Crooks & Liars Video Podcast
John Amato's virtual magazine
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Dobbs lies to Telemundo about his phony leprosy story: 'I did not stand behind that reportage'
DOWNLOADS: (34) PLAYS: (130) Lou Dobbs was interviewed on Mexico's Telemundo yesterday by Maria C …
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Blanche Lincoln whines about Blue America/outside group ads, but votes for cloture on health care
DOWNLOADS: (70) PLAYS: (119) Blanche Lincoln was complaining today about all those outside group …
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CafePress stops selling Psalms 109:8 items
DOWNLOADS: (3) PLAYS: (32) h/t Heather for video. It should come as a surprise to know one that …
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All-night Campout at Sarah Palin Book Signing
Plunderbund takes you to cold and rainy Dublin Ohio at midnight to see the saddest people on planet Earth, those that camp out all-night just to get an autographed copy of Sarah Palin's book. Hilarity ensues. Warning--video slightly nsfw. Meanwhile in Noblesville, Indiana fans who waited all day t …
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Palin attacks Obama and Biden for their 'lack of experience' -- and can't tell us why she can do th …
DOWNLOADS: (171) PLAYS: (1257) Sarah Palin continues to delude herself -- or at least, is despera …
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US Senate Saturday Session Open Thread
Cartoon from Walt Handelsman at Newsday (reg. required for some pages). No one can predict how today will go, there is some hope that since the Senate likes to appear to be the royalty of the Congress, we might avoid some of the circus antics that Saturday in the House brought. It's unlikely anyon …
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Reid Faces The Test Tonight: Enough Votes to Block Filibuster?
Can Harry pull it off - without giving away the store? Of course we'll be covering today's events here at C&L, so stay around for updates: Nov. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid tonight faces the first big test of whether he can keep his Democratic colleagues united behind hea …
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Mary Matalin "slaps" one on Sarah Palin
This morning my crazy thing locator pointed to this pro-Palin oped by Mary Matalin, who pooh-poohs complaints in Palin's book about the rough, nasty and foul-mouthed staffers inside the McCain campaign: Time is the most valuable commodity on a campaign and you just can't waste it thinking about how …
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C&L's Late Night Music Club With Devo
This Devo two-fer from 1980 is a hoot! Girl U Want is by far the strongest of the two songs, Devo at their best. Please forgive the video quality and the occasional audio glitch. I always felt that Devo was more influential than they really got credit for. They have been honored by plenty of ban …
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Fear Mongers Past - Martin Dies - 1939
DOWNLOADS: 53 PLAYS: 45 (Martin Dies, 1939 - managed to take the lunatic fringe to the lunatic edge) A few months ago I ran a piece on Martin Dies, and his infamous Dies Committee for Un-American Activitie …
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Thanks to CIGNA, A Six-Year-Old Girl May Never Hear Again. Each Day's Delay, Another Horror Story.
If they're already admitting to causing deaths, why should they care about a little girl's hearing? What more do we have to do to fight back against these horror stories? What will it take to get these insurance companies to see the inherent immorality of focusing on the bottom line to the exclusio …
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Alan Grayson: "Today was Waterloo for Fed secrecy"
Ryan Grim at Huffington Post has the details on the intrigue going on in the House yesterday with efforts to finally audit the Federal Reserve and find out where all those trillions of dollars are going. In an unprecedented defeat for the Federal Reserve, an amendment to audit the multi-trillion do …
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The Arsonists Who Lit The Economic Match Complain About The Fire Department.
Republicans blaming the Obama administration for this horrendous recession is like an arsonist blaming the fire department - and yet, there's a certain usefulness to their attacks. After all, liberals complaining about the administration's economic policies got us nowhere. Maybe they'll actually lis …
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Hasselbeck on KSM "They Chucked Some Water on Him"--Hannity "I'm Glad We Waterboarded Him"
DOWNLOADS: (78) PLAYS: (321) Anyone want to take bets on what the collective IQ of this pair is? Se …
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Dear Gary Susman
Your defense of Glenn Beck is touching on AOL, but it comes up very short and very sad. You claim that the big bad lefty meanie comedians are picking on Beck even when he is sick. Well, let's get something straight. Glenn Beck is inciting violence and helping legitimizing radical militia and white n …
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Students protest tuition hikes in California
DOWNLOADS: (224) PLAYS: (424) (h/t CSPANjunkie) It's hitting the fan in California as students p …
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Countdown on the 'Fearmonger in Chief': 'We cannot just dismiss him'
DOWNLOADS: (441) PLAYS: (2206) Every time we run a Glenn Beck post, someone trolls into the comme …
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Bernard Goldberg Responds to Jon Stewart Slamming Him for Down Syndrome Statement
DOWNLOADS: (568) PLAYS: (2732) After Bill O'Reilly only shows the portion of The Daily Show clip wh …
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Size Does Matter for Fox News and Conservatives
DOWNLOADS: (524) PLAYS: (502) The new talking point by Fox News and conservatives who are attacki …
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Why Do Right Wing Pundits Accuse Democrats of 'Raping' Americans?
Media Matters points out how conservative commentators such as Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and Michael Savage like to use rape metaphors when discussing progressives or progressive policies. Right-wing media are very quick to claim progressives are "raping" Americans: Beck: "People in New York, yo …

