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An Education with Glenn Beck: Reviewing His New TV Show—For Kids

Campus Progress watched the first week of Glenn Beck’s new children’s TV show so you don’t have to—and you should be glad you didn’t.

Posted Monday, October 24, 2011 in Know Your Right Wingers by Will Sommer

Federal Marriage Grant Funded Anti-LGBT Iowa Group

The FAMiLY Leader used the marriage counseling grant to help defray its operating costs while it was simultaneously running an anti-gay marriage campaign.

Posted Thursday, September 1, 2011 in Reporting & Know Your Right Wingers by Brian Stewart

Dr. Laura Schlessinger

Laura Schlessinger may have been shamed into giving up her radio show after using the ‘n-word’ on the air recently, but anyone who looks at her past shouldn’t be the least bit surprised by her bigotry.

Posted Thursday, September 9, 2010 in Know Your Right Wingers by Byard Duncan

Thomas Donohue

If there is one man who can take credit for the Chamber of Commerce’s immense power, it’s the organization’s 72-year-old CEO and president, Thomas Donohue.

Posted Monday, June 21, 2010 in Know Your Right Wingers by Jake Blumgart

Tim Pawlenty

Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty has gone to great lengths to establish himself as a conservative leader on the issue of health care.

Posted Monday, June 7, 2010 in Know Your Right Wingers by Chris Marchsteiner

Andrew Breitbart

Andrew Breitbart has distinguished himself as an ultra-right wing commentator by picking fights with practically everyone.

Posted Thursday, May 6, 2010 in Know Your Right Wingers by Jake Blumgart

Meghan McCain

Meghan McCain critiques ideological extremism, but a closer look at her positions makes one wonder whether her urge past partisanship is genuine.

Posted Tuesday, March 30, 2010 in Know Your Right Wingers by Delaney Rohan

Brian Brown

Brian Brown, a little known executive of the National Organization for Marriage, is a rising star in the ‘family values’ movement.

Posted Tuesday, March 23, 2010 in Know Your Right Wingers by Emily Rutherford

Stephen Baldwin

Stephen Baldwin decries Hollywood while desperately clinging to his C-list status.

Posted Thursday, February 18, 2010 in Know Your Right Wingers by Rebecca Foerg-Spittel

Alan Keyes

Though his Birther protests are by far the wackiest of his antics, perennial loser Alan Keyes has been spouting nonsense for decades.

Posted Tuesday, February 9, 2010 in Know Your Right Wingers by Rebecca Foerg-Spittel

Comedian Steven Crowder

Steven Crowder is a bigoted and frighteningly violent conservative Internet sensation who is far from being just for laughs.

Posted Wednesday, December 16, 2009 in Know Your Right Wingers by Delaney Rohan

Lou Dobbs

Lou Dobbs fancies himself an “independent populist” but his bent can only be described as “nationalist anger.”

Posted Wednesday, September 30, 2009 in Know Your Right Wingers by Delaney Rohan

The Problem With Randall Terry

Randall Terry, the anti-choice activist who called the late Dr. George Tiller “a mass murderer”, has a long and provocative past.

Posted Tuesday, June 23, 2009 in Know Your Right Wingers by Matt Zeitlin

Tony Perkins

Tony Perkins, the president of the Family Research Council, has had a long history of pro-life, anti-gay activism.

Posted Wednesday, March 11, 2009 in Know Your Right Wingers by Kay Steiger

George Will

George Will, the popular Washington Post columnist is no stranger to getting it wrong.

Posted Monday, March 2, 2009 in Know Your Right Wingers by Sarah Karlin

Irving Kristol (1920-2009)

Irving Kristol, godfather of the modern neoconservative movement, began as a Trotskyite radical leftist.

Posted Friday, February 6, 2009 in Know Your Right Wingers by Jake Blumgart

Rick Warren

Rick Warren, Barack Obama’s pick to give the Inaugural invocation, isn’t a centrist. He enables homophobia, opposes abortion, and supports military action against Iran.

Posted Tuesday, January 13, 2009 in Know Your Right Wingers by Jamelle Bouie