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Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Thursday, 3/31/2011 5:43 pm

Right Wing Leftovers

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Thursday, 2/4/2010 6:28 pm
  • Norm Coleman and others are seeking to create a right-wing version of the Center for American Progress and hoping to exploit the Citizen's United ruling to fund it.

  • Mike Huckabee will be heading to Iowa to campaign for GOP gubernatorial candidate Bob Vander Plaats.

  • James Dobson has endorsed Kansas GOP Senate candidate Rep. Todd Tiahrt.

  • Apparently both the Indianapolis Colts and New Orleans Saints have players who are deeply religious.  Who knew? 

  • According to campaign finance reports, the Alabama Christian Coalition has been accepting money from gambling interests.

  • Finally, here is an argument that you don't see every day, from Bev Ehlen of Concerned Women for America: "I believe people are discriminated because of their age, because of their sexual practices, because of their weight, they have a speech impediment, because they're ugly, maybe because they're good looking. I know that people are being discriminated against. That's still not a reason to change law."

Right Wing Leftovers

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Tuesday, 8/25/2009 5:36 pm
  • The Family Research Council is demanding that "President Obama support a ban on all federal abortion funding in health reform" legislation.

  • The Hill: The Club for Growth is sending a letter to each of Utah's delegates to the state Republican convention and running an ad hitting Sen. Bob Bennett for advocating “government-run healthcare.”

  • The Pacific Justice Institute is launching its new Center for Public Policy, a 501(c)(4) organization, this week in an effort to assist California legislators to enact laws benefiting all Californians.

  • Sarah Palin and Star Parker, together at last.

  • I assume that we'll be seeing lots of "horror stories" from this book from the Center for Public Policy Research cropping up in right-wing talking points in coming weeks.

  • Finally, the Media Research Center says that the Center for American Progress is bad, bad, bad:
    • "The Center for American Progress is very anti-free speech, very anti-free market. All things that made this country great irk them tremendously," [Seton Motley, the director of communications at the Media Research Center] notes. "So yes, they are a pretty bad organization."

Right Wing Round-Up

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Wednesday, 5/27/2009 6:17 pm
  • Christy Hardin Smith captures the essence of right-wing opposition to Sonia Sotomayor.

  • Media Matters has put together a large collection of right-wing commentators smearing Sotomayor as a bigot which, as Dave Neiwert points out, is itself rather ironic.

  • As Jed Lewison explains, Ronald Reagan was the original "reverse sexist," while FireDogLake notes that Republicans were once huge fans of things like diversity, which they are now decrying as crass identity politics.

  • Want to know who the leading right-wing activists are in opposing Sotomayor's nomination?  TPM has the details.

  • Sarah Posner points out that Tony Perkins' new Call 2 Fall effort includes the pastor who oversaw the attempted "rehabilitation" of Ted Haggard.

  • Finally, Matthew Yglesias wonders why conservatives need a "Center for American Progress for the right" when CAP itself was founded to be the Heritage Foundation of the left.

Reality Check for Gary Bauer

Submitted by Anonymous on Monday, 11/10/2008 6:20 pm

Days after President-elect Barack Obama’s rousing defeat over Sen. John McCain, American Values president and long-time McCain supporter Gary Bauer declared an end to racial tension in America.

Barack Obama’s election should also signal something to all those who have made race baiting their raison de ‘etre: dust off your résumés -- it’s time to find new work.
 
That includes Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, whose race baiting has done a disservice to the black community by turning every grievance into yet more evidence of America’s endemic racism.
Nevermind that on the same day that more than 65 million Americans cast their vote for America’s first Black president, Baylor University students reported seeing a rope resembling a noose on a campus tree. Also on Election Day, three students hurled racial epithets at a University of Mississippi sophomore who was celebrating Obama’s victory.
 
Less than 24 hours later in Maine, two black figures resembling gingerbread men were found hanging by nooses from trees. And in North Carolina, where Obama was officially declared the winner of the state’s 15 electoral votes on Thursday, the Secret Service was called in to assist in the investigation of four North Carolina State University students who spray painted racist graffiti including “Shoot Obama” and “Kill that n----.”
 
In a report entitled “The State of Minorities: How are Minorities Faring in the Economy?,” the Center for American Progress found that African Americans are still lagging behind whites in income, unemployment, and poverty, among other categories. African Americans median income in 2006 was $32,132, compared to whites’ median income of $52,423 in 2006. In 2007, the unemployment rate of African Americans was at 8.3 percent compared to 4.7 percent of whites. And poverty? In 2006, 24.2 percent of African Americans were living in poverty compared to 8.2 percent of whites.
 
Home ownership. Education. Health care. I could go on.
 
Reality check for Gary Bauer: While Obama's victory clearly signals progress in the long arc of the American story, only willful ignorance could allow one to think it has ended racial tension.

 

 

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SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Thursday 03/31/2011, 5:43pm
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Right Wing Leftovers
SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Thursday 02/04/2010, 6:28pm
Norm Coleman and others are seeking to create a right-wing version of the Center for American Progress and hoping to exploit the Citizen's United ruling to fund it. Mike Huckabee will be heading to Iowa to campaign for GOP gubernatorial candidate Bob Vander Plaats. James Dobson has endorsed Kansas GOP Senate candidate Rep. Todd Tiahrt. Apparently both the Indianapolis Colts and New Orleans Saints have players who are deeply religious.  Who knew?  According to campaign finance reports, the Alabama Christian Coalition has been accepting money from... MORE >
Right Wing Leftovers
SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Tuesday 08/25/2009, 5:36pm
The Family Research Council is demanding that "President Obama support a ban on all federal abortion funding in health reform" legislation.The Hill: The Club for Growth is sending a letter to each of Utah's delegates to the state Republican convention and running an ad hitting Sen. Bob Bennett for advocating “government-run healthcare.”The Pacific Justice Institute is launching its new Center for Public Policy, a 501(c)(4) organization, this week in an effort to assist California legislators to enact laws benefiting all Californians.Sarah Palin and Star Parker, together... MORE >
Right Wing Round-Up
SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Wednesday 05/27/2009, 6:17pm
Christy Hardin Smith captures the essence of right-wing opposition to Sonia Sotomayor.Media Matters has put together a large collection of right-wing commentators smearing Sotomayor as a bigot which, as Dave Neiwert points out, is itself rather ironic.As Jed Lewison explains, Ronald Reagan was the original "reverse sexist," while FireDogLake notes that Republicans were once huge fans of things like diversity, which they are now decrying as crass identity politics.Want to know who the leading right-wing activists are in opposing Sotomayor's nomination?  TPM has the... MORE >
Reality Check for Gary Bauer
, Monday 11/10/2008, 6:20pm
Days after President-elect Barack Obama’s rousing defeat over Sen. John McCain, American Values president and long-time McCain supporter Gary Bauer declared an end to racial tension in America. Barack Obama’s election should also signal something to all those who have made race baiting their raison de ‘etre: dust off your résumés -- it’s time to find new work.   That includes Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, whose race baiting has done a disservice to the black community by turning every grievance into yet more evidence of America’s... MORE >