Know Your Right-Wing Ideologues:
Rundowns of our favorite right-wing ideologues.
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The anti-choice activist who called the late Dr. George Tiller “a mass murderer” has a long and provocative past. By Matt Zeitlin, June 23, 2009 |  | Tony Perkins
The president of the Family Research Council’s long history of pro-life, anti-gay activism. By Kay Steiger, March 11, 2009 |  | George Will
Though more conservative than Republican, the Washington Post columnist is no stranger to getting it wrong. By Sarah Karlin, March 2, 2009 |  | Irving Kristol
The godfather of the modern neoconservative movement began as a Trotskyite radical leftist. By Jake Blumgart, February 6, 2009 |  | 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. By Jamelle Bouie, January 13, 2009 |  | Hugh Hewitt
One highly connected neoconservative radio host’s influence extends beyond the airwaves. By Pat Garofalo, August 18, 2008 |  | Trent Lott
A former Mississippi senator who carries on the proud tradition of racial exceptionalism. By Laura Perez, August 1, 2008 |  | Daniel Pipes
Daniel Pipes tracks our nation’s traitorous professors so you don’t have to. By Valerie Saturen, February 27, 2008 |  | The Dark Side of Coors Light
The Coors family has been supporting conservative causes for decades. By Annika Carlson, February 1, 2008 |  | Domino's Pizza's Tom Monaghan
Monaghan has made a life of pouring his pizza-made millions into a bevy of conservative Catholic organizations. By Annika Carlson, Hope College, October 15, 2007 |  | Ann Coulter
Ann Coulter is the ultimate caricature of a right-winger. Know what makes her so bad. By Campus Progress, October 12, 2007 |  | Beverly LaHaye
LaHaye’s ideology is anything but mainstream. By Jenny Odegard, University of Minnesota, September 21, 2007 |  | Bryan Caplan
This George Mason economist favors free market biases over legitimate democracy, and has more ears in Washington than you might think. By Steven White, Hampshire College, September 4, 2007 |  | Rupert Murdoch
The most notorious media mogul is bringing “fair and balanced” to The Wall Street Journal and has his fingers in the upper echelons of the right-wing establishment. By Jesse Singal, Campus Progress, and Julie Brinn Siegel, University of Pennsylvania, August 7, 2007 |  | Refresh Your Memory: Alberto Gonzales
The Attorney General has a long, shady history. By Mic Check Radio, July 30, 2007 |  | Jerry Falwell
In memorial of the most revolutionarily partisan religious leader, Campus Progress reviews how his ever-present way of thinking changed the right forever. By Campus Progress, May 21, 2007 |  | Manuel Miranda
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. By Srinivas Rao, George Washington University, April 23, 2007 |  | Sean Hannity
A bully that dominates Fox’s “Hannity & Colmes,” and seems likely to takeover as leader of the right’s groupthink. By Campus Progress, January 16, 2007 |  | William F. Buckley, Jr.
Without Buckley, conservative ideals might never have taken center stage in American politics. By Tim Fernholz, Georgetown University, June 14, 2006 |  | Bill O'Reilly
He’s no impartial correspondent. In fact, his way of talking has skewed public discourse far to the right. By Campus Progress, December 14, 2005 |  | Phyllis Schlafly
No one has been more influential in this sleight of hand than the conservative movement’s godmother, Phyllis Schlafly, the Trent Lott of gender equality. By Campus Progress, March 27, 2005 |
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Michael Medved
Friday July 6, 2007 |
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James Dobson
Updated June 15, 2007 |
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Rush Limbaugh
Updated June 4, 2007 |
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Manuel Miranda
April 24, 2007 |
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David Horowitz
Updated March 30, 2007 |
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Michelle Malkin
Updated March 9, 2007 |
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Glenn Beck
February 14, 2007 |
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Dinesh D'Souza
Updated January 29, 2007 |
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John Bolton
December 20, 2006 |
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Ward Connerly
Updated December 4, 2006 |
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Norman Podhoretz
November 17, 2006 |
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Jim Gilchrist October 31, 2006 |
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Pat Buchanan
Updated October 16, 2006 |
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Charles Krauthammer October 5, 2006 |
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Donald Rumsfeld
September 19, 2006 |
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William Kristol
September 6, 2006 |
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Newt Gingrich
August 21, 2006 |
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Ralph Reed
August 8, 2006 |
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Frank Luntz
July 25, 2006 |
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Peggy Noonan
July 11, 2006 |
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Michael Savage
June 28, 2006 |
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William F. Buckley, Jr. June 14, 2006 |
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John Gibson
Updated May. 15, 2006 |
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Ann Coulter
Updated Feb. 21, 2006 |
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Kate O'Beirne
Apr. 17, 2006 |
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Pat Robertson
Updated Mar. 20, 2006 |
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Grover Norquist
Mar. 6, 2006 |
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John Ashcroft Nov. 28, 2005 |
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Laura Schlessinger
November 2, 2005 |
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William Bennett
Oct. 5, 2005 |
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Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson
July 26, 2005 |
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Robert Novak
July 7, 2005 |
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Ted Nugent
Apr. 25, 2005 |
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Phyllis Schlafly
Mar. 28, 2005 |
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Laura Ingraham
Mar. 14, 2005 |
In His Own Words
Our ten favorite quotes from Tom DeLay.
Christy Harvey, American Progress, Apr. 4, 2006
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