Sarah Palin is not even pretending that she is not regurgitating conspiracy theories from the Right Wing fringe anymore.

That's right folks, Info Wars.

That is the home of Alex Jones that tin hatted gargoyle who thinks the monsters under his bed are possessed by demons hired by Harry Reid.

This is the guy who literally thinks that Hillary Clinton is out to kill him.

And that is who Palin is now linking to on her Facebook page.

No longer is she bothering to link to The Independent Journal or Breitbart News.

Now she is simply bypassing them and going to the same lunatic asylum where they get THEIR stories.

Just like your crazy uncle who thinks that the fluoride in the water allows the government to read your thoughts.

And while Palin thinks it reasonable to panic her Facebook fans with news that Russia will position a military division only fifty miles from Alaska, she says not a word about their hacking of government agencies or their attempts to interfere in our election. 

Interesting.

Esquire takes a long peek at the goings on at the Cliven Bundy ranch that Fox News and the Right Wing are desperate for you not to see.

Courtesy of Esquire: 

At the Bundy camp last week, pundits and politicians descended on Bunkerville, Nevada, to throw in their American flag hats with the BLM protestors. A FOX news van had been parked by the side of the road for days. Up on the ridge, militia snipers kept a trained watch as Bundy held court, and disciples from far and wide came to share their personal theories as to why the government was enforcing a court order. 

But on Thursday, we witnessed a mainstream exodus from Bundy’s flank. Sean Hannity, Bundy’s biggest booster, called his racist remarks “beyond despicable,” but maintained that they should not taint the supporters who “for the right reasons saw this case as government overreach.” 

Exactly how difficult was it, though, to determine pretty early on that Bundy and his followers were using the threat of force to back up some terrifyingly misguided beliefs? 

During the few hours I visited last week, this was what was said.

Some of the things the Esquire reporter saw almost defies description, but here is a taste.

Openly discussed racism:

It’s dizzying and hot at the camp, and a very friendly man named Roy, wearing an Obama t-shirt with a joker smile painted on, hands me a cold bottle. He's from nearby Mesquite and has been a close friend and supporter of Bundy's these last few years. When I tell him I’m from New Mexico, the former cop says he has a very good buddy who used to work as a sheriff in my area. 

“He got in a bit of trouble,” he chuckles. “He pulled over a carload of illegals one night, didn’t have room to haul ‘em all, so he put a chain around their neck and put a padlock through it, went to the next one, then he chained ‘em to a tree!” 

He buckles with laughter as the story heats up. “Then he left ‘em and went to town to get his pickup to haul ‘em all back in. So, you might imagine, that didn’t play well — ha! You’re a young’un, but everything wasn’t against the law, way back when.”

Cliven Bundy religious prophet:

The crowd, fresh off their victory at the Battle of Bunkerville, gives Bundy a standing ovation. But he doesn’t seem pleased. He reproaches the crowd for failing to follow the word of God – to the letter – which he says is being delivered through him. They failed, for example, to follow his instructions to tear down the toll booths at Lake Mead and disarm the Park Service. 

"The message I gave to you all was a revelation that I received. And yet not one of you can seem to even quote it.” 

Cliven continues, sermon-like: "The records of our bible — how long have they been kept? Thousands of years. They’ve been turned over generation after generation, buried, and all kinds of things happen to ‘em. And yet, here, something I felt was inspired [by God] and yet we haven’t even carried it forth for even a couple of days. Shame on us.” Smattering of clapping. 

He goes on to explain that, although they managed to deter the BLM, they failed to do it "within one hour," as the revelation had prophesied. So when an hour passes, he decides to get in his bulldozer and march on the BLM himself. The dozer gets stuck in the mud and he receives another revelation. 

“It come to my mind real plain — the good Lord said, ‘Bundy, it’s not your job, it’s THEIR job.’ So we come back over here and heard that they had brought some cattle back. So I want you to understand,” addressing the crowd, "This is not my job, it’s YOUR job.

Wingnuts of all shapes and sizes:

Clearly the longer that any sensible person spends around Bundy and his group of radicals, the more clear it becomes that his ranch has become a kind of gathering place for all of the Alex Jones conspiracy theorists (Yesterday they went after Glenn Beck), angry racists, and trigger happy sovereign citizens types that were within walking, driving, or hitchhiking range.

 If the BLM were smart they would simply sit back and let this powder keg smolder a little longer, because I think it is only a matter of time before these lunatics get bored and start looking around the ranch for someone to take their inner range out on.

Things could get mighty interesting in old Bunkerville before too long.

In the meantime, at least the citizens of Nevada know where all he crazy people are hanging out.

Republican party of Arizona officially censures Senator John McCain for not being crazy enough to represent the state any more.

Courtesy of NPR:

The Arizona Republican Party formally censured Sen. John McCain on Saturday, citing a voting record they say is insufficiently conservative. 

The resolution to censure McCain was approved by a voice-vote during a meeting of state committee members in Tempe, state party spokesman Tim Sifert said. It needed signatures from at least 20 percent of state committee members to reach the floor for debate. Sifert said no further action was expected. 

According to the resolution, the 2008 Republican presidential nominee has campaigned as a conservative but has lent his support to issues "associated with liberal Democrats," such as immigration reform and funding the federal health care law. 

Several Republican county committees recently censured McCain. 

Timothy Schwartz, the Legislative District 30 Republican chairman who helped write the resolution, said the censure showed that McCain was losing support from his own party. 

"We would gladly embrace Sen. McCain if he stood behind us and represented us," Schwartz said.

Yeah if only John McCain would act like a lunatic and work to stop every bit of legislation introduced by the Obama administration, like the "good" Republican politicians do he could get a warm wet one from the lunatic fringe that now runs the Arizona  Republican party.

But hey, all its not lost. I happen to know of one batshit crazy ex-Governor who is now a resident of Arizona that would totally fit what the Arizona GOP is looking for.

Just make sure y'all have your shots up to date before you visit her house.

President Obama's new White House counsel compares the Tea Party to Jonestown. Surprisingly that does not go over very well.

So John Podesta, Obama's new White House Counsel gave an interview, some time ago it seems, to Politico, during which he said the following about the Obama administration:

“They need to focus on executive action given that they are facing a second term against a cult worthy of Jonestown in charge of one of the houses of Congress,” he told me. 

Whoops. 

Though to be fair the similarities between the group that followed Jim Jones into a cyanide Kool-aid mass extinction, and the group currently sacrificing the country on the pyre of obstructionism for obstructionism's sake, are hard to miss.

Podesta realized that this might result in some additional heat coming at the White House and issued this tweet:

In an old interview, my snark got in front of my judgment. I apologize to Speaker Boehner, whom I have always respected.
— John Podesta (@johnpodesta) December 18, 2013

However if he thought that was going to be enough to satisfy the Teabagger, well he has another think coming.

Courtesy of USA Today:

Brendan Buck, a spokesman for Republican House Speaker John Boehner, took offense with the Podesta comment. 

"If this is the attitude of the new White House, it's hard to see how the president gets anything done again," Buck said. 

Jenny Martin, co-founder of Tea Party Patriots, called Podesta's comments "despicable." 

"Any man who is so historically ignorant as to compare millions of Americans who cherish freedom with the macabre and mass suicide at Jonestown is unqualified to hold any position of authority," she said. "We recommend Mr. Podesta read a book on basic American history."

"Historically ignorant" my ass, Podesta is simply pointing out what can happen when a group of people start to follow a crazed madman (Ted Cruz), or mad woman (Palin), into the abyss.

You know what I say? Fuck em if they don't like the comparison!

If these lunatics don't like being compared to other lunatics in history, perhaps they should start acting less like lunatics. 

So true it hurts.

You know it was not too long ago that this would have been considered a parody. But today it reads like a simple explanation of fact.

By the way, THIS is what happens when you empower the fringe. Or as Sarah Palin likes to call them, "We the People."

Another gun nut bites the dust as crazy Pennsylvania police chief Mark Kessler finally gets the ole heave ho.

Courtesy of Raw Story:  

Town council members in Gilberton, Pa., voted 6-1 to terminate borough police chief Mark Kessler following a closed-door disciplinary hearing, reported The (Harrisburg) Patriot-News. 

Kessler drew national attention and thousands of online viewers after posting pro-gun videos, in which he suggested “libtards” and Secretary of State John Kerry commit a variety of vulgar acts with themselves. 

The embattled police chief, who also serves on the North Schuylkill school board, said outside the disciplinary hearing that he had nothing to apologize for, although he admitted that the council’s decision to terminate him wasn’t surprising. 

His attorney said council members based their decision to fire Kessler on trumped-up and unrelated allegations, which he said were used to conceal their intention to fire him over the videos. 

Kessler, who has been suspended without pay since July 31 after the videos were publicized, has a right to a public hearing on his termination, and he and his attorney said they intended to exercise that. 

Gilberton officials declined to comment on the decision to fire Kessler, saying it was a personnel matter, but his attorney dismissed, point-by-point, a list of issues the town had cited as reasons to suspend the police chief. 

Kessler was technically suspended over misuse of public property, after the borough claimed he refused to turn over attachments he’d donated to make his weapons fully automatic. 

He was also accused of making derogatory statements about borough officials, although his attorney insisted those were in reference to online postings allegedly made by Kessler, and not a video in which the police chief fired his gun at two clown targets he called by two council members’ first names. 

I don't think I have ever imagined the term "loose cannon"  being more appropriate than it is in this case.

Even if I did not work in the mental health field I could smell this guy's illness from a mile away. I mean identifying his targets as two council members he dislikes and then shooting them full of holes is only ONE of the numerous red flags this guy is waving.

I think the town council had no choice but to kick this rabid animal loose and hopefully he will leave their town and pick a fight in a place where kicking lunatic ass is how they build up hunger for breakfast. I would LOVE to see this little bastard get his ass handed to him.

In my opinion this guy is a ticking time bomb and it is only a matter to time before he goes off and injures, or kills, somebody. 

48 out of the top 50 advertisers "exclude Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity" shows when purchasing advertising space. My friends the tide is turning.

Courtesy of Mediaite:  

We reported yesterday, based on our own sources in the radio advertising world, that as a result of the backlash to Limbaugh’s 2011 “slut” comment about Sandra Fluke, “ the vast majority of national advertisers” refuse to air their commercials during The Rush Limbaugh Show. A report in Radio Ink Magazine suggests those advertising woes are even worse than previously thought. 

Sources close to Cumulus Media told Radio Ink: 48 of the top 50 network advertisers “exclude Rush and Hannity” orders; and “every major national ad agency has same dictate.” 

While its unclear how many advertised with the shows in the past, this revelation is significant because it is the first time Limbaugh’s #2 competitor Sean Hannity has been brought into this conversation about advertiser aversion; and because, if true, a 48 out of 50 (96%) rate of top advertisers wanting nothing to do with the shows represents a rather striking figure.

I also reported on Monday that I thought Limbaugh was scraping the bottom of the advertising barrel, and I cannot tell you happy I am that the same holds true for Hannity.

The Right Wing has already demonstrated that their careless internet ravings have caused some in the GOP to shun them, they are losing viewers at an alarming pace over at Fox News, and if they also lose talk radio they will be reduced to standing on street corners screaming about Obama conspiracies with the rest of the lunatic fringe.

Gee isn't that where they were originally?