On AlterNet: right-wingers

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "right-wingers"

Are Conservatives More Fearful Than Liberals?

Emily Badger, Miller-McCune.com. February 5, 2012.

The GOP seems to understand a psychological phenomenon that researchers are studying: conservatives appear to be motivated by fear in a way that liberals are not.

Compassionate Conservatism? 4 Popular Safety-Net Programs Tea Party Republicans Have Turned Against in the Age of Obama

Jake Blumgart, AlterNet. November 8, 2011.

If Republicans can't support healthier school meals for kids, what can they support?

Conservatives Push Absurd Lie that Wall Street Hustlers Were Innocent Victims ... of Poor People

Joshua Holland, AlterNet. October 10, 2010.

Deregulation allowed Wall Street to build a house of cards on America's mortgage industry, but many conservatives live in a parallel universe in which the banks are blameless.

Right-Wing World Net Daily Poll Solicits Gift Ideas For Obama: "Arrest Warrant;" "Ticket Back to Kenya"

Lee Fang, ThinkProgress. December 21, 2009.

Can't you just feel the holiday cheer?

Big Oil Gets in on Right-Wing Astroturf Game

Jim Hightower, AlterNet. August 29, 2009.

Since Astroturf itself is made up of petroleum, there's a certain poetic symmetry in having Big Oil produce the silliest astroturf campaign yet.

It's the Right-Wingers Who Are Unloading the Harshest Critiques About Palin’s Bizarre Departure

Eric Boehlert, Media Matters for America. July 8, 2009.

The split among conservatives over who's to blame for Palin’s early exit from the national stage is breaking out into the airwaves.

In Right-Wing Bizarro World Military Coups Are the Embodiment of Democracy!

Brad Reed, Sadly, No!. July 1, 2009.

Some things need to be read to be believed.

Glenn Beck Thinks Progressives Are Toxic ... What Kind of America Does he Want?

David Neiwert, Orcinus. June 23, 2009.

When right-wingers attack "evil progressivism," it sounds like they yearn for the days when American workers were indentured servants to the wealthy.

Why Do Conservatives Like Stephen Colbert?

Lee Drutman, Miller-McCune.com. April 23, 2009.

Colbert has built a career mocking the right-wing. So why does new research suggest that the comedian is popular with Conservatives?

The Desperate Right's Five Biggest Flops of the 2008 Election

Brad Reed, AlterNet. November 8, 2008.

How Sarah Palin, Joe the Plumber and other stupid stunts did not win the election for McCain.

Note to Barack: For the Movement Conservative, Anyone to the Left of Mussolini is a Socialist

Jill C., Brilliant at Breakfast. July 12, 2008.

You can't appease these people, so why try?

Right-Wing 'Thinkers' Reduce Pakistani Politics to Holy War

Ali Eteraz, AlterNet. February 29, 2008.

Simplistic conservative "intellectuals" are oblivious to Pakistan's highly complex internal politics.

Right-Wingers Can't Cover Up Iraq's Death Toll Catastrophe

John Tirman, AlterNet. January 21, 2008.

The warmongers who got us into Iraq are blaming everyone but themselves for the humanitarian disaster they created.

Israeli Right-Wingers Flood Bush with Anti-Peace Messages

Middle East OnlineJanuary 10, 2008.

Right-wingers send hundreds of letters protesting US-sponsored peace talks between Israel, Palestinians.

The Right Plays to its Nativist Base

David Neiwert, TomPaine.com. October 2, 2007.

What passes for "conservatism" these days is a theater of scapegoating that fuels not just the anti-immigrant right but also the anti-gay, anti-black, anti-Muslim, anti-liberal rhetoric.

Is George Bush Restarting Latin America's 'Dirty Wars'?

Benjamin Dangl, AlterNet. August 31, 2007.

Signs are emerging of a new wave of U.S.-backed militarism in Latin America.

The Weekly Standard's Reliable Sources: Male Prostitute Matt Sanchez and Web Weirdo "Throbert McGee"

Guest Blogger, August 2, 2007.

Max Blumenthal: The right scrapes the bottom of the barrel.

Racists on the Ballot: Hard-Right Radicals Run in 2006

Alexander Zaitchik, SPLC Intelligence Report. October 20, 2006.

Across America, right-wing radicals are running for everything from national political office to a county mosquito control board.

Right-Wing Media Respond To Japanese Nuclear Crisis By Attacking Renewable Energy

December 31, 1969.