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3/10/14 @ 3:30pm
Still reeling from the demise of Arizona’s “right-to-discriminate” bill, Michele Bachmann said last week that she is tired of gay people “bullying” her and the American people.
The Minnesota congresswoman told talk show host Lars Larson in an interview at CPAC that the... MORE
3/10/14 @ 5:34pm
Sarah Posner @ Politico: The Movie the Faithful Want You to See. Jeremy Hooper: FRC Sr. Vice President: Gayness 'leads to the withering of the soul and the erosion of society.' Mariah Blake @ Mother Jones: Meet the American Pastor Behind Uganda's Anti-Gay Crackdown. Andy T... MORE
3/10/14 @ 5:30pm
Glenn Beck is tired of politics and vows to focus on re-shaping the culture by making movies and blah, blah, blah. This is an actual article on The Daily Caller: "5 guys who hit on your girlfriend at CPAC in front of you." For some reason, Richard Viguerie conducted his own inde... MORE
3/10/14 @ 3:20pm
Michele Bachmann says she thanks God for the Koch Brothers, the billionaire duo who have contributed tens of millions of dollars to conservative causes. During an interview at the Koch-sponsored Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) last week, Bachmann defended the pro-GOP mega-donors agai... MORE
3/10/14 @ 3:10pm
Just last week, Dr. Steve Hotze made news for sending out a Republican Party fundraising letter in which he declared that "our Founding Fathers would be furious to find out that the Constitution was being interpreted to allow sodomites to marry."
This sort of rhetoric is not at all surpris... MORE
3/10/14 @ 2:55pm
After telling CPAC attendees that President Obama is coming for their cars and furniture, Dinesh D’Souza stopped by Sandy Rios In The Morning to claim that Mitt Romney would have defeated Obama if voters only watched D’Souza’s film, 2016: Obama’s America.
“I believe if... MORE
3/10/14 @ 2:26pm
Many in the anti-immigrant movement felt slighted by this year’s CPAC, which they claimed did not devote enough time to their cause. Center for Immigration Studies director Mark Krikorian lamented to the Washington Post that the American Conservative Union “pushed out” groups like... MORE
3/10/14 @ 2:20pm
As we have pointed out before, the key to David Barton's success is the fact that his audiences blindly accept everything he says without question, never bothering to actually verify any claim that he makes. It has gotten so bad that Barton is now basically free to say things that, with even a m... MORE
3/10/14 @ 2:00pm
Last week at CPAC, American Family Radio host Sandy Rios interviewed Rob Tappan, the director of external relations at Koch Industries, which was a top sponsor of the conservative summit. Rios asked Tappan about Senate majority leader Harry Reid’s recent criticism of Charles and David Koch... MORE
3/10/14 @ 1:38pm
The Chiaroscuro Group, a Manhattan-based right-wing organization chaired by hedge fund manager Sean Fieler, is running radio ads featuring a talking fetus to attack Democratic New York state senator Tim Kennedy for supporting a bill that would secure a woman’s right to choose and protect women... MORE
3/10/14 @ 1:00pm
Religious Right talk show host Kevin Swanson railed against the Disney film Frozen on Wednesday, accusing Disney of using the movie to turn children gay.
Swanson told cohost Steve Vaughn that Satan is using the movie “to indoctrinate my 5-year-old to be a lesbian.”
Swanson: Man, how m... MORE