Right Wing

• PFAW: Violence Never An Option Against Peaceful Protests.

 

• Adam Serwer @ Mother Jones: Top Romney Adviser Tied to Militia That Massacred.

 

• Lee Fang @ Think Progress: Herman Cain Campaign Policy For Staff: ‘Do Not Speak To Him Unless You Are Spoken To.’

 

• Pema Levy @ The American Prospect: Moment of Conception.

 

• Warren Throckmorton: The Jones and Yarhouse study: What does it mean?

• Wayne Besen @ Truth Wins Out: The Most Homophobic Woman in America.

 

• Think Progress LGBT: Rick Perry Slams Romney For Changing His Position On LGBT Rights ‘At Age 50 Or 60.′

 

• Thomas Lane @ TPM: No Apology From Rush Limbaugh For Defending ‘Christian’ Terrorists.

 

• Jim Burroway @ Box turtle Bulletin: Eleven or Thirteen More Dead Gay Kids Ought To Do It.

 

• Leah Nelson @ Hatewatch: The Crying Shariah Game: Groups Protest Hotel Cancellations.

 

• Joseph Conn @ Church and State: Dominionism And Democracy.

Last night on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, host Jon Stewart drew attention to Pat Robertson’s claim, first reported by Right Wing Watch, that the Republican base is pushing the GOP presidential candidates to take such extreme positions that they may jeopardize their prospects in the general election. After playing a montage of Robertson’s own radical beliefs, Stewart noted that Robertson didn’t disagree with the Republican field, he simply didn’t want the candidates to advertise their far-right views: “Not the things you are saying or wrong or bad policy or callous or crazy, but that you’re right, but let’s just keep those our little secret,” Stewart said, “What he’s telling the GOP field is this, if you tell people what you honestly believe, an electoral majority of those people will freak the f--- out. He’s saying the first rule of Right Club--don’t talk about Right Club.”  

Watch Robertson here:

• "The 700 Club" profiled Janet Porter's Heartbeat Bill on today's broadcast.

 

• Want to learn Chuck Norris' secret to spiritual success? You are in luck.

 

• Scott Lively writes another open letter to the gay community.

 

• Bryan Fischer declares that, with the release of his tax plan, Rick Perry "will win the Republican nomination and vanquish Barack Obama next November."

 

• Choice4Life announces that "eleven women from seven states will be recognized as heroes for saving the life of their rape conceived babies" at an awards ceremony next month.

 

• Finally, this is a real ad from the Herman Cain campaign:

• Herman Cain seems to believe that the number "45" holds specific significance for his life.

 

• The media finally notices that Michele Bachamnn has a tendency to just make things up.

 

• On a related note, Bachmann's campaign is so dysfunctional that staffers have to publicly release letters announcing that they have quit her campaign.

 

• Rick Joyner does not seem particularly enamored with any of the GOP candidates.

 

• The Florida Family Association is going after Target for advertising on a show on a channel that also airs ads for The Trevor Helpline, which seeks to prevent suicides among gay youth. Seriously.

 

• Finally, Bryan Fischer interviews Kirk Cameron.  You are welcome.

• Tanya Somanader @ Think Progress Justice: Herman Cain Compares Social Security To Slavery.

 

• Eric Hananoki @ County Fair: Pat Buchanan Won't Disavow Idea That Minorities Have Inferior Genes.

 

• Joe My God: Dominionism & The Mayor Of Vallejo CA.

 

• Jillian Rayfield @ TPM: GOPer Apologizes For Saying A Woman Should Be ‘A Whore’ In the Bedroom.

 

• Kevin Drum @ Mother Jones: Rich People Create Jobs! And five other myths that must die for our economy to live.

 

• Sarah Posner @ Religion Dispatches: Dems' New Faith Outreach Director "Pro-Life" and Against Marriage Equality.

As Right Wing Watch reported earlier this week, Tea Party Nation sent out to its members an email alert from member Melissa Brookstone calling on businesses to pledge to “not hire a single person” as a way to undermine President Obama.

Now, Tea Party Nation president Judson Phillips is responding to the inevitable backlash. In an email today, Phillips writes that the boycott was just one idea of many from Tea Party members and accuses those who have decried the idea of trying to stifle free speech. The progressive backlash to Brookstone’s proposal, Phillips writes, proves that “liberalism is incompatible with liberty”:

We conservatives believe in the free market of ideas. We are not afraid of ideas. We debate ideas. We like ideas. Liberals do not like ideas because they are threatened by them.

…

At Tea Party Nation, we often talk about the need to defeat liberalism. Both stories are examples of why liberalism is incompatible with liberty and why it must be defeated. Liberalism is about the control of speech and thought and the suppression of any belief that does not agree with the liberal orthodoxy. Liberty means that we debate ideas and let the free market of ideas decide which one’s have merit and which ideas do not.

Tea Party Nation also sent a rambling message about the controversy from Brookstone herself, who claims that her article (which can be read here in its entirety) was taken “out of context” and that the “socialist left” raised “a literal crap storm aimed at me.” She goes on to say that now she is a victim of terrorism and that the left “seeks only to control and enslave all of humanity, as its grand goal”:

It must have touched quite a nerve with the socialist left, because it raised a literal crap storm aimed at me.

…

But of course the response from the left has been what it always is from them – to take things out of context, spin, lie and smear with ad hominem attacks, and I've born the brunt of that for the last two days.

But it could be a “blessing in disguise”. If they don't manage to encourage some of their “useful idiots” to actually come and kill me, they may actually direct enough attention towards me, for people to see that I published a book earlier this year, based on the fundamental principles that we should own our own lives ( not be owned by “the collective” ) and that all adult human relationships should be consensual, things that the very philosophy of socialism is firmly against.

…

But the behavior of the left during this whole inquisition they started against me a couple of days ago, only further illustrates the psychological techniques of projection that they indulge in, accusing the opposition of the very things they themselves are doing. One guy called me a “nazi ho”, when in fact the American Nazi Party ( as well as the Socialist Party ) endorsed the “Occupy Wall Street” movement this past weekend?

Smearing me as a “terrorist”, when they post photos of me, as if to encourage people to come after me, with the intent of terrorizing me, “racist” for disagreeing with Obama ( yawn – so old and frankly, boring by now... ), and that we're somehow all idiots because we don't have Harvard degrees, etc... The spinning, taking out of context, smearing and lying that typifies a movement that is devoid of all reason and apparently seeks only to control and enslave all of humanity, as its grand goal.

UPDATE: Stepehn Colbert gave his “tip of the hat” to Tea Party Nation last night, 0:40 into the segment:

• It seems that Sen. Marco Rubio's compelling life story was made so compelling thanks to embellishments and false claims.

 

• Herman Cain continues to demonstrate exactly how easy it is to run for president when you have no qualms about just making stuff up when people start pointing out that you have no idea are talking about.

 

• And Cain can do so because his fans blindly see him as the second-coming of Ronald Reagan.

 

• Rena Lindevalvdsen says "the goal of the activist homosexual agenda is to completely silence or eradicate those who speak and stand for Truth."

 

• Every once in a while, Bryan Fischer manages to outdo even himself with the inanity of his arguments.

 

• Finally, the quote of the day from the Alliance Defense Fund's Brian Raum: "We should not turn a blind eye to the physical and mental harms that people engaged in homosexual conduct bring upon themselves by chalking those harms up to 'stigma, discrimination, and victimization'—demanding more health studies and changes to the medical system—rather than dare ask people to reconsider the path they are traveling down. Instead, we tell them 'it gets better' when, in fact, it does not."

• Matt Barber says that the vandalism against the site of the event hosting Peter LaBarbera's anti-gay conference was "an act of terrorism."

 

• Bryan Fischer tries to set the record straight regarding his views on Mormonism ... oddly, he doesn't bother to mention that he doesn't believe it deserves First Amendment protections.

 

• The Family Research Council is now openly endorsing NARTH's anti-gay pseudo-science.

 

• Looks like Bradlee Dean is now writing pieces for WND.

 

• Finally, after being removed from the Alabama Supreme Court in 2003 for refusing to remove his Ten Commandments monument, Roy Moore is contemplating running for a seat on the court again.