Rightwing Speakers Profiled

Having graduated high school nearly forty years ago, your editor may be excused for coming to this table a bit late, but we just discovered Campus Progress.

One of our favorite features of this Web site is Know Your Right-Wing Speakers. Here you will find profiles of such well-know blowhards such as Ann Coldfish, Rush Limberger, James Doughboy, Michelle Mannequin and David Whore O'witch.

OK. We made the names up in an attempt at humor, but you know who we mean.

Selected Exerpts:

Dr. Laura Schlessinger, by her account, “teaches, preaches, and nags about morals, values, and ethics” and has been doing so for thirty years. She condemns everything from homosexuality to working mothers to public education. In one of her more vitriolic columns, she wrote that her purpose is “to deal in truths and values about life, love, death, responsibilities, character, religion and general, everyday behavior.” Like a number of right-wing mouthpieces, Dr. Laura’s popularity seems more the result of her willingness to say things no one else will than any kind of real expertise in the subjects on which she moralizes.

Ted Nugent, The Motor City Madman, is an anomaly of colossal proportions. He’s managed to fuse a 38-year rock‘n’roll career with a zeal for hunting, extreme gun-nuttiness and a good-ol’-boy-on-speed approach to politics, patriotism, and women. The result: A self-righteous right-wing rock star who’s now better known for his dogmatic, offensive, and sometimes plainly comical commentary than for his sporadic success as a musician.

John Gibson is concerned about your children, and your children’s children. That is of course, unless your children, like half of all children under five years old, are minorities. In the midst of a heated national debate around immigration, the Fox News anchor was quick to point out the fact that America ’s Hispanic population has a higher birthrate than the white population and issue an urgent call to arms. To secure the future of the white majority, Gibson sees only one viable solution: “Make more babies.” And not in the sex, drugs and rock and roll way, but because, as Gibson explained on, “half of the kids in this country under five years old are minorities. By far, the greatest number are Hispanic. You know what that means? Twenty-five years and the majority of the population is Hispanic. Why is that? Well, Hispanics are having more kids than others. Notably, the ones Hispanics call ‘gabachos’ — white people — are having fewer.” God forbid we lose that white majority.

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