Behind Obama Muslim myth stands the right wing: Two recently released polls show that an increasing number of Americans believe the falsehood that President Obama is a Muslim. According to the Pew Research Center, 60 percent of people who believe this false claim cite the media as the source of that information — and, indeed, [...]

Rush Limbaugh equated building a mosque at Ground Zero to constructing a Hindu Temple near the Arizona memorial in Pearl Harbor. Rush also said: “Since Clinton was called first black president, ‘why can’t we call IMAM Obama America’s first Muslim president?’” Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Rush: Since [...]

If the state of Arizona started producing a whole lot more federal detainees — people detained on federal issues — like immigration violations, the private for-profit prison company(s) linked to Republicans would line their pockets more heavily. A law like SB-1070 favors the for-profit private prison industry in Arizona. There is money to be made [...]

A principle shareholder of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp.(Corpse), the parent company of Fox News, is Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, the nephew of Saudi Arabian King Abdullah, and one of the world’s richest men. Through his Kingdom Holding Co., Alwaleed owns about 7% of News Corp., or about $3 billion of the media giant. He also [...]

Buzzflash: The Psychotic Hysteria of Republicans and “Terrorist Babies.” The GOP Should be Gagged with Diapers: There are moments when large groups in a society become seized with mass hysteria, which is akin to sociological psychosis. Since the election of Barack Obama, we have seen this phenomena growing like a cancer across a segment of [...]