 To Palin Supporters
Sarah’s Future Looks Bright
By Abby Scher
Public Eye Extra! July 6, 2009
Sarah Palin’s true blue supporters haven’t won a lot of attention in the post-mortem after she gave up the Alaska governorship – or as she put it, her “title.” But Sarah’s political career is no beauty pageant to the thousands who organize themselves through Team Sarah, the web community “dedicated to advancing the values that Sarah Palin represents in the political process.”
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Is Bill O'Reilly Responsible for the Tiller Murder?
"Who Will Rid Me of This Troublesome Doctor?": Bill O’Reilly, King Henry II, and George Tiller
 By Chip Berlet
Religion Dispatches, June 24, 2009
Thomas Becket was murdered at the suggestion of the powerful King Henry II, who then did public penance. Do pundits like Bill O'Reilly, who spoke so hatefully of George Tiller, likewise bear some responsibility for that crime?
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Battle over Labor Law Reform
Shows True Power of the Right
By Abby Scher
 The Public Eye Magazine, Summer 2009
Some people may enjoy watching the Right thrash around trying to find its way in the Obama Age, but I take the election results and their aftermath as a sign of a country dangerously divided. There really was a stark difference in the major party candidates, and 46 percent voted for the guy who lost. 59,946,378 is a lot of people. This political force isn’t going away.
During the McCarthy Era of the early 1950s, the anticommunist movement fed off of disgruntled Republicans who could not accept that huge influential chunks of their party accepted the New Deal and the role of the government in regulating capitalism.
Toxic to Democracy
Conspiracy Theories, Demonization, & Scapegoating
 What is the historical context of a conspiracy theorist who rejects the Holocaust’s existence? How do right-wing political pundits contribute to the recent rash of violence linked to White supremacist groups? Political Research Associates Senior Researcher Chip Berlet addresses these questions and more in his most recent work, Toxic to Democracy.
Toxic to Democracy sheds light on the tenacity of conspiracy theories in American politics and the corrosive use of demonizing language that scapegoats certain groups. With the nation at a crossroads—the election of a Black President reveals both progress and backlash—this report is indispensible to understanding how right-wing pundits and militants alike are making sense of our world.
Listen to Terry Gross of Fresh Air interview Chip about Toxic to Democracy.
PRA's Liberty Beat Civil Liberties Blog
Tracking civil liberties in the Obama Age for Political Research Associates is Civil Liberties Project Director Thom Cincotta.
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Fresh Air Interview with Chip Berlet About the Far Right, Conspiracy Theory And Murder
