TagsTagsThanks 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 Society ...
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 is ...
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. Well, ...
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 anniversary ...
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 was Cleon ...
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 up. ...
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. The ...