Category: conservative blowhards
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Was the moon landing part of a vast left-wing conspiracy?
Conspiracy theorists are, without exception, intellectually bankrupt, excessively paranoid and patently irresponsible. Fitting that Rush Limbaugh has joined their ranks. Limbaugh believes that NASA’s been “corrupted” by the Obama administration and warned listeners “this news that there is flowing water on Mars is somehow going to find its way into a technique to advance the…
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The compassion of the right
Ann Coulter manages to excoriate the missionaries who contracted Ebola while treating the infected in Liberia AND play the white Christian victim card. Coulter theorizes many do-gooders choose to help out overseas because they’re “tired of being called homophobes, racists, sexists and bigots” when they work in the U.S. “They need to buck up [and]…
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Trump du jour
“@BerryBrite1: @realDonaldTrump They knew the risk when they went to Africa. They choose it freely.” — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 3, 2014
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Michelle Bachmann doesn’t think much of her husband
The Minnesota Republican warned that the gay community will “abolish age of consent laws, which means we will do away with statutory rape laws so that adults will be able to freely prey on little children sexually. That’s the deviance that we’re seeing embraced in our culture today.” She also predicted that gay rights advocates…
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Paul Broun’s replacement may actually be stupider
The good news: Paul Broun, who lost in his bid for the GOP nomination for the U.S. Senate, won’t be returning to Congress. The bad news: His potential replacement, Jody Hice, is Broun on steroids. In a 2012 book, that candidate (Hice) alleges the gay community has a secret plot to recruit and sodomize children.…
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Heil Gohmert!
Rep. Louie Gohmert currently on the House floor just compared anti-gay marriage Christians being called "haters" to Nazi Germany — Wesley Lowery (@WesleyLowery) May 9, 2014