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Right Wing Round-Up - 12/22/15

Briefing
by
Kyle Mantyla
  • John Fea: David Barton's "The Jefferson Lies" Is Back.

  • Imani Gandy @ RH Reality Check: Anti-Choice Group’s Attorney: No Link Between Attack Videos Against Planned Parenthood and Clinic Violence.

  • David Edwards @ Raw Story: Vigilante uprising: GOP lawmaker calls on gun owners to ‘clean our society of scum bags’.

  • Scott Eric Kaufman @ Salon: “The O’Reilly Factor” goes full conspiratorial, questions “the timing” of Chelsea Clinton’s pregnancy.

  • Ben Smith @ Buzzfeed: How Donald Trump Made A Controversial Muslim Rights Group Mainstream.

  • Joe Jervis: GOP State Rep. Bill Chumley To Introduce Bill To “Nullify” SCOTUS On Marriage.

On the Watchlist
David Barton

David Barton

Despite having obtained only a Bachelor of Arts degree from Oral Roberts University in the 1970s, David Barton now routinely bills himself as “America’s premier historian” and has established a reputation as the Religious Right’s go-to “expert” for making the case that the Founding Fathers intended to establish America to be a Christian nation that operates according to the laws of God as set out in the Bible.