Stephen Colbert: Politicos & Paranoid Fantasies
Stephen Colbert on Rick Santorum’s conspiracy theories and the Senate rejecting the UN Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities. (From the December 5, 2012 episode of The Colbert Report.) Partial transcript: And folks The three CHAs took of 10 habitants…
Conspiriocracy: government by conspiracy theory
The United States is no longer a nation governed by laws. Nor is it governed by men, nor by faith, nor by reason. (If it ever was the latter…) Today, we’re governed by conspiracy theories. One of the threads of…
Mourdock was not the victim of a gotcha question
Since the fateful night of October 23, 2012, it’s become an article of faith among conservatives that Richard Mourdock was yet another victim of illegitimate, “gotcha” journalism by the liberal media. It started the day after the debate, when former…
On Pro-Rape Republicans [TW]
[Potential trigger warning for rape, incest, pedophilia] Let me say, for the record, that I don’t actually believe any Republicans are pro-rape. Let me repeat that: I don’t believe any Republicans are pro-rape. But there’s been another rash of GOPers…