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More rightwing hate from the mentally disturbed. This one's name is Tera Servatius, who until recently spewed her bile on the local Raleigh airwaves.

via ABC11, Raleigh.

RALEIGH (WTVD) -- The John Locke Foundation said Thursday a blogger for its website has resigned after posting a picture of President Obama dressed in drag.

The photo was accompanied by the headline "Obama Goes Gay To Get NC On Election Day" in the "Meck Deck" section of the Locke website which features issues primarily in the Charlotte area.
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The post quickly drew criticism from groups like the North Carolina NAACP, which called it highly offensive.

John Locke President John Hood agreed, and said he was embarrassed and angered by what he saw.

"The illustration associated with this blog entry was offensive and utterly inappropriate for our blog or anyone else's. A reader brought it to my attention Wednesday. I had it removed immediately, but the damage was done. I'm sorry I didn't see it earlier, and I'm deeply sorry it was on our website for any length of time," Hood said in a statement.

Hood said the blogger - Tara Servatius - resigned Thursday morning. Hood said if she had not, he would have fired her.
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After she resigned, Servatius put out a written statement about what she posted.

"If it has offended anyone, I sincerely apologize. It was meant to illustrate Obama's southern political strategy, nothing more. An honest reading of the piece itself shows there is nothing offensive in it," she said.

Ah yes, the old non-apology apology we're so used to hearing from these racist scumbags.

Chris Kromm at the Art Pope Exposed blog digs deeper, via the site The New Civil Rights Movement:

“Servatius, a former right-wing radio commentator for Charlotte’s WBT AM, is a regular contributor to the Meck Deck. (UPDATE: Servatius also runs the MeckDeck Twitter account, and authors a good share of their posts.),” and adds:

Given her prominent role at Meck Deck, how involved was Servatius in the decision to post the Obama image, and keep it up for two days? Last year, a Charlotte blogger noted that Servatius was a speaker at an event for the neo-Confederate group the League of the South.

Here's the image in question:

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Media Matters has this one right. Memo to media: Pamela Geller does not belong on national television:

Numerous mainstream media outlets have recently hosted right-wing "Atlas Shrugs" blogger Pamela Geller to discuss the controversy surrounding a proposed Islamic community center set to be built blocks away from Ground Zero. However, Geller's history of outrageous, inflammatory and false claims, particularly when it comes to issues related to Islam, demonstrate that she cannot be expected to make accurate statements and should not be rewarded with a platform on national television.

Media bring Geller into the mainstream, telling nation she is a credible source

MSNBC hosts Geller, who suggests the Islamic center is a "triumphal mosque" on "conquered lands." MSNBC News hosted Geller on July 14 to discuss plans to construct an Islamic community center containing a mosque two blocks away from the ground zero 9/11 site. She speculated that funding for the Islamic center could be "tied to jihad or terror" and asserted that it is "insensitive," "humiliating" and "offensive" to build a mosque at the site. Geller further stated:

GELLER: We know in Islamic history that they build triumphal mosques on the cherished sites of sacred lands of conquered lands. So how is building a mosque, looking down at the cemetery of ground zero where they're still finding remains outreach?

Much, much more there in the Media Matters report so be sure to read the whole post. This crazy fear mongering woman should not be given a platform to spew her hatred on television.

MSNBC banned Markos Moulitsas from appearing on their network because he wrote something on Twitter that got under Joe Scarborough's skin, but Pam Geller can lash out at Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews and she's allowed to come on. As John noted in his post about Markos, "Conservative pundits can say anything at all and are never held accountable for their actions. That's a sad fact that we see over and over again."

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As Susie already noted, the Washington Post contributor and frequent Countdown guest Dave Weigel resigned over a dust up after his private emails were released by Betsy Rothstein and Tucker Carlson and the right wing unleashed their flying monkeys to attack him. Keith calls out Rothstein and Carlson for releasing the private emails and also hammers the Washington Post for buying into the notion that you cannot fairly cover conservatives without sharing their ideology.

OLBERMANN: But our winners the manager at the Washington Post, a Betsy Rothstein of Fishbowl D.C. and Tucker Carlson of the website Daily Caller. Dave Weigel who's been a frequent guest on this program since he was with the Washington Independent is now no longer affiliated with the Washington Post. Ms. Rothstein posted a series of Weigel's private emails from one of the private listservs run by Ezra Klein that is also a guest on this program often. Mr. Carlson then posted more of the private emails.

None were complimentary to the conservatives that Weigel has covered for his own blog, for the Right Now blog at the Post and for us. Today, Dave resigned from the Post. Rothstein and Carlson define what it is to not understand the concept of private but at the heart of this is the Post.

Ben Smith of Politico quotes Post national editor Kevin Merida's web chat in April. He was asked if the post would be "adding more conservative/Republican voices to better balance what is now your predominately liberal/Democratic leaning coverage?” Merida answered “[W]e recently have added to our staff the well-regarded Dave Weigel, and also mentioned columnists Kathleen Parker and Charlies Krauthammer."

Somebody at the Post and most of the people critical of David Weigel today seem to be under the impression that to cover conservatives you have to be one and you cannot be critical of them, even in a private setting. Nonsense. Weigel was a blogger and he made no bones about it, offered a subjective but thoroughly reported view of the conservative world and on occasions, on this program defended conservatives when he'd thought I'd gone too far in criticizing them.

We asked Dave to join us tonight. He didn't want to. He wanted to take the high road. It's too bad the Washington Post and especially Fishbowl D.C. and the Daily Caller did not. We will keep asking Weigel back because he does a hell of a job, a unique and an invaluable one.