Tag Archives: Erick Erickson

Via email from syndicated columnist Erick Erickson: The census numbers are out. Texas is going to gain two seats. Florida will gain a seat. So too will North Carolina. New York will lose one. California will stay the same. But the overall number in the United States House of Representatives will remain at 435. The House has been fixed at …

Via email from right wing columnist Erick Erickson: Encouraged by President Trump, and let’s not mince words here — he told them to march on the Capitol, a mixed group of rabid, malcontented supporters stormed through barricades, smashed windows, and took up residence in the chair belonging to the President of the Senate who also happens to be the Vice …

Right wing columnist Erick Erickson writes: Ken Paxton, the Attorney General of Texas, is under a federal investigation and would love a presidential pardon. His lawsuit is just more performative leg humping by someone desperate to curry favor with President Trump. The various attorneys general who have joined his lawsuit all want to either get re-elected or seek higher office. …

Via email from right wing columnist Erick Erickson: On social media, more than 10,000 people have shared the results of a forensic audit in Ware County, Georgia. I keep getting asked about it. Voting machines were seized and a court-ordered audit happened. It turns out the machines really were throwing votes for Trump to Biden. In the test of the …

Right wing columnist Erick Erickson writes: Standing on stage at a stop the steal rally, Attorney Lin Wood, urged Georgia Republican voters to stay home and refrain from supporting the GOP in the special election runoffs that will decide control of the United States Senate. Wood has a history of helping the Democrats. He funded John Edwards’s presidential campaign. He …

Via email from right wing columnist Erick Erickson: I guarantee you that there will be vote fraud and the media discredits itself by denying any fraud. There is always fraud. The question is not if there was fraud, but was it enough to alter the outcome of the election. We are starting to get a sense of it in Pennsylvania. …

Via email from right wing columnist Erick Erickson: First, God does not make mistakes. Second, God made things perfect in the garden and our sin is what polluted things. Both same-sex sexual orientation and transgenderism are products of sin, not God’s plan for creation. We are essentially at a sexual tower of Babel. God created us male and female and …

Right winger Erick Erickson writes: I don’t really care what you think about Joe Scarborough, but no American deserves to have the President of the United States targeting him with accusations of murder. No American deserves the President of the United States tweeting out salacious and unproven accusations suggesting murder and conspiracy. The deceased’s family does not deserve it. Her …

Religion News Service reports: Inspired by a family in Georgia, a Christian movement to erect crosses decorated with Christmas lights during the pandemic has taken off nationally as a symbol of positivity and prayer. As part of a grassroots initiative people are calling both Faith Over Fear and Faith Not Fear, lit-up crosses are appearing in front yards from Kentucky …

“Even I am shocked that I would talk about President Trump and humility, but in this one regard he actually does exercise more humility than Pete Buttigieg. President Trump has said more than once he has never felt the need to repent for anything. That raises questions about his salvation that I have explored in the past and also why …

Once upon a time “Never Trump” leader Erick Erickson, last appeared on JMG when he fell for the far-right hoax that David Hogg wasn’t at school on the day of the Parkland massacre. Today Erickson claims that if Jeffery Epstein had been accused of molesting boys in drag, progressives would be rushing to his defense. As you can see below, …

The Daily Beast reports: The influential conservative website RedState fired a handful of prominent writers on Friday in a move that appeared motivated, at least in part, by purging the outlet of anti-Trump voices. The Daily Beast confirmed that among those laid off by RedState and its parent company Townhall Media were top editors and writers Caleb Howe, Jay Caruso, …

Over on the Resurgent, right wing commentator Erick Erickson has recounted a conversation with an unnamed GOP member of the US House. An excerpt: “If we’re going to lose because of him, we might as well impeach the motherfucker,” said the congressman as we roamed the aisles of a Safeway grocery store together. I haven’t been in a Safeway since …

The Washington Examiner reports: Conservative blog RedState issued a correction Monday evening to a piece that questioned if Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student David Hogg was actually on campus in Parkland, Fla., when the mass shooting occurred last month. The article was prompted after Hogg, one of the most outspoken voices following the shooting, made comments to CBS where …

The Christian Post reports: Evangelist Franklin Graham is being criticized for defending President Donald Trump after accusations surfaced that a lawyer for Trump had paid $130,000 to a porn star to keep quiet about an alleged affair. “I’m afraid I have to stop recommending Samaritan’s Purse. The judgment of its leadership raises too many questions,” wrote radio host and editor …

The Hill reports: A conservative columnist said President Trump called friends to brag after the meeting in which the president reportedly referred to Haiti, El Salvador and African nations as “shithole countries.” Citing a person who spoke with the president, The Associated Press reported that Trump doubled down on his reported comments from this week, defending the remark as not …

Mediaite reports: The Resurgent’s Erick Erickson, a conservative commentator who has been a Fox News contributor since 2013, is leaving the network, according to Politico’s Jake Sherman. Erickson, whose commentary has been both fiercely critical of President Donald Trump and his opponents, said he is leaving the network because his views don’t fit into any typical box. “After five years …

Right wing bloviator Erick Erickson writes: There is only a one way street and the crowd that demands tolerance only wants tolerance for themselves. All others must be silenced. The political left is becoming the American ISIS. But let’s not excuse the right. Increasingly, there are those on the right who think they have to behave exactly as the left …

Right wing radio host and erstwhile Never Trump cheerleader Erick Erickson today went on a tweetstorm declaring that he doesn’t have to care about climate change because he believes in Jesus. Twitter responded as Twitter is wont to do, spurring Erickson to double-down with cliched teabagger insults about liberal tears, blah blah blah. In other words, an ordinary douchebaggery-filled day …

Earlier this week Republican US Sen. Mike Enzi declared that if a man walks into a bar wearing a tutu, he should expect to be punched. After an immediate uproar, Enzi issued a seemingly sincere apology which he followed up on today with a personal phone call the man he was thought to be referencing. Via the Casper Star Tribune: …