Dispatches From the Culture Wars
In the wake of the shootings in Aurora, Colorado, the religious right immediately starting blaming everything they already blamed — gay people, liberals, lack of God in schools and everything else they could think of. Here’s a few examples:
In the wake of the shootings in Aurora, Colorado, the religious right immediately starting blaming everything they already blamed — gay people, liberals, lack of God in schools and everything else they could think of. Here’s a few examples:
In his latest idiotic rant, Bryan Fischer says that liberals are dupes of Satan because we believe in a free society rather than the theocratic dystopia that he constantly pushes. Right Wing Watch has the transcript:
Bryan Fischer and Steve Deace, two of the most extreme voices in the religious right, got on the radio together and demonstrated perfectly the big dilemma facing the Republican party over the next few years — how to appease the bigots while not losing votes from everyone else.
There are bizarre theories and then there’s the kind of nonsense spewed by wingnuts like Sandy Rios. The former head of Concerned Women for America and Fox News contributor is now a radio host for the American Family Association and she seems to be trying to out-crazy even Bryan Fischer:
Pat Buchanan engages in some Bryan Fischer-like projection and lack of self-awareness in his latest column, where he praises the Hollywood blacklists during the McCarthy era, which was the result of an official government witch hunt, but rages in fury about the boycott of Rush Limbaugh, which is entirely done by individuals without the government involved at all.
GLAAD has launched what they’re calling the Commentator Accountability Project to document the rampant anti-gay bigotry among right-wing talk show hosts and pundits, and their targets are howling in outrage — and offering some amusingly idiotic rationalizations to excuse their conduct away. Kevin McCullough, for example, says that it is false to accuse him of saying that being gay kills people because he doesn’t believe anyone actually is gay.
Steven Olsen posted this video on his Facebook page and it’s really funny. It’s a guy named John Hembling attacking Rebecca Watson as a “sociopath” — not over the whole elevator-gate thing, but over a practical joke she played on JT Eberhard at Skepticon in 2010.
Joseph Farah must have had an extra bowl of Wheaties one morning recently, because he managed to up the ante even on his usual inanity in this Worldnutdaily column where he declares that advocates of marriage equality are just like Muslim terrorists.
You almost have to admire the ability of Bryan Fischer to ignore cognitive dissonance. He has an almost supernatural skill at maintaining diametrically opposite positions, sometimes in the same paragraph. On his radio show, he defended Rush Limbaugh’s slut-shaming, then said that liberals hate women just like the reactionary Muslims do, then attacking Sandra Fluke once again and lying about her, saying that she admitted to have multiple sex partners every day. Oh, and conservatives are the one who love women and treat them equally.
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