7 Instances of All-Out, Mean-Spirited, Right-Wing Lunacy From This Week Alone

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1. Texas GOP Candidate: Texas Can Be Its Own ‘Island Nation’

Barry Smitherman, aspiring attorney general for the Lone-Star state, thinks Texas is prepared to become its own independent nation, mostly because it has oil and its own energy grid. He compared the state to an “island nation,” which is curious given its geography.

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2. Fox Guest: No Money, No Lunch Is a Good Teaching Moment

Most people who don’t give a fig about the well-being of poor children are at least careful to disguise their callousness, or have the decency to gravitate toward work that has nothing to do with kids. But not all of them, as it turns out. The award for most blatantly heartless comment of the week goes to Fox & Friends guest Thomas Kersting. Kersting is a therapist and school counselor (!) who told Gretchen Carlson he agrees with a New Jersey school district’s plan to punish kids who lack the funds for lunch, or whose parents failed to fill out proper paperwork, by throwing the kids' lunch away. This, he said, would provide a “teaching moment.”

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3. Christian Radio Host: Military’s ‘Homosexual Takeover’ Could Doom Attack on Syria

A U.S.-led attack on Syria is wrong on so many levels, but for one Bible-thumping Christian radio host, the issue is fairly simple. Any attempt to intervene in Syria’s civil war is doomed by the fact that homosexuals and pregnant women have taken over the American military. Yes, there has been a coup. The American Family Association’s Sandy Rios offered up this cogent piece of analysis on Monday arguing that the hostile takeover of the military, which resulted from the overturning of the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy and allowed women to fight, has hurt the country’s military readiness.

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4. GOP Spokesman Calls McConnell Opponent an ‘Empty Dress’

Mitch McConnell is getting pretty desperate. The arch-conservative Kentucky senator is in real danger of losing his seat. And since, as the cliché goes, desperate times call for desperate measures, desperation is what he and the Republican machine have resorted to.

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1. whew

I was afraid this would be a list of posts on DU.