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The Acceptable Insanity of Right Wing Rhetoric 08/07/2009 by Kyle Mantyla I'll be the first to admit that after nearly a decade of wallowing in the swamp of right-wing political insanity, my sense of what constitutes "acceptable" rhetoric is entirely …

Trying to Set the Record Straight About Efforts to Try and Set the Record Straight 08/06/2009 by Kyle Mantyla Earlier this week, in an attempt to rebut all the lies and misinformation being spread about health care reform, the White House asked people to …

Right Wing Round-Up 07/13/2009 by Kyle Mantyla Media Matters catches Rush Limbaugh declaring that Sotomayor's "wise latina" remarks are "much worse" than George Allen's "macaca" comment. Is Kansas Secretary of State candidate Kris Kobach a birther ? Get …

What Year Is This? 06/12/2009 by Kyle Mantyla On April 15, 1995, Timothy McVeigh destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. A little over a week later, President Bill Clinton delivered a speech in which he …

Right Wing Round-Up 06/03/2009 by Kyle Mantyla Steve Benen is not overly impressed with Newt Gingrich's "apology" for calling Sonia Sotomayor "racist." On a related note, Greg Sargent reports that Rush Limbaugh says he's not retracting any of the things …

Right Wing Round-Up 05/29/2009 by Kyle Mantyla Dave Meyer says that Mel Martinez should join Senator McCain in denouncing Tom Tancredo's smear against La Raza, while Ta-Nehisi Coates writes that "Tom Tancredo knows very little about Latinos, La Raza or …

Rush Limbaugh Says Rush Limbaugh Should Shut Up 05/28/2009 by Kyle Mantyla To say that Rush Limbaugh has been among the most prolific critics of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor would be something of an understatement.   In the last few days, he has …

Right Wing Round-Up 05/20/2009 by Kyle Mantyla First of all, our congratulations to Pam for being among those who will be honored at the Women's Media Center first annual WMC Media Awards. Dan Gilgoff says that religious conservatives who "have argued for …

Right Wing Round-Up 05/13/2009 by Kyle Mantyla Steve Benen congratulates one of the few conservatives who have the courage to at least suggest that perhaps Rush Limbaugh is not the face the Republican Party needs if it ever hopes to regain its relevance. …

Right Wing Round-Up 05/06/2009 by Kyle Mantyla Media Matters has put together a lengthy list of the myths and falsehoods advanced by the media about the Supreme Court. Eric Boehlert reports that the Washington Times has now fully retracted the bogus …