At the 2003 memorial for slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, Feisal Abdul Rauf, the imam who wants to build a community center in lower Manhattan that fringe conservatives call the Ground Zero Mosque, sought to comfort a religiously diverse crowd. To Pearl’s Jewish father, he said: We are here to assert the Islamic conviction of the moral...
Tomorrow’s assault on Martin Luther King
As Glenn Beck lies by claiming that the people who opposed MLK — conservatives like him — were actually behind the civil rights movement, we ask whether those who will assemble in front of the Lincoln Memorial tomorrow to hear Beck are evil or just stupid. Stay tuned for the end of the show for a reminder of what tomorrow is really about. Listen...
Today’s show: The right’s professional liars
Why Newt & the rest of the denizens of the vortex of bullshit are lying about the lower Manhattan Islamic community center…plus comedian Jimmy Dore, listener calls and Gabe finally fails to mention a certain incident that occurred over 30 years ago. Listen here.
In the chron: Irrational fear of ‘mosque’ hardly unprecedented
It’s about the 9/11 attack. No, not that one: The Mountain Meadows massacre was a mass slaughter of the Fancher-Baker emigrant wagon train at Mountain Meadows, Utah Territory, by a local Mormon militia and members of the Paiute Indian tribe on September 11, 1857. The incident began as an attack, quickly turned into a siege, and eventually...
Today’s show: Marriage equality and the constitution
Prop 8, equal protection and the inability of marriage equality opponents to articulate a state interest in preventing it….plus listener calls and Kirsten’s doughnut problem resurfaces. Listen here.
