Of all the arguments used by the opponents of same-sex marriage, I think my favorite is the “God defined marriage, so there are no same-sex marriages no matter what the court says” argument. Matt Walsh makes that very argument at Glenn Beck’s site in the wake of Friday’s ruling.
Rabbi Daniel Lapin is Glenn Beck’s favorite far-right Jewish wingnut and it’s not hard to figure out why. Lapin routinely says things that are so inane that only Beck could find them anything but laughable. Now he tells the ladies all about why they get emotional during their period, in response to a Nicki Minaj song.
Like Glenn Beck, Alan Keyes is little more than a bad actor playing a badly written and hopelessly melodramatic character in a play so cartoonishly simpleminded that no audience could buy it. But he actually exists and he is, yet again, comparing same-sex marriage to Nazism.
Rick Perry and his make-me-look-smart glasses are officially in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. ThinkProgress takes a look at some of Perry’s views on Constitutional matters which are, to say the least, outside the mainstream.
Man, people in Texas are so gullible. They foolishly think that all that flooding going on is naturally caused and are totally falling for President Obama’s generous offer of help from FEMA to aid in their recovery from what has become a major natural disaster.
In a very welcome move, President Obama is forbidding the sale of some types of military equipment to local police departments and placing restrictions on the sale of some other types of equipment. This is the first time in a long time that anything was done to reduce the militarization of our civilian police departments.
Salon.com looks back at what some prominent conservative politicians were saying about the Ebola outbreak last year, but they’ve missed out on the really good examples of right wing hysteria and buffoonery on the subject. So I thought I’d fill in some of my favorites.
Rep. Steve King, the second dumbest man in Congress (Louis Gohmert is even dumber), went on Glenn Beck’s radio show and offered an incredibly tortured analogy between same-sex marriage and slavery, without recognizing that it casts him in the role of a racist defender of slavery.
Louis Gohmert’s grip on reality has never been tight, if it exists at all, nor has Glenn Beck’s. So when the two of them get together, you know you’re entering a fantasy world. Gohmert told Beck that God is going to punish us for refusing to help Nigeria fight terrorism until they legalize gay marriage, something that happened only in his fertile imagination.
Charisma News editor Jennifer LeClaire is still trying to convince people that God sent her a vision that America was going to suffer a “tsunami of perversion.” Unsurprisingly, she found an eager audience for this nonsense in Rick Wiles of TruNews radio.
Hey look, yet another Christian right bigot claiming that gay rights activists are Nazis, and hardly for the first time. Matt Barber seems to be challenging Glenn Beck’s title as the leading Godwinian on the right wing. I’m starting to wonder if there’s some rich right-winger that pays money for every Nazi comparison they make.
ThinkProgress takes a look back at some of the predictions made by Republicans about the Affordable Care Act. If it passes, they declared, it will bankrupt the country, destroy the insurance industry completely, destroy jobs and send us into a huge recession. The opposite, of course, has happened.
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