Duggar Daughter Suffers Miscarriage, Left Pretends it Was Abortion

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February 28th, 2023 12:51 PM

They didn’t want their child to die. Abortion supporters do. 

Amanda Marcotte: Conservatism Based On ‘Irrational Tribal Politics’

June 20th, 2015 9:35 PM
Group loyalty is a big part of politics on both sides of the fence, but as far as lefty pundit Marcotte is concerned, it’s become so inflated on the right that it often crowds out crucial things like “basic common sense.” In a Friday Talking Points Memo column, Marcotte asserted that “conservatives are going way too far with this knee-jerk tendency to believe ‘their’ people can do no wrong and…

Lefty Writer: ‘Victimhood’ Key to Becoming a ‘Conservative Folk Hero’

June 9th, 2015 10:10 PM
How do you become a “conservative folk hero”? It helps a great deal if you believe, and your fellow right-wingers believe, that liberals are picking on you, contended The Daily Beast’s Ana Marie Cox in a Saturday column. Cox defined conservative folk heroes as celebrities or demi-celebrities “whose fame is not dependent on a celebrity-generating skill (acting, singing) but on a set of beliefs.”…
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Ogunnaike: Right Would Have 'Drawn & Quartered' Atheist Duggars

June 8th, 2015 3:33 PM
On Sunday's MediaBuzz on Fox News, former CNN correspondent Lola Ogunnaike slammed the reaction of many conservatives to the sexual abuse scandal surrounding the Duggar family. Host Howard Kurtz wondered if "some conservative commentators going easy on the family, because it's somebody who is seen as on their side." Ogunnaike replied, "Absolutely. I think that if this family was a group of…

Amanda Marcotte: Duggar Scandal Contains Lesson For GOP

May 29th, 2015 10:46 AM
In a Tuesday post for Slate, lefty pundit Marcotte explored the religious right’s fascination with (and perhaps exploitation of) the Duggar family and how it might change in light of the Josh Duggar sexual-abuse scandal. “The Duggars' [religious] extremism elicited admiration and maybe a little envy among the ranks” of Christian conservatives, Marcotte commented, “but perhaps now Republicans will…

Fetch My Smelling Salts! Jessa Duggar Got Her Gun

June 12th, 2014 9:48 AM
The liberal media will do anything to take a dig at the Duggar family, stars of TLC’s “19 Kids and Counting,” but this is just weak. The online gossip rag mags, Radaronline, National Enquirer,Examiner , Hollywood Gossip, and Star have their tabloid skirts over their heads about the photo of Jessa Duggar posing with a gun. The photo depicts Jessa Duggar holding a gun in a store with the…