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Rep. Hayes Lies: I Never Said ‘Liberals Hate Real Americans’ - Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

On Saturday, Republican North Carolina Reps. Patrick McHenry and Robin Hayes warmed up the crowd at a rally for Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) by throwing red meat to the right-wing audience. As ThinkProgress noted, the New York Observer’s Jason Horowitz reported that Hayes “accused Obama of ‘inciting class warfare’ and said that ‘liberals hate [...]

Homeland Security Report Sharply Rebukes McCain’s ‘Islamic Extremism’ Rhetoric - Friday, April 25th, 2008

Earlier this week, The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) launched a campaign to persuade Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) to drop the adjective “Islamic” when describing terrorists and extremists. Indeed, one of McCain’s favorite talking points is railing against “Islamic” extremists and terrorists. But the McCain campaign has refused to budge, saying that he will [...]

Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week comes early this year. - Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Last October, conservatives, led by David Horowitz, held Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week “to educate students and other Americans about the ‘cadre of Islamic terrorists‘ who ‘have declared Holy War on the U.S.’” The week of events was widely mocked, but that hasn’t stopped it from making an early return. As Josh Marshall notes today, “October’s IAW [...]

Horowitz: There’s a ‘figurative’ noose ‘over my head.’ - Friday, October 26th, 2007

Speaking at Columbia University today for the culmination of Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, right winger David Horowitz compared the negative reception his campaign has received on campus to the recent incident of a noose being hung on the door of a black professor at Columbia. Horowitz claimed “nooses have been put figuratively on the doors of [...]

Drexel confirms it is not part of Islamo-Fascism Week. - Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

Earlier today, ThinkProgress noted how David Horowitz is dishonestly inflating the number of schools participating in his “clownish” Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week. According to a Drexel University student who wrote to TPM, “there are no speakers, movies, or other events planned, and there has been no announcement of TAW either” at the school, despite being listed [...]

Horowitz Inflates Number Of Schools Participating In His Divisive ‘Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week’ - Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

On college campuses across America this week, conservatives are gathering together to listen to right-wing luminaries such as Ann Coulter and former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) as part of David Horowitz’s Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week.
Horowitz is claiming that it will be “the biggest conservative campus protest ever” and “a wake-up call for Americans on 200 university [...]

Giuliani Signals Support For Second Escalation Of U.S. Forces To Iraq - Friday, June 15th, 2007

In an interview this week with Bloomberg TV, former Mayor Rudy Giuliani declared that he would consider increasing U.S. troop levels in Iraq, beyond the tens of thousands of soldiers ordered in January as part of President Bush’s escalation policy.
Bloomberg host Peter Cook asked Giuliani, “If General Petraeus comes back in September and says, we [...]

ThinkFast: April 13, 2007 - Friday, April 13th, 2007

Former Chrysler CEO Lee Iacocca lambastes the Bush administration in his new book. “Am I the only guy in this country who’s fed up with what’s happening?” Iacocca writes. “Where the hell is our outrage? We should be screaming bloody murder. … But instead of getting mad, everyone sits around and nods their heads when [...]

Sen. Lamar Alexander ♥ David Horowitz - Tuesday, April 18th, 2006

Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) delivered the keynote speech at the Students for Academic Freedom conference, a group started by right-wing activist David Horowitz. Alexander heaped praise upon Horowitz, calling him a “geniune, dedicated, experienced, and [un]usually successful movement leader.”
A look at some of the things this “leader” has said:
Guns don’t kill black people, [...]

O’Reilly Says CAP Is “A Very Well-Oiled, Effective Character Assassination Machine” - Wednesday, October 26th, 2005

On last night’s Factor, Bill O’Reilly took a shot at CAP’s rapid response operation (i.e. ThinkProgress and The Progress Report). From last night’s broadcast:

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BILL O’REILLY: All of these people are far left fringe players, but they know their money is going to smear merchants. They know it’s going into character assassins, [...]

Jonah Goldberg Is Bad At Apologizing - Sunday, August 28th, 2005

Jonah Goldberg has written an “apology” for being “too glib” earlier post about Cindy Sheehan and Nazis. Here’s an excerpt:
I don’t think agreeing with Sheehan on the need to pull out of Iraq makes you akin to Nazis or racists in any meaningful or significant way.
That’s reassuring. Goldberg goes on to make further comparisons between [...]

Horowitz Targets Toddlers - Thursday, June 9th, 2005

Right-wing activist David Horowitz has been leading an aggressive effort “to limit what teachers may discuss and to bring more conservative views into the classroom.” Now he’s taking his ideological campaign to elementary schools, middle schools and high schools. The Christian Science Monitor reports:
“The last six months [have] been kind of a watershed for the [...]

The Malkinization of Ground Zero - Thursday, June 9th, 2005

Right-wing bloggers, led by Michelle Malkin, have exploded with outrage over a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed that supposedly “[blows] the whistle on…human rights zealots who are trying to turn Ground Zero into a blame-America monument.” Malkin calls it the “Soros-ization of Ground Zero.”
Apparently the group — the International Freedom Center — that’s designing part [...]

How ThinkProgress.org “Slandered” David Horowitz - Tuesday, June 7th, 2005

Right-wing activist David Horowitz has printed two articles attacking ThinkProgress.org. His most frequent complaint is that we point out that Horowitz freely compared American liberals to Islamic terrorists. He has called the charge “slander.” It’s a puzzling position from someone who wrote a book called “Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left.”
But let’s [...]

David Horowitz Thinks You’re Stupid - Monday, June 6th, 2005

Frontpagemag.com, the publication of right-wing activist David Horowitz, has this to say about ThinkProgress.org readers:
Podesta and Think Progress here have an advantage: half the people in America have an I.Q. of 100 or less, and this half tends to vote for Democrats. The Think Progress constituency is easy to fool precisely because it does little [...]

The Multiple Lies of David Horowitz - Tuesday, May 31st, 2005

David Horowitz, Then:
The Podesta site gives the following absurd examples of my alleged intellectual defamations and historical inaccuracies:
1. “He has freely compared American liberals to Islamic terrorists”
The statement is a lie. I have never compared actual liberals to Islamic terrorists. The reference link is to the Amazon site [...]

Horowitz’s Tall Tale - Tuesday, March 15th, 2005

David Horowitz has been campaigning to end the vast left-wing conspiracy on college campuses. To support his claims of inappropriate political bias, Horowitz has been talking about a student at Northern Colorado University who was asked on a test to “explain why George Bush is a war criminal.” According to Horowitz’s account, the student wrote [...]

Horowitz’s Vast Left Wing Conspiracy - Tuesday, February 22nd, 2005

David Horowitz, champion of political balance on America’s college campuses, has posted an interesting “lesson” on his new website, Discoverthenetwork.org. It turns out, according to Horowitz’s dogged research, that most of America’s progressive leaders, Hollywood entertainers and civil rights advocates are closely aligned with radical Islamic terrorists known for killing Americans, such as Abu Musab [...]

Horowitz’s Politically Correct Database - Wednesday, February 16th, 2005

A lot has been said, in the wake of the Ward Churchill controversy, about David Horowitz’s proposed “Academic Bill of Rights,” now being considered as a law in the Ohio State Senate. Horowitz says it is necessary because political bullying occurs regularly in college classrooms. Here are some examples of what he is apparently talking [...]

David Horowitz, Champion of Open Debate - Wednesday, February 16th, 2005

Conservatives in the Ohio State Senate are considering a bill that would prohibit public and private college professors from introducing “controversial matter” into the classroom and shift oversight of college course content to state governments and courts. The language of the bill comes from right-wing activist David Horowitz’s “Academic Bill of Rights,” which recommends states [...]