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The chairman of the House Republican Conference, Mike Pence, speaks out in favor of the race-baiting of Rush Limbaugh and the black helicopter bad craziness of Glenn Beck: Mike Pence: Limbaugh, Beck speak for many Americans. A picture of a political party gone completely off the rails. The GOP is ...
Rush Limbaugh, Racism, race baiting, Glenn Beck, Bad Craziness, Conspiracy Theories, John Birch Society
At last weekend’s Value Voters Summit, attended by top GOP politicians and run by a man (Tony Perkins) who associates with white supremacists like David Duke and the Council of Conservative Citizens, Texas Governor Rick Perry urged the audience to read “The 5,000 Year Leap” by W. Cleon Skousen — ...
Value Voters Summit, Rick Perry, Creationism, Theocracy, Tony Perkins, Cleon Skousen, John Birch Society
Commentary’s Peter Wehner agrees with me: Glenn Beck: Harmful to the Conservative Movement. Also see: About Glenn Beck’s Extremist Rhetoric About Glenn Beck’s Extremist Rhetoric, Part 2 And possibly the craziest show ever to air on Fox News: Glenn Beck Does the Rockefeller Boogie For even more evidence of how ...
Glenn Beck, End Times, kooks, Fox News, Cleon Skousen, John Birch Society, Racism, Extremism
TIME Magazine’s David Von Drehle asks: Is Glenn Beck Bad for America? I don’t know why anyone would think a far right populist demagogue who rants and weeps in front of millions of people and spreads conspiracy theories straight out of the canon of the John Birch Society would be ...
Glenn Beck, End Times, kooks, Fox News, Cleon Skousen, John Birch Society, Racism
Here’s an excellent exposé at Salon by Alexander Zaitchik, on one of the main ideological sources for Glenn Beck’s extremist rhetoric — a paleo-right crank connected to the John Birch Society named Cleon Skousen, whose bizarre book (“The 5,000 Year Leap”) Glenn Beck has been relentlessly promoting: Meet the man ...
Glenn Beck, End Times, kooks, Fox News, Cleon Skousen, John Birch Society, Racism
Showing up in force today at the Washington DC tea party protest — the John Birch Society: Birching the 912 Rally in DC. Birching the 912 Rally in DC Description: Activist members and supporters of The John Birch Society have been gearing up to be in DC for the ...
Tea Party, Protest, Demonstration, Washington DC, Extremism, John Birch Society
Stop the presses! Glenn Beck has found sekrit communist propaganda in the artwork at the Rockefeller Center in Manhattan! Manhattan, I tell you! We’re doomed! [Video] Conspiracy theories about the Rockefellers are standard fare for wackos like the John Birch Society and people who rant and rave about the New ...
Glenn Beck, kooks, Far Right, Extremism, Fox News, John Birch Society, Rockefeller, NWO
Thanks to the promotional efforts of people like Glenn Beck and Ron Paul, some long-discredited extremist groups are making a comeback — perhaps chief among them, the John Birch Society: Holding Firm Against Plots by Evildoers. For some, that name means nothing. ... Yet for others, the John Birch ...
John Birch Society, Right Wing, Extremism, Conspiracy Theories, Racism, Antisemitism, Glenn Beck, Ron Paul
As if one Paul weren’t already more than enough: Ron Paul: Support My Son’s Senate Bid. Also see: Angry White Man - The bigoted past of Ron Paul Ron Paul and the John Birch Society Video: Napolitano with Alex Jones, Ron Paul, Lew Rockwell, Etc
Ron Paul, Idiocy, Conspiracies, kooks, John Birch Society, Racism, GOP
The theocratic, anti-civil-rights, paleoconservative, conspiracy-mongering John Birch Society got together with the anti-science, conspiracy-mongering, young earth creationist writer James Perloff yesterday in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, for a good old-fashioned evening of atavism: Darwin refuted and disputed at John Birch Society meeting. After years of well-deserved marginalization, the John Birch Society ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Massachusetts, John Birch Society, paleoconservatism
Given the sudden resurgence of the crazy uncle in GOP politics, here’s a new poll. [Poll]
Ron Paul, Idiocy, Conspiracies, kooks, John Birch Society, Racism, GOP
For the past couple of months I’ve been writing about the “mainstreaming” of paleo-libertarian Ron Paul; he’s been a regular guest on Fox News and other networks, and his drones have been heavily involved in organizing “tea party” demonstrations. Lots of LGF readers didn’t want to believe this was happening. ...
Ron Paul, Antisemitism, Idiocy, Conspiracies, kooks, John Birch Society, Racism, GOP, Michele Bachmann
Since people are still (amazingly!) showing up at LGF defending Ron Paul’s “honor,” please note: in October 2008, Ron Paul was the keynote speaker at the John Birch Society’s 50th anniversary. Madison - Former Republican presidential candidate U.S. Rep. Ron Paul of Texas will keynote Saturday’s session of the 50th ...
Ron Paul, Antisemitism, Idiocy, Conspiracies, kooks, John Birch Society, Racism
David Frum asks “What is going on at Fox News?” The whole column makes good points (and Beck has already savaged Frum for it, of course), but let’s focus on one section: The audience for Beck’s Friday night special were each given copies of two books. One of them ...
Glenn Beck, End Times, survivalists, kooks, Fox News, Cleon Skousen, John Birch Society, Racism
Here’s an excellent piece by Jonathan Tobin on William F. Buckley’s extraordinary effort to expel antisemites like Pat Buchanan and Joseph Sobran from The National Review and the conservative movement: Bill Buckley and the Jews. Buckley would himself acknowledge that prejudice was a presence in his own home growing ...
LGF, William F. Buckley, John Birch Society, Antisemitism, Sobran, Buchanan
One of William F. Buckley’s last published pieces describes the fight to purge the GOP of the influence of groups like the crackpot John Birch Society: Goldwater, the John Birch Society, and Me. In the early months of 1962, there was restiveness in certain political quarters of the Right. ...