Sarah Palin

Palin's Use Of 'Blood Libel' Mirrors That In Right-Wing Media

Ryan J. Reilly | January 12, 2011, 1:03PM

Before Sarah Palin posted her Facebook provocation this morning accusing the media of committing "blood libel" for connecting some of her statements to the attempted assassination of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), that phrase was being batted around by the conservative media.

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Brett Reese

CO School Board Member Gets Threats Over Anti-MLK Broadcasts

Rachel Slajda | January 12, 2011, 8:30AM

Inset: Greeley-Evans school board member Brett Reese

A school board member in Greeley, Colo., has started bringing his gun to school board meetings after, he says, he received threats over his regular radio broadcasts attacking the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

Brett Reese, who owns and manages a local radio station, plays the same commentary twice a day, every day. The commentary, which he reads, calls King a "sexual degenerate," an "America-hating communist" and a "plastic god."

He describes it as a letter he received from a listener three years ago. It can also be found on a web site, martinlutherking.org, which is run by the white supremacist group Stormfront.

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Maurice Joseph Schwenkler

Activist Pleads Guilty In Window Smashing At Colorado Dem Headquarters

Nick Pinto | December 22, 2009, 11:51AM

Maurice Schwenkler

The transgender anarchist charged with smashing windows at the Colorado Democratic Party headquarters last summer has entered a guilty plea, the Denver Post reports today.

Maurice Joseph Schwenkler, who goes by Ariel Attack, will receive a year of probation and must pay $5,000 in restitution for the 11 windows Schwenkler and an unnamed accomplice smashed with hammers on August 25.

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