Rightwing Boor Neal Boortz smears Obama

From Media Matters,

On the August 21 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, host Neal Boortz falsely suggested that Sen. Barack Obama is a Muslim. While discussing Sen. John McCain's inability to answer the Politico's question about how many homes he and his wife own, Boortz said: "Let's ask Obama how many prayer rugs he has." As Media Matters for America has noted, Obama is a Christian, not a Muslim.

From the August 21 broadcast of Cox Radio Syndication's The Neal Boortz Show:

BOORTZ: How many houses do you have?

ROYAL MARSHALL (engineer and "sidekick"): Two.

BOORTZ: OK.

MARSHALL: But I want to say one thing here. It could also be wealth envy, like you said, but it also could be a matter of age. He's so old he can't remember --

BOORTZ: Oh, jeez.

MARSHALL: -- how many houses. He forgot he's got two houses in Florida. He forgot about the house in Boca.

BOORTZ: Oh, jeez. OK.

MARSHALL: I mean, it's a possibility. The guy is 72.

BOORTZ: Senile. He's senile. He can't remember -- he goes -- he keeps going to the wrong home, too, at night.

JAMIE DUPREE (Cox Radio correspondent): Sometimes, it's the dumbest things that get you in trouble in a campaign, you know?

BOORTZ: Well, like I said, if this is it in this campaign, then this country just deserves whatever is gonna happen to us.

DUPREE: Well, just wait and see. Just watch if that thing keeps coming up in the next few days.

BOORTZ: Let's ask Obama how many prayer rugs he has.

DUPREE: See? And, you know, somebody would say that's not fair.

BOORTZ: Well, I'm not trying to be fair.

DUPREE: Well, exactly.

Douchebag Jerome Corsi set straight by Media Matters' Waldman

Jerome Corsi is the thoroughly discredited author of the book: The Obama Nation.



Barack Obama's campaign is hitting back hard against smear author Jerome Corsi's. They have released a 41 page document calling Corsi's book, "Unfit For Publication".



They are urging supporters to spread the truth about Corsi.

Friend --

Right now, vile smear-peddler Jerome Corsi is back with a new book of lies -- this time about Barack Obama.

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Together we'll show Corsi and the right-wing smear machine that we won't back down from a fight.

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Liars at Fox News are smearing Obama. Fight the smears.

Robert Grenwald of Brave New Films has released another great video that shows how Fox News has been smearing Obama with outright lies.

Fox is a Republican mouthpiece, not a legitimate news organization. Real news organizations must reject Fox's smears of Barack Obama and get the real facts out.

Watch the video, sign the peition and send it everyone you know.

Sexist Limbaugh attacks Elizabeth Edwards

Former drug addict and the obese right-wing gasbag, Rush Limbaugh has found a new low.

On the August 12 broadcast, Limbaugh attacked Elizabeth Edwards by saying..."It just seems to me that Edwards might be attracted to a woman whose mouth did something other than talk."

LIMBAUGH: We know -- we've been told that Elizabeth Edwards is smarter than John Edwards. That's part of the puff pieces on them that we've seen. Ergo, if Elizabeth Edwards is smarter than John Edwards, is it likely that she thinks she knows better than he does what his speeches ought to contain and what kind of things he ought to be doing strategy-wise in the campaign? If she is smarter than he is, could it have been her decision to keep going with the campaign? In other words, could it be that she doesn't shut up? Now, that's as far as I'm going to go.
...

I'm sorry, my friends, I just -- I can't. It just seems to me that Edwards might be attracted to a woman whose mouth did something other than talk.

Later Keith Olbermann slammed Limbaugh on his show.

Shameless Mike Gallagher gets desperate

Right wing radio talk show host Mike Gallagher appeared on Fox News and calls Obamas "socialists" because their daughters get presents from Santa, not them.



As expected, Sean Hannity agreed with Gallagher.

Right-wing talk show hosts drove the TN shooter over the edge?

Right-wing talk show hosts like Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity and Michael 'Weiner' Savage are always quick to blame the artists (musicians, filmmakers etc) whenever some lunatic goes on a killing spree. As it turns out the shooter Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church has been reading books written by these right-wing loons...

Bill O'Reilly, Michael Savage, Sean Hannity on accused shooter's reading list

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  Inside the house, officers found "Liberalism is a Mental Health Disorder" by radio talk show host Michael Savage, "Let Freedom Ring" by talk show host Sean Hannity, and "The O'Reilly Factor," by television talk show host Bill O'Reilly.
  
  The shotgun-wielding suspect in Sunday's mass shooting at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church was motivated by a hatred of "the liberal movement," and he planned to shoot until police shot him, Knoxville Police Chief Sterling P. Owen IV said this morning.
  

Two idiots, Ben Stein and Glenn Beck

Right wing hacks Ben Stein and Glenn Beck compare Obama to Hitler/Mussolini on CNN HEadline News.

Michael Weiner Savage says autism is a fraud and a racket

On the July 16 edition of his nationally syndicated radio show, Michael 'Weiner' Savage claimed that autism is "fraud, a racket... I'll tell you what autism is. In 99 percent of the cases, it's a brat who hasn't been told to cut the act out. That's what autism is. What do you mean they scream and they're silent? They don't have a father around to tell them, 'Don't act like a moron. You'll get nowhere in life. Stop acting like a putz. Straighten up. Act like a man. Don't sit there crying and screaming, idiot.' "



Gothamist:

Advertisers Drop Michael Savage Radio Show Over Autism Remarks

A week after conservative radio host Michael Savage made controversial remarks suggesting a child with autism was really "a brat who hasn't been told to cut the act out," advertisers and some radio stations are distancing themselves from his show. According to Newsday, "Radio Shack, Aflac and Sears say that their advertisements should not have appeared during Savage's show and will not for the foreseeable future," while Anheuser-Busch explained "it has never advertised on Savage's program." And Mississippi network of radio stations SuperTalk dropped the program, with its president explaining, "We're a conservative network. I just didn't see why a person with so much hatred had a place in our network."

In response to this firestorm, Michael Weiner Savage is now claiming (lying) that he has been taken 'out of context'. He has posted 20 clips on his website where he appears to be sympathetic to autism sufferers. But all of these clips are from his radio show that aired after July 16. So Michael Weiner Savage is trying to supply retroactive context?

Media Matters exposes this fraud.

Robert Novak hits Pedestrian with his car and keeps on driving

July 23, 2008. Syndicated columnist Robert D. Novak was cited by police after he hit a pedestrian with his black Corvette in downtown Washington, D.C., on Wednesday morning.

"I didn't know I hit him. I feel terrible," a shaken Novak told reporters from Politico and WJLA as he was returning to his car. "He's not dead, that's the main thing."

Novak kept on driving after hitting the man. He stopped only when a bicyclist yelled at him and said, "You hit someone." The bicyclist, David Bono, says - "black Corvette convertible with top closed plowed into the guy. The guy is sort of splayed onto the windshield."

Watch a local DC news report on the incident:


Robert Novak is the same conservative columnist who leaked the identity of the covert CIA officer Valerie Plame in his newspaper column.

In August 2004, after other journalists had reported on it, Novak admitted that his son, Alex Novak, is the Director of Marketing for the Swift Boat Veterans' publisher, Regnery Publishing. At the time he said that he didn't "think it relevant." Two months later Salon.com reported that Regnery's owner is also the publisher of Novak's own US$297 (annual rate) newsletter and that Novak is on the board of a foundation whose chief holdings are the stock of Regnery's parent company.

Swift Vets and POWs for Truth, formerly known as the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth (SBVT), was a political group (527 group) of American Swift boat veterans and former prisoners of war of the Vietnam War, formed during the 2004 presidential election campaign for the purpose of smear John Kerry's candidacy for the presidency. As of 2008, the group has ceased operations.

Sly Fox: Rapper Nas takes on Fox News propaganda

Nas takes apart the Fox News propaganda machine with the song, Sly Fox (from his untitled new album).

Steven Colbert mocks Fox


Nas on Colbert Report 4/23/08 - Performing Sly Fox