8 Shocking Instances of Moronic Right-Wing Malevolence This Week

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http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/8-shocking-instances-moronic-right-wing-malevolence-week



1. Paul Ryan: When I said inner city men are too lazy to work; that's their culture, I didn't mean it racially.

It seems that now that poverty is spreading to white people, the topic has piqued the interest of a handful of Republican leaders. Notably, Republican bullshit artist par excellence, Paul Ryan, who has lately been trying to convince the public that he really cares and is earnestly searching his ample intellect for a solution — as long as it doesn't require any government spending. Whoever is buying what he’s selling is dumber than a post.

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2. Kevin Swanson: The movie Frozen is a satanic plot to turn our children gay.

Hide your young’uns. Don’t let them out. Cut off the TV and the electronic devices. Tie them up if necessary. Satan rides again. This time in the form of the oh-so-innocent-seeming Disney animated movie, Frozen. Religious Right talk show host Kevin Swanson is certainly not taking his 5-year-old daughter to a movie that is going to “indoctrinate” her “to be a lesbian." And nor should you.

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3. Pat Robertson: 'Horror movies cause demonic possession. Let us pray.'

For the second time in recent weeks, Pat Robertson is seeming less crazy than even kookier kooks. Truly we must be entering the End Times. First, just a few weeks ago, Robertson begged Young Earth Creationist Ken Ham to stop making other Christian fundamentalists look bad by saying things that fly in the face of indisputable science. Now, Robertson is looking just a tad less loony than Kevin Swanson, who thinks the devil is working through Disney. Robertson does think the devil is involved in the entertainments business, but he is working through horror films. Makes much more sense, no?

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4. Fox’s Stuart Varney: 'Obama’s overtime move is just a way of buying votes.'

As might be expected, the “fair and balanced” folks over at Fox News have been apoplectic about Obama’s move this week to modestly expand overtime pay. The Fox Newsians have pretty much no idea what Obama is suggesting or what effect that it will have, but it’s socialist and un-American, and they don’t like it.

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