Tag Archives: RedState

Right Wing Site Sorry For “RINO Hunting” Contest

Mediaite reports: The conservative blog RedState has retracted a blog post announcing a new contest that encouraged readers to go “RINO hunting,” and report back to their comment section. The original article published Saturday morning called on RedState readers to help the publication gather “targets” for a new weekly competition which was billed by the outlet as a peculiar form …

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RedState Anti-Fauci Troll Exposed As NIH Staffer

The Daily Beast reports: The managing editor of the prominent conservative website RedState has spent months trashing U.S. officials tasked with combating COVID-19, dubbing White House coronavirus task force member Dr. Anthony Fauci a “mask nazi,” and intimating that government officials responsible for the pandemic response should be executed. But that writer, who goes by the pseudonym “streiff,” isn’t just …

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Right Wing Site RedState Fires All Its Trump Critics

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, …

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Right Winger Erick Erickson Falls For Story Claiming Parkland’s David Hogg Wasn’t At School During Attack

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 …

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Right Wing Site To GOP: Confirm Merrick Garland To SCOTUS Before Hillary Gives Us Someone Much Worse

Politico reports: RedState has a message for Senate Republicans: Confirm Merrick Garland for the Supreme Court now — before Hillary Clinton picks someone much worse next year. Leon Wolf, the managing editor of conservative blog RedState.com, wrote in a post Wednesday that with Ted Cruz dropping out of the race for the GOP nomination and Donald Trump positioned to take …

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Wingnuts Call For “Unity Ticket” To Stop Trump

Politico reports: A group of conservative leaders and activists, including RedState.com founder Erick Erickson and former George W. Bush adviser Bill Wichterman, called for the formation of a GOP “unity ticket” on Thursday to stop Donald Trump from becoming the 2016 Republican nominee. Huddled on the second floor of the Army and Navy Club in downtown Washington D.C., the group’s …

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RedState: Trump Never Donated To 9/11 Charities

Via RedState: According to a thorough review, Trump didn’t see fit to give any of those millions of dollars he is always bragging about to help out the men, women, children, cops, firefighters, office workers … hey, let’s just call them New Yorkers, who were killed or who lost someone in the terror of September 11th. In fact, his supposedly …

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Erick Erickson Literally Shoots The New York Times

Yesterday the New York Times published a rare front page editorial in support of gun control. Wingnut commentator Erick Erickson responded in typically rational fashion by literally shooting seven holes in a copy of the paper.  JMG reader Joe directs us to the many amusing reactions on Twitter, one of which is below. Hit the link for many more.

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RedState: Donald Trump Used Racist “Rhetorical Trick” Against Ben Carson [VIDEO]

During his now-famous 95-minute rant against Ben Carson, on Friday Donald Trump said that Carson is an “enigma.” According to RedState, that word was a racist “rhetorical trick” to plant the N-word in the minds of the audience. They write: TRUMP: Now Carson’s an enigma to me. CROWD: [Unintelligible] TRUMP: I didn’t say it! [Laughter]. Why are they laughing? What …

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Trump Disinvited From RedState Event

Trump was to be tonight’s headliner and most of the other GOP candidates will be speaking there this weekend. While we enjoy the escalating teabagger implosion, let’s not forget that Erick Erickson, the person now leading the charge against Donald Trump, regularly calls you a NAMBLA-supporting member of the gaystapo and a hell-bound mentally ill homofascist. Erickson has also called …

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