You’ve already met Tina Stone, member of the now mainly incarcerated Hutaree militia up in Michigan. It turns out that one of the things that got Stone particularly upset of late was another phony story she read in one of those right-wing chain emails that keep Snopes.com in business.
In Stone’s case it was “H.B. 1388” the bill appropriating $20 billion to settle Hamas militants in the USA.
It looks like Fox has created the perfect interview show vehicle for Sarah Palin. An interview show based around her interviews with people she’s never interviewed.
Jon Taplin takes a close look at the GOP’s Michael Steele problem.
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner: Unemployment is “still terribly high and is going to stay unacceptably high for a very long time.” That and the day’s other political news in the TPMDC Morning Roundup.
A mere 46 guns and 13,000 rounds of ammo were allegedly found in the home of one of the Hutaree members arrested this week.
Jon Stewart, on what he would have told CSPAN’s “BlackSpan” caller. Watch.
Most rightwing bamboozlement is a no consequences affair for the bamboozlers. Death panels, Manchurian candidate presidents, ‘armed IRS’ agents busting down your door to ram low deductible health care coverage down your throat. It goes on and on. But it seems one old yarn from the fever swamp may have some very pernicious consequences for the folks who make their living making up stories to keep the wingnut masses in a state of chronic agitation and moral panic. Read More