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NEWS ABOUT: right-wing attacks

right-wing attacks stories: 10 news summaries

 ADL: Beck Is Top 
 Hate Monger 

He's offering 'platform to extremists,' report charges

Nov 18, 09 2:09 AM CST
(Newser) - Right-wing Fox mouth Glenn Beck is the most toxic media hate monger operating in the US today, according to a report by the Anti-Defamation League. "Beck has made a habit of demonizing President Obama and promoting conspiracy theories about his administration," the r eport states. He "has... More »

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Rush Limbaugh • extremists • Fox News • Glenn Beck • Sean Hannity • right-wing media • right-wing attacks • Anti-Defamation League • right-wing extremism • conspiracy theorists

 How the Crazies Took Over 

Birthers, Limbaugh, Beck fill vacuum as Obama tries to stay above the fray

Sep 21, 09 3:58 PM CDT
(Newser) - As recently as this spring, the Tea Party movement seemed anemic and wonky. But in the months that followed, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and others whipped the right-wing fringe into such a frenzy that a “separate reality grew like a second head on the American polity,” Philip Weiss... More »

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Barack Obama • RNC • Rush Limbaugh • conservative • Republican Party • Glenn Beck • right-wing media • conservative base • right-wing attacks • Obama administration • Republicans • right-wing extremism • birther • World Net Daily

OPINION

 Right-Wing Crazy 
 Is All-American 

Birthers, tea parties—it's nothing new

Aug 16, 09 8:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - With the left back in power, we’re seeing right-wing "crazies"—the “birthers, tea-partiers, town hall hecklers”—getting louder. But that’s nothing new, writes Rick Perlstein in the Washington Post. In America, “the crazy tree blooms in every moment of liberal ascendancy, and elites... More »

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media • American media • town hall meeting • conservatism • right-wing attacks • tea parties • right-wing extremism • American history • birther • death panel

 Right-Wing Haters Target Malia 

'Ghetto trash' directed at Obama's daughter

Jul 13, 09 3:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - The latest racist screeds against the Obamas on a right-wing website have a new target: Malia. "Ghetto street trash" was just one of the ugly comments posted on the Free Republic site about President Obama's 11-year-old daughter after she was photographed last week wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with a... More »

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Barack Obama • Michelle Obama • racism • peace • conservatives • right-wing attacks • Malia Obama • right-wing extremism • ghetto • Free Republic

(Newser) - Crimes by the radical right jumped 16% last year in Germany, where officials are warning about a surge in activity by "anarchist neo-Nazis" who incite violence at demonstrations, reports Der Spiegel. The "neo-Nazi part of the spectrum" is also "gaining greater influence" within the far-right NDP party,... More »

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Germany • Nazism • Nazis • right-wing attacks • right-wing extremism • NDP

OPINION

 Obama Hatred Boils Over 

For some, the economic crisis has catalyzed cultural suspicion of the president

Apr 16, 09 2:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama has enjoyed a pretty good week—the rescue of the kidnapped cargo-ship captain went swimmingly, and the first family enjoyed some softball coverage of its new dog. But this week also saw the boiling-over of the segment of Americans who loathe the president, observes the Economist. Besides the... More »

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Barack Obama • Fox News • Glenn Beck • right wingers • conservatives • right-wing attacks • Obama administration • President Obama • tea parties

Austrian Pol Driving Twice Speed Limit in Fatal Crash

Austria grieves extremist chief's death after right gains big in elections

Oct 13, 08 5:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - The controversial leader of an ultra-right movement in Austria was driving twice the speed limit when he careened off a road and fatally crashed into a cement post, authorities revealed. Joerg Haider was driving 88 mph in a 40mph zone when the crash occurred Saturday, reports the Guardian. Thousands... More »

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Austria • anti-Semitism • right-wing attacks • Joerg Haider

 Slumping Far-Right 
 Party Sells Paris HQ

Far-right, anti-immigrant politics in decline in France

Aug 11, 08 5:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - France's declining far-right party is selling its Paris headquarters to pay an €8 million debt, the Guardian reports. Jean-Marie Le Pen's National Front party has agreed to sell the building, overlooking the Seine, for an estimated €12 to €15m—several million less than it had hoped. The... More »

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politics • France • Paris • anti immigrant platform • right-wing attacks

'Right-Wing Freak Machine' Hit Me: Clark

General thanks bloggers for defending his McCain remark

Jul 18, 08 6:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - Wesley Clark told a netroots conference last night that he was attacked by the “great freak show” after saying John McCain’s POW experience wasn’t sufficient qualification for the presidency, the Huffington Post reports. “This is a playbook operation by the right-wing freak machine,” Clark said,... More »

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John McCain • POW • Wesley Clark • netroots • right-wing attacks

OPINION

Note to Right: Hyde Park Is Neither Liberal nor Elite

Hyde Park is maverick—and conservative

Jun 11, 08 1:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - With the right cranking up to use Obama's Chicago neighborhood as a weapon against him—the Weekly Standard depicting it in a long piece as an liberal elitist bastion—Wall Street Journal columnist (and former Barack neighbor) Thomas Frank says it’s complete bunk. Not only do Hyde Park-ers have... More »

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Barack Obama • Chicago • University of Chicago • Hyde Park • right-wing attacks • Milton Friedman

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