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Rush Limbaugh, Anti-Science, Climate Change Denial, Idiocy, Right Wing
YouTube Video Pat Robertson has been saying some surprising things; recently he came out in favor of legalizing marijuana, and today Right Wing Watch notes this section of his TV show 700 Club in which we learn, to our astonishment, that although he believes scientists should not "speculate about the origins ...
Pat Robertson, Anti-Science, Creationism, Science, Religious Right
On the Stephen Colbert show, here's young earth creationist Don McLeroy, the fanatic appointed to the Texas State Board of Education by Rick Perry, and subject of many a post at LGF. Weep for the future of America, because McLeroy's stunning anti-science ignorance may seem extreme, but it's not unusual ...
Stephen Colbert, Don McLeroy, Creationism, Evolution, Anti-Science, Right Wing, Republican Party, Education
In a column for the Philadelphia Inquirer, Rick Santorum proves again that he is probably the dumbest, most determinedly ignorant right winger ever to run for President, with an attack on evolution and global warming that's absolutely breathtaking in its mindless hostility toward science: The Elephant in the Room: Challenging ...
Rick Santorum, Anti-Science, Evolution, Global Warming, Right Wing, Deliberate Ignorance, Religious Right, Bad Craziness
Rachel Maddow's interview with leading Republican climate change denier Sen. James Inhofe is a real jaw-dropper. Inhofe tells an amazing amount of lies about climate science and global warming, but perhaps the most outrageous claim he makes is that science curriculum in public schools should be determined not by scientists, ...
Rachel Maddow, James Inhofe, Climate Change Denial, Global Warming, Anti-Science, Republican Party
President Obama let the right wing anti-science mob have it today: Obama Compares Republicans to 'Flat Earth Society' for Stance on Green Energy. This is excellent. More, please. President Obama blasted his Republican critics Thursday for their resistance to investing in alternative energy sources, comparing their stance to the beliefs of ...
President Obama, Republican Party, Green Energy, Anti-Science, Deliberate Ignorance, Flat Earth, Luddites
Again, religious fanatic, creationist, and climate change denier Rick Santorum provides the best measure of the dangerously irresponsible disconnect between the American right wing and reality. "The dangers of carbon dioxide? Tell that to a plant, how dangerous carbon dioxide is," said Rick Santorum. Santorum is sneering at a physical ...
Republican Party, Anti-Science, Rick Santorum, Election 2012, Climate Change, Global Warming, Climate Change Denial
Worried penguins via Shutterstock Right Wing Watch posted this last week, and I should have mentioned it before because it really is remarkable. One of the main Republican spokespersons for the anti-science climate change denial movement, Sen. James Inhofe, pretty much came right out and admitted that the reason why he ...
Global Warming, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, James Inhofe, Anti-Science, Republican Party
As recently revealed in the leaked documents from the Heartland Institute, the climate change denial front group (with financial aid from energy industries) is producing a "global warming curriculum" for public schools, to indoctrinate children with the false notion that climate science isn't settled, and that there's nothing to worry ...
Global Warming, Climate Change, Heartland Institute, Denial, Corruption, Right Wing, Anti-Science, Education
Environmentalist Peter Gleick, president of the Pacific Institute, has an article at the Huffington Post in which he admits he is the source of the leaked Heartland Institute documents -- but Gleick denies making changes to any documents: The Origin of the Heartland Documents. This explains why the timestamp on the ...
Global Warming, Climate Change, Heartland Institute, Denial, Corruption, Right Wing, Anti-Science, Denialgate
Here's the email forwarded to me today by Jim Lakely, the Heartland Institute's director of communications, threatening me with legal action because I wrote a post about the leaked Heartland documents: February 18, 2012 Mr. Charles Johnson Editor Little Green Footballs Re: Stolen and Faked Heartland Documents [Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...] Dear Mr. Johnson: It has come to our ...
Global Warming, Climate Change, Heartland Institute, Denial, Corruption, Right Wing, Anti-Science, Denialgate
Emissions via Shutterstock There's more today on those devastating internal documents from the Heartland Institute; Heartland has confirmed that they were mistakenly emailed by a staff member. The Heartland Institute has confirmed in a prepared statement that it mistakenly emailed its board materials to an anonymous third party - confirming the ...
Global Warming, Climate Change, Heartland Institute, Denial, Corruption, Right Wing, Anti-Science, Denialgate
Wow, this is huge -- DeSmogBlog is releasing a cache of documents revealing the secret anti-science schemes of climate change denial front group The Heartland Institute: Heartland Institute Exposed: Internal Documents Unmask Heart of Climate Denial Machine. Internal Heartland Institute strategy and funding documents obtained by DeSmogBlog expose the heart ...
Global Warming, Climate Change, Heartland Institute, Denial, Corruption, Right Wing, Anti-Science
The thing about Rick Santorum is that he's genuine. He really believes that anti-science reactionary bullshit he spouts. He's not just saying it to get elected, unlike Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich. The reactionary Republican base senses this genuineness; they see Santorum as one of them. And this has now catapulted ...
Republican Party, Election 2012, Rick Santorum, Religious Right, Anti-Science, Poll
I commented yesterday that it was almost unbelievable how crazy the right wing rhetoric is getting, and here's yet another example from reactionary candidate Rick Santorum, speaking in Oklahoma and telling the crowd that the science of global warming is a myth, now totally disproven and rotting in the dustbin ...
Rick Santorum, Anti-Science, Global Warming, Climate Change, Fracking, Bad Craziness, Republican Party, Atavism
I just want to make sure Andrew Breitbart's endorsement of the utterly bogus "Climategate" nontroversy doesn't go unnoticed: Did you H8 how EastAnglia emails proved leftists - as in academia, Hollywood, #Occupy - use intimidation to create 'consensus'? @Lizardoid — AndrewBreitbart (@AndrewBreitbart) January 5, 2012 This could serve as a case study ...
Andrew Breitbart, Climategate, Global Warming, Climate Change, Anti-Science
I'm seeing news reports like this nearly every day, as the Republican Party sinks ever deeper into nihilistic science-denial: Pair of NASA studies reaffirm impact of global warming. In recent research, Mr. Hansen and co-author Makiko Sato, also of Goddard Institute for Space Studies, compared the climate of today, the ...
Global Warming, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Methane, glaciers, Anti-Science
In a town hall meeting in Iowa, Rick Perry was confronted by audience members over his support for the environmental disaster of "fracking" and his opposition to gays serving openly in the military. It's a picture of determined right wing ignorance again; Perry completely denied the scientific evidence that fracking can ...
Rick Perry, Republican Party, Election 2012, Bigotry, Religious Right, Anti-Gay, Anti-Science, Fracking, DADT
In order to keep his status as current frontrunner among the GOP candidates, it's vital for Newt Gingrich to convince the right wing base that he's just as ignorant about climate change as the other GOP candidates, despite the fact that in the past he clearly had a grain or ...
newt gingrich, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Dishonesty, Republican Party, Anti-Science
Rick Santorum is infamous as one of the most determined religious fanatics in US politics, an activist who believes Christian creationism should be taught to all American children in science classes, and a persistent Republican advocate for injecting fundamentalist Christian religion into the political process at every level. Speaking at the ...
Rick Santorum, Anti-Science, Republican Party, Homophobia, Right Wing, Religious Right, Bad Craziness
Remember when GOP presidential candidate Jon Huntsman called out his Republican opponents for rejecting the science of evolution and climate change? That was just last August. In the three months since then, he's apparently decided to throw in his lot with the anti-science wing of the GOP. Speaking today at the ...
Jon Huntsman, Climate Change, Global Warming, Climategate, Fake Outrage, Anti-Science, Republican Party, Heritage Foundation
Just to drive home the point that the Republican Party has become the anti-science bad craziness party, Michele Bachmann came out today and joined Rick Santorum in calling for creationism to be taught in public school science classes. BACHMANN: I think what you’re advocating for is censorship on the part ...
Evolution, Creationism, Michele Bachmann, Anti-Science, Bad Craziness, Intelligent Design, Fundamentalism, Establishment Clause
Forget everything you thought you knew about Michele Bachmann. Forget her claim that census data could be used to put people in concentration camps. Forget her crazy claim that Planned Parenthood is setting up "sex clinics" in schools, with free abortions for 13-year old girls. Forget her fanatical fundamentalism, and her bizarre claim ...
Michele Bachmann, Bad Craziness, Creationism, Fanaticism, Far Right, Homophobia, Anti-Science, Anti-Choice
David Frum has a long piece in New York Magazine today, plaintively asking the question: When Did the GOP Lose Touch With Reality? It's an interesting read, a cry for help and a plea for the GOP to return to sanity, but it's also a complete waste of time. The Republican ...
Republican Party, Extremism, Bad Craziness, David Frum, Anti-Science, Anti-Reality
The Republican candidates are performing another debate-like charade today in Iowa, hosted by the extreme religious right group Family Leader. Oddly enough, the two Mormons among the GOP field decided to sit this one out. There's a live video feed here.
Dominionism, Fanaticism, Creationism, Anti-Science, Anti-Gay, Religious Right, Extremism, Iowa, Family Leader, Debate, Republican Party, Anti-Choice