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former Police Commissioner and now WND columnist Robert Copeland posted on 5/21/2014 by the Salt City Sinner Resident Jane O’Toole said she overheard Wolfeboro Police Commissioner Robert Copeland use a racial slur in describing President Obama. And in an email to her, Copeland, who is white, acknowledged using the N-word in referring to the president and said he will not apologize.   “I believe I did use the ‘N’ word in reference to the current occupant of the Whitehouse,” Copeland said in an excerpt from an email he sent to his fellow police commissioners acknowledging his remark and then forwarded to O’Toole. “For this, I do not apologize — he meets and exceeds my criteria for such.” -- Associated Press Robert Copeland, the disgraced former Police Commissioner of Wolfesboro, New Hampshire, has been hired by WND (formerly WorldNetDaily) to pen a weekly column on race relations in the US. Salt City Sinner reached WND founder, editor, and CEO Joseph Farah via scrying ...

posted on 4/6/2014 by the Salt City Sinner Sometimes a well-reasoned argument, in the hands of a skilled and compassionate conversant, can and does change minds – even lives. While current psychological research shows that I have a better chance of lifting an X-Wing out of the swamps of Dagobah with the Force than I do of changing someone's mind with evidence and logic it is not technically impossible, and two lovable Evangelical knuckleheads have pulled off the not-technically-impossible. Banana enthusiast Ray Comfort, via Old Testament prophet Joe Farah, has this completely sensical and provocative question for all of you wrongly-godded heathens: Why do people use Jesus’ name when they curse?  I'll wait for a moment while you clean your brains up off the wall and scoop them back into your head. Mind un-blown? Great! Let's continue: The follow-up question is why – why Jesus’ name?   lmost always the respondents are stumped. They don’t know.   [In ...

posted 7/13/2012 by the Salt City Sinner When I talk or write about far-right, extremist news site and aggregator WND, formerly "World Net Daily," I usually say that "it's the most far-right website this side of Stormfront." Since I won't be linking to Stormfront, suffice to say that it is a white supremacist / Christian Identity site where scary racist weirdos go to post weird scary racist nonsense. Well, the distinction between WND's ideology and outright white supremacy just got much blurrier. Meet Colin Flaherty, newly minted WND contributor and not-at-all-racist author of "White Girl Bleed A Lot: The Return Of Racial Violence To America And How The Media Ignores It" (I won't be linking to that, either). A face for radio (and a best-selling racist screed) You know how they say that when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail? Let's see what hammer Grand Cyclops Flaherty is wielding right now: Hmm,...

"Idiot wind, blowin' every time you move your teeth You're an idiot, babe   It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe."   Bob Dylan, "Idiot Wind" Big Joe Kovacs likes to bang out the occasional column (and more than occasional New Age Christian Self Help Book ) at Big Joe Farah's WorldNetDaily , a publication of some repute that   I believe   I have   commented on   a time   or two  before. As with Glenn Beck, there will eventually come a point at which I have to take a few steps back from WND, which (and this is my coinage, thank you very much) is the most right-wing website on the entire Internet other than Stormfront. WND likes to keep the Christian Identity and white supremacy nestled beneath a decorative frosting of "legitimacy." What does Joe Kovacs do to keep things spicy? Oh, well, how abou- Wait, I ... what? This "journalist": Joe Kovacs is ready to shock you with the Bible, or with el...

Because my days do not already start with enough bile, black coffee and dread, I subscribe to the "Hatch Dispatch" (catchy!) to get my blood pressure pumped up. Senator Orrin Hatch's e-newsletter's most recent edition was entitled "Hatch Dispatch: Religious Freedom Under Attack." What has Orrin stirred up? Unfortunately the White House sharpened it's attacks on religion this week. The Obama Administration ruled that it was going to mandate preventative services, including birth control and emergency contraception, for health insurance plans, including those purchased by religious institutions to proving preventative services. An "attack on religion," Senator Hatch? Because of public health policy regarding women and their well-being? You ought to know what an "attack on religion" looks like, being a prominent member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints - which, if I am not mistaken, was literally driven out of...

In a column published today at World Net Daily (and also probably elsewhere), Patrick J. Buchanan, former top Republican adviser, Presidential contender, and author of colorful right-wing pamphlets, comes clean in a fashion that must have felt like the relinquishment of a great burden. Just like conservative internet forum Free Republic when they decided to " break the n----r barrier ,"* Buchanan has crossed a line from which it is hard to return: The Census Bureau has now fixed at 2041 the year when whites become a minority in a country where the Founding Fathers had restricted citizenship to "free white persons" of "good moral character." If Patrick J. sounds a little nostalgic for the days when a small group of aristocrats literally owned other humans as property while philosophizing in very lofty terms about freedom and liberty, that's because he literally is. Patrick J.'s opening gambit is subtle, and requires a little bit of unpa...

I've posted before about Joseph Farah and his "news" website, World Net Daily, which is perhaps the fringiest main-stream (or most main-stream fringe) conservative website on the entire internet. It has an impressively huge audience. WND is best known for initially stoking (and even now continuing to stoke ) the fires of the "Birther" conspiracy theory, but today WND's editor-in-chief, Joseph Farah, tees off on a slightly stranger target for a conservative newsman: Mitt Romney and John Hunstman . And only Mitt Romney and John Huntsman, so far. What, you may ask, do these two men have in common? Why would Farah pick these two candidates from a fantasy field of fourteen current or potential presidential contenders on the GOP side? Who the hell are Gary Johnson and Thad McCotter (and I've been following the primary horse race pretty closely)? Is Farah picking on Mitt and Huntsman right out of the gate because they're the only former governors? N...

What a week (and only Tuesday so far)! Wonkette sums it up best: So, this week the wingtards are furious about a) Scott Brown voting for some tax breaks for companies that hire American workers, b) Glenn Beck being too liberal *, and c) a wingnut blog not calling for a homosexual holocaust. Carry on, freedom fighters! 2010 is going to be a weird one. * - It's worth noting that this isn't the first time Beck has been called out by WND for not being enough of a wingnut. He has been more or less on WND's black list since he refused to jump on board the birther wagon - apparently the one thing that Andrew Breitbart and Glenn Beck have learned that Joseph Farah hasn't is that all this birth certificate stuff is very damaging to the conservative cause, because it makes you look freaking crazy .

Good lord. The Tea Party convention in Nashville has been getting a lot of press regarding a series of intra-movement spats, but now that the whole rickety structure is off the ground and lurching awkwardly onward in search of glory, it has become apparent how bat-shit crazy these people are. Via the LA Times : If the National Tea Party Convention hoped to keep its focus on political organizing and its message on limited government, it has had little success so far. Capping the first full day of the meeting, right-wing instigator Joseph Farah spent much of his dinner speech questioning whether President Obama was born in Hawaii and casting doubt on whether the president was legitimately elected. “The media, the politicians … all say, no, it’s all been settled. I say, if it’s been settled show us the birth certificate. Simple,” Farah’s said, as his remarks were cheered by the roughly 600 activists gathered in Nashville for the event. Farah runs WorldNetDaily.com, a conservative tabloid,...

"Liberal Media" update: CSPAN's Book TV gave Jerome "Lying Piece of Shit" Corsi a whole segment to lie about his lying book in late October. These WND nuts are the scum of the earth . If you need to know how repulsive Corsi is, well, here's a link . The HuffPo has more on how Corsi is a shameless liar and his article is total trash (par for the course with Jerome "Swift Boat" Corsi).