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Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Monday, 9/27/2010 5:51 pm

PFAW Statement: PFAW Calls for GOP Senators to Show Responsibility, Confirm Stalled Judicial Nominees.

Justin Elliott @ Salon: From accused murderer to member of Congress?

Kate Conway @ Political Correction: Sens. DeMint And Coburn Block Women's Museum Because There's Already A "Quilters Hall Of Fame."

Andy Birkey @ Minnesota Independent: Bradlee Dean says Bachmann, Emmer will appear in his new video.

Jeff Sharlet @ Mother Jones: Junkets for Jesus.

Steve Benen: Bill Maher Wasn't Kidding.

Lee Fang @ Think Progress: Rep. Inglis: Family Research Council Violating 9th Commandment By Suggesting Obama Is Muslim.

Joe.My.God: Anti-Gay Christianists Attempting Sioux City Government Takeover.

Brad Johnson @ Wonk Room: Raese Blames Volcanoes For Global Warming.

Terry Krepel @ Media Matters: Disgraced Accuracy in Media intern returns to AIM’s blog.

Right Wing Round-Up

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Tuesday, 9/21/2010 5:54 pm

PFAW Statement: Senate GOP Votes in Lockstep to Block DADT Repeal, DREAM Act.

Zachary Pleat @ Media Matters: WND's first national convention: A spectacle of birtherism and bigotry.

Greg Sargent: Christine O'Donnell said gays suffer from `identity disorder,' reporter says.

Sarah Posner @ The Nation: Tea Party Values.

Justin Elliott @ Salon: GOP denounces racist GOP congressional hopeful.

Lee Fang @ Think Progress: Tony Perkins Questions Obama’s Faith: ‘He Seems To Be Advancing The Idea Of The Islamic Religion.’

Herescope: The Next Great Awakening ... or Great Deadening? Part 3: Building the 7 Mountains.

Alan Colmes: WI Gubernatorial Candidate Scott Walker’s 68-Page Jobs Plan Would Be Four Pages Using A Normal Font.

Right Wing Round-Up

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Tuesday, 9/14/2010 5:51 pm

Jason Hancock @ Iowa Independent: American Family Association spent almost $60,000 in Iowa & National Organization for Marriage drops $235K on Iowa TV campaign.

Adele Stan @ AlterNet: Conservative and Tea Party Rallies and Trainings Dominate the Capital: Are Progressives and Liberal Democrats About to Be Out-Organized?

Chris Johnson @ Washington Blade: Reid to schedule ‘Don’t Ask’ vote next week.

Evan McMorris-Santoro @ TPM: Tea Party Group Wants Jews, African Americans And Hispanics.

Media Matters: Hey Breitbart, look to your left.

Steve Benen: Ginni Thomas wants you to fight tyranny (and buy a hat).

Justin Elliot @ Salon: GOPer apologizes for "socialist indoctrination" charge.

David Weigel @ Slate: Why is Gingrich pushing Dinesh D'Souza's crazy theory about Obama's "Kenyan anti-colonialism"?

Finally, Thom Hartmann took on the unenviable and pointless task of debating Bryan Fischer.

Right Wing Round-Up

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Thursday, 9/9/2010 5:59 pm

John Wright @ Dallas Voice: Group backing Sally Kern calls her transgender opponent Brittany Novotny ‘a confused it.’

Towleroad: Shirley Phelps-Roper: We Burned a Quran, and Nobody Cared!

Ian Millhiser @ Think Progress: Hate Group-Funded Campaign To Remove Iowa Justices Falsely Claims Justice O’Connor’s Support.

Sarah Posner @ Religion Dispatches: Beyond Terry Jones' Qur'an Burning.

Simon Maloy @ Media Matters: Beck and Palin need a better scheduler.

Joe Sudbay @ Americablog: Wash. Post editor won't defend or explain endorsement of NOM-backed candidate.

Good As You: Tony's TV priorities: Making 'Real Housewives' drama seem that much less frivolous.

Bruce Wilson @ Talk To Action: Plot To Install a Christian Supremacist as Hawaii's Next Governor Hangs By a Thread.

Finally, the quote of the day from Herescope: "Time for a reality check. What all this means for you, if you are an American, is that you must now submit to Cindy Jacobs, whom C. Peter Wagner apparently appointed to be the 'U.S. national apostle' in charge of our nation."

Right Wing Round-Up

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Tuesday, 9/7/2010 5:42 pm

Justin Elliott @ Salon: Fringe 9/11 church pastor opposes even fringier Quran-burning pastor.

Christina Bellantoni @ TPM: Christine O'Donnell's Views On Sex And Porn Take Social Conservatism To The Extreme.

Joe Sudbay @ Americablog: Montana Tea Party leader canned over anti-gay comments.

Faiz Shakir @ Think Progress: Jindal won’t endorse scandal-plagued Vitter.

Alan Colmes: Alaska U.S. Senate Candidate Joe Miller Says His Campaign Is Funded By The Lord.

Bruce Wilson @ Talk To Action: Hawaii GOP Candidate For Governor Prayed Over By Preacher Who Can Cast Out Demons With His iPhone.

Melanie Nathan @ Lez Get Real: Is Lisa Miller Hiding as a Missionary in Ecuador?

Media Matters: Glenn Beck's anti-gay army of God.

Right Wing Round-Up

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Friday, 9/3/2010 4:47 pm

PFAW: People For the American Way Congratulates Dolores Huerta on Attacks from Glenn Beck.

Evan Hurst @ Truth Wins Out: Christian Polling Company: Millenials Strongly Support Marriage Equality.

Chris Rodda @ Talk To Action: Beck Goes After HuffPost By Showing Off Rally Attendee's Fake Washington Quote T-Shirt.

Stephanie Mencimer @ Mother Jones: Beck Admits to Lie About Archives Visit.

Media Matters: Beck has plans for "traveling stage show" based on "Glenn Beck's Divine Destiny" event.

Finally, the New York Times profiles Christwire, the satire site so good it even fools the Religious Right.

Right Wing Round-Up

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Thursday, 8/26/2010 6:09 pm

Good As You: How not to write a coming out card.

Sarah Posner: Religious Leaders Pressure Congress To Support Religious Discrimination.

Patrick Caldwell @ Iowa Independent: Mitch Daniels insists he won’t run for president in 2012.

Brian Beutler @ TPM: LA GOPer: November A Choice Between An Atheist Society And A Christian Nation.

Dahlia Lithwick: Why do Ken Cuccinelli's legal opinions always match his personal ambitions?

Andy Birkey @ Minnesota Independent: Bachmann to speak at controversial Glenn Beck rally.

Christina Bellantoni @ TPM: Meet Joe Miller: The Alaska Tea Partier Who Has Dems Licking Their Lips.

Ben Dimiero @ Media Matters: Glenn Beck's egomania reaching comical proportions.

Right Wing Round-Up

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Wednesday, 8/25/2010 6:03 pm

Towleroad: Former RNC Chair Ken Mehlman Confirms in Interview: I'm Gay.

David Weigel: Florida's Allen West may be crazy, but so far this year, that hasn't hurt Republicans.

Julie Ingersoll @ Religion Dispatches: Beck’s “Dream”—Our Nightmare.

Alan Colmes: Funny How Bush Officials Don’t Remember Working With Imam Rauf.

Media Matters: Martin Luther King III responds to Beck's Aug. 28 rally: My father "wholeheartedly embrace[d] the 'social gospel'".

Rachel Slajda @ TPM: How 30 Million DVDs Sent In 2008 Election Fuel The Anti-Mosque Debate Today.

Jim Burroway @ Box Turtle Bulletin: David Bahati’s Plan for Genocide.

Right Wing Round-Up

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Monday, 8/23/2010 5:46 pm

Glenn Greenwald: The "mosque" debate is not a "distraction."

Igor Volsky @ Wonk Room: VA AG Ken Cuccinelli Goes After State Abortion Providers.

Alex Seitz-Wald @ Think Progress: Ron Paul breaks with GOP on New York mosque: The opposition ‘is all about hate and Islamaphobia.’

Bil Browning @ Bilerico: Jesus Doesn't Love the Welfare State.

Alvin McEwen: One News Now and Cliff Kincaid demonstrate homophobia, ability to lie.

Steve Benen: The reverence for constitutional stone fades away.

Adam Serwer: The Tea Party Guide To Avoiding Black Neighborhoods.

Ben Dimiero @ Media Matters: FLASHBACK: In 2006 joint appearance, Beck appeared to call Imam Rauf a "good Muslim".

Right Wing Round-Up

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Friday, 8/20/2010 5:47 pm

Jonathan Chait: Sharron Angle Versus The Satanic Football Jersey.

Brian Beutler @ TPM: Palin In February: We'd Be 'Appalled' If Public Figure Used "N-Word".

Jason Hancock @ Iowa Independent: Radio host: AIDS discriminates against the ’stupid behavior’ of homosexuality.

Media Matters: Behind Obama Muslim myth stands the right wing.

Amanda Terkel @ Think Progress: Media: Maybe Obama Should Go To Church More Publicly So People Know He’s Christian.

Eric Kleefeld @ TPM: Franklin Graham: 'President's Problem Is That He Was Born A Muslim'.

Rachel Tabachnick @ Talk to Action: Religious Right Pre-Election Rallies and Training.

Right Wing Round-Up

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Thursday, 8/19/2010 5:48 pm

Matt Gertz @ Media Matters: Palin to Dr. Laura: "Don't retreat... reload" after "1st Amend.rights ceased 2exist".

DougJ @ Balloon Juice: Mature woman.

Good As You: ME: With new leader, historically incendiary group to locate thermostat?

Alvin McEwen: Lesbian appointee caught in crossfire between Peter LaBarbera and Glenn Beck.

Zaid Jilani @ Think Progress: Gainesville church planning ‘Burn the Quran Day’ is denied permit, but plans to do it anyway.

Chris Rodda @ Talk to Action: U.S. Soldiers Punished For Not Attending Christian Concert.

The Advocate: Uganda First Lady Warns About Gays.

Political Correction: Meet Allen West: GOP Young Gun And Anti-Muslim Extremist.

Right Wing Round-Up

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Wednesday, 8/18/2010 5:51 pm

Media Matters: Schlessinger ending her radio show because "my First Amendment rights have been usurped by angry, hateful groups".

Christina Bellantoni @ TPM: George Bush Stays Out Of 'Ground Zero Mosque' Fray.

Jason Hancock @ Iowa Independent: GOP candidate apologizes for anti-gay statements.

Joe.My.God: GOP Candidate For Gov Rips AG Bill McCollum Over Rekers Scandal.

Mike Tidmus: When did cheating become a ‘Christian’ value?

Towleroad: Watchdog Pushes IRS to Investigate Anti-Gay Pastor for His Support of Oklahoma Rep. Sally Kern.

Steve Benen: When even Pat Buchanan thinks you've gone too far...

Amanda Marcotte @ Slate: Is Sharron Angle a Christian Reconstructionist?

Right Wing Round-Up

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Monday, 8/16/2010 5:59 pm

Justin Elliott @ Salon: How the "ground zero mosque" fear mongering began.

Andy Birkey @ Minnesota Independent: Bradlee Dean talks Tom Emmer, Rachel Maddow and Target.

Ben Dimiero @ Media Matters: In the first "Glenn Beck Morning Prayer," Barton says 8-28 rally was "called by" God.

Bartholomew’s Notes on Religion: Andrew Breitbart to Speak at NY Anti-Mosque Rally.

Ian Millhiser @ Think Progress: Sharron Angle Claims United Nations Is Unconstitutional.

Timothy Kincaid @ Box Turtle Bulletin: NOM’s Tour of Mostly-Empty City Plaza rolls to a stop.

Steve Benen: Gingrich keeps Godwin's Law intact.

Joe.My.God: Sally Kern Is At It Again.

Ryan J. Reilly @ TPM: 'Birther Queen' Taitz Vows to Keep Fighting After Supreme Court Denies Appeal.

Julie Ingersoll @ Religion Dispatches: Washington Post Story Gets Christian Reconstructionism Wrong.

Sarah Posner @ Religion Dispatches: The Christian Reconstructionism Dodge.

Joseph L. Conn @ AU: Rushdoony’s Legacy: The Overlooked Influence Of A Religious Right Godfather.

Right Wing Round-Up

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Friday, 8/13/2010 5:43 pm

PFAW Statement: Dr. Laura’s Racist Remarks Inexcusable.

Media Matters: Dr. Laura Schlessinger's N-word rant.

Think Progress: Right-wing columnist calls Prop. 8 judge a ‘false god,’ compares same-sex marriage to slavery.

Good As You: What next, FRC: Claiming the paper's Help Wanted ads validate your views on unemployment?

Steve Benen: Explaining Net Neutrality in a Way Tea Partiers Can Understand.

Alvin McEwen: Is the religious right after another gay Obama appointee?

Joe.My.God: Thomas Jefferson Would Have Imprisoned Walker For Treason.

Pam Spaulding: Pat Robertson's CBN correspondent: 'Gay subculture - one of the most violent subcultures out there'.

Right Wing Round-Up

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Thursday, 8/12/2010 5:44 pm

PFAW Statement: Prop 8 Judge Denies Permanent Stay on Marriages.

Justin Elliott @ Salon: Florida Republican: Put immigrants in "camps".

Towleroad: Glenn Beck: Gay Marriage is Not a Threat to America.

Crooks & Liars: Wingnut Texas Rep. Debbie Riddle Pushes Louie Gohmert's 'Terror Babies' Conspiracy Theory.

Megan Carpentier @ TPM: 'Ground Zero Mosque' Imam Was A Bush-Era Partner For Mideast Peace.

Media Matters: Knight's latest anti-gay Wash. Times op-ed: Gay marriage "is a fantasy cooked up in hell".

Andrea Nill @ Think Progress: Huckabee: It’s Good For America If Young Undocumented Immigrants Go To College And Become Citizens.

Matt Finkelstein @ Political Correction: Cantor On Ground Zero Mosque: Everyone Has Rights, "But Come On".

Right Wing Round-Up

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Tuesday, 8/10/2010 5:57 pm

Good As You: NOMTour in NC: Come for the free t-shirts, stay for the 'gays die before 40' claims.

Texas Freedom Network: Has Peter Marshall Come Unhinged?

Herescope: The Great Outpouring of Wealth.

Alvin McEwen: Eleventh researcher complains that the religious right distorted his work.

Paul Schmelzer @ Minnesota Independent: MSNBC’s Maddow looks into Emmer’s affiliation with anti-gay ministry.

Jamison Foser @ Media Matters: WaPo "On Faith" editor called vandalism of atheist billboard "clever and relatively respectful."

Chris Rodda @ Huffington Post: No, Mr. Beck, That Wasn't 'Some Professor' -- That Was Me.

Right Wing Round-Up

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Monday, 8/9/2010 5:47 pm

Michael B. Keegan @ Huffington Post: The GOP v. the 14th Amendment.

Bartholomew’s Notes on Religion: Ex-Muslim Pastor Warns of Exploitation by “Corrupt ‘Underbelly’ of the Right Wing Political Movement”.

David Monday @ Crooks & Liars: David Boies: Tony Perkins appeals to 'fear and prejudice' against gays.

Media Matters: Tony Perkins' fearmongering about same-sex parenting is refuted by medical consensus.

Joe.My.God: NY Sen. Ruben Diaz: Same-Sex Marriage Will Bring The End Of The World.

Jason Hancock @ Iowa Independent: Push to oust Iowa judges backed by American Family Association.

Nick Seaver @ Americablog: Dr. Alveda King hijacks the King legacy while promoting equality for some.

Igor Volsky @ Wonk Room: Florida Gubernatorial Candidate McCollum: ‘I Really Do Not Think That We Should Have Homosexuals Guiding Our Children’.

Finally, two posts from Truth Wins Out: PFOX President Greg Quinlan: I Was Not a Limp Wristed Flaming Faggot and Abba Goldberg: Gays Lift Weights Because They Don’t Feel Masculine.

Right Wing Round-Up

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Thursday, 8/5/2010 5:55 pm

PFAW Statement: Elena Kagan Confirmed to the Supreme Court.

David Weigel: African-American conservatives explain that the only racists are those who worry about race-based prejudice.

Steven Benen: From the Party of Bush to the Party of Jefferson Davis.

Tim Fernholz @ Tapped: You Know How Jesus Prized Wealth.

Texas Freedom Network: Blame Hitler or Darwin?

Ian Millhiser @ Think Progress: The GOP’s Agenda To Change The Constitution.

Ben Dimiero & Eric Hananoki @ Media Matters: Meet Breitbart's Sherrod writer: Racist sexual "expert" and inventor (who cured cancer).

Right Wing Round-Up

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Thursday, 7/22/2010 5:55 pm

Andy Birkey@Minnesota Independent: Bachmann jumps the gun on Tea Party Caucus membership.

Alexander Zaitchik@SPLC: Coming Soon: ‘International Burn a Koran Day’.

Adam Serwer: Sherrod's Honesty Is Sorely Lacking In Our National Conversation On Race.

Jillian Rayfield@TPM: Talkin' 'Bout My Glenn-eration: TPM Endures Week Three Of Beck University.

Media Matters: Timeline of Breitbart's Sherrod smear.

Mike Tidmus: Donohue defends Mel Gibson’s virtue against ex-Catholics and secular Jews.

Finally, via Rachel Maddow, you're not going to buy your siding and windows from a secular socialist, are you!

Right Wing Round-Up

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Wednesday, 7/21/2010 6:00 pm

Media Matters: Breitbart flounders as his Sherrod story collapses.

Autumn Sandeen - Pam's House Blend: Obviously, God Hates Teh Homosexuals And/Or Colorful Parades.

Jillian Rayfield - TPM: Organization Targeted By Anti-Gov't CA Shooting Suspect Was Frequent Topic On Glenn Beck's Show.

Melinda Warner - Political Correction: Prominent Sen. McCain Spokesman Appeared On White Supremacist Program.

Steve Benen: The RNC, a 'Civil War," and a Hidden Debt.

Americans United: Americans United Urges IRS To Investigate Okla. Religious Group That Promoted Candidate.

Suzy Khimm - Mother Jones: Meet the Members of the Tea Party Caucus.

Arisha Michelle Hatch - Prop 8 Trial Tracker: NOM Tour Tracker videographer threatened with arrest by Brian Brown, Maryland police.

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Right Wing Round-Up

SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Friday 02/04/2011, 6:34pm

Brian @ PFAW Blog: Progressive Coalition Stands Up for Planned Parenthood. Michael B. Keegan @ Huffington Post: The Battle Over the Smithsonian and the Right's New Culture Wars. Alan Colmes: Sarah Palin And Daughter Bristol Are Trademarking Their Names. Ben Dimiero @ County Fair: Attention Fox Nation: There Is More Than One Version Of The Bible. Good As You: Video: 'The Second-Hand Effects of [Aligning Candidacy with The Family Leader]. DLCC: GA State Rep.: There’s No Such Thing as a Rape Victim. Adele Stan @ AlterNet: The Right... MORE >

Right Wing Round-Up

SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Thursday 02/03/2011, 6:43pm

Michelle Goldberg @ The Daily Beast: The Shame of an Exorcist Admitting Violation of Chastity. Kate Conway @ Political Correction: Rep. Peter King: Concerns About Muslim Witch Hunts Don't Even 'Warrant An Answer.' Heidi Beirich @ Hatewatch: Invited White Nationalist to Speak to Federalist Society Tomorrow. Jillian Rayfield @ TPM: Right Wing Reacts To Egypt Protests: Obama Is In League With The Muslim Brotherhood. Steve Benen: The Off-Again, On-Again "Truce." Joe.My.God: Ugandan Police: David Kato Forced The Killer To Commit Sodomy. Jason... MORE >

Right Wing Round-Up

SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Thursday 02/03/2011, 6:43pm

Right Wing Round-Up

SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Wednesday 01/26/2011, 6:41pm

Media Matters: Hundreds Of Rabbis Call On Murdoch To Sanction Beck, Demand Apology from Ailes. Lee Fang @ Think Progress: Alito, Thomas Headlined Political Fundraisers Chaired By Leading Right-Wing Donor Paul Singer. Steve Benen: Dropping Foreign Policy Altogether. Jillian Rayfield @TPM: Ted Haggard: I'm Probably What The Kids Call 'Bisexual'. Sandhya Bathija @ AU: Constitutional Converts?: ADF Lauds Separation Of Church And State In Church Tax Case. Eric Boehlert @ County Fair: Piven Responds To Beck: “It Only Takes One Person Who Is A Little Deranged... MORE >

Right Wing Round-Up

SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Wednesday 01/26/2011, 6:41pm

Right Wing Round-Up

SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Tuesday 01/25/2011, 6:37pm

Michael B. Keegan @ Huffington Post: Scalia Teaches First of Bachmann's Constitutional Mythology Workshops. PFAW: Editorial Memorandum: Judicial Nominees and the State of the Union. Towleroad: Iowa House Committee Votes to Ban Same-Sex Marriage 13-8. Kate Sheppard @ Mother Jones: Gingrich Calls for Abolishing the EPA. Media Matters: Beck Calls For U.S. Chief Of Protocol To Be Fired Over Invented Controversies. Rachel Slajda @ TPM: Is It An Underage Sex Slave Ring, Or A Hoax? Either Way, Planned Parenthood Calls... MORE >

Right Wing Round-Up

SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Tuesday 01/25/2011, 6:37pm

Right Wing Round-Up

SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Monday 01/24/2011, 6:43pm

George Zornick @ Think Progress: Allen West: Keith Ellison Represents ‘The Antithesis Of The Principles Upon Which This Country Was Established’. Sarah Posner @ Religion Dispatches: Rep. Smith Suggests A New Protected Class: "Immaturity". David Weigel @ Slate: Michael Bay Presents: "Pawlenty". Joe.My.God: Virginia Lawmaker: Feds Can't Stop Us From Banning Gays From National Guard. Pam Spaulding: Idaho pharmacist denies anti-bleeding med because woman MIGHT have had an abortion. Terry Krepel @ County Fair: Pat Robertson... MORE >

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