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Right Wing Round-Up

  • Christy Hardin Smith captures the essence(link is external) of right-wing opposition to Sonia Sotomayor.
  • Media Matters has put together a large collection(link is external) of right-wing commentators smearing Sotomayor as a bigot which, as Dave Neiwert points out(link is external), is itself rather ironic.
  • As Jed Lewison explains(link is external), Ronald Reagan was the original "reverse sexist," while FireDogLake notes that Republicans were once huge fans(link is external) of things like diversity, which they are now decrying as crass identity politics.
  • Want to know who the leading right-wing activists are in opposing Sotomayor's nomination?  TPM has the details(link is external).
  • Sarah Posner points out(link is external) that Tony Perkins' new Call 2 Fall effort includes the pastor who oversaw the attempted "rehabilitation" of Ted Haggard.
  • Finally, Matthew Yglesias wonders(link is external) why conservatives need a "Center for American Progress for the right" when CAP itself was founded to be the Heritage Foundation of the left.