American Conservatives
FREE BRISTOL PALIN!
Monday, September 8th, 2008Good afternoon, everyone. We here at American Heresy have been faced with a moment of opportunity that will be taking us away from our more general activities here at the Newsblog. For the time being, we are focusing our efforts on organizing FreeBristolPalin.com.
We’d like to say a few words about our involvement there. First, we’re [...]
My God! A national candidate will TALK to the PRESS!
Monday, September 8th, 2008I just finished watching Amy Goodman talking about her arrest at the RNC when I continued through the feeds and found much! breathless! self-congratulation! that ABC’s Charlie Gibson had made himself tolerable enough to the media-disdaining McCain campaign to be an acceptable interviewer, in their eyes.
After his interview with Mr. McCain had aired, Mr. [...]
NPR: Your Pocket Guide To Speaking Palinguage Vol. 1
Monday, September 8th, 2008NPR: Your Pocket Guide To Speaking Palinguage Vol. 1
A great dissection of some of the rhetorical strategies used to recast otherwise dirty and not-so-little secrets of the Right’s unruly cast of characters into statesmen and stateswomen.
Homoerotic or not? You decide.
Thursday, July 24th, 2008Terrorists bump fists, but Americans bump chests? Seriously, this looks indecent. We love it when the military shows its man-love roots.
Photo courtesy of AP, and thank God for the UK’s Daily Mail.
Forgive me, Padre, for I’m a total jackass
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007You’re kidding, right, Alberto?
Alberto Gonzales’ publicist has written a disgusting suck-up-to-the-people piece for CNN’s “Hispanic Experience” series. So first of all, Hispanic what? Is this a regional thing we don’t know about? Not even the newspapers we read use “Hispanic” anymore. That’s for census and employment forms, as far as we’ve seen. Secondly, “The Hispanic [...]
Fundies drink own kool-aid, consider third party
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007Really? You mean some of you people really do think abortion is the only issue that counts when deciding on the most influential office on the planet?
Looks like the fundagelicals trotted out Focus on the Family’s James Dobson (who we don’t link to as a matter of policy) to focus some woman-hating on the likes [...]
Black Texas pastors hate gays even more than themselves
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007On the heels of the Virginia Beach takeover, we bring you more from the Self-Hating People of Color files: this article from the Houston Chronicle, originally printed in the WashPost.
WASHINGTON — A coalition of conservative black pastors is lobbying Congress to vote against a bill that would extend federal hate-crimes laws to cover gays, saying [...]