Weekend Update - Right-Wing Hate Edition

• Longing in the Age of Obama: Remember the good old days? When the air was thick like curdled paste and the days were long like sad, lonely sighs and evil -- sweet, dependable evil -- was like some sort of predatory perfume salesgirl and we were all trapped in the same apocalyptic department store? Mark Morford remembers Dubya.


• So now we can only assume that government agents are now, as we speak, waterboarding that nutbag who killed the abortion doctor along with the old fart who shot up the Holocaust Museum, right? Well, they're terrorists, right? On American soil, right? And we've got to get information out of them, like what the heck were they thinking. Joshua Holland tries to explain the 'eliminationist mindset.'


• Bill Moyers is alive and still going strong. Here's Moyers on the gun-crazy culture of America.


• Today, as in the early years of the Clinton administration but to an even greater extent, right-wing extremism is being systematically fed by the conservative media and political establishment. The NYT's Paul Krugman lays it on the line.


• "This is the lunatic right, for whom the election of Barack Obama was much more than a political defeat: It was a racial and existential nightmare." Tim Rutten of the LA Times says perhaps we should take another look at that Homeland Security report warning of the dangers of domestic terrorism.


• We know that they changed the name of Washington National Airport to Ronald Reagan Airport presumably to not only honor his firing of the air traffic controllers but also honor his open hostility towards the citizens of the Nation’s Capital, but did you know that Ronnie was kept alive by Devine Intervention? Oh yeah Baby.


• On Wednesday, Fox News’ Shepard Smith responded to the tragic shooting at the Holocaust Museum by a white supremacist by saying that it was time to re-think the Homeland Security report on right-wing extremism that conservatives disparaged. “The right went absolutely bonkers!" said Smith, adding that the report was a “warning to us all” and that DHS was “warning us for a reason.”