Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe Is Hijacking America

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by John P. Avlon


  finger biting incident

  rallies and

  Moyers, Bill

  MSNBC/hosts

  about

  Countdown

  Hardball

  Morning Joe

  Tea Party Protests

  Mugabe, Robert, references/ comparisons

  Murdoch, Rupert

  Murrow, Edward R.

  Muslim Mafia (book)

  Mussolini, references/ comparisons

  Nader, Ralph

  Nation

  National Journal poll

  National Organization for Marriage

  National Press Club

  National Review

  Chris Buckley and

  Goldberg and

  Lowry and

  Parker and

  segregation

  National Review Online

  National Rifle Association (NRA)

  National Socialist movement

  Nativist groups statistics

  Nazi comparisons

  Birthers and

  consequences

  Godwin’s Law

  Henry Gasparian experience

  use of symbols

  what Nazis/Aryans think of See also “Obama as Hitler”; Obama Derangement Syndrome

  Nelson, Ben

  Neugebauer, Randy

  New York City Tea Party protests

  New York Daily News

  New York magazine

  New York Times

  NewMajority.com

  Newman, Jay Scott

  Newsmax.com

  9/11 Commission Report

  9/11 Truthers

  Alex Jones

  Berg

  Bush Derangement Syndrome and

  conspiracy theorists explained

  far right and

  overview

  people believing

  9/12 March on Washington

  Beck and

  date selection

  protest description

  Republican Party hunt for heretics and

  Nixon, Richard

  No Child Left Behind policy

  Nonpartisan redistricting reform

  Noonan, Peggy

  Norquist, Gover

  Nowacki, John

  Oath Keepers

  Obama, Barack

  Alinsky techniques

  assassination threats

  bipartisanship and

  Brandenburg Gate speech

  campaign technology gap

  comments on western Pennsylvania

  as community organizer

  demographics of win

  Denver’s Invesco Field at Mile High speech

  Illinois senate race

  on mother

  Nobel Peace Prize protests

  Obama, Michelle

  “Obama as Antichrist”

  e-mails/chain e-mails on

  examples

  McCain ad

  overview

  Snopes.com on

  Wiley Drake on See also Obama Derangement Syndrome

  “Obama as communist”

  advertising/products and

  Communist Party USA board member on

  consequences

  examples

  as “Manchurian Candidate”

  overview

  socialism and See also Obama Derangement Syndrome; Tea Party protests

  “Obama as Hitler”

  examples

  first examples

  Godwin’s Law

  health-care plan and

  Henry Gasparian experience

  making Hitler a liberal

  overview/evolution of

  Paul Broun

  what Nazis/Aryans think of

  youth movements and See also Nazi comparisons; Obama Derangement Syndrome; Tea Party protests; Town hall meetings/protests

  “Obama as Muslim”

  Birthers and

  campaign rallies

  examples See also Tea Party protests

  Obama Derangement Syndrome

  assassination threats/plans

  churches/ministers and

  description

  fears and

  How Take Back America Conference

  hyper-partisan talk radio and

  Limbaugh Brigades

  Palin supporters and

  praying for Obama’s death

  Value Voters Summit See also specific beliefs; specific individuals; specific web sites

  Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality (Corsi)

  “Obama Watch”

  “Obamalade”

  O’Connor, Sandra Day

  O’Donnell, Rosie

  “Ogabe” nickname

  Ohio Valley Freedom Fighters

  Olbermann, Keith

  anti-Bush comments

  apology

  background

  description/style

  health-care reform

  Nazi salute

  O’Reilly and

  overview

  as “truth teller”

  Open primaries

  O’Reilly, Bill

  Oswald, Lee Harvey

  Our Country Deserves Better, PAC

  Palin, Bristol

  Palin, Sarah

  background

  Beck and

  Birthers and

  campaign technology gap

  critics of

  daughter’s pregnancy and

  “death panels” and

  Draft Palin organizations/talk

  effigy of

  Facebook/Twitter use

  Limbaugh and

  McCain staffers and

  quitting governor position

  “real America”

  secession and

  socialism and

  socially conservative policy positions

  supporters

  Tina Fey and

  voter demographics

  as VP candidate

  wingnut media style and

  Parker, Kathleen

  criticizing Palin/consequences

  RINO hunters/hate e-mail and

  Party of Lincoln. See Republican Party

  Patrick, Dan

  Patriot Pastor (Garrett Lear)

  Paul, Ron

  2008 presidential campaign

  Alex Jones and

  followers

  9/11 Truthers

  Rhodes and

  Pawlenty, Tim

  Pelosi, Nancy

  Pence, Mike

  Perkins, Tony

  Perón, Juan comparisons

  Perot, Ross

  Perry, Rick

  Petraeus, David

  Pew Research Center for the People & the Press

  Phelps-Roper, Shirley/daughters

  Pigler, Pamela

  Piker, Eric S.

  Pilgrim, Kitty

  Pinter, Harold

  Plan, The (Beck)

  Political Cesspool radio show

  Politico

  Poplawski, Richard Andrew

  “Porkulus”

  Porter, Janet Folger

  Posse Comitatus groups

  Potok, Mark

  Powell, Colin

  Praying

  for Obama to fail

  for Obama’s death

  Prejean, Carrie

  Prince, The (Machiavelli)

  Progressive Change Campaign Committee

  Protests

  Revolutionary War period garb

  at soldier’s funerals

  Westboro Baptist Church

  white people and

  See also 9/12 March on Washington; Tea Party protests

  Public debt

  Public Policy Polling

  PUMAS

  Putnam, Adam

  Quayle, Dan

  Racism

  Abramoff/Native Americans

  hate e-mails

  Internet/e-mails

  white minority politics

  Young Republicans See also specific groups; specific individuals; White supremacists

>   Rall, Ted

  Rapture Index

  Rat-Finks

  Rather, Dan

  Reagan, Ronald

  “big tent” philosophy

  Civil Rights Act (1964)

  comparisons

  Eleventh Commandment of

  far left protestors

  Nazis and

  RINO test and

  “Real America”

  Reconstruction

  African-Americans

  Ku Klux Klan and

  “resistance” and

  states’ rights

  white minority politics and

  withdrawal of federal troops

  Reconstruction (Foner)

  Redistricting system

  RedState.com

  Reed, Ralph

  Reichert, David

  Republican Party

  African-Americans in Congress (before 1900)

  “economic fascism”

  history

  as hostage to extremists

  indefensible Tea Party signs and

  individual freedom vs. religious right

  lack of diversity

  “Party of Lincoln” and

  “regional” party and

  “reversal” with Democratic Party

  southern conservative power structure and

  statistics on conservative Republicans

  western libertarian conservatives and

  Young Republicans racism See also specific individuals

  Republican Party hunt for heretics

  big tent opposition

  Coleman/Franken Senate race

  crimes of heretics

  cult comparison

  desegregation and

  during George W. Bush administration

  51 percenters and

  Goodling and

  hate mail and

  “ideology” and

  Joe McCarthy era

  libertarians and

  New England region and

  overview

  Parker/hate e-mails

  party “growth” and

  party purity petition

  protest signs and

  “purification” of the party

  Scarborough on

  “squish” term

  targets See also RINO (Republican in Name Only)

  Republican Women of Anne Arundel County, Maryland

  Revolution Books, Manhattan

  Rhodes, Stewart

  Rice, Bill

  Rice, Condoleezza

  Right Principles

  RINO (Republican in Name Only)

  Coleman and

  Gingrich and

  hit list

  John Birch Society and

  Right Principles

  RINO hunters goal

  Supreme Court judges and See also Republican Party hunt for heretics

  Road to Serfdom, The (Hayek)

  Robertson, Pat

  Robespierre

  Robinson, Jackie

  Rockefeller, Nelson

  “Rocking the Town Halls-Best Practices” (MacGuffie)

  Roeder, Scott

  Romney, Mitt

  Roosevelt, Franklin D.

  Roosevelt, Theodore

  Ross, John

  Rove, Karl

  Ruby Ridge

  Rudolph, Eric

  Ruhl, Jacqueline

  Ruhl, Richard

  Rules for Radicals (Alinsky)

  Rumsfeld, Donald

  Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot (Franken)

  Sacramento Union

  Salon.com

  Salt Lake Tribune

  Same-sex marriage/unions

  Santelli, Rick

  Santorum, Rick

  Saturday Night Live/comics

  Sauerbrey, Ellen

  Savage, Michael

  extremism of

  Hatriots and

  white minority politics

  Scaife, Richard Mellon

  Scarborough, Joe

  Schlafly, Phyllis

  Schneider, SS Corporal

  Schriffen, Lisa

  Schultz, Ed

  Scott, David

  Scozzafava, Dede

  Scripps-Howard poll

  Scully, Matthew

  Secession talks

  far right and

  Georgia

  states passing secession resolutions

  Segregation

  anti-segregation civil rights legislation/effects

  Democratic Party and

  National Review on whites

  Reconstruction era and

  White Citizens Councils See also Integration

  Sekulow, Jordan

  Service Employees International Union (SEIU)

  700 Club

  Sewell, Jeffrey

  Sharpe, Bolling v.

  Sharpton, Al

  Shay, Audra

  attack on opponent

  background

  homophobia of

  racism of

  Young Republicans and

  Sheehan, Cindy

  Sheen, Charlie

  Simard, Stephanie

  Sisak, Mary

  Slave labor, U.S. Capitol Building

  Smith, Chris

  Smith, Lamar

  Smith, Margaret Chase

  Snopes

  Snowe, Olympia

  Social Security Act

  Solutions

  Southern Baptist Convention

  Southern Partisan magazine

  Southern Poverty Law Center

  Spears, Jamie Lynn

  Specter, Arlen

  changing parties

  Republican’s hunting for heretics and

 

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