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The GOP, Hooked on Hate: Three Traits All Toxic Political Movements Share

Marcella Mroczkowski | Posted 12.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hate-Speech, Hate, Richard Restak, Federal Budget Deficit, Ayn Rand, M. Scott Peck, Sarah Palin, Immanuel Kant, Fox News, Alfred Adler, Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly, Politics News
Marcella Mroczkowski

Republicans in the age of Al-Qaeda have morphed into a Western, Christianist, mirror-image of their Islamist enemies. Bad political movements, like Tolstoy's happy families, are all alike. Look for three traits.

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The Hate That Dare Not Speak Its Name

Ed Gurowitz, Ph.D. | Posted 12.03.2009 | Living

Read More: Hilary Clinton, Newsweek, Michael Isikoff, White House Gate Crasher, Barack Obama Racism, Secret Service, Racism, Hate Speech, Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, Right Wing Conspiracy, Right-Wing Extremism, Obama Transition, Living News
Ed Gurowitz, Ph.D.

When I and others suggested that the Birthers, the Tea Baggers, the Limbaughs and Becks of the world were motivated at least in part by racism, the President himself said he did not believe that to be the case.

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First Do No Harm: Connecting The Dots Between Environmentalism And Health Care Reform

John DeCock | Posted 11.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Environmental Protection Agency, Water Pollution, Toxics, Water, Epa, Clean Water Act, Environment, Health Care Reform, Mercury, Hate Speech, Air Pollution, Pollution, Health Care, Green News
John DeCock

If we live in poverty and industry uses our neighborhoods to site their most toxic operations, how do we pay for the illness those operations cause?

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Cartoon: Nattering Naybobs and Noxious Nutballs

Shan Wells | Posted 10.29.2009 | Denver

Read More: Msnbc, Political Pundits, Rachel Maddow, Sean Hannity, Cnn, CBS News, Fox News, Hate Speech, Glenn Beck, Pbs Newshour, Fox, Bill O'Reilly, Fox News Channel, Cartoons, Cartoon, Denver News
Shan Wells

With a few notable exception, broadcast news is a very scary place these days. What Edward R. Murrow would think of the current zeitgeist is unknowable, but we might hazard a guess.

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Rush Limbaugh and the NFL's Higher Standard

Rory O'Connor | Posted 10.15.2009 | Media

Read More: Hate Speech, National Football League, Rush Limbaugh, Media News
Rory O'Connor

Why was it left to the National Freakin' Football League - hardly a bastion of liberal thought - to call out bombastic shock jock Rush Limbaugh for hi...

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CNN, You Can't Have It Both Ways: It's Either Dobbs or Your Latino Future

Roberto Lovato | Posted 10.13.2009 | Media

Read More: Latino Politics, Minutemen, Immigration, www.bastadobbs.com, Jon Klein CNN, presente.org, Roberto-Lovato-and-Lou-Dobbs, Immigration Reform, Latino in America, You Can't Have It Both Ways CNN Video, Fair, Hate Crimes, Lou Dobbs, Rick Sanchez, Arturo Perez, Media Matters, Soledad O'Brien, Cnn, Federation for American Immigration Reform, Hate Speech, Media News
Roberto Lovato

A few hours of serious reporting on Latinos by sunny Soledad O'Brien can't make up for thousands of hours of anti-Latino extremism from the dark Lou Dobbs.

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"Kill Obama" Painted On Phoenix-Area Campaign Signs

Dawn Teo | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Arizona, Hate Speech, Kill Obama, Obama, Phoenix, Kkk, Politics News
Dawn Teo

Neither campaign sign is connected to national politics... The Phoenix area has had a run of high-profile racist incidents recently.

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Organizing to Stop Far Right Violence

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Thomas Friedman, Far-Right Fundamentalism, Yitzhak Rabin, Hate Speech, Hate Crimes, Eric Holder Attorney General, Politics News
Frank Schaeffer

Other people, besides former evangelicals like me, are finally starting to realize that there is a serious problem facing America. What are we going to do about the haters?

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Is the Obama Administration Supporting Calls to Outlaw Supposed Hate Speech?

Eugene Volokh | Posted 12.01.2009 | World

Read More: Hate Speech, Anti-Hate Speech, Barack Obama, Free Speech, World News
Eugene Volokh

I'm worried that the Executive Branch's endorsement of speech-restrictive "international human rights" norms will affect how the courts interpret the First Amendment.

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A New Year's Resolution

Larry Gellman | Posted 11.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Commandents, Yom Kippur, Right Wing Media, Nazi, Bible, Hitler, Chofetz Chayim, Judaism, Bloggers, Rosh Hashanah, Propaganda, Temple, Right Wing, Obama, Hebrew-Bible, Barack Obama, Michael Gerson, God, Mind.Body.Soul, Jewish, Torah, New Year's Resolution, Washington Post, Repentence, Confession, Hate Speech, Slander, Adolf Hitler, Loshon Hara, Ira Forman, Living News
Larry Gellman

This Yom Kippur there is reason for concern. The politics of rumor, innuendo, and lies -- sinat chinam -- is on the rise in our community and it hurts us all.

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Hating Hate Speech

Donna Schaper | Posted 11.19.2009 | New York

Read More: Lou Dobbs, Hate Speech, New York, Judson Memorial Church, New York News
Donna Schaper

Religious institutions have enormous responsibility in these hateful, objectifying campaigns. We may not have policy solutions to offer, but we cannot condone hate, anywhere, any time, against anyone, including Lou Dobbs.

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Time Magazine Gives Glenn Beck a Rave Review

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 11.18.2009 | Media

Read More: David Von Drehle, Time, Corporate Media, Time Magazine, President Barack Obama, Countdown With Keith Olbermann, Time Inc., Beck Inc., Media News, Michelle Malkin, Van Jones, Beck, Fox News, Msnbc, Nate Silver, 9/12 Rally, Journalism, Joseph McCarthy, Hate Speech, Glenn Beck, Media Criticism, Colorofchange, Rush Limbaugh, Al Franken, Michael Moore, Media News
Joseph A. Palermo

David Von Drehle's article is a clinic for journalism students who wish to learn about faux balance, false equivalencies, straw men, and omissions of important facts.

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Defending Unpatriotic Racism

Robbie Gennet | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Msnbc, Hate, Bush, War, George W. Bush, Racist, President Obama, Obama, Democratic Party, Democrats, Barack Obama, Afghanistan War, Iraq War, Religion, Bush Administration, Patriotism, Joe Wilson, Jimmy Carter, Fox News, Racism, Glenn Beck, Hate Speech, President Bush, Health Care, Town Hall Meetings, Republican Party, African Americans, Republicans, Politics News
Robbie Gennet

They say the best offense is a good defense. Our only real defense against right wing insanity is to put them on the defense and keep them there.

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The State of Denial Has Zero Electoral Votes -- But It Seems to Be Winning

Larry Gellman | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Ronald Reagan, Rush Limbaugh, Obama Bill Ayers, Glenn Beck Fox News, Obama, Barack Obama Race, Michelle Malkin, Barack Obama, Obama School Speech, Rush Limbaugh Obama, George H.W. Bush, Sean Hannity, Bill Ayers, Racism, Hate Speech, Glenn Beck, Rashid Khalidi, Reverend Wright, Politics News
Larry Gellman

Apparently in addition to being a socialist, a terrorist, a Kenyan, a Nazi, a granny killer, and like Hitler -- Obama is not even really our president. The whole thing was just a big liberal lie.

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Arizona Pastor Spreads Hateful "Sermon" Against President Obama

CBN News | David Brody | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Steve Anderson, Hate Speech, Faithful Word Baptist Church, Tempe-Arizona, Barack Obama, Secret Service, Politics News

Maybe you've heard about this "sermon" or maybe you haven't. But before we go any further let me just say one thing: this guy is absolutely nuts. Ste...

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Did the Inglorious N.O.P. Bust a Cap in Health Care Reform?

Kimberly Krautter | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nazi Germany, President Obama, Ronald Reagan, G.O.P., Eisenhower Era, Civil Rights, Evangelicals, Chuck Grassley, Hate Mongering, Abraham Lincoln, Republican Hypocrisy, Hate Speech, Medicare, Republican Party, Caribou Barbie, Right-Wing-Echo-Chamber, Big Tent, Senator Charles Grassley, Rush Limbaugh Republicans, Rush Limbaugh, Chuck Grassley Death Panels, D.W. Griffith, Democrats, Barack Obama, Equal Rights Amendment, The-Birth-of-a-Nation, Soviet Russia, Sarah Palin, Health Care Reform, Iraq War, Glenn Beck, Bush Cheney, Grand Old Party, Barry Goldwater, Jim DeMint Waterloo, Ghw-Bush, Steven Colbert, Jon Stewart, Politics News
Kimberly Krautter

From a branding perspective, is this really how the Republican Party wants to be defined? Hate speech -- true hate speech -- should never be tolerated in any form.

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Hate Speech

Jim Lichtman | Posted 09.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Jon Meacham, Intolerance, Responsibility, Rush Limbaugh, Rutgers Women’s Basketball, Free Speech, Hitler, Barack Obama, Health Care, Donny Deutsch, Ethics, Don Imus, Nazism, Hate Speech, Glenn Beck, Fox News Channel, Newsweek, Media News
Jim Lichtman

Apparently, executives at Fox do not know the difference between opinion and hate speech.

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IS RELIGION THE SOURCE OF GOOD?

Bill Shireman | Posted 09.12.2009 | Home

Read More: George Bush, Christianity, Islam, Religion and Politics, Religion, Hate Speech, Muslim, George W. Bush, Home News
Bill Shireman

There is an intrinsic truth in religious belief and if you take away the literal interpretations that bastardize the spirit of faith, you discover that the essence of good, and of God.

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The Difference Between Criticism and Hate Speech

Larry Gellman | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Republican National Committee, Mark Levin, Right Wing Media, Audra Shay, Rush Limbaugh, Right Wing, Obama Health Care, Barack Obama, Obama Hitler, Joseph Stiglitz, Sarah Palin, Harpers Magazine, Health Care Reform, Rush Limbaugh Obama, New York Times, Hate Speech, Ben Stein, Republican Party, Virginia Foxx, Republicans, Politics News
Larry Gellman

They are whack jobs or hard-wired haters, but their influence and numbers are growing among what's left of the Republican party, the news media, and the former Confederacy.

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Punching the Tar Baby

Larry Gellman | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Confederacy, Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court, Mark Levin, Right Wing Media, Congress, Audra Shay, Peggy Noonan, Colin Powell, Rush Limbaugh, Limbaugh, Jeff Sessions, Right Wing, Hispanics, Democrats, Democratic Party, Uncle Remus, David Brooks, Sonia Sotomayor, Sotomayor, David Frum, Racism, Hate Speech, Black, Glenn Beck, Republican Party, Right-Wing Extremism, Republicans, Politics News
Larry Gellman

From the moment Judge Sotomayor was nominated to the court, the Right wing made it clear that they were going to play the only card left in the Republican deck -- the race card.

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Jason Linkins

Hal Turner, Internet Radio Host, Arrested For Inciting Violence Against Public Officials...Again

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.25.2009 | Media

Read More: Hal Turner, Talk Radio, Anti-Semitism, Media Criticism, Media News, Terrorism, Hate Speech, Media News

Hal Turner, New Jersey's top white-supremacist internet-radio show hosting lunatic is back in the news today, for pretty much the same reason he was i...

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Democracy's Paradox

Robert Koehler | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: James Von Brunn, Militar, Racism, Hate Speech, Hate Crimes, Holocaust Museum Shooting, Politics News
Robert Koehler

Wanna hear a good Holocaust joke? Or a rib-tickler about lynching? How about starving Ethiopians? You'll bust a gut. I spent an eerie couple of hours...

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How Can I Be Loved for Hating Everybody?

B. Jeffrey Madoff | Posted 07.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Abortion, James Von Brunn, Hate Crimes, Chrysler, Fuel Efficiency, Pundits, Scott Roeder, Aig, Pro-Life, Barack Obama, Dr. George Tiller, Holocaust Museum Shooting, Gasoline Prices, Wall Street, General Motors, Germany, Middle East, Oil Prices, Hillary Clinton, Hate Speech, Japan, Pro-Choice, Media News
B. Jeffrey Madoff

The world is changing way too fast. A year ago we thought Hillary Clinton might get elected. Television pundits repeatedly asked us if we were ready...

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The Bloody Truth Behind Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric

Sally Kohn | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lou Dobbs, Immigration Reform, Hate Speech, Hate Crimes, Shawna Forde, Immigration, Holocaust Museum Shooting, Luiz Ramirez, Politics News
Sally Kohn

It's time we confront the fact that behind violently anti-immigrant and supremacist rhetoric is a real urge and a real encouragement for actual violence.

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President Obama's FDR Problem

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 07.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hate Crimes, Hate, Limbaugh, Steele, President Obama, Obama, O'Reilly, Fdr, Gingrich, Cheney, Hate Groups, Hate Crime, Hate Speech, Fox, Republican Party, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Republicans, Hannity, Politics News
Stephen C. Rose

President Obama is the first president in my memory to have the FDR problem. That problem in a word is hate. The reason is the same.

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