Know Your Right Wingers
William Kristol
If you want to stare into the face of neoconservatism embodied, click here. His name is William “Bill” Kristol, and he is a neoconservative mastermind.
Posted Thursday, January 4, 2007 in Know Your Right Wingers
John Bolton
John Bolton has been a stalwart defender of a hard-line conservative foreign policy agenda.
Posted Wednesday, December 20, 2006 in Know Your Right Wingers by Keith White
Ward Connerly
If you’ve heard Ward Connerly speak, chances are you’ve heard the story of a plucky kid growing up poor and pulling himself out of poverty. Now he is the leading African-American opponent of affirmative action.
Posted Monday, December 4, 2006 in Know Your Right Wingers
Norman Podhoretz
Norman Podhoretz, pundit, literary critic, and unflinching defender of the Iraq War, stands—alongside Irving Kristol—as a patriarch of today’s neo-conservative movement.
Posted Friday, November 17, 2006 in Know Your Right Wingers by Keith White
Jim Gilchrist
It takes more than 60 seconds to understand the Minutemen, especially their founder, Jim Gilchrist.
Posted Tuesday, October 31, 2006 in Know Your Right Wingers by Joseph Peha
Pat Buchanan
Though today he is often out-shouted by “neocon” right-wingers and the younger, louder contingent of Ann Coulter and the like, Pat Buchanan remains true to the old school of bigoted, right-wing conservatives.
Posted Monday, October 16, 2006 in Know Your Right Wingers
Charles Krauthammer
For more than two decades, Charles Krauthammer, the consummate beltway psychoanalytic pundit, has provoked minds of all partisan stripes with his prolific commentary.
Posted Thursday, October 5, 2006 in Know Your Right Wingers by Keith White
Donald Rumsfeld
Donald Rumsfeld came to government as the brash whiz kid; now he stands as Washington’s most seasoned conservative veteran.
Posted Tuesday, September 19, 2006 in Know Your Right Wingers by Keith White
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich went from beloved Republican leader to the Elephant graveyard in the span of four years. Now he’s back—and he’s got plenty of skeletons along for the ride.
Posted Monday, August 21, 2006 in Know Your Right Wingers by Ryan Werder
Ralph Reed
Ralph Reed, the Bible-wielding, vote-reaping, Christian Coalition-leading, Bush-adoring wingnut, made it to the heights from which he fell with amazing gracelessness.
Posted Tuesday, August 8, 2006 in Know Your Right Wingers by Ryan Werder
Frank Luntz
Frank Luntz, a conservative political consultant and pollster, is to conservative message strategy what some would say Ohio State Coach Jim Trussel is to college football.
Posted Tuesday, July 25, 2006 in Know Your Right Wingers by Elizabeth Mattiuzzi
Peggy Noonan
Peggy Noonan, a longtime speechwriter, formulated much of the conservative rhetoric of the 1980s that masked the harsh policies of conservative leaders.
Posted Tuesday, July 11, 2006 in Know Your Right Wingers by Tim Fernholz
Michael Savage
Michael Savage, as much as any other radio host, represents the id of the angry white male.
Posted Wednesday, June 28, 2006 in Know Your Right Wingers by Andrew Bean
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Though William Buckley has passed away there is no question that his legacy will live on. He was “one of the few intellectually honest conservatives” in the public sphere.
Posted Wednesday, June 14, 2006 in Know Your Right Wingers by Tim Fernholz
John Gibson
John Gibson is in the midst of the heated national debate around immigration, wherein the Fox News anchor was quick to issue an urgent call to arms.
Posted Wednesday, May 31, 2006 in Know Your Right Wingers by Tim Fernholz
Kate O’Beirne
Kate O’Beirne is the right-wing media’s anti-feminist steamroller.
Posted Monday, April 17, 2006 in Know Your Right Wingers
Grover Norquist
Grover Norquist is the most influential conservative activist you’ve barely heard of.
Posted Monday, March 6, 2006 in Know Your Right Wingers by Annika Carlson and Julia Gronnevet
David Horowitz
David Horowitz relishes his role as a former campus leftist who now gleefully spews angry criticism of academia and the left.
Posted Tuesday, January 10, 2006 in Know Your Right Wingers by Niral Shah
Bill O’Reilly
Bill O’Reilly is no impartial correspondent. In fact, his way of talking has skewed public discourse far to the right.
Posted Wednesday, December 14, 2005 in Know Your Right Wingers by Campus Progress
John Ashcroft
Many believe that former Attorney General John Ashcroft’s attacks on civil liberties and his radical right-wing ideology are incompatible with a just and free society.
Posted Monday, November 28, 2005 in Know Your Right Wingers
