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Right Wing Round-Up - 2/7/13

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Thursday, 2/7/2013 6:32 pm
  • PFAW: PFAW Urges Senate to Turn Attention to Long-Vacant Appeals Court Seats.
  • Josh Feldmam @ Mediaite: Bill O’Reilly Bizarrely Claims NBC Hasn’t Reported On Drone Strike Memo, Even Though NBC Broke The Story.
  • David Weigel: Four Hilarious Lies in Dick Morris's Sit-Down With Piers Morgan.

Right Wing Round-Up - 2/6/13

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Wednesday, 2/6/2013 6:33 pm

Right Wing Round-Up - 1/7/13

Submitted by Brian Tashman on Monday, 1/7/2013 6:55 pm
  • Jeremy Hooper @ Good As You: With trial beginning, let’s hear Scott Lively say gays are Satan’s End Times-invoking foot soldiers. 
  • BuzzFeed: Top Conservative Radio Figure Calls for “Nationalist” Third Party. 
  • Crooks & Liars: Alabama White Supremacist Charged in Plot to Bomb Black and Gay Students.

Right Wing Leftovers - 1/7/13

Submitted by Brian Tashman on Monday, 1/7/2013 6:45 pm
  • WorldNetDaily has really outdone itself by attacking Neil Patrick Harris for starring in an ad for the Super Bowl…which must mean he is mocking Tim Tebow and pushing the “gay agenda”!
  • Absolutely stunned that Fox News deceptively edited a speech by President Obama to attack him on gun policy. 
  • Just a mere eight percent of Americans identify as Tea Party members, but that won’t stop Tea Party groups and politicians from claiming they speak for the majority of Americans. 
  • Gary Bauer says Chuck Hagel’s nomination as Defense Secretary proves “Obama is a leftist ideologue whose economic policies are socialistic and whose foreign policies are weak and pro-Islamism.” 
  • Robert Knight writes in the Washington Times that Democrats have an “obsession with alternative states of ecstasy, extreme environmentalism, perverse sex, big government and confiscatory taxes.” 
  • Mat Staver of Liberty Counsel warns there is a push to “criminalize speech by U.S. citizens on homosexuality.” 
  • WND editor Joseph Farah says the End Times are fast approaching.

Right Wing Round-Up - 12/10/12

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Monday, 12/10/2012 6:43 pm

Right Wing Leftovers

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Monday, 3/21/2011 5:49 pm
  • Hey, guess what? Tim Pawlenty is running for president.

  • Police wanted to charge many of those involved in helping Rifqa Bary run away with crimes, but prosecutors have refused to do so.

  • Herman Cain says the race card has expired.  Good to know.

  • Wow, Donald Trump is just a joke.

  • Janet Porter is hosting a "Heartbeat Bill Summit" on April 4.

  • Speaking of Porter, she has this to say about the earthquake in Japan: "Another type of darkness in Japan should be of great concern to us. That’s the spiritual darkness that covers this island nation."

  • The first confirmed speaker for Ralph Reed's Faith and Freedom Summit is ... Dick Morris.  Wow, what a coup!

  • Quote of the day from Bryan Fischer: "We’re going to get the worst of both worlds with the admission of open homosexuals into the ranks: virile straights aren’t going to sign up, and fewer homosexuals will since they lost their get-out-of-jail free card when DADT was repealed. They can’t try it and decide they don’t like it any more. We’re going to be left with a weakened, effeminate, dumbed-down military."

  • Finally, Karen Santorum shared parenting advice with James Dobson on his radio program today and warned that the Devil tries to make stay-at-home moms second-guess their decision:

Right Wing Round-Up

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Tuesday, 11/16/2010 6:53 pm

Right Wing Leftovers

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Tuesday, 10/26/2010 5:39 pm
  • Carly Fiorina has been admitted to a hospital for treatment of an infection but is expected recover quickly and and return to the campaign trail soon.

  • John Fund calls Dick Morris "the most amoral political consultant in the country."

  • Tom DeLay's trial for allegedly illegally funneling corporate money to help elect Republicans to the Texas Legislature has finally begun.

  • Alan Keyes and Wiley Drake lose another round in the Birther lawsuit.

  • Finally, the quote of the day from Bryan Fischer: "Child tax credits should be extended only to married couples with children, but not to children in any other domestic arrangement. Nobody is going to force anybody to get married, but cohabiting couples will quickly learn that there are financial costs as well as emotional and relational costs to shacking up. If they want to bear those costs on their own, fine. Just don’t expect taxpayers to reward your irresponsibility."

For $10, You Can Watch Palin Shill for Newsmax

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Wednesday, 10/6/2010 10:07 am

Starting on Tuesday, October 12, Sarah Palin will be joining Dick Morris, Michael Reagan, Grover Norquist, and others for a series of exclusive Newmax pre-election webcasts:

On Oct. 12, you will begin a journey with a webcast event featuring an exclusive interview with Governor Sarah Palin. The journey will continue right through Election Day — Nov. 2.

In our series of special webcasts you will hear Governor Palin, Fox News analyst Dick Morris, famed political commentator Michael Reagan, America's foremost anti-tax activist Grover Norquist, Newsmax CEO Christopher Ruddy, and a powerful lineup of America's most informed and influential experts.

Sign up below for our "Make America Great Again" program to discuss the issues that affect your family, your country, and your very freedom . . .

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* Receive Brief Clips of the Exclusive Interviews With Governor Palin, Dick Morris, Mike Reagan, and the Entire Lineup of Important Guests — These video clips will be provided after the original airing dates, but will contain some of the most important topics Governor Palin and the guests will address.

* Limited Access to the “Make America Great Again” Attendee Website —You will be able to view select videos and articles. Plus, you can still take part in some live blogs and discussions with your fellow attendees.

* Breaking News E-mail Alerts and Interview Briefings — We will keep you well informed on the most important issues affecting you and your family.

Americans for Prosperity funnels big money, activist anger into attacks on House Democrats

Submitted by Peter Montgomery on Saturday, 8/28/2010 8:30 am

Americans for Prosperity, the “grassroots” Tea Party organization funded by anti-government billionaires, is one of several right-wing groups that glommed on to Glenn Beck’s decision to bring the Tea Party crowd to Washington, D.C. With help from the Koch family, AFP has grown rapidly. In the words of Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell, AFP has grown in a few years from “an idea in a New York apartment” into a network with 32 chapter and more than a million activists. AFP’s Tim Phillips told the 2500 activists (their number) at the “Defending the American Dream Summit” on Friday that “we’re going to take back Washington for two days and we’re going to take back our country over the next few years.” 

During the plenary session and in workshops, AFP speakers insisted that the organization was nonpartisan and will not endorse candidates, disclaimers that seemed like a micro-thin veneer of legalese over plans to pour millions of dollars into attacks on Democratic House candidates between now and November. In fact, the group’s November is Coming! campaign is targeting 40-50 House races where they can “make a difference.” Here’s part of the message it asks voters to sign:
 
Dear Policymakers, Elected Officials, and Candidates: You know that November is coming and voters care about the issues. Left-wing policies continue to drive Obama’s agenda for even bigger government. We want you to oppose big government programs or any other freedom-killing policies or we will remember in November.
 
November is Coming includes a publicity-seeking bus tour, and AFP is recruiting activists to engage in door to door “voter education” efforts and make phone calls from home into targeted districts using a sophisticated computer phonebanking system. The calls and visits aren’t about telling people to vote for, AFP says, it’s just doing people the service of letting them know how their representatives voted on issues like health care, cap and trade legislation, and stimulus spending. You can see some of the ads on AFP's You Tube channel.
 
AFP group used Colorado as a test case for the November is Coming model, and has held organizing meetings in 20 cities since June. Among its targets in Colorado: Reps. Betsy Markey, Ed Perlmutter, and John Salazar. Campaign organizers showed ads attacking candidates for being in league with Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi, and said they are currently running a $330,000 ad buy attacking Markey.
 
Political consultant Dick Morris predicted that the GOP would take control over both Houses after the November elections and promised big attacks on public employee unions and a showdown over government spending. He told the crowd that there would be another government shutdown, like in 1995 and 1996, but this time he’d be on their side, and this time they’d win.
 
 

Dismantling the Right Wing Campaign Against Elena Kagan

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Friday, 6/11/2010 3:30 pm

Our latest Right Wing Watch In Focus in now available and it examines the Right's plan of attack against Elena Kagan and her nomination to the Supreme Court.

It explains how, from the very moment Justice John Paul Stevens announced his retirement, the Right was vowing to fight any nominee that President Obama put forward to replace him, without even having any idea who it might be, even though they knew that probably would not be able to defeat them. 

So when President Obama nominated Elena Kagan, they swung into action, raising concerns about her so-called "radicalism": 

The right-wing's routine charges of "radicalism" have settled into a tight little rhetorical circle which leaves no room for actual facts or logic. Here's how it goes: because Obama is dangerously radical, anybody he appoints to anything should be assumed to be radical. And the fact that he is appointing radicals just proves how radically radical he himself is.

While any Supreme Court nominee would draw close scrutiny from across the legal and political spectrum, including someone with Kagan's widely acknowledged intellect and her academic and public service credentials, those who were ready to scream "radical" no matter what the facts might actually be have been screaming about Kagan's alleged radicalism:

  • Fox pundit Sean Hannity said "her background is strident radical left like the president's."
  • Robert Knight of the Coral Ridge Ministries charged that the nomination was Obama's "in your face" selection of a "radical lawyer."
  • FRC's Perkins decried Kagan as an "ideological twin" to President Obama and said her "ultimate agenda" is "to reshape the court with a profoundly radical bent."
  • Focus on the Family's Tom Minnery calls her nomination "a triumph for liberal ideology and judicial activism."
  • And this from the Traditional Values Coalition's Andrea Sheldon Lafferty: "President Obama's pick of Elena Kagan demonstrates his willingness to subvert the Constitution for his personal agenda and impose his leftist ideology on our nation for the next 30 to 40 years."
  • Vision America's Rick Scarborough, in a piece called Elena Kagan and the War Against Christianity, calls her nomination "the latest step toward the moral abyss for America." He calls Kagan "a doctrinaire radical leftist with a written disdain for the Constitution of the United States…."
  • David McIntosh, co-founder of the Federalist Society, criticized Obama for nominating "an individual who has demonstrated a lack of adherence to the limits of the Constitution and a desire to utilize the court system to enact her beliefs of social engineering.

Those pushing the radical charges won't hear anything else. Sean Hannity asked former Clinton advisor Dick Morris, "So is this just another Obama radical being elevated to the highest levels of our government?" But when Morris repeatedly told Hannity that Kagan had been a moderate-to-conservative voice in the Clinton administration, and predicted based on his experience working with her that she would be a moderate voice on the Court, Hannity would hear nothing of it, cutting Morris off to insist "no way."

This was, of course, just one part of a multi-faceted strategy of lies that the Right has undertaken as they try anything and everything in an effort to sink Kagan's nomination - so be sure to read the entire report to understand how Republicans and the Right are trying to use this issue to boost their political standing.

Right Wing Round-Up

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Thursday, 8/6/2009 5:38 pm
  • Jim Burroway is not buying Exodus' spin on the APA’s resolution against sexual orientation change efforts and Good As You isn't buying claims form other ex-gay advocates that the APA ignored research that shows sexual orientation is changeable through therapy.

  • Autumn Sandeen justifiably wonders how she became Peter LaBarbera's poster child for "Obama Tranny-Care."

  • David Weigel: A new poll from the Pew Research Center finds that 28 percent of Americans believe that there’s been “too little” coverage of “allegations that President Obama was not born in the United States” — including a plurality, 39 percent, of self-identified Republicans.

  • If you are rich and stupid, then Jerome Corsi's RED ALERT is for you!

  • Dick Morris and G. Gordon Liddy continue to demonstrate that they are despicable human beings.

  • I highly doubt that we'll be seeing the Religious Right trumpet this new poll considering that it dramatically undermines their new favorite claims that the majority of Americans have suddenly become anti-choice.

Right Wing Round-Up

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Tuesday, 6/30/2009 5:42 pm
  • Good As You smartly asks when the Associated Press will start caring about the way OneNewsNow misuses its articles.

  • Vanity Fair examines Sarah Palin's disastrous VP run and tries to understand ""why did so many skilled veterans of the Republican Party—long regarded as the more adroit team in presidential politics—keep loyally working for her election even after they privately realized she was casual about the truth and totally unfit for the vice-presidency?"

  • Think Progress notes that Rep. Michelle Bachmann might have a legitimate reason to fear the Census.

  • Media Matters reports that Dick Morris has fully joined the black helicopter crowd.

  • Steve Benen points out that its hard to find common ground with anti-choice activists when they are against every effort to find common ground.

  • The Southern Poverty Law Center reports that Mississippi State Sen. Lydia Chassaniol was the "surprise guest" at the Council of Conservative Citizens' annual conference, where she was introduced as “the right hand to the Governor [Haley Barbour].”

Right Wing Round-Up

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Tuesday, 3/24/2009 5:57 pm
  • AU's Rob Boston is not impressed by Newt Gingrich's new attempt to refashion himself as a moral leader who can renew America, saying "it looks to me like he’s ready to play the Religious Right for saps once again. Will its leaders and members fall for it this time? Probably."

  • John Hagee delivered a petition signed by more than "100,000 American Christians" in support of Israel to Capitol Hill, where he met with Rep. Shelley Berkley (D- IN) and Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ).

  • Andrew Sullivan points to a new study debunking the stereotype that gays are wealthier than other Americans.

  • Media Matters catches Dick Morris floating a rather convoluted conspiracy theory.

  • Amanda Terkel succinctly explains the blindsiding she received at the hands of Bill O'Reilly and his crew: "I write a blog post highlighting comments O’Reilly made during his radio show. He sends his henchmen to harass me. I can’t immediately recall a three-year old O’Reilly interview when accosted on the street. He refuses to explain or apologize for implying that a dead rape victim should have been expecting the crime. And I’m the villain." She'll be on Olbermann tonight to disucss it.

Huckabee, Santorum, Corsi Show Up in New Anti-Obama DVD

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Tuesday, 10/28/2008 5:55 pm

The Associated Press reports that Rick Santorum, Mike Huckabee, Ken Blackwell, Jerome Corsi, and others all make an appearance in a new anti-Obama DVD produced by Citizens United that is set to be included with newspapers in swing states just before the election:

Readers of Ohio's three largest newspapers, along with papers in Florida and Nevada, are finding an anti-Barack Obama DVD in editions this week.

Citizens United, a conservative advocacy group based in Washington, plans to release a 95-minute film in the five swing-state publications to highlight Obama's record on abortion rights, foreign policy and his past associations, including his relationship with former pastor Rev. Jermiah Wright. The group said it planned to spend more than $1 million to distribute about 1.25 million copies of "Hype: The Obama Effect."

"We think it's a truthful attack. People can take it anyway they want," said David Bossie, Citizens United's president.

Readers of The Columbus Dispatch received their copy Tuesday. The Cincinnati Enquirer, The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer, The Palm Beach (Fla.) Post and the Las Vegas Review-Journal are scheduled to receive them in coming days.

The film raises questions about Obama's political base in Chicago and questions the media's reporting on Obama.

Among those interviewed are conservative columnist Robert Novak, former Clinton strategist-turned-pundit Dick Morris and former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum and discredited Obama critic Jerome Corsi also give interviews.

Robertson Sees Self in Huckabee—But Still Prefers Giuliani

Submitted by Anonymous on Thursday, 12/13/2007 2:28 pm

Conservative Christian activists in Iowa are playing a key role in the sudden success of Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, through groups like the Iowa Christian Alliance, the Iowa Family Policy Institute, and now the Iowa Pastors Coalition. It was Pat Robertson’s quixotic presidential run in 1988 that first developed the Religious Right as a political force in that early-caucus state—indeed, the Iowa Christian Alliance used to be the Christian Coalition of Iowa, a chapter of the national group Robertson founded after the campaign with his hard-won mailing lists.

So it’s hard not to compare Huckabee’s rise to Robertson’s strong second-place finish in the caucuses (ahead of George H.W. Bush, the eventual nominee). Huckabee, like Robertson ordained as a Baptist minister, shares Robertson’s views on social issues, and he even had a brief career in televangelism, working for culture warrior James Robison.

But the connection between the two men will apparently stop at that, since this year, Robertson has already endorsed Rudy Giuliani, citing terrorism as reason to ignore differences over abortion and gay marriage.

So when Robertson brought commentator Dick Morris on the “700 Club” Tuesday to wax nostalgic over how similar Huckabee’s run is to Robertson’s, the two were sure to bring it back in the end to the importance of eventually nominating Giuliani.

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Right Wing Round-Up - 2/7/13
SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Thursday 02/07/2013, 6:32pm
PFAW: PFAW Urges Senate to Turn Attention to Long-Vacant Appeals Court Seats. Steve Benen @ The Maddow Blog: A political test emerges in Georgia. Josh Feldmam @ Mediaite: Bill O’Reilly Bizarrely Claims NBC Hasn’t Reported On Drone Strike Memo, Even Though NBC Broke The Story. David Weigel: Four Hilarious Lies in Dick Morris's Sit-Down With Piers Morgan. Zack Ford @ Think Progress: How The ‘Scouts’ Safety’ Argument Reveals Conservatives’ Complete Anti-Gay Agenda. MORE >
Right Wing Round-Up - 2/6/13
SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Wednesday 02/06/2013, 6:33pm
Drew Courtney @ Huffington Post: Bad News for the Right: There Already Are Gays in the Boy Scouts. Andrew Padgett @ Political Research Associates: In Lamb’s Clothing: The Agenda of Latino Evangelical Rev. Samuel Rodriguez. Ben Dimiero & Eric Hananoki @ Media Matters:  So Wrong, So Long: Dick Morris' Unethical Career At Fox News. Robin Marty @ RH Reality Check: Alabama Senator Wants to Ban Abortion Because The Bible Tells Him So. Steve Benen @ The Maddow Blog: Virginia is for lovers of their own currency. David Edwards @ Raw Story: Idaho lawmaker... MORE >
Right Wing Round-Up - 1/7/13
SUBMITTED BY: Brian Tashman, Monday 01/07/2013, 6:55pm
Steve Benen @ Maddow Blog: Disaster relief for me, not for thee.  Alex Pareene @ Salon: The conservative movement is still an elaborate moneymaking venture. David Corn @ Mother Jones: The “Smoking Gun” Memo That Triggered the FreedomWorks feud.  Ben Dimiero & Eric Hananoki @ Media Matters: Lawyers for Dick Morris Reportedly Confirm Super PAC Fundraising Scheme.  Zack Ford @ Think Progress: Pentagon Claims LGBT Sites Are Blocked For ‘Operational Security Reasons.’ Jeremy Hooper @ Good As You: With trial beginning,... MORE >
Right Wing Leftovers - 1/7/13
SUBMITTED BY: Brian Tashman, Monday 01/07/2013, 6:45pm
WorldNetDaily has really outdone itself by attacking Neil Patrick Harris for starring in an ad for the Super Bowl…which must mean he is mocking Tim Tebow and pushing the “gay agenda”! Dick Morris continues to be hilariously delusional.  Absolutely stunned that Fox News deceptively edited a speech by President Obama to attack him on gun policy.  Just a mere eight percent of Americans identify as Tea Party members, but that won’t stop Tea Party groups and politicians from claiming they speak for the majority of Americans. ... MORE >
Right Wing Round-Up - 12/10/12
SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Monday 12/10/2012, 6:43pm
Anjali Sareen @ Mediaite: George Will: ‘Quite Literally, The Opposition To Gay Marriage Is Dying.’ Dispatches From the Culture Wars: David Horowitz Loses His Cool. Paul Waldman @ The American Prospect: Dick Morris, Con Artist. Asawin Suebsaeng @ Mother Jones: Controversial Anti-Abortion, Pro-Creationism Evangelist Makes a John Lennon Movie. Scott Keyes @ Think Progress: Sore Loser Allen West: My Opponent Only Won Because He Cheated. MORE >
Right Wing Leftovers
SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Monday 03/21/2011, 5:49pm
Hey, guess what? Tim Pawlenty is running for president. Police wanted to charge many of those involved in helping Rifqa Bary run away with crimes, but prosecutors have refused to do so. Herman Cain says the race card has expired.  Good to know. Wow, Donald Trump is just a joke. Janet Porter is hosting a "Heartbeat Bill Summit" on April 4. Speaking of Porter, she has this to say about the earthquake in Japan: "Another type of darkness in Japan should be of great concern to us. That’s the spiritual darkness that covers this island... MORE >
Right Wing Round-Up
SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Tuesday 11/16/2010, 6:53pm
Michael B. Keegan @ Huffington Post: Known Unknowns: The Power of Secret Money in the 2010 Elections. Stephanie Mencimer @ Mother Jones: The Coming Tea Party Civil War. Jillian Rayfield @ TPM: Lisa Murkowski Says Sarah Palin Is No Leader, Lacks 'Intellectual Curiosity.' Steve Benen: House Republican wants his government-subsidized health care now. The Advocate: Lesbians Stopped From Graduating. Sarah Posner @ Religion Dispatches: Robertson’s Organizations Persist in Calls for Probe of Congressional Muslim Staffers. Bradford Plumer @ TNR: Dick... MORE >
Right Wing Leftovers
SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Tuesday 10/26/2010, 5:39pm
Carly Fiorina has been admitted to a hospital for treatment of an infection but is expected recover quickly and and return to the campaign trail soon. John Fund calls Dick Morris "the most amoral political consultant in the country." Tom DeLay's trial for allegedly illegally funneling corporate money to help elect Republicans to the Texas Legislature has finally begun. Alan Keyes and Wiley Drake lose another round in the Birther lawsuit. Finally, the quote of the day from Bryan Fischer: "Child tax credits should be extended only to married couples... MORE >