{"id":16898,"date":"2015-10-25T11:04:27","date_gmt":"2015-10-25T18:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=16898"},"modified":"2015-10-25T11:04:27","modified_gmt":"2015-10-25T18:04:27","slug":"5-ridiculous-right-wing-moments-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/25\/5-ridiculous-right-wing-moments-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Ridiculous Right-Wing Moments This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

Almost every week, Republicans join a competition to see who can say the most outlandish things, and in the process, they push the envelope on just how nutty InsaniTEA can become.  I trust that you will believe it, when I tell you that last week was no exception.<\/span><\/p>\n

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1. Don’t worry, President Ben Carson would only crack down on liberal speech on college campuses.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ben Carson, who now leads the polls in Iowa (apparently because Muslim-bashing and comparing Obamacare to slavery is wildly popular among Republican voters there), had some comforting words for his fellow conservatives this week. He will preserve their free-speech rights on college campuses, but monitor those with more left-leaning views.<\/p>\n

Whew! That is a relief. For a minute there, we thought when he told radio host Dana Loesch he would charge the Department of Education with monitoring and punishing<\/a> examples of “extreme political bias” at colleges and universities that he was going to threaten people’s First Amendment rights. But it turns out, he only means people with whom he disagrees.<\/p>\n

“There are some who would say that it’s kind of like monitoring political speech,” Loesch said. “Do you agree with their assessment of that?”<\/p>\n

“No, I don’t," Carson replied. “I think it’s a very big difference. But, of course, that would be the first thing that the left would claim because they want to be able to continue to do this, and it’s not appropriate for public funding to be used to indoctrinate students in one direction.”<\/p>\n

The highly educated neurosurgeon perceives neither the irony nor the hypocrisy of this position because, apparently, he missed that day in school.<\/p>\n

It seems to me that the Republicans have their very own scarecrow, one that is decidedly in need of a brain!  Isn't it interesting how the Republicans call out Mr Obama and Democrats for not following the Constitution, yet here is a Republican presidential nominee candidate who advocates taking away first amendment rights from liberals.  <\/span><\/p>\n

This is just one of the absurdities of right wing America.  To be sure, there are more than five, but publishing space is limited.  Read about the other four enumerated in <\/span>Alternet<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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