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Salon composite/AP Photos Crazy right-wing myths about Obama 2.0

The post-inauguration edition of odd things conservatives believe about Obama. Teleprompters! Hitler Youth! Satan!
  • Betting against America

    Praying the country will slip into chaos, to make Obama look bad, is not a good place for a political party to be
  • Bill Kristol wins a prize

    The man most famous for being wrong about everything -- especially Iraq -- gets $250,000, proving there will always be welfare and affirmative action for sons of conservatism
  • They're coming to take our guns away

    Cop killer Richard Poplawski is an extremist. But amid the deafening din of the right wing's anti-government rhetoric, how extreme is he?
  • Who is the right calling "loser"?

    The GOP is whipping up resentment of Obama and "loafers" who defaulted on home loans. But it crashed the biggest welfare Cadillac in history.
  • The Republican shipwreck

    The mighty right-wing Titanic is sinking, and McCain is desperately blaming Bush. But the problem isn't the captain -- it's the ship.
  • McCain has his own unsavory links

    In the 1980s, the Republican presidential nominee sat on the board of a group that was involved in Iran-Contra and had ties to neo-Nazis.
  • McCain's lack of candor on reproductive rights

    On issues like abortion and sex education, the candidate is neither as moderate nor as principled as some might think.
  • Why McCain provokes paranoia on the right

    Not only does the Arizona senator mock conservative orthodoxy, but, even worse, his pro-immigration think tank took money from George Soros and other frightening liberals.
  • Porkies II

    Right-wing activists have blasted the GOP Congress' pork barrel spending. It'd be easier to take them seriously if so many of their leaders weren't in the bacon business themselves.
  • Hideous Kinkies

    A peek into the sex lives of moralistic right-wing blowhards, part 934: Horsley gets horsey, Hager is horrible!
  • Roger Ebert and Mohammed Atta, partners in crime

    David Horowitz has a new project calculated to give the left apoplexy: A Web site that proclaims insidious links between latte liberals and murderous Islamists.
  • Can Bush deliver for conservatives?

    Lacking Reagan's pragmatic streak, the president may find it impossible to unite a party deeply divided on social, foreign policy and budget issues.
  • Medicine man

    The future of GOP control of the Senate depends on Oklahoma Republican candidate Tom Coburn, a former doctor who has covered up a scandal from his past until now.
  • The Vietnam smear -- from McCain to Kerry

    As Bush's military record comes under harsh scrutiny, the same smear campaign used against John McCain in 2000 is being rolled out against John Kerry.
  • Right Hook

    O'Reilly helps Bush explain the Arab street, and the Spectator's Mark Steyn insists bin Laden is dead. Plus: Buchanan says Gray Davis' recall strategy will cause traffic fatalities to skyrocket.
  • Days of wine and razzes

    A would-be boycott of French vintners is not likely to change drinking habits in the red or blue states.
  • The big NEA-Sept. 11 lie

    How the conservative Washington Times helped create a myth about the teachers' union and Sept. 11 that has become conventional wisdom.
  • America's hypocritical p.c. mullahs

    Before Sept. 11, right-wingers denounced politically correct "censorship." Now they're applauding the muzzling of left-wing war critics.
  • President George W. Gore goes to war

    Suddenly, the once-macho Bush White House is feeling everybody's pain.
  • So much for singing nuns

    The rise of Joerg Haider forces Austria to face the truth about its history -- and puts the European Union in a bind.
  • The kingmaker speaks

    Pat Choate, the man behind the strategy to craft a left-right-center coalition with Pat Buchanan out front, reveals the plan to seize the White House next year.
  • Get Uncle Sam off my back! and other misguided impulses

    American government-bashers like to wrap themselves in a constitutional flag. But Garry Wills argues that the Founders wanted a strong government, not a weak one.
  • Bombs away

    Bombs away: Dispatch from the frontlines of the new electronic battlefield. By Andrew Leonard.
  • The attack judge

    One federal jurist has shocked even hardened Washington insiders by suggesting that Clinton has declared "war" on the U.S. in his battle with Ken Starr.
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