Our review of what we heard from the far right in 2012 includes the requisite ignorance, intolerance and verbal gay-bashing that’s still so prevalent in those quarters. You can read more quotes from 2012 and previous years here. “We don’t think that there are any such students.” — Dr. Michael Farris, Patrick Henry College’s founder […]
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2012 in Quotes: Anti-Obama Derangement Syndrome
With 2012 being an important election year, the far right was awash in over-the-top diatribes aimed at President Barack Obama. The level of irrational rhetoric directed at the president seemed to rise as the year dragged on and the election drew closer. In fact, the election results seemed to send some on the right into […]
2012 in Quotes: Church, State and Science
Whether on prayer in public schools or creationism in science classrooms, we heard plenty from politicians and activists who see no problem mixing religion and state. Our review of what the far right had to say in 2012 continues. You can read more quotes from 2012 and previous years here. “In 1962 we kicked prayer […]
The Texas Link in a Revealing Right-Wing/Tea Party Crack-Up
The Washington Post has a fascinating piece out on the bizarre civil war within FreedomWorks, the right-wing “tea party” organization based in the nation’s capital. More and more, we see a “tea party” movement guided by Ayn Rand groupies and wealthy corporate interests, not a supposed “grassroots” rising of small-government freedom lovers. Of course, it’s […]
2012 in Quotes: Neanderthal Edition II
As we continue our review of what we heard from the far right in 2012, check out more outrageous notions about abortion, birth control and sex. You can read more quotes from 2012 and previous years here. “Republicans being against sex is not good. Sex is popular.” — Alex Castellanos, a GOP strategist, on his […]
