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June 9, 2023 4:37 pm
Right Wing Bonus Tracks: Vote For The Pardon
Charlie Kirk declares that every Republican presidential candidate “should suspend their campaign and go to Miami as a show of support” for former President Donald Trump in the wake of his latest indictment. Shane Vaughn says Christians must now unite to reelect Trump so that he can pardon himself: “If he has to take his […]
June 8, 2023 5:19 pm
Right Wing Round-Up: Everything Is Woke
Greg Sargent @ The Washington Post: How Pat Robertson created today’s Christian nationalist GOP. Hemant Mehta @ The Friendly Atheist: What we can learn from the disgraceful life of Pat Robertson. Decca Muldowney @ The Daily Beast: How Far-Right Extremists Are Targeting Pro-LGBT Schools. Hunter Walker @ Talking Points Memo: Moms For Liberty Co-Founders Use […]
June 8, 2023 5:17 pm
Right Wing Bonus Tracks: The Worst Thing on the Planet
Mario Murillo declares that conservative Christians “must speak out against the direct persecution of the Christian faith and the wholesale upending of the Bill of Rights. I am talking about exposing the government plans to shut down the Church and ban the Gospel.” Stew Peters asserts that “being gay is the worst thing on the […]
June 8, 2023 4:32 pm
Pat Robertson: Religious Right Icon Dies, Leaves Harmful Legacy
Pat Robertson, who was a central player in religious-right broadcasting and politics for decades, died on Thursday. As People For the American Way President Svante Myrick noted, “Pat Robertson was a key figure in the rise of the authoritarian religious-right political movement. He helped build the movement’s massive media, legal, and political infrastructure, which today […]
June 8, 2023 2:07 pm
Pat Robertson’s Toxic Legacy
Televangelist Pat Robertson was a founder of the religious-right political movement and an icon of its media; as such, he was a staple of Right Wing Watch’s coverage for decades. Even after he was no longer a powerhouse in right-wing politics, Robertson continued to use his media platform to promote the kind of toxic rhetoric that has become standard among […]
June 7, 2023 5:23 pm
Right Wing Round-Up: God’s Moral Law
SPLC: The Year in Hate & Extremism 2022. Payton Armstrong @ Media Matters: Right-wing pastor Tom Ascol criticizes Ted Cruz for condemning Uganda’s anti-LGBTQ law and claims such laws are not “wrong” because God created them. Steve Benen @ The Maddow Blog: Trump ups the ante, condemns ‘fascists’ in U.S. law enforcement. Nick Visser @ […]
June 7, 2023 5:20 pm
Right Wing Bonus Tracks: A Survivor
Jeanine Pirro was scheduled to appear at a Christian nationalist “FlashPoint” event this week, but Fox News has reportedly prohibited her from doing so. So now, FlashPoint is accusing Fox of engaging in “cancel culture.” Andrew Torba says that letting women vote “destroyed the country”: “Democracy is when mentally ill liberal women elect other mentally […]
June 7, 2023 1:57 pm
Fascism First: Nick Fuentes and The Spread of Authoritarian Political Ideology On MAGA’s Right Flank
When Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene spoke at the America First Political Action Conference in 2022, she justified her decision to address the gathering of white nationalists by insisting that her mission was to give guidance to a group of “young conservatives who feel cast aside and marginalized by society.” If AFPAC attendees “feel cast aside […]
June 6, 2023 5:24 pm
Right Wing Round-Up: A Suspicious Flood
Katelyn Polantz, Jeremy Herb and Kaitlan Collins @ CNN: Mar-a-Lago pool flood raises suspicions among prosecutors in Trump classified documents case. Alex Griffing @ Mediaite: Bannon Goes to War With House Republicans, Wants Primary Opponents for MTG, Jim Jordan, and Others Over Debt Vote. Kyndall Cunningham @ The Daily Beast: How Comedian Blaire Erskine Made […]
June 6, 2023 5:22 pm
Right Wing Bonus Tracks: Not Rewritten, Just Adjusted
Far-right anti-Islam activist John Guandolo announced via email that his Understanding The Threat organization has shut down. Kandiss Taylor bragging that “the majority of the people that have been put into GOP chair positions, officer positions, delegate positions, [and] district positions are my supporters” ought to tell you all you need to know about the […]