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The leader of a Christian think tank is blasting the media for not investigating President Barack Obama's citizenship.

During a Tuesday segment on American Family Association's AFA Today radio program, Tony Perkins, head of the Family Research Council — a hate group, according the the Southern Poverty Law Center -- encouraged listeners to read an article by conservative columnist Sandy Rios which suggests the president is weakening the U.S. so that communists in Russia can "reclaim power."

"I would encourage you to read the article," Perkins said. "In society today, we throw around labels a lot and I think we've become desensitized and what we're looking here and what's Sandy's bringing up here is not labels. We're not calling somebody a Marxist, a socialist. ... We're looking at facts."

"What the media has done -- going back to our earlier discussion about the media -- is they have attempted to marginalize anyone who challenges this administration on those principles and that driving ideology."

He added: "You know, it goes back to what they did to those that, you know, questioned the issue of his birth certificate. Look, I don't know about all that, but I will tell you this: It's a legitimate issue from the standpoint of what the Constitution says."

"When you put it all together it connects the dots. It makes you wonder why did he risk Congress -- the control of the House -- to push through health care? It's a part of that ideology."

Rios, who also appeared on the program, applauded tea party favorite Rep. Allen West (R-FL) for accusing up to 81 House Democrats of secretly being members of the Communist Party.

"The point is when Allen refuses to back down, I'm with him all the way," she explained. "The first year that Barack Obama was in office, in the White House, there was an ornament on Christmas Tree of Mao Zedong, which doesn't -- that may sound silly. But that's not silly to me."

(h/t: Right Wing Watch)

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Communist, Socialist, Marxist... it's all apparently the same if you're Bill O'Reilly and Lou Dobbs out there lobbing insults at former Secretary of Labor and professor Robert Reich for daring to say the United States should be investing in things like education, research and development and infrastructure and that we can't expect big corporations to do it, during his appearance on The Daily Show this week.

Naturally O'Reilly and Dobbs use the opportunity to attack government as somehow 'draining the resources" of corporations, even though they're making record high profits and hoarding cash right now. And although they admit there are a number of things that the government is the only entity capable of managing, neither will admit Reich's point that there are investments government should be making into the private sector such as investing in alternative energy, since both of them are carrying water for the big oil companies, which is what they spent the beginning of the segment doing before the portion in the clip shown above.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. I thought Dobbs couldn't get much worse back when he was ranting and raving about illegal immigration day after day on CNN. His move over to Fox's business channel and guest appearances like this one on O'Reilly's show have proven me wrong.

h/t Media Matters

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Here we go with more trashing of Occupy Wall Street compared to those lovely, gun-toting, Koch funded "tea partiers" from Bloody Bill Kristol on Fox News Sunday.

WALLACE: Bill, let's go back to what Brit was talking about, the politics of this, because Nancy Pelosi was not the only Democrat, at least in the beginning -- and you don't hear these statements of support so much now -- to embrace the movement. Barack Obama talked about them giving way to the frustration we all feel, Joe Biden compared them to the Tea Party.

At this point, particularly, as we see more sanitary problems, as people I think are getting tired of them occupying public parks, or private parks in the case of New York, is Occupy Wall Street a plus or a negative for Democrats?

KRISTOL: Ohm, I think it's absolutely toxic for the Democrats and for liberalism widely.

Step back for a minute and think of the Obama -- the mobilization behind President Obama. It was an incredible thing that we saw in 2007, 2008. It was law-abiding, it was peaceful, it was democratic, elected a president. Think of the Tea Party, law-abiding, peaceful, democratic, turned into --

WALLACE: Small "d," democratic.

KRISTOL: Yes, small "d," democratic. And people got -- nominated candidates, had primary challenges, some of them worked, some of them didn't, et cetera.

This is fundamentally anti-democratic. This is not an attempt to effect elections. This is -- it's not law-abiding. The whole notion of "Occupy Wall Street," that's not a sort of democratic movement that likes to participate in the whole process.

The whole term "occupy" is a kind of Marxist term, we're taking over these pieces of public property or private property, like it or not. These are our demands. We're dividing the country. This one percent has to be out of society.

I think it's deeply anti-democratic and anti-American. And if I were a liberal who might have been heartened by the Obama mobilization, who might think I still have a chance in 2012, because conservatives, of course, don't have all the answers, I would be deeply worried that Occupy Wall Street is just going to really damage liberalism.

How kind of Kristol to show such concern for liberalism.

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Appearing on Fox News Monday, Fox Business Network senior correspondent Charles Gasparino explained why he sees "Zuccotti Park as New York's Marxist epicenter."

"I did some reporting," Gasparino told Fox News anchor Jenna Lee. "All you have to do is walk through there to see that there is an underlying ideology and it's handed out in pamphlets and newspapers."

To make his point, he presented what he called a "propaganda sheet" that he had gotten during his visit to Zuccotti Park over the weekend.

"It says, 'Marx Was Right,'" Gasparino noted. "And they're not talking about Groucho Marx, by the way."

"What we're talking about here is a way where the government controls the economy. That's the underlying message that's coming from this protest... That's one of the problems here. They are using what is obviously an outrage that everybody agrees with. Wall Street got bailed out, we have a horrible economy and they are using that to promote a philosophy that is quite -- is basically anti-American. We're talking about Marxists here."

He added: "It's not just protest Wall Sreet. It's protest Wall Street and it's an embrace of communism and there is no doubt about it."

Gasparino had first compared the Occupy Wall Street movement to the Marxist revolution in his New York Post column Sunday.

"I don't advise going down to Zuccotti Park to have a serious conversation with the protesters, given their growing propensity toward violence and the growing revolutionary tone of the movement," he wrote.

"If [President Barack Obama] keeps saying nice things about the protesters, the debate among business types and voters won’t be whether the president has some socialist leanings, but how much virtue he sees in the thoughts of Karl Marx."

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Anyone think that Sen. Tom Coburn sounds like he's been spending a little too much time paling around with Glenn Beck after listening to this interview with Neil Cavuto? And this is the guy that is continually painted as some "reasonable" Republican that is willing to work with Democrats in the Senate. Tom Coburn went into full assault mode against the National Labor Relations Board and their actions taken to prevent Boeing from retaliating against striking workers with a hyperbolic rant packed full of lies here.

More on why Coburn isn't telling the truth below the fold, but first, here's a rough transcript of the segment from this Wednesday's Your World With Neil Cavuto on Fox:

CAVUTO: Where does this end? What will this legislation do?

COBURN: Well, it puts NLRB back in the box that they were intended to be by Congress in the first place. What they've done is atrocious, both from a liberty stance point and from a bureaucratic standpoint and also from a capital standpoint. What they've said is that if you're a manufacturer and you're going to expand a manufacturing plant, you can't... you have to expand it where you are and you can't expand it into some place that's a better return on your capital with a more efficient labor force. I mean that's just absolutely asinine in a time when our country needs to be more efficient in our manufacturing.

So, they've way overstepped their bounds. I know why they've done that. It's at union requests and it's a political statement. It's political hardball. But it's stupid from a capital formation standpoint, from an efficiency standpoint and it basically violates the Constitution in terms of liberty and freedom.

You don't have the right to open a plant anywhere in this country you want if that's the best economic condition you can find opening that plant? I mean, that... that's just, you know, it's criminal.

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During the 2008 presidential campaign one Fox News executive repeatedly tried to smear Barack Obama with charges of "socialism."

Liberal watchdog group Media Matters has uncovered audio that indicates Fox News Washington managing editor Bill Sammon was just engaging in what he called "mischievous speculation."

In 2009, Sammon told an audience aboard Mediterranean cruise sponsored by a right-wing college that his 2008 attempt to link Obama to socialism was "a premise that privately I found rather far-fetched."

"Last year, candidate Barack Obama stood on a sidewalk in Toledo, Ohio, and first let it slip to Joe the Plumber that he wanted to quote, 'spread the wealth around,'" Sammon said. "At that time, I have to admit, that I went on TV on Fox News and publicly engaged in what I guess was some rather mischievous speculation about whether Barack Obama really advocated socialism, a premise that privately I found rather far-fetched."

During the 2008 campaign, the then-Washington deputy managing editor repeatedly suggested that Obama had socialist tendencies.

On Oct. 14, 2008, Sammon said that Obama's comment to Joe Wurzelbacher "is red meat when you're talking to conservatives and you start talking about 'spread the wealth around.' That is tantamount to socialism."

In early February, Media Matters obtained an email where Sammon offered talking points to Fox News staff, linking Obama to socialism and Marxism during the 2008 campaign.

"If Fox News really cares about its 'reporting,' they will fire DC exec Bill Sammon over this," former MSNBC anchor David Shuster tweeted Tuesday.

"These remarks, unearthed by the liberal advocacy group Media Matters, raise the question of whether Sammon, who oversees Washington news coverage for Fox News, was deliberately trying to sabotage the Democratic presidential candidate," The Daily Beast's Howard Kurtz noted.

In another e-mail obtained by Media Matters, Sammon told his staff to downplay the importance of climate science that showed the world was getting warmer.

Additional emails showed that Sammon asked his news department to refer to the public option as the "government run option" because polls showed the phrase "government option" was opposed by the public.

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During their first debate for the Delaware Senate race, Republican candidate Christine O'Donnell proved that conservatives are incapable of understand irony and sarcasm and have no clue what Marxism is. That or she was fully aware of what she was doing and just decided to get a cheap shot in on Democratic candidate Chris Coons by pretending she didn't know full well the article he wrote years ago where he called himself a bearded Marxist was sarcasm aimed at his Republican friends.

We've been through this already but here is the post from Media Matters debunking the attack on Coons from the wingnuts -- Un-bearded: Chris Coons did not describe himself as a "Marxist".

You've got to give whoever coached O'Donnell credit. They had her ready to be a right wing talking points regurgitation machine for this debate, even if she get tripped up on occasion.

BLITZER: Let's give you a chance to respond to some of the things she said because in a television appearance back in 1998 on Bill Maher's show you said evolution is a myth. Do you believe evolution is a myth?

O'DONNELL: I believe that the local -- I was talking about what a local school taught and that should be taught -- that should be decided on the local community. But please let me respond to what he just said.

BLITZER: We'll let you respond but answer the question. Do you believe evolution is a myth?

O'DONNELL: Local schools should make that decision. I made that remark based on --

BLITZER: What do you believe?

O'DONNELL: What I believe is irrelevant.

BLITZER: Why is it irrelevant?

O'DONNELL: Because what I would support ...

BLITZER: Voters want to know.

O'DONNELL: What I will support in Washington, D.C. is the ability for the local school system to decide what is taught in their classrooms and what I was talking about on that show was a classroom that was not allowed to teach creationism as an equal theory as evolution. That is against their constitutional rights and that is an overreaching arm of the government.

But, please allow me at least the full minute to respond to what he said because he said these statements that we made should be taken into consideration when casting your vote. So then I would be remiss not to bring up the fact that my opponent has recently said that it was studying under a Marxist professor that made him become a Democrat. So when you look at his position on things like raising taxes, which is one of the tenets of Marxism; not supporting eliminating death tax, which is a tenet of Marxism -- I would argue that there are more people who support my Catholic faith than his Marxist beliefs, and I'm using his own words.

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I'm not sure about what anyone else who watched CNN's Jessica Yellin filling in for John King thought about her appearance on there this week, but it left little doubt in my mind that somehow his show could be even worse than it is already with someone else hosting it.

Our friends over at Media Matters have done a great job documenting the smears of Chris Coons for an article he wrote back in 1985 where he jokingly referred to himself as a "self-described Marxist". Apparently it was too much trouble for CNN's Jessica Yellin to go actually read that article before she questioned Coons about it during this interview on CNN, or she did read it and she's playing dumb. Either way, it makes me wonder if she might be embarrassed for sounding like someone with the intelligence level of a fifteen year old Valley girl when asking Coons if he's a Marxist or not.

Jessica, I hate to break to you honey but either you've got no sense of humor or irony what so ever, or you're a tool asking this guy ridiculous questions about something you're already fully aware of, but you're going to make him defend it anyway just to put him in the spot. I'm thinking the latter is more likely. CNN, keep up the good work proving you're just as bad as ClusterFox when it comes to making a mockery of anyone that wants to put the word "journalist" next to their name that works for either of your organizations.

YELLIN: OK. Most voters know very little about you at this point, but one of the few things that has gotten some attention is an article you wrote in college. In it you described yourself as quote, "a bearded Marxist". Would you explain to us what that means? Are you a Marxist?

COONS: No, I'm not, Jessica. And I hope folks will a moment and actually read the article because it is clearly a tongue in cheek reference to how Republicans on campus, friends of mine, former roommates of mine, viewed my transformation from a young Republican to a Democrat.

I am not now nor have I ever been a Marxist or an enemy of the people of the United States. And frankly at a time when we've got 35,000 Delawareans out of work, when we've got real economic problems to tackle, I'm just disappointed that we're spending time talking about the title of an article written in a student newspaper 25 years ago.

But I think it is important to speak to it and put it to bed. I'm not a Marxist. I've never held Marxist ideas. I believe strongly in the free enterprise system and have worked hard for eight years in one of Delaware's most innovative private sector manufacturing firms and have a good and strong working relationship with the private sector as county executive.

YELLIN: OK, now, you say you're disappointed in the coverage of that. Your opponent Christine O'Donnell is actually getting a lot more negative attention for things she did in her past than you are. To what do you attribute that?

COONS: Well, I think both of us, as you put it, are relatively unknown on the national stage. And my opponent has been more than a decade as a pundit on television, so there are lots of clips of her saying things that I'm sure she wished there weren't files of right now. But again, what really matters is not what was said in some student newspaper or what was said in some interview 10 or 20 years ago. What matters is what are our ideas for getting this economy back on track, for improving America, for fixing what's wrong with Washington --

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Wow. Every time I think this woman can't one up the stupid from the last time I saw her, she manages to out do herself again. Apparently the Tea Party Express was making its way through Michigan to protest Bart Stupak and Victoria Jackson was part of the "entertainment". Lots of mindless birther, Communism and Marxism rantings and some big applause from the crowd when she mentions Glenn Beck. Imagine that? Victoria Jackson... poster child for the stoopid. I would feel so much better if this were actually an act.

h/t Amerigo Vespucci at DU

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Part of Glenn Beck's rambling speech at CPAC where he spent the better part of his forty minutes throwing red meat to the crowd, trashing progressives as the root of all evil, revising history, telling all of them how he picked himself up by his own bootstraps and didn't need any stinking public education because he educated himself from reading books and the same sort of sorry jabs he makes in this clip. How many dog whistles do you hear just in these couple of minutes? Whoever decides to take the time to fact check the whole thing has a long night ahead of them...lol.