On AlterNet: birther

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Relentless Pressure from Progressive Groups Pushes Hatemonger Lou Dobbs Out of CNN

Tana Ganeva, AlterNet. November 12, 2009.

Groups like BastaDobbs have done in Dobbs, who used his media platform to stir up racist, anti-immigrant hysteria for years.

Video: Birther Queen Rapped With $20,000 Fine: The End of Orly Taitz?

deleted, AlterNet. October 14, 2009.

The right-wing activist who keeps filing law suits alleging that Obama is not a U.S. citizen is fined and dismissed as a kook by a federal judge.

10 of the Most Obscenely Stupid Right-Wing Conspiracy Theories and Attacks Against the President

Tana Ganeva, AlterNet. September 8, 2009.

Obama's nefarious plan for the nation's genitals? His evil designs on your children? Here are the most absurd right-wing assaults on the president -- and logic and reason.

RNC Won't Distance Itself From Right-Wing Conspiracy Theory Site

Terry Krepel, Media Matters for America. September 4, 2009.

In the 1960's, many GOPers had the integrity to denounce the irresponsible fringe. Today the Republican National Committee seems to work with them.

GOP Rep Fans Birther Flames

Matt Corley, ThinkProgress. August 13, 2009.

Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC) told a constituent that he did not know if President Obama was a United States citizen.

Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Lou Dobbs Enflame Scary Right-Wing Rage

John V. Santore, Media Matters for America. August 11, 2009.

The conservative playbook has been laid bare, and it's ugly. How long until their overheated rhetoric spills over into violence?

Condemn CNN for Its Lou Dobbs "Birther" Fiasco

Byard Duncan, AlterNet. August 4, 2009.

By continuing to sanction Dobbs' thinly veiled racism, the network is jeopardizing its status as America's "most trusted" news source.

Lou Dobbs Accused of Acting Like "Grassy Knoll Nut"

Jason Linkins, Huffington Post. July 30, 2009.

Everyone is yelling at Dobbs for fanning birther hysteria (save his boss, Jon Klein.)

Birther Whack Jobs: Citizens of Idiot America

Dan Kennedy, Comment Is Free. July 30, 2009.

Join MoveOn's fight take on Lou Dobbs and put this paranoid and racist movement to an end.

Rachel Maddow Mystified By Lou Dobbs' Odd Teabag Attack

Steve Benen, Washington Monthly. July 29, 2009.

Dobbs called Maddow a "teabagging queen." What does that mean? And has Dobbs completely lost it?

Another Racist, Crazy Conservative Attack on Obama: Health Reform as Reparations

Tana Ganeva, AlterNet. July 28, 2009.

And you thought the birther nonsense was unbelievable.

Chris Matthews Discusses Nutty Right-Wing Conspiracy Theories with Nutty Right-Wing Conspiracy Theorist

Digby, Hullabaloo. July 24, 2009.

But from the Clinton Wars.

CNN's Lou Dobbs Damage Control

Steve Benen, Washington Monthly. July 23, 2009.

The network's chief task? Debunking the myths of its resident "birther."