Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 2:45:22 pm
YouTube The worst thing about right wing religious fanatics like David Barton is that they're sneaky and dishonest. Barton has made a career out of peddling lies about American history to the gullible, and in this new video from Right Wing Watch he's actually advising a room full of students at ...

Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 3:59:19 pm
The latest nontroversy being circulated in the wingnut-o-sphere today is the release of a new logo by the Obama campaign designed around the America flag. I decided to collect some campaign flags used in the past by various political campaigns and by political groups. Finally, I bring you a comparison of ...

Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 1:18:45 pm
The Republican Party's 2012 platform is the most extreme right wing GOP platform in history. Name a radical far right position on almost any issue, and chances are good you'll find it enshrined in this document -- and that includes the "stealth shariah" hallucinations of the crazed anti-Muslim crowd. It's ...

Wed, May 2, 2012 at 12:20:50 pm
Here's David Barton, blatantly lying about the founding fathers and Thomas Jefferson again. Barton is not a historian -- he's a religious propagandist who engages in wholesale historical distortion. This kind of stuff sells big to the religious right. Comedy Central Video For a thorough debunking of Barton's lies, here's a lengthy ...

Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 11:23:51 am
As a Mormon, it's an uphill climb for Mitt Romney to get the religious right on his side; many of the most influential right wing religious leaders are not shy at all about calling Mormonism a "cult." One tactic Romney is using to get over this problem: promising to appoint far ...

Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 2:26:37 pm
What in the ever-lovin' heck is Rick Perry talking about here? American colonists in the 1770s had to "disguise themselves so they could walk around and meet each other?" Another bizarre mischaracterization of American history, brought to you by a Republican presidential candidate. That's what happens when you get your history ...

Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 12:58:36 pm
Religious right pseudo-historian David Barton is connected to at least four of the current GOP presidential candidates; Michele Bachmann has brought him to Washington DC to hold seminars for conservative politicians, and Barton was one of the sponsors of Rick Perry's "The Response" prayer rally. Here's David Barton last year in ...

Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 3:05:41 pm
Right Wing Watch has a post about the source of Michele Bachmann's odd views of American history: religious right theocrat and pseudo-historian David Barton. For decades the religious right has been indoctrinating an entire generation with a fantasy version of US history, and Barton is one of the main proponents ...

Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 10:00:45 am
Good grief. Sometimes the right wing gets so crazed it seems they're about to warp themselves into another universe, where they win every argument and history means only what they want it to mean. Here's Glenn Beck and Michele Bachmann's (R-Mars) favorite religious fanatic fake historian, David Barton, explaining that the ...

Sat, May 21, 2011 at 11:18:29 am
Well, I got Raptured early this morning, much to my surprise. At first I thought, "Cool! Eternal bliss!" But then I took a look around; Pat Robertson? Mike Huckabee? Michele Bachmann? David Barton? Sarah Palin? Suddenly, the realization sank all the way in. I was supposed to spend eternity wearing white, strumming a harp, ...

Thu, May 12, 2011 at 12:00:46 pm
In the burgeoning genre of Right Wing Historical Revisionism, potential Republican presidential front-runner Mike Huckabee is proud to announce a new project: Learnourhistory.com! The Huckster is going to fight back against the "blame America first" attitude forced onto our schoolkids by secular atheist progressive commies, with a series of surrealistically awful ...

Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 10:14:01 am
Here's American Taliban leader David Barton, a man who is very influential with top Republican politicians and the Tea Party base (thanks to Glenn Beck's relentless promotion), explaining that everything should operate according to Biblical principles, because America's founding fathers wanted it that way. This bizarre revisionist view of America's ...

Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 2:12:32 pm
Here's an astonishing statement by GOP presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee, who told the "Rediscover God in America" conference last weekend that "All Americans Should Be Forced at Gunpoint to Listen to David Barton." David Barton is the religious right pseudo-historian who specializes in trying to prove that the founding fathers intended ...

Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 1:15:15 pm
Now under way in Iowa: the "Rediscovering God in America" conference, attended by most of the current top contenders for the Republican Party's presidential nomination, including Michele Bachmann, Mike Huckabee, Newt Gingrich, and Haley Barbour, and featuring the religious right's crackpot pseudo-historian David Barton. Here's video from the event from ...

Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 12:18:11 pm
At the Tablet, Michelle Goldberg has an excellent and disturbing piece on the historical revisionist promoted by Glenn Beck as "the most important man in America" -- fundamental Christian theocrat David Barton: History Lesson. I've had several posts about Barton -- he's a fraud with no education as a historian (he ...

Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 8:21:10 pm
The emerging media narrative on Glenn Beck's rally is that it was a "religious" event, not a "political" event: Glenn Beck Leads Religious Rally at Lincoln Memorial. But they're completely missing the point. In this context, there's no distinction between "religion" and "politics." The extreme right wing religious views promoted by ...

Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:09:24 am
Here's an excellent article by Will Bunch on the dishonest historical revisionism being quite successfully pushed by Glenn Beck, with the help of a cottage industry of extreme right wing religious fanatics determined to recast American history as a white Christian fable: Glenn Beck rewrites civil rights history. More recently, ...

Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 10:18:55 am
On his radio show this morning, Glenn Beck made excuses for the Birther movement by saying that Barack Obama is "a Christian that Christians don't recognize," and therefore it's perfectly understandable that they would think he's a Muslim. Beck, of course, is a converted Mormon who promotes Christian supremacism with the ...

Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 3:08:20 pm
So, I turn on Fox News just to see what the Glenn Beck Comedy Hour’s topic for the day is, and here’s Beck ranting about the need for more religion in government, in front of two blackboards covered with pictures of the founding fathers — who are no doubt rotating ...

Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 10:57:51 am
Glenn Beck deserves some credit today for exposing Texas gubernatorial candidate Debra Medina as a 9/11 Truther. Medina was known as the “tea party candidate,” which shouldn’t surprise anyone who’s been following the recent bad craziness at tea party events. It’s not mentioned in this article, but she has also appeared ...