CPAC To Honor Phil Robertson With "Defender Of First Amendment" Award

Via the Hollywood Reporter:

Fourteen months after he sparked a major controversy for making remarks widely perceived as anti-gay, Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson has been named the recipient of a free-speech award from Citizens United, an organization routinely disparaged by Hollywood liberals. Robertson will receive the "Andrew Breitbart Defender of the First Amendment Award" at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference, which is better known as CPAC and is one of the biggest annual events for prominent movers and shakers on the right. "Even when the entire mainstream media demanded he disavow his beliefs and attempted to have him fired from his own hit show for expressing these beliefs, he stood firm in his faith,” Citizens United president David Bossie said.

Breitbart, should you have forgotten, was murdered by President Obama either by poisoning or with a subsonic death ray fired from a low-orbit satellite.

Alec Baldwin Vs Twitchy

Twitchy writes: "Let’s talk repulsive. Nearly three years after Andrew Breitbart’s tragic death, Alec Baldwin’s still lashing out at the amazing and brilliant man he could never hope to be."

Breitbart Editors Mock Jason Collins

Joan Walsh Vs Matthew Boyle

Not only is former Daily Caller reporter Matthew Boyle in a world of shit over his collapsing claims against Sen. Robert Menendez, this weekend on Breitbart he broke a sacrosanct ethic of journalism by revealing the spring break location of the president's daughters.  Joan Walsh goes ballistic:

Unfortunately for the untalented Mr. Boyle, journalists have a consensus about not revealing the location of the presidents’ children’s vacations. Reporters don’t write about minor first children except when they’re attending “official or semi-official events.” It’s considered a security risk. When Agence-France Presse wrote about Malia’s trip to Mexico last year, a few U.S. outlets picked it up, and the administration tried to get the details removed. Then an earthquake in Mexico made the first daughter’s vacation newsworthy, and other sites, justifiably, reported it. A year later, along comes the brave Matthew Boyle, fresh off his Menendez humiliation, to tell Breitbart readers about the Obama girls’ vacation. The news hook seems to be that it’s a waste of money.

Then Walsh gets to Boyle's real motiviation:

The theme of most right-wing stories on Sasha, Malia and Michelle Obama’s vacations and leisure-time activities seems to be that they’re entitled princesses, when they do exactly the same kinds of things other presidents’ families have done throughout history. There’s only one difference I can see.

At this writing Boyle is crying on Twitter: "Joan Walsh is calling me a racist!" It's worth your time to read Walsh's full story.

Headline Of The Day

James O'Keefe has agreed to pay a $100,000 settlement to the victim of his famed ACORN scam. Juan Vera was fired from ACORN after O'Keefe edited a secret video to make it appear that he'd agreed to help underage prostitutes sneak into the country.  In fact, Vera called the police moments after O'Keefe left the ACORN office. The above-linked Atlantic piece notes that not only has Breitbart never retracted their claim, the original stories remain on the site "with no correction, no clarification, no editor's note -- nothing." Think Progress has posted a great rundown of other famously false stories continuing to circulate on Breitbart, Daily Caller, and Drudge Report.

Teabagistan Remembers Andrew Breitbart

Infamous Tea Party hero Andrew Breitbart dropped dead one year ago today after President Obama's subsonic death ray zapped him from a low-orbit satellite.  The anniversary of Breitbart's demise is somberly being observed across Teabagistan with Twitter avatars, numerous blog posts, and funereal original music, an example of which is below.
RELATED: Shirley Sherrod, one of the victims of Breitbart's clever video editing, continues her defamation lawsuit against Breitbart's estate after his lawyers attempted to have the case dismissed last year in a motion that was ridiculed by the judge as "wasting the court's time."

Dana Loesch Sues Breitbart.com

Screeching, repulsive, anti-gay Dana Loesch, the darling of GOProud, is suing her employers at Breitbart.com.

Conservative talk radio host and commentator Dana Loesch sued the owner of the conservative website Breitbart.com Friday, claiming that although her relationship with the news and opinion aggregating website had gone “tragically awry,” Breibart.cοm LLC refused to let her work for the company or anyone else, forcing her into “indentured servitude in limbo.”  The suit says that difficulties managing the Breitbart “media 'empire'” or ideological conflicts or both had spiked the working relationship, creating a “increasingly hostile” work environment. When Loesch tried to terminate her work agreement in September, Breitbart refused and extended the agreement by a year, the suit says. Breitbart.cοm LLC refuses to allow her work to be published and “sabotages” her attempts to find work elsewhere, the suit says.

In a month filled with delicious wingnut infighting, this one might be the best.

PREVIOUSLY ON JMG:  Dana Loesch says gay activists are at war with Christians.  Dana Loesch denies that the Family Research Council lobbied in support of Uganda's "kill the gays" bill.  Dana Loesch is invited to GOProud's Homocon 2012 event, shortly after screaming during her radio show that supporters of marriage equality "hate Christ."  Dana Loesch says the Chick-Fil-A boycott is stupid because we use gasoline in our cars. (SRSLY).

Breitbart Headline Of The Day

Hurray! Details.

Breitbart: Gay Filmmakers Target Children

From an entry on Breitbart today:

You knew it was only a matter of time before the gay community, which has successfully integrated gay characters into every possible form of entertainment for adults, targeted children. Now, for the first time, an American animated feature features an openly gay character.

Laika's stop-motion animated zombie comedy "ParaNorman" has a character named Mitch, who is, of course, a heavily-muscled jock who seems heterosexual until the end of the movie, at which time a girl named Courtney asks him if he wants to see a movie. Sure, he says, you’ll just love my boyfriend, who’s into chick flicks.

It’s a time-honored technique of the gay community to hide the fact that a character is gay until the audience has developed a real affinity for him/her, then catch the audience off-guard by divulging that the character is gay. If they really were “brave” they’d announce from the start that Mitch was gay and see just how many parents would take their children to see this movie.

Breitbart's editor is GOProud's BFF, Dana Loesch.

Cause, Effect, Response

Twitter Support responds via email:

We have investigated the reported account and have found that it’s not in violation of the Twitter Rules at this time. We have a policy against violent threats, but the content of this account lacks the specificity to meet the criteria of an actionable threat. Receiving these types of messages can be frustrating; however, removing content does not resolve the issue, but instead can make the situation worse. Threats do not simply disappear – if someone means you harm, working with local authorities to defuse the threat and address the root of the issue is the best solution. Removing the evidence of the threat makes it difficult for it to be investigated by law enforcement.

I had expected that message from Twitter as they rarely suspend accounts in these situations. To be frank, I regularly get such messages via email and I only reported the above hanging threat out of curiosity to Twitter's wording and because folks on Facebook demanded that I do so when I posted the image there a few days ago.

The Dana Loesch fan who sent the crane photo claimed afterwards that it was only a warning of what Muslims would like to do to me, hence his usage of the word "Friday," which is the Islamic sabbath. Yeah. Loesch, you may recall, claims that gay activists are cowardly hypocrites for not denouncing Islam as vigorously as we do with anti-gay Christian groups.

NOTE: Loesch claimed I was "celebrating" the FRC shooting because I continued to tweet out links to multiple examples of hateful activism by the Family Research Council. She ignored my condemnation of the shooting because that's how she works.

Breitbart Headline Of The Day

Another day, another Breitbart distortion that they've blown up into "Obama calls Navy SEALS 'gutless.'" What's really going on is that there's a small group of former Navy SEALS whose leader has just come out as a birther, calling President Obama a socialist who was raised by communists in a foreign country and saying that the president is "trying to hog all the glory" for the killing of Osama Bin Laden.

In response to that story, a Media Matters blogger tweeted: "Former Navy SEALs don’t have guts to admit they’re running a GOP, anti-Obama campaign." Which Breitbart is now spinning this way:

It’s a classy move. But what else would you expect from an Obama administration flunky who thinks that slandering military members is no problem so long as Obama gets re-elected? What else would you expect from a movement that tries to prevent the counting of military ballots to ensure Democratic re-election? What else would you expect from Media Matters?

You'll note that the above Breitbart headline doesn't match the post's URL, showing that editors changed it after its first posting to add Obama's name. And now every wingnut is gleefully tweeting: "GASP! Obummer calls hero Navy Seals GUTLESS!1!!1!"

Golf clap, Breitbart.

Loesch: Gays Are At War With Religion

"It's easy to brush aside this incident as one act of a crazy man until you consider the past two weeks. The Family Research Council is affiliated with Chick-Fil-A. Chick-Fil-A came under fire due to the free speech of CEO Dan Cathy by militant anti-Christian and anti-free speech activists. They further attacked Chick-Fil-A, accusing them of supporting Ugandan gay-killing via a [U.S. House] resolution they claimed the FRC had lobbied to kill.

"The FRC lobbied to change the language of the resolution, they did not oppose the resolution. Anti-Christian activists, under the guise of gay rights, ignored the truth and concocted a smear claiming that FRC lobbied to support the death of gays in Uganda. (It's ironic, considering the majority of these same anti-Christian activists voted for the administration who endorsed a group, the Muslim Brotherhood, which does rule that gays are to be killed via capital punishment simply for being gay.)" - CNN contributor, anti-gay activist, and GOProud supporter Dana Loesch, writing for Breitbart.

FACT CHECK: The FRC lobbied to change the language of the Uganda resolution because (according to them) denouncing the executions of homosexuals constituted "pro-homosexual promotion" because of a clause associating "human rights" with "gay rights." Those are the FRC's exact words, which are available for public viewing on their federally-filed lobbying disclosure form. They didn't have to explicitly oppose the bill because they knew that their objection to its wording would be enough to kill it thanks to FRC-friendly GOP House members who then voted to "refer it back to committee," where it has languished for the past two years. However you want to spin it, the actions of FRC lobbyists did indisputably prevent the House from condemning Uganda's still-pending "kill the gays" bill.

VERY FUCKING RELATED: You may also want to check out this now-deleted message from FRC president Tony Perkins in which he denounces President Obama for opposing Uganda's bill. At the link you'll note that Perkins lies to his radio audience and says that the bill would only legalize the executions of gay men found guilty of "intentionally spreading HIV/AIDS." Which would be totally OK with the Family Research Council. (Thank you, Wayback Machine.)

Read U.S House Resolution 1064.

Breitbart Headline Of The Day

Ignore all those video clips from Fox, CNN, NBC and the local DC stations. The media has been silent, people!

Headline Of The Day II

Breitbart, of course.

Michelle Malkin: Democrats Are On A Witch Hunt Against All Christians

Wingnut columnist Michelle Malkin tells Breitbart that the Obama administration is on "progressive witch hunt" against Christians "like we saw with Proposition 8." The below video's host then suggests that the GOP lure voters to the polls in November by giving away Chick-Fil-A sandwiches. Malkin adds that her "personal favorite" for Romney's VP is Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal. That drew howls of annoyance from Breitbart commenters because Jindal's parents were born in India and therefore he is ineligible to be president because he's not a "natural born citizen."

CNN's Dana Loesch: If You Disagree With Chick-Fil-A Then You Hate Christ

Loesch is also the editor of Breitbart's Big Journalism and substitutes on Glenn Beck's radio show when he is on vacation. Last year CNN hired her as a commentator to represent "the Tea Party point of view" during the 2012 campaigns.

(Via Equality Matters)

UPDATE: Loesch doesn't appreciate the reactions to this post and neither does Chris Barron.

Breitbart's Dana Loesch Doubles-Down

TIP: You can comment there with your Twitter login.

Breitbart Logic

From Breitbart editor Dana Loesch, who never met an anti-gay cause she couldn't twist beyond comprehension.

UPDATE: JMG reader Michael writes to note that Loesch may have written her own Wikipedia entry. The "talk" page there features a rather lengthy feud.

NORTH CAROLINA: Wendy's Franchises Post Signs In Support Of Chick-Fil-A, Wingnuts Angry After Removal

After several North Carolina Wendy's franchises posted the above signs in support of Chick-Fil-A, Wendy's corporate office called the owner of those stores on the carpet and forced him to remove the messages. Wendy's then tweeted the situation to several media outlets.
But that "ALL customers" bit was leaped upon by God's Gentle People, spurred on by douchenozzle right wing commentator Dana Loesch, she of the "Breitbart Is Here" assholery at Netroots Nation. Wingnut Daily Caller blogger Jim Treacher added to the fire.

Breitbart Is Here, CTD

Extra points will be granted for essays that include the phrases "Stop raping people!" and "You filthy freaks!" Details.