{"id":19265,"date":"2016-01-20T01:05:21","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T09:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=19265"},"modified":"2016-01-20T01:11:22","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T09:11:22","slug":"5-looniest-right-wing-moments-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/20\/5-looniest-right-wing-moments-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Looniest Right-Wing Moments This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">If we did not have Republicans and their loonie hanger-ons, you know, the denizens of Faux Noise, Rush Limbaugh etc ad nauseam, comedians would be out of inspiration for their work and we would be very dull people indeed!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Megyn Kelly upset that Muslim activist was invited to SOTU.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Megyn Kelly, a little like Jeb! Bush, gets wholly undeserved points for being a reasonable voice in a sea of crazies. Let&rsquo;s just think about that for a moment. This is a woman who has been on a mission to prove that Santa Claus is a white man, because that&rsquo;s important to her.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/megyn-kelly-goforth-614x412.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-19273\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"megyn-kelly-goforth-614x412\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-19273\" height=\"201\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/megyn-kelly-goforth-614x412-300x201.jpg\" width=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/megyn-kelly-goforth-614x412-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/megyn-kelly-goforth-614x412.jpg 614w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week, Kelly focused her outrage on the fact that Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz invited a Muslim civil liberties activist to the State of the Union speech.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We have an outrageous situation where you have much of the Republican field of presidential candidates, and others, who have consistently criticized, discriminated against, said horrific things about Muslim Americans in this country,&quot; Wasserman-Schultz tried to explain. &ldquo;Presidential candidate Donald Trump&#8230;&rdquo; she sputtered before Kelly cut her off.<\/p>\n<p>Seems old Megyn would have preferred a different Muslim American, one who was not a civil rights activist, because she thinks there are &ldquo;a lot of great Muslim Americans&rdquo; out there.<\/p>\n<p>No doubt, some of them are her best friends even if they don&#39;t believe in white Santa.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">This is the fifth of five loonie right-wing moments this week. &nbsp;That does not mean there are only five, only that there is only so much space that can be devoted to these losers! &nbsp;Click through the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/tea-party-and-right\/5-looniest-right-wing-moments-week-bill-oreilly-comes-out-doozy\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\"><strong>Alternet<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\"> article for the other four.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we did not have Republicans and their loonie hanger-ons, you know, the denizens of Faux Noise, Rush Limbaugh etc ad nauseam, comedians would be out of inspiration for their work and we would be very dull people indeed! Megyn Kelly upset that Muslim activist was invited to SOTU. Megyn Kelly, a little like Jeb! <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/20\/5-looniest-right-wing-moments-this-week\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}