Right Wing Round-Up

  • Our latest Right Wing Watch In Focus in now available, entitled “Right Wing Follows Deceptive Script On Supreme Court.”
  • Media Matters catches Bill Donohue saying that Notre Dame giving President Obama an honorary degree “would be like Howard University giving David Duke a degree in racial politics.”
  • Pam reports that the right-wing campaign against Pepsi continues.
  • Tips-Q reports that the Alliance Defense Fund is now claiming that Cleveland’s domestic partner registry is unconstitutional.
  • Steve Benen plainly explains what Judge Sonia Sotomayor meant when she said appeals courts are “where policy is made.”
  • Via Think Progress, we get this clip of RNC Chair Michael Steele embarrassing himself once again.
  • Allow me to second this statement from Good as You in response to Focus on the Family’s assertion that hate crimes legislation creates “special rights” for gays: “YOU ARE PROTECTED ON THE BASIS OF BEING A CHRISTIAN! YOU ARE PROTECTED ON THE BASIS OF BEING A CHRISTIAN! YOU ARE PROTECTED ON THE BASIS OF BEING A CHRISTIAN! YOU ARE PROTECTED ON THE BASIS OF BEING A CHRISTIAN! YOU ARE PROTECTED ON THE BASIS OF BEING A CHRISTIAN! YOU ARE PROTECTED ON THE BASIS OF BEING A CHRISTIAN! YOU ARE PROTECTED ON THE BASIS OF BEING A CHRISTIAN!”
  • Finally, the video we shot of Marion Barry at Harry Jackson’s anti-marriage rally last week showed up on The Daily Show:

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