
Duke Energy quits scandal-ridden American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity 4
Posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Electric utility giant Duke Energy has quit the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE) because of the coal group's unethical opposition to President Obama's clean energy reform agenda.
Is that Beck going to stain?

Cleaning some of the Fox off of Van Jones 0
Posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago
A while back I lampooned a Glenn Beck segment on Van Jones, who's an advisor to the White House Council on Environmental Quality. According to Beck, Jones is the man on the inside for a vast cryptosocialist conspiracy involving the Apollo Alliance, Color of Change, the Center for American Progress, George Soros, ACORN, Al Queda, and the Trilateral Commission. Everything that goes bump in Beck's closet at night.

Back then I still thought the Gomer Pyle meets Father Coughlin shtick was harmless, too clownish to be taken seriously. Ah, those innocent days before the nation was locked in a room with frantic teabaggers.
Department Of Energy eviscerates right-wing Spanish ‘green jobs’ study 0
Posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago
A Spanish paper that claimed support for green jobs "may destroy two jobs for every one created" has been debunked by an official publication of the U.S. Department of Energy.
Devious!

Glenn Beck: Van Jones is a communist intent on, er, creating private sector jobs 31
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Glenn Beck has uncovered a plot! (Yes, another one.) Turns out Van Jones, President Obama's green jobs czar, is going to coordinate a vast radical/communist/black nationalist takeover of our sweet, virginal land of liberty.
Still spinning

EPA ‘suppression’ story grows, despite shoddy science in report 6
Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago
The peculiar story of a "suppressed" report at the Environmental Protection Agency continues to grow, despite the fact that the agency appears to have done nothing worse than holding its employees to professional standards.
A look inside the right-wing message machine

Scant evidence for charge that EPA ‘suppressed’ dissent [Updated] 8
Posted 5 months ago
The conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute has issued a release under the headline "BREAKING: EPA Suppresses Internal Global Warming Study." Wow! A huge story, right? Not so fast.
Hint: Even Fox News is worried about them.

Who, really, is inciting Americans to violence today? 0
Posted 5 months, 1 week ago
NYT columnist Frank Rich has a terrific column on the hate-mongering being pushed by the some of the right-wing media these days, "The Obama Haters' Silent Enablers."