Címke: Radical Right
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At a town hall event in Utah last night, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) warned Tea Party activists that they should work with the GOP, or risk electing liberals:
Tea Party activists in the crowd were not pleased, with one telling Hatch, “I think you guys are as out of touch as you can get.” Tea partiers may also have been offended at being blamed for Merkley’s election in 2008 , despite the fact ...
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16
Wisconsin newspaper The Northwestern reports that a local company recently rented a billboard calling for President Obama’s impeachment. The billboard, which is located on highway 41, reads, “Impeach Obama: America’s Small businesses are failing; help us spread the message.” However, a lawyer representing the company admitted that Obama has committed no impeachable offense :
After receiving...
febr.
12
In Captain America issue 602, the patriotic hero is investigating a right-wing anti-government militia group called “the Watchdogs.” Hoping to infiltrate the group, Captain America and his African-American sidekick, The Falcon, observe an all-white anti-tax protest from a rooftop. The Falcon tells Captain America, “I don’t exactly see a black man from Harlem fitting in with a bunch of angry whit...
dec.
28
The right wing’s predictable policy prescription in the aftermath of any terror incident is to impose greater ethnic profiling of Muslims. For instance, following the Ft. Hood shooting, Sarah Palin said, “ profile away .” After six imams were removed from a plane in Minnesota in 2006, Ann Coulter justified profiling Muslims by arguing that it’s just like “ profiling the Klan .” That same year, aft...
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dec.
15
During today’s AFP-sponsored “ Code Red ” anti-health reform rally on Capitol Hill, one of the speakers — former House Majority Leader and current corporate defender Dick Armey — derided MSNBC host Rachel Maddow. Armey was prepared to introduce Sen. Tom Coburn (whom he bizarrely referred to as “Doc Colbin” a couple of times), but Coburn wasn’t there yet. So instead, he told a story that was a shot...
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dec.
07
Right-wing billionaire David Koch , who along with his brother Charles owns the oil and gas empire Koch Industries, constantly presents himself as a champion of science. Next year, a wing of the Smithsonian will be named after him because of his generous donations. Indeed, in accepting Koch’s donations, the Smithsonian Human Origins Program director Rick Potts attempted to whitewash Koch’s phila...
nov.
06
Last Friday on Fox News, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) announced that she was organizing an anti-health reform rally on Capitol Hill, calling on Americans “literally by the busload to come to Washington D.C.” to protest reform. The next day, Bachmann summoned everyone to “get off the couch, get in your car, get a van together, get a bus together, but get here!” “ We’re going to have a big party ...
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27
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has been taking fire from conservative activists and far-right Republican leaders for endorsing Dede Scozzafava, the moderate GOP candidate running in the special election in New York’s 23rd district. These “purists” — including Sarah Palin, Tim Pawlenty, Dick Armey, and Bill Kristol — are backing Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman, revealing a wider ...
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Twitter has shut down 33 fake accounts created by Connecticut Republicans meant to impersonate Democratic state representatives. According to the Hartford Advocate, the GOP scheme was designed “to send out posts under the Democrats’ names mocking the liberal tax-and-spend bastards .” Twitter strictly forbids impersonation “intended to mislead, confuse or deceive others” on its site. However, the ...
Oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens has in recent years been involved in efforts to develop alternative energy. He has even developed his own energy independence plan, dubbed “ The Pickens Plan ,” which on its website proudly pledges to reduce “ our dependence on foreign oil ” and enhance our national security. Yet in remarks to Congress yesterday, Pickens revealed that he is just as interested as ever ...
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28
Huckabee: Let The United Nations, The ‘International Equivalent Of ACORN,’ Float Into The East River
On Saturday, Mike Huckabee gave the keynote address at Phyllis Schafly’s How To Take Back America conference. Huckabee praised Schafly, calling her book “Choice not an Echo” an inspiration when he was a teenager.
Huckabee spent a considerable amount of his address railing against the United Nations, calling it the “international equivalent of ACORN” and demanding that America should withdraw. A...
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szept.
12
On Thursday, Dick Armey’s FreedomWorks partnered with an anti-health reform group pushing to privatize Medicare to host a Republican rally outside the Capitol. Alongside speakers such as Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) and Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA), Armey proclaimed, “Give me liberty or give me death. Well, Barack Obama is trying to make good on that .”
Speaking to reporters and ThinkProgress after ...
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szept.
10
This Saturday, right-wing protesters will gather in Washington DC for a march to oppose health reform and President Obama. The event, scheduled intentionally on September 12 to coincide with the anniversary of the day following the September 11 terrorist attacks, was conceived largely by Fox News’ Glenn Beck. However, most of the day-to-day organizing has been orchestrated by a now familiar set of...
szept.
07
Johnny Piper, the mayor of Clarksville, TN, recently forwarded an anti-Muslim email urging all “ patriotic Americans ” to protest a U.S. Postal Service stamp that commemorates an Islamic holiday. Piper’s email falsely claims that the creation of the Eid stamp was ordered by President Obama. In fact, the stamp was first issued in 2001 , during the Bush administration. It was reissued in 2002, 20...
aug.
29
After Fox News star Glenn Beck accused President Obama of being a “racist” with a “ deep-seated hatred for white people ,” a drive by Color Of Change has convinced 46 companies to cancel their advertisements on his show. In response, Beck and FoxNews have launched increasingly vicious attacks on White House official Van Jones, who co-founded Color Of Change in 2005 following the devastation ...
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BékiPe:
Szeretnének egy hasonlóan kedvező magyar nyelvtörvényt, ugye?
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Abszurd politikai humor a szomszédból
Bali:
20 vadon élő szibériai tigris van kínában, erre ezek a marhák hagynak éhen halni 11-et. ezek hülyék.
1
11 szibériai tigris halt éhen az állatkertben
aaa:
ez a kép tök olyan, mintha a Félelem és reszketés... lenne magyar változatban
1
frizbi c. musor. letsgodisco: ez mi? vampirolo: via nak
norti:
Subba vendégtopik filmbuzin :D
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Filmbuzi | A Twilight szaga egyik leghíresebb rajongója és az új trailer
Péter:
És még hány évtizednek kell elmúlnia ahhoz, hogy akár csak ennek a fele is megvalósuljon itt...?
1
Gáláns ajánlat a maynoothi Tescóban
Vagabond:
Szep nagy igazsagok vannak benne.
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