I spent much of Friday afternoon watching various live feeds from Operation American Spring and overdosing on schadenfreude. The predictions of 10 to 30 million people turned out to be a few hundred people, tops. Watching the video was absolutely hilarious. There should have been a drinking game for it. If you took a shot every time someone said “we the people” you’d be dead within an hour.

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Someone should make a list of every book and every Christian who has claimed that we’re living in the end times and Jesus is coming back any time now. It would start with Paul and the apostles, of course. Glenn Beck’s website promotes the latest one.

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Remember Jerry Mungadze, the ridiculous “ex-gay” therapist who thinks he can diagnose who is gay and who is not by what color crayons they use? A British TV show host recently went undercover for an appointment with Mundagze, with predictably absurd results.

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I’ve remarked many times on the fact that wingnuts seem to think everything is the Third Reich roaring back to life. Having to buy health insurance? Hitler! Can’t discriminate against gay people anymore? Hitler! Losing your privilege to base law on your religious views? Hitler! Kurt Eichenwald says enough is enough.

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Since none of her reality TV shows has lasted more than one season due to poor ratings, Sarah Palin has had to come up with a new grift to keep the money flowing in. She’s apparently going to launch her own online TV channel in the spirit of Glenn Beck.

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For the second time in a couple of weeks, David Barton has declared that a Christian who refuses to run for public office is doing something wrong. This after he himself decided not to run for office against Sen. John Cornyn after being practically begged to do so.

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Zack Beauchamp has a detailed analysis of yet another of those scams being marketed to wingnuts through the email lists built by right wing magazines, blogs and websites. This time it’s survival supplies, which is a staple of the genre, sold by Food4Patriots. It’s sold with the usual bullshit about FEMA camps and “watch this video because I don’t know how long it will be up” because, of course, Obama is going to order it taken down.

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I didn’t watch the Grammys because I don’t bother watching the Grammys. But apparently I missed lots and lots of demons. They were everywhere, it seems, shooting out from TV screens to scare the wingnuts. Bryan Fischer thinks Beyonce and Katy Perry have sold their souls to the devil.

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Tom DeLay’s comeback into public life seems to be predicated on a vague project to pray for our political leaders. Pray for them to do what, exactly? I have no idea. But Glenn Beck’s The Blaze is terribly excited about this amorphous idea that praying for something will do…well, something.

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The right wing blogosphere has fired up the faux-outrage machine once again, the latest target being the fact that President Obama and his family did not go to church on Christmas day. What did he do instead? Met with and talked to members of the military in Hawaii, where he is vacationing, and around the world. Glenn Beck’s The Blaze was all over it:

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The Worldnetdaily and fascist wingnut Sheriff Joe Arpaio continue to beat the dead horse of birtherism long after it had become a pile of glue. But now they’re promising a “universe-shattering” revelation from Arpaio’s investigation, which they conveniently can’t tell you about now.

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The NRA, Gun Owners of America and the right wing blogosphere is up in arms over their latest imagined conspiracy theory, that the EPA is engaging in “backdoor gun control” because the last lead smelting plan is shutting down rather than comply with the Clean Air Act. Allen West pushes this cockamamie claim, but first he assures us that he’s too careful to fall for a false conspiracy theory:

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