7 Asinine Right-Wing Moments This Week: Celebrities Get As Vile As Politicians

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1. CeeLo Green tweets: 'It’s only rape if she remembers it.'

Former Voice coach and performer CeeLo Green is very, very confused about consent. Confused as in Todd Akin “legitimate rape” confused. This week, Green made a series of ill-advised tweets, including “If someone is passed out they’re not even WITH you consciously. So WITH Implies consent,” and, “People who have really been raped REMEMBER!!!”

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2. Sean Hannity consults 'Duck Dynasty' star on foreign policy and ISIS. 'Duck Dynasty' star says predictably asinine things.

It’s hard to say who is the bigger fool in this bit of tomfoolery. This week, Sean Hannity invited Phil Robertson, the Bible-thumping patriarch of "Duck Dynasty" on his show to talk about ISIS, the extremist Sunni group bent on setting up a new caliphate in Iraq and Syria. On second thought, maybe it’s not that hard. Hannity wins.

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3. Kevin Sorbo, washed-up Hercules star, just wants to remind Jews that they killed Jesus.

Right-wing, uber-Christian actor Kevin Sorbo has been running his mouth quite a bit lately, with a hot new Christian film to promote and all. (We know, we know; “hot” and “Christian” are kind of oxymoronic.) He had already targeted black protesters in Ferguson, calling them “animals,” then taking it back, sort of. A born-again zealot, he stretches himself and plays an atheist professor in the new film, which is entitled, "God's Not Dead. Showing his deep understanding of his character, Sorbo has accused atheists of always being “so angry.”

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4. Pat Robertson to 80-year-old broke woman: Get a job, and keep up the tithing.

Pat Robertson tended to his television flock with all the usual love and compassion he always musters this week.

A faithful 80-year-old viewer wrote in to the show about how she and her 80-plus husband have always dutifully tithed to the church. “We both love the Lord and give willingly and our tithe is over 10 percent,” she wrote. But now the elderly couple are having trouble making ends meet. “We never have an extra penny after our monthly bills are paid,” she lamented. And more bills await, a car needs fixing, dental care is due, medical needs, you know, luxuries.