The smear merchants who lied about John Kerry being a traitor to tip the 2004 election are at it again with a book about Barack Obama.  I am not going to link to the book, but the author is Jerome Corsi.  He appeared recently on Larry King's show in

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In 1994, I worked for one year as an intern at Yad Vashem, the campus of Holocaust museums, memorials, and research facilities in Jerusalem.  At Yad Vashem I was...

In an interview with an Israeli TV station, John McCain turned respect for the memory of the Holocaust -- a core American value -- into a line of transparent act of political smear.

Speaking about the possibility of Iran attacking Israel, McCain told Israel's Channel 2 News:

I...

Let's be serious for a moment, here: the idea that Barack and Michelle Obama are urban terrorists -- working in cahoots with underground communist rebels, and Osama Bin Laden, to destroy America -- is so ridiculous that nobody with any sense of decency believes it. But if that's the case,...

This week, right-wing pundit and leader of the 'beat your children' movement, Dr. James Dobson, accused Sen. Barack Obama of committing violence against Biblical teachings.

Despite Dobson being a best-selling self-help guru famous for advising parents to whip their children with sticks, every mainstream media outlet somehow...

This past week, America saw two familiar figures impose violent rhetoric into the Presidential debate on behalf of John McCain: Newt Gingrich and Rudy Giuliani. It was a textbook example of the right-wing effort to use violent language not just to distract the public, but to undermine the attempt...

In her newest syndicated column, right-wing pundit Ann Coulter calls the U.S. occupation in Iraq "a stunning success," awards President Bush the status of "moral giant," and trashes Sen. John McCain as one of "the weakest members of the herd."

Since 2001, right-wing pundits have increasingly used offensive and

One of the best indicators of John McCain's weakness in the general election is the questioning of his manhood by right-wing pundits.

Rush Limbaugh -- who likes to dress up as a general and command his listener's to foment political violence -- took time out this week to...

During a live interview, FOX Contributor Liz Trotta jokingly wished for the assassination of Sen. Barack Obama.

This latest incident from FOX News continues the trend in violent rhetoric about Sen. Obama from pundits, politicians, and entertainers.

Grinning While Joking About Killing A...

Having joked less than a year ago about killing Mitt Romney (and his supporters), former Republican candidate for president, Mike Huckabee, has now made light of assassinating Sen. Barack Obama.

According to CNN, during his recent speech at the NRA convention in Louisville Kentucky, the former presidential candidate...

NUGENT THREATENED LIVES OF OBAMA/CLINTON DURING 2007 CONCERT

Although mostly hidden by his campaign, on May 16, 2008--four days prior to the Kentucky Primary--Sen. John McCain will participate in the 137th NRA Annual Meeting in Louisville, Kentucky--in the same event as a right-wing pundit well-known for his

For weeks, now, Rush Limbaugh has been trying to incite political violence by giving on-air military-sounding orders, effectively 'commanding' his listeners to wage war against the U.S. electoral system.

The right-wing pundit's 'orders' to his Republican listeners have been clear: vote in the Democratic primaries as a coordinated...

As usual, Ann Coulter's newest round of violence-tinged pundit appearances included going on CNN to call millions of Americans "traitors" (treason is a crime punishable by the death penalty) and suggest that Sen. Barack Obama is a covert terrorist assassin.

What did Ann Coulter do this week to...

This weekend, Fox News and John McCain tried to convince voters that Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) was "endorsed" by Hamas -- a lie created by Fox News.

Hamas is a Palestinian Sunni Islamist militant organization and political party listed by the U.S. Department of State as a foreign terrorist...

Although Ann Coulter originally achieved fame as a right-wing pundit by talking about President Clinton's penis on national TV, since 9/11 she has turned most of her attention to framing Democrats as terrorists.

During one TV spot in 2003, Coulter said, "Liberals...want there to be lots of 9/11s" (see...

Read more reactions from Huffington Post bloggers to ABC's Pennsylvania Democratic debate

For months, now, there has been an effort to frame the Democratic front-runner not just as a bad candidate, but as a potential violent threat to the American public.  It is the familiar politics of violent rhetoric,...

One of the violent frames pushed by right-wing pundits describes the dire consequences for the American public should Democrat be elected president.  Once in office, according to this right-wing rhetoric, the new Democratic president will rework U.S. foreign policy in such a way that Americans will no longer be...

In a chilling article at Mother Jones, David Corn describes the violent rhetoric of yet another one of John McCain's supposed spiritual-guides: Rod Parsley, televangelist and pastor of the 12,000-member World Harvest Church in Columbus, Ohio. Corn's article describes the violent language that Parsley has used...

Against the backdrop of a noisy Democratic nomination contest, the Republican Party slowly, but deliberately launched its framing strategy to win the general election.

That effort is based on the coordinated use of 'violent rhetoric' to redefine the election through a 'violence frame.' 

In an effort to win...

They may have paid their electric bill on time, but the Obama campaign has been hit by back to back Power failures -- as in Barack Obama's former senior policy adviser Samantha Power messing up big time in the media. Nonetheless, the gaffes that led to the resignation of...