'Tis the Season for Right Wing Extremism

[sfc_oliver]

Dennis for someone who is supposed to be a professional educator you would think you could get the links from the story to print out.

And of course again who actually wrote this drivel? We know it wasn't you.

We don't have to look up anything to cut down the green party with you do it to yourself often enough.

[irishbobcat]

'Tis the Season for Right Wing Extremism

The right-wing extremism on display in August's town hall meetings was pretty shocking. But amazingly, the Right tried to top itself this September with a series of events that truly showed how the Radical Right got its name. People For the American Way was there to cover the events and expose both the Far Right's extremism and its influence on national policy makers.



Here are just the top three, in chronological order:



"GLENN BECK SENT ME"


Glenn Beck's "9/12 Project" rally in Washington, D.C. was billed as an effort to get people to embrace the spirit of unity Beck says was the prevalent feeling of most Americans the day after the 9/11/01 terrorist attacks. In reality, it was a circus of "Tea Baggers," secessionists and radical libertarians, as well as "Birthers," "Deathers" and every other breed of right-wing conspiracy theorist.

View photos from the rally here > and here >



VALUES VOTERS SUMMIT


Family Research Council's annual 'Values Voters Summit,' which took place the weekend of September 19, once again drew a long list of the who's who in Religious Right politicking and activism.

Read our extensive coverage >



OBAMA: "ENEMY OF HUMANITY"


If you asked what could be further on the outer fringe of right-wing extremism than the above two events, and the answer would be this past weekend's 'How to Take Back America' conference in St. Louis, hosted by such radical zealots that many on the Right won't even associate with them. Of course, plenty will still associate with them, like Mike Huckabee (last month's Equine Posterior Achievement Award winner, incidentally) and five current members of the U.S. House of Representatives -- one of whom, Rep. Trent Franks, called the president an "enemy of humanity." We had our own inside man at the conference to get us the goods first hand.