A lump of coal for Caplis -- make that 1,000 lumps

Conservative talk show host Dan Caplis said U.S. Sen. John Kerry “has become the Democrats' Mark Foley times 1,000 because now this goes beyond ... whether some guy's a pervert who assaults little boys”

Boyles to critics: “My God, why are you angry?” Santa to Boyles: “My goodness, why are you asking?”

Radio talker Peter Boyles repeated falsehoods about sanctuary cities, “anchor babies” of illegal immigrants

“Oh, I wish I was in the land of cotton ... ”

Boyles still in denial that U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo sang “Dixie” with white supremacists at speech

“I now pronounce you man and mink”

Talk show host “Gunny” Bob Newman predicted that if “liberals seize control ... this nation will see gay marriage ... followed by legalized polygamy and possibly human/fur-bearing-mammal marriages”

Rosen: “I'm awfully careful about my facts.” Well, maybe not so much ...

Arch-conservative radio talker and columnist Mike Rosen falsely claimed former President Jimmy Carter's FISA signing statement “said he is not ceding any of his constitutional power”

The Ladies' Man

“Gunny” Bob: Cynthia McKinney is a “psychotic, hate-mongering, racist, scum-sucking pig wench”

OK, but only if we also can use “talk show hosts” to “sort the nuts”

Discussing illegal immigration, Boyles guest distorted leprosy statistics and suggested using “mildly retarded” people to “pick the fruit”

Seventy percent, 33 percent -- what's the difference? A governorship, as it turns out ...

Colorado Matters host left unchallenged GOP gubernatorial candidate Bob Beauprez's inaccurate assertion that 70 percent of all African-American pregnancies end in abortion

“Logan's Run”: Not the only place where people are obsessed with “sanctuary”

Denver Post editors shortened news story so that it uncritically repeated Beauprez's statement on “sanctuary cities”

“Rhetorical”? Try instead a word that starts with “s” and rhymes with “Cupid”

Radio host Joseph Michelli apologized for calling minimum wage earners “dumb and incompetent,” said his remarks were “rhetorical”

Q: How can you tell if “Gunny” Bob is making sense? A: His lips are not moving.

“Gunny” Bob predicted “carnage for the American people” if Democrats “get into power,” instructed listeners to "[w]rite it down"

And the prize for most unoriginal misleading claims goes to ...

Echoing Independence Institute's Dave Kopel, conservatives made false claims on global warming

The Ladies' Man, Part II

Boyles guest Terry Anderson on immigrant seeking sanctuary in a church: “I'd drag this broad out of there by her hair”

Maybe they're also the cause of global warming

Boyles guest Pat Buchanan misleadingly blamed bedbug infestations on illegal immigrants

Anchor-head discusses “anchor babies”

Boyles claimed that having U.S.-born children, so-called “anchor babies,” protects illegal immigrants from deportation -- unfortunately for him, federal law explicitly disagrees

Why math, facts, and conservative radio talkers don't mix

Boyles, “Gunny” Bob, various guests repeated dubious claims about the number of U.S. citizens allegedly killed each day by illegal immigrants; they cite various figures, none of which appear to be accurate

Well, maybe, if you cut out the remarks about killing Muslims, or herding them into concentration camps, or questioning the loyalty of the first Muslim-American congressman, or ... nah, maybe not

Denver Post's Dick Kreck on conservative TV and radio host Glenn Beck: “He makes me laugh”

To address the slight possibility that there might possibly be a tiny civil war ...

The Gazette edited out wire service references to the Iraqi unpleasantness as a “civil war,” before eventually publishing stories about whether that's what it is

We hear also that Jon Caldara is a “font of truth”

During Colorado Inside Out, Independence Institute president Jon Caldara asserted Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bill Ritter “killed a guy in Africa,” with no context

In other developments, R.M.S. Titanic rubs against iceberg, sails on

Media repeated the talking point that polls showed GOP's Beauprez closing in on Democrat Ritter as gubernatorial election drew near, even though they largely did not