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Right Wing Round-Up - 6/18/13

PFAW: PFAW Applauds Proposed Constitutional Amendments to Reverse Citizens United.

Hannah Groch-Begley @ Media Matters: WSJ's Taranto Dismisses Military Sexual Assault Epidemic, Cries "War On Men."

Steve Benen @ The Maddow Blog: What 'dumbed-down conservatism' looks like.

Jonathan Chait @ New York Magazine: James O’Keefe Shocked to Learn Goods Are Fungible.

Adele M. Stan @ RH Reality Check: Texas Congressman: Masturbating Fetuses Prove Need for Abortion Ban.

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Right Wing Round-Up - 6/17/13

Simon Maloy @ Media Matters: Breakthrough: James O'Keefe Saves The World.

Jillian Rayfield @ Salon: Herman Cain: U.S. is headed “towards socialism and towards communism.”

Pam Spaulding: Goodbye Pam’s House Blend: after nine years, closing the coffeehouse July 1.

Steve Benen @ The Maddow Blog: Remember who passed the WARN Act?

Noah Rothman @ Mediaite: Ted Cruz Praises Sarah Palin On Fox For ‘Fearlessness’: Helped GOP Discover ‘A Backbone.’

David Edwards @ Raw Story: Palin writing ‘legalese’ book to fight the ‘War on Christmas.’

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Right Wing Round-Up - 6/14/13

Andrew Kirell @ Mediaite: Limbaugh: The Republican Party Is ‘Embarrassed’ Of Its Christian, Pro-Gun, Anti-Abortion Base.

David Edwards @ Raw Story: ‘Cliff’ from ‘Cheers’ wants Allen West to spread his ‘gene pool’ across America.

Greg Sargent @ The Plum Line: Memo to conservatives: There is no `Hastert Rule.’

Ben Dimiero @ Media Matters: Conservative Website Pitches "Pork-Infused" Ammo Meant To Serve As A "Terrorist Deterrent."

Tom Kludt @ TPM: ‘The Daily Show’ Expresses Sympathy For ‘Mrs. Pat Robertson.’

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Right Wing Round-Up - 6/13/13

Ben Dimiero & Simon Maloy @ Media Matters: The Eye Of Moloch: Glenn Beck Managed To Write A Novel Worse Than The Overton Window.

Bartholomew’s Notes on Religion: Todd Bentley Recalls a Levitating Boy and a Woman’s New Breast.

Jeremy Hooper: Today in 'We couldn't win against him so we'll just make sh*t up': POTUS joined Rev. Wright's church b/c of its 'DownLow Club'; Jesse Jackson arranged Obamas marriage.

Steve Benen @ The Maddow Blog: The line Rubio will not cross.

Rebecca Shapiro @ The Huffington Post: Sarah Palin, Fox News Together Again.

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Right Wing Round-Up - 6/12/13

David Corn @ Mother Jones: Does Sen. Jeff Sessions Think Obama Is Secretly a "Radical Machiavelli"?

Bridget R. Gaudette @ Friendly Atheist: Faculty Speaker at Public School Graduation: ‘We Don’t Need More Women as CEOs.’

Steve Benen @ The Maddow Blog: 'We don't need to censor the mail, but...'

Jeremy Hooper: We've finally found WorldNetDaily's line; far-right outlet yanks 'wage war to restore a Christian America' post.

John Stanton @ BuzzFeed: Arizona Senator’s Son Used Homophobic, Anti-Semitic Language On Twitter.

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Right Wing Round-Up - 6/11/13

Dorsey Shaw @ BuzzFeed: Glenn Beck Wonders If There’s An NSA Connection To The Spitzer And Petraeus Scandals.

Simon Brown @ Wall of Separation: Much Ado About Nothing: ADF’s Latest ‘Pulpit Freedom Sunday’ Is Just A Distraction.

Hayes Brown @ Think Progress: GOP Congressman: American Muslim Leaders Are ‘Potentially Complicit’ In Terrorist Acts.

Matt Wilstein @ Mediaite: ‘Innocence Of Muslims’ Filmmaker Speaks To Fox From Prison: ‘If I Could Go Back,’ I’d Release Video Again.

Steve Benen @ The Maddow Blog: House GOP eyes more anti-abortion votes.

Sahil Kapur @ TPM: Why Obama Gave Up On The Morning-After Pill Battle.

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Right Wing Round-Up - 6/10/13

Media Matters: Right-Wing Media Plead With Rubio To “Walk Away” From Senate Immigration Reform Bill.

Wonkette: Louie Gohmert’s Desperate Found-Footage Plea: Stop Talking About Immigration!

Matt Hildreth @ America’s Voice: Will John Cornyn Extend His Losing Record From NRSC To Entire GOP?

Good As You: IL Bishop Thomas Paprocki says ‘the father of lies’ is behind marriage equality.

David Badash @ The New Civil Rights Movement: Republican National Committee Hires Tea Party Southern Baptist To Lobby For Evangelical Vote.

TPM: ‘Unskewed Poll’s Founder: ‘I Was Only Wrong’ Because I Didn’t Consider Voter Fraud.

NJDC: GOP Leaders Must Stand Against Holocaust Rhetoric by Limbaugh, Beck.

Dispatches from the Culture Wars: Creationists Still Can’t Control the Framing.

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Right Wing Round-Up - 6/7/13

Don Byrd @ Baptist Joint Committee: When Graduation Speeches Become Graduation Prayers.

Ellie Sandmeyer @ Media Matters: Fox Host Welcomes Allen West To Network After He Calls Holder “Worse Threat” Than Al Qaeda.

David Ferguson @ Raw Story: Beck brings Quran, Nazi school manual and ‘Hitler’s bloodstains’ to talk radio convention.

Good As You: Your marriage is a lie. Love, NOM.

Towleroad: Cake Shop Will Cater To Dog Marriages But Not Gay Marriages, Gets Sued.

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Right Wing Round-Up - 6/6/13

Layne Amerikaner @ PFAW Blog: Why Senate Republican Claims About the D.C. Circuit Don’t Pass the Pinocchio Test.

Zack Ford @ Think Progress: Mark Regnerus’s Attacks On Landmark Same-Sex Parenting Study Fall Flat.

Alex Seitz-Wald @ Salon: The Tea Party hates Jan Brewer now.

Zachary Roth @ Maddow Blog: Republicans still waging war on women, Dems still noticing.

Salvatore Colleluori @ Media Matters: Right-Wing Media Find Another Flawed Immigration Study To Highlight.

Lee Fang @ The Nation: Revealed: Letters From Republicans Seeking Obamacare Money.

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Right Wing Round-Up - 6/5/13

Stephen C. Webster @ Raw Story: Glenn Beck claims Obama conspiracy made him a conspiracy theorist.

Evan Hurst @ Truth Wins Out: Your Handy Guide To The Poorly Attended Porno-Pete-A-Palooza In DC Yesterday.

Tommy Christopher @ Mediaite: Bill O’Reilly Calls Himself ‘Fact Guy’ As He Repeats Debunked ’157 White House Visits’ Story.

Steve Benen @ The Maddow Blog: Federal judge says minorities 'predisposed to crime.'

Andrew Kaczynski @ BuzzFeed: Why VA Republican Lt. Governor Candidate Doesn’t Believe In Evolution: Monkeys Can’t Talk.

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Right Wing Round-Up - 6/4/13

Marge Baker @ Huffington Post: Five Things Republicans Don't Want You to Know About the D.C. Circuit.

Hemant Mehta @ Friendly Atheist: America is Intolerant of Christians, Says Christian Leader at Meeting with the Vice President.

Matt Wilstein @ Mediaite: GOP Sen. Saxby Chambliss Blames Military Sexual Assault On ‘The Hormone Level Created By Nature.’

Steve Benen @ The Maddow Blog: The GOP's most recognized 'leaders.'

Charles Johnson @ LGF: GOP Mississippi Gov. Bryant: Education Is Mediocre Because “Mom Got in the Workplace.”

Carlos Maza @ Equality Matters: Bill O'Reilly's Parenting Advice: Punish Boys Who Like The Color Pink.

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Right Wing Round-Up - 6/3/13

McKay Coppins @ BuzzFeed: Inside The Meltdown At America’s Most Conservative, Most Christian Political Consulting Firm.

Zack Beauchamp @ Think Progress: Wall Street Journal Editorial Board Member Rages Against ‘Totalitarian’ Bike Shares.

Alana Horowitz @ The Huffington Post: Marsha Blackburn: Women 'Don't Want' Equal Pay Laws.

Steve Benen @ The Maddow Blog: A generation of voters with no use for the GOP.

Meenal Vamburkar @ Mediaite: Michael Steele For Governor? ‘We’re Looking At It,’ He Tells MSNBC.

Jeremy Hooper: Totally non-biased man behind anti-gay study, Mark Regnerus: 'Sex doesn’t explain the world, religion does.'

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Right Wing Round-Up - 5/31/13

Michael B. Keegan @ Huffington Post: How the Kochs Are Buying Silence -- Without Spending a Dime.

Steve Benen @ The Maddow Blog: No political daylight for GOP in Virginia.

Garance Franke-Ruta @ The Atlantic: The Fake Story About the IRS Commissioner and the White House.

Ben Armbruster @ Think Progress: Republican Congressman Says McCain Was Partly Responsible For The Benghazi Terror Attacks.

Warren Throckmorton: Ex-gay Therapist Says He Changes Gay Brains; Michael Bailey Says Prove It.

Emily Arrowood @ Media Matters: Erick Erickson's Latest Sexist, Anti-Gay Comments Are Nothing New.

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Right Wing Round-Up - 5/30/13

Tim Murphy and Gavin Aronsen @ Mother Jones: After Bachmann, Who's America's Next Top Wacky Right-Winger?

Jeremy Hooper: AFA spokesman: 'Satan is using' gay Boy Scouts.

Jason Linkins @ Huffington Post: Michele Bachmann's Legislative Accomplishments In One Chart.

Joe Strupp @ Media Matters: Why A Leading Gun Activist Frequents Extremist Conspiracy Shows.

Andrew Kirell @ Mediaite: Fox’s Erick Erickson: It’s ‘Anti-Science’ To Not Believe Men Should ‘Dominate’ Women.

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Right Wing Round-Up - 5/29/13

PFAW: PFAW Bids Adieu to Michele Bachmann.

Meenal Vamburkar @ Mediaite: ‘Consistently And Unapologetically Wrong’: Fact-Checkers, Editors Mourn Bachmann’s Exit From Congress.

Jeremy Hooper: Liberty Counsel's Matt Barber: Gays 'purchase children'; 'like having little pets or something.'

Steve Benen @ The Maddow Blog: Senate GOP decries non-existent 'court packing.'

Joe Muto @ Salon: I was a liberal mole at Fox News: From Bill O’Reilly to Roger Ailes, here’s all the inside dope.

Ben Dimiero @ Matt Gertz @ Media Matters: The Lunatic World Of Gun Rights Radio.

Evelyn Schlatter @ SPLC Intelligence Report: Suspect 'Science.'

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Right Wing Round-Up - 5/28/13

Tim Murphy @ Mother Jones: E.W. Jackson’s First Battle: Fighting AIDS Prevention Efforts.

Igor Volsky @ Think Progress: Ohio School District May Add Glenn Beck Conspiracy Theories To Curriculum.

David Edwards @ Raw Story: Supreme Court denies Indiana bid to cutoff Planned Parenthood funding.

Steve Benen @ Maddow Blog: Virginia GOP continues its sprint from the mainstream.

Evan McMurry @ Mediaite: Alex Jones Responds To Maddow’s Take Down: ‘I’m Attracted To Mr. Maddow, And That Really Conflicts My…’

Don Byrd @ Baptist Joint Committee: Student Pleas Ignored, Graduation Prayer Goes on.

Joe.My.God: Satan Founded The Boy Scouts.

Towleroad: NYC’s Cardinal Dolan Issues Anti-Gay Call To Action.

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Right Wing Round-Up - 5-24-13

Josh Israel @ Think Progress: Ten Right Wingers Freak Out Over Boy Scouts Policy Change.

Katie Mcdonough @ Salon: Mississippi could begin prosecuting women for miscarriages.

Charles Johnson @ LGF: Sarah Palin Is Very Confused About Which Scandal Is Which.

David Edwards @ Raw Story: Gohmert: Force women to give birth to fetuses with ‘no brain activity.’

Tom Kludt @ TPM: E.W. Jackson: I Made Controversial Remarks ‘As A Minister, Not As A Candidate.’

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Right Wing Round-Up - 5/23/13

PFAW: Statement on Confirmation of Sri Srinivasan to D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.

David @ Crooks & Liars: Virginia Lt. Gov. Nominee: Not Sorry for Hate Speech 'Because I'm a Christian.'

Scott Keyes @ Think Progress: The 20 Craziest Tweets From The Man Who Could Be Virginia’s Next Lt Governor.

Hemant Mehta @ Friendly Atheist: In Response to Rep. Juan Mendez’s Godless Invocation in Arizona, His Colleague Delivered a Second Christian Prayer Today.

Eric W. Dolan @ Raw Story: Anti-abortion leader faces criticism after comparing rape to car accidents.

Media Matters: Fox's Tantaros: If You See Any Obama Voters Today, "Do Me A Favor: Punch 'Em In The Face."

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Right Wing Round-Up - 5/22/13

Stephanie Mencimer @ Mother Jones: Conservatives Crawl out of the Woodwork to Claim IRS Persecution.

Chris Geidner @ BuzzFeed: Sen. Patrick Leahy Withdraws Amendment To Include Gay Couples In Immigration Reform Bill.

Jeremy Hooper: Liberty Counsel & Liberty Univ. personality proud of his extreme rhetoric; I applaud him for owning it!

Scott Keyes @ Think Progress: Virginia GOP Nominee Thinks Harry Reid Is Just Pretending To Be A Mormon.

Sahil Kapur @ TPM: GOP Nominee In Virginia Called Three-Fifths Clause An ‘Anti-Slavery Amendment.’

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Right Wing Round-Up - 5/21/13

Steve Benen @ The Maddow Blog: What James Inhofe sees as 'different.'

Stephen C. Webster @ Raw Story: Oklahoma Sen. Coburn: Tornado relief funds must be offset with spending cuts.

Ben Dimiero & Oliver Willis @ Media Matters: Alex Jones Explains How Government "Weather Weapon" Could Have Been Behind Oklahoma Tornado.

Molly Redden @ TNR: E.W. Jackson could spell trouble for Ken Cuccinelli's gubernatorial run.

Towleroad: Westboro Baptist Church's Fred Phelps Jr. Blames Oklahoma Tornado on Gay NBA Player Jason Collins.

Chris Rodda: Congressman Who Fell for Onion Story Still Hasn’t Learned to Check His Facts.

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