It’s Thursday Threatcon, your intelligence briefing on right wing activity. Below are the best reports, investigations, exposées, and debunkery of right wing activity this week. Take care and be aware!
- Matt Osborne explains why Breitbart.com writer Lee Stranahan’s iPhone and social media trail indicate he may have been accepting cash from Steubenville football boosters for his disgusting trial coverage
- American Family Association radio host Sandy Rios is floating rumors that Hillary Clinton is a lesbian
- Media Matters uses a Bureau of Labor Statistics report to show that Fox News is lying about green jobs
- Karoli of Crooks and Liars has video of James O’Keefe describing the secrets of his “success” to FreedomWorks
- The Republican National Committee is considering the idea of having activists play James O’Keefe by following every Democratic candidate around with cameras
- ProPublica reports that Abigail Fisher’s lawsuit, which threatens to derail Affirmative Action in the Supreme Court this term, is a crock of hooey
- Chris Savage of Eclectablog noticed that Michigan Republicans seem to be planning to take up their union-busting “right to work” bill on the last day of the legislative session. Will he get to cover another fake AFP tent-incident?
- Speaking of fake riots: the union worker who punched Fox News “comedian” Steven Crowder in the face will not be charged because he was acting in self-defense
- Texas Tea Party bigwig James Ives has a disturbing history with the American Fascist Party. Our own Nemesis notes the irony of the acronym
- Professor Candida Moss has an essay at Huffington Post about Christian persecution mythology. “If persecution language is not reserved for situations of actual persecution,” she says, “then unspeakable violence becomes indescribable.” Gee, remind you of Aaron Walker any?
- The Kansas house is set to pass sweeping new abortion legislation without exceptions for rape or incest.
- Mother Jones reports that watchdogs are worried where Texas Governor Rick Perry’s $487 million slush fund has gone
- Tell your kids! At Americans Against The Tea Party, Paul Bibeau explains that Rand Paul is the gateway drug to harder forms of Republicanism
- Aviva Shen demonstrates the remarkable consistency of GOP senators’ talking points with those of the NRA at ThinkProgress
- At DailyKos, Jon Perr shows how the GOP gets Medicare completely wrong in five charts
- TPM Muckraker’s Eric Lach reports that three prostitutes in the Dominican Republic say they were paid by a lawyer to smear Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) in Tucker Carlson’s Daily Caller.
- David Martosko, a Daily Caller Editor, has a long history of posing as an animal rights activist to spy on real ones, as Kate Sheppard explains at Mother Jones
