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Charles Johnson (Little Green Footballs) and Conn Carroll (The Washington Examiner, Sex and the Citizen)
- Charles’s rightwing days: 9/11, Iraq, Memogate . 07:08
- The turning point: Sarah Palin . 14:28
- Creationism, Ben Stein, and anti-science politics . 17:22
- Does the right have a homophobia problem? . 34:21
- Charles sees fascist tendencies emerging on the right . 40:26
- Are the tea partiers motivated by racism? . 52:02
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Conn Carroll
Conn Carroll
Recorded:Dec 29
Posted:Jan 3, 2010
Download:
- Charles’s post “Why I Parted Ways With the Right”
- British High Court Judgement on “Inconvenient Truth” (PDF)
- Harper’s on the Southern Poverty Law Center
- BMJ: one quarter of all Oregon assisted suicides are actually depressed
- Reason’s Matt Welch’s first-hand tea party report
- WSJ/NBC News Poll: Tea Party Tops Democrats and Republicans
- Ryan Mauro on John Birch at CPAC
Bloggingheads.tv | Jan 3, 2010 | Charles Johnson & Conn Carroll
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