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NEWS ABOUT: right-wing extremism

right-wing extremism stories: 16 news summaries
analysis

 Right 
 Suddenly 
 Embraces 
 Truther King 

Alex Jones is like Glenn Beck, only moreso

Oct 8, 09 1:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - It wasn’t long ago that the right wing hated Alex Jones. A top voice in the 9/11 Truth movement, he was repeatedly ridiculed on Fox News, and Michelle Malkin said Ron Paul’s association with him should disqualify him from the GOP primary debates. But Jones is a non-partisan... More »

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libertarian • Glenn Beck • right-wing media • tea parties • right-wing extremism • truther • Alex Jones

 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

tv review

 True Blood Kills 
 With Metaphors 
 (and, Uh, Sex) 

Kinky sex meets social commentary

Aug 28, 09 8:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - Critics are gushing about HBO's hit True Blood, which manages to marry kinky vampire sex to social commentary, writes Gina Bellafante in the New York Times. The barrier-busting series touches on gay marriage, racial profiling, capitalism run amok, and right-wing religious extremism. In the current season, a crazed Christian cult... More »

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gay marriage • HBO • blood • racial profiling • right-wing extremism • True Blood • television program • Anna Paquin • Stephen Moyer

(Newser) - Town hall crazies, you have met your match. Rep. Barney Frank had no time for a woman who asked why he supported Barack Obama's "Nazi" policies, calling it "vile, contemptible nonsense" and asking, "On what planet do you spend most of your time?" When the questioner... More »

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Barack Obama • Nazi • Barney Frank • health care reform • town hall meeting • right wingers • right-wing extremism • deathers

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

Blogger's Case Tests Limits of Free Speech

Far-right critic remains in jail after calling for judges' deaths

Aug 15, 09 1:46 PM CDT
(Newser) - When three federal judges rejected an NRA lawsuit, Internet radio host Hal Turner got angry. “These judges deserve to be killed,” he wrote on his blog. “Their blood will replenish the tree of liberty.” Then he posted photos of the judges, maps to their courthouse, and... More »

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FBI • free speech • NRA • First Amendment • National Rifle Association • right-wing extremism

OPINION

 Beck to Audience: 
 Nobody Flip Out, 
 Kill a Bunch 
 of People 

Gawker wonders what prompted this bizarre request

Aug 4, 09 7:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Glenn Beck took it down a notch last night, adopting an “unusually subdued” manner to close his show by “imploring his audience not to murder innocent people,” writes the Cajun Boy for Gawker. Beck’s thoughts included, among other things, the warning that “Just one lunatic... More »

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Fox News • Glenn Beck • right-wing media • conservative media • right-wing extremism • Timothy McVeigh

 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) - Very late in the presidential campaign, staffers for Sen. John McCain came to the painful realization that it would be impossible, ever, to get Sarah Palin up to speed, reports Vanity Fair. They discovered, too late, she was a truth-shifting, self-regarding "little shop of horrors" who knew little about... More »

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politics • Vanity Fair • GOP • Republican Party • Sarah Palin • Bristol Palin • Todd Palin • right-wing extremism

(Newser) - The shootings of George Tiller and a National Holocaust Museum guard came despite a renewed FBI effort to preempt solo acts of political violence, the Wall Street Journal reports. Identifying such extremists—while respecting their civil rights—is a challenge. Both James von Brunn and Scott Roeder expressed their... More »

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FBI • extremists • white supremacism • domestic terrorism • right-wing extremism • Scott Roeder • James Von Brunn

OPINION

 Right Fans 
 Flames of 
 Extremist 
 Fury: Rich 

Right-wing rhetoric complicit in rise of extremism

Jun 14, 09 10:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - When a Fox News anchor cautions against the rising extremism of hate-driven Americans, as Shepard Smith did after the Holocaust Museum shooting, we should take note, argues Frank Rich in the New York Times. Unlike his fear-mongering colleagues, says Rich, Smith—not known for having an agenda—had "... More »

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Barack Obama • Bill O'Reilly • Fox News • Frank Rich • domestic terrorism • culture wars • Shepard Smith • right-wing extremism

Right Rips Smith for Warning on Right-Wing Violence

Conservatives call for head of Fox anchor

Jun 12, 09 2:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - Conservatives are calling for the head of Shepard Smith after the Fox anchor suggested that the Holocaust Museum shooting backs up a Homeland Security report warning of a rise in right-wing extremism, Gawker reports. Right-wing bloggers labeled Smith a "pompous elitist" and said he should be fired, while Rush... More »

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Rush Limbaugh • Holocaust Museum • Department of Homeland Security • Fox News • news anchor • Shepard Smith • right-wing extremism

Shooter Tried
to 'Arrest'
Fed Members
in 1981

Von Brunn served
6 years in prison

Jun 10, 09 7:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - Details about the twisted past of the elderly man who killed a guard at the US Holocaust Museum continues to surface. In a bizarre incident in 1981, James von Brunn, then 62, stormed into the Federal Reserve's headquarters in DC armed with two guns, a knife, and a fake bomb,... More »

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crime • Holocaust Museum • Neo-Nazi • shooting • anti-Semitism • right-wing extremism • James Von Brunn

(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

 Let's Help Vets 
 Avoid Extremist Urge 


Apr 18, 09 1:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - The recent Homeland Security report detailing right-wing extremist recruitment of veterans is “true, true, true,” Charles M. Blow writes in the New York Times. But “conservatives reacted by throwing a knee-jerk hissy fit,” suggesting that vets “were being vilified by a partisan document.”... More »

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veterans • US military • recruitment • Department of Homeland Security • white supremacism • PTSD • right-wing extremism

Napolitano Apologizes to Vets for Report

DHS had painted soldiers as prone to right-wing extremism

Apr 16, 09 4:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Janet Napolitano apologized today for language in a recent Homeland Security report suggesting that veterans were more likely to be wooed by far-right extremist groups, CNN reports. “The return of military veterans facing significant challenges,” said the report evaluating domestic threats, “could lead to the potential emergence... More »

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veterans • US military • Department of Homeland Security • Janet Napolitano • domestic terrorism • right-wing extremism • Timothy McVeigh • lone wolf

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