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Female Breadwinners=Death of Civilization, Says Fox Panel

By Melissa Weininger

…breadwinner for the family. Almost immediately, this news created a media ruckus, particularly in the world of conservative punditry, where it was largely seen by a mostly male commentariat as a harbinger of doom for the American way of life. On Fox News, Lou Dobbs moderated a discussion about the dire consequences of this shift in family dynamics and gender relations. Commentator Juan Williams lamented that “something [is] going terribly wrong i…

Fox Makes Mockery Of Promise To Rein In Beck’s Anti-Semitism

By Sarah Posner

…from “anti-American” to “thinks he’s smarter than the rest of us.” Beck’s words have consequences. They advance a world view that ultimately places Jews like Soros in the crosshairs, not unlike what we saw with Father Coughlin in the 1930s or the John Birch Society in the 1950s. Byron Williams, a Beck acolyte who recently engaged in a shoot-out with police on his way to kill “people of importance at the Tides Foundation and the ACLU,” shares his…

Election Takeaway: Fake God Talk Doesn’t Cut It with Americans

By Anthea Butler

…n of their harmony was a strong delusion. Karl Rove’s epic meltdown on Fox News’ election night when Fox called the election for President Obama showed the strength of the delusion. Rove hijacked Fox News pundits and their audience, claiming there was still a path for Romney to win in Ohio. Now, Rove and the RNC’s fates are linked with the hard-line religious ideologues whose power is on the wane. From Akin’s “legitimate” rape to Richard Mourdock…

What to Make of the Chechnya Connection? An Expert Weighs In

By Hussein Rashid

…’s been more or less a hidden war for a generation, for which “the western news media has no in-depth knowledge,” especially when compared to situation in nations of the Middle East where news media have more or less open access. Without that core understanding of what is going on in the region, what the issues are, and what people’s actions are there, there is no way to make any association with what the two brothers in Boston did or why. He says…

Faith-Baiting in Minnesota and Elsewhere Follows the “Project Blitz” Playbook

By Frederick Clarkson

…he record—but he was able cast them as opponents of God and country on Fox News. After the Fox News segment aired, the rightwing media from Breitbart to LifeSiteNews exploded with coverage of this minor legislative moment and Hall’s comments. Meanwhile in Oklahoma, Governor Mary Fallin signed into law a bill that has been labeled as (and opposed as) a bill that allows the Ten Commandments to be posted in public schools, and government buildings, b…

To Fight White Supremacy We Must Resist Essentialism: The Author Responds

By Andrea R. Jain

…rsy on Yoga and White Supremacy Reveals Problem of Yoga Discussion.” In February of this year, I wrote on RD that Fox News journalist Caleb Parke egregiously misrepresented an article on yoga and cultural appropriation by Shreena Gandhi and Lillie Wolff. I argued that Parke offered a “very simple and misleading” picture of Gandhi and Wolff’s arguments, and I stood firmly behind what I took to be the main thesis of Gandhi and Wolff’s article: white…

To Fight White Supremacy We Must Resist Essentialism: The Author Responds

By Andrea R. Jain

…rsy on Yoga and White Supremacy Reveals Problem of Yoga Discussion.” In February of this year, I wrote on RD that Fox News journalist Caleb Parke egregiously misrepresented an article on yoga and cultural appropriation by Shreena Gandhi and Lillie Wolff. I argued that Parke offered a “very simple and misleading” picture of Gandhi and Wolff’s arguments, and I stood firmly behind what I took to be the main thesis of Gandhi and Wolff’s article: white…

Patriotism and Piety—Not For Conservatives Only

By Ira Chernus

…rituality, then we should not hesitate to proclaim the spirituality of our politics. Yes, this means mixing religion and politics, something so many liberals have long been afraid of. But most Americans have always wanted religion mixed into their politics, and for the foreseeable future they always will. It makes no sense to cede this nexus to the right. Instead, we should recognize that there is a right way and wrong way to do it, insist that it…

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Mitt Romney, the Public Face of Mormonism, Reckons with His Alienation From a Radicalized GOP and His Role in Enabling it

By Benjamin E. Park

…s mom had even urged him to join his high school’s smoking club as, in his words, “a kind of Mormon rumspringa.” (He ended up joining, but never attending.) Juvenile pranks resulted in him being arrested three times, episodes he was able to escape without lasting damage due to his father’s position. As he grew, of course, Romney became better at toeing the line in both religion and life. He served a mission for his church in France, where his vict…

Unimpeachable Office Politics

By Gretchen Koch

… The following is concerned only with office politics. It is certainly not a commentary on the impeachment process one might see all over the news. Not even a little. Nope. – eds…