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Rick Warren

Rick Warren, Barack Obama’s pick to give the Inaugural invocation, isn’t a centrist. He enables homophobia, opposes abortion, and supports military action against Iran.

Posted Tuesday, January 13, 2009 in Know Your Right Wingers by Jamelle Bouie

Hugh Hewitt

Hugh Hewitt is a highly connected neoconservative radio host whose influence extends beyond the airwaves.

Posted Monday, August 18, 2008 in Know Your Right Wingers by Pat Garofalo

Trent Lott

Trent Lott is a former Mississippi senator who carries on the proud tradition of racial exceptionalism.

Posted Friday, August 1, 2008 in Know Your Right Wingers by Laura Perez

Daniel Pipes

Daniel Pipes tracks our nation’s traitorous professors so you don’t have to.

Posted Wednesday, February 27, 2008 in Know Your Right Wingers by Valerie Saturen

The Dark Side of Coors Light

The Coors family has been supporting conservative causes for decades.

Posted Friday, February 1, 2008 in Know Your Right Wingers by Annika Carlson

Domino’s Pizza’s Tom Monaghan

Monaghan has made a life of pouring his pizza-made millions into a bevy of conservative Catholic organizations.

Posted Monday, October 15, 2007 in Know Your Right Wingers by Annika Carlson, Hope College

Ann Coulter

Ann Coulter has been called “a bizarre sideshow,” a “talking kite,” and “just plain evil.” But CampusProgress.org won’t stoop to name calling.

Posted Friday, October 12, 2007 in Know Your Right Wingers

Beverly LaHaye

Beverly LaHaye seems, at first glance, like a role-model for young women everywhere. In reality her ideology is anything but mainstream.

Posted Friday, September 21, 2007 in Know Your Right Wingers by Jenny Odegard

Bryan Caplan

Bryan Caplan is a George Mason economist who favors free market biases over legitimate democracy and has more ears in Washington than you might think.

Posted Tuesday, September 4, 2007 in Know Your Right Wingers by Steven White

Rupert Murdoch

The notorious media mogul Rupert Murdoch is bringing ‘fair and balanced’ to The Wall Street Journal and has his fingers in the upper echelons of the right-wing establishment.

Posted Tuesday, August 7, 2007 in Know Your Right Wingers by Jesse Singal and Julie Brinn Siegel

Michael Medved

Michael Medved is a conservative critic who uses a daily radio show to flood the airwaves with his right-wing commentary.

Posted Friday, July 6, 2007 in Know Your Right Wingers by Zach Marks

James Dobson

James Dobson founded the über-conservative Focus on the Family and Family Research Council and broadcasts a radio address that reaches an estimated 7 million American listeners each day.

Posted Friday, June 15, 2007 in Know Your Right Wingers by Cara Boekeloo

Rush Limbaugh

Rush Limbaugh is a ‘right-wing king of the airwaves’. Powered by The Rush Limbaugh Show, he has been on the air now for seventeen years.

Posted Monday, June 4, 2007 in Know Your Right Wingers by Michael Gottwald

Jerry Falwell

Jerry Falwell’s ever-present way of thinking changed the right forever.

Posted Monday, May 21, 2007 in Know Your Right Wingers

Every war has its crimes, its injustices, and, of course, its war criminals. The culture war is no different—case in point, the sordid tale of former Republican staffer and conservative activist Manuel Miranda.

Posted Monday, April 23, 2007 in Know Your Right Wingers by Srinivas Rao