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Right Wing Round-Up - 2/25/15

Briefing
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Kyle Mantyla
  • Warren Throckmorton(link is external): Oral Roberts University: There is No Record of David Barton Ever Playing Basketball for ORU.

  • Daniel Strauss @ TPM(link is external): Poll: 57% Of GOPers Support Making Christianity The National Religion.

  • Chris Geidner @ BuzzFeed(link is external): The Man Who Defended Sodomy Bans At The Supreme Court Now Believes Everyone Needs Love.

  • John Fea(link is external): Islam WAS Part of the Fabric of Colonial Life.

  • Olivia Marshall @ Media Matters(link is external): Another Fabrication: O'Reilly Never Witnessed The Murder Of Nuns In El Salvador.

  • Sarah Jones @ Wall of Separation(link is external): Fuzzy Map: Religious Right Group Accuses Americans United And Its Allies Of Being A Bevy Of Bigots.

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.
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Bill O'Reilly