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Amanda Marcotte: Conservatives Increasingly Fed Up With GOP Establishment’s Demands For Political Correctness
By Tom Johnson | October 19, 2015 | 10:53 AM EDT

In 1988, the Year of Dukakis, Rep. Peter Kostmayer (D-Penn.) told Congressional Quarterly that his party’s advice for liberal interest groups was, “Just shut up, gays, women, environmentalists. Just shut up, and you will get everything you want after the election. In the meantime, just shut up so we can win.” (They didn’t win.) These days, believes lefty pundit Marcotte, it’s the Republican establishment that’s trying to shush the party base…and the base doesn’t like it.

“Hiding their true motivations is the rule, not the exception, when it comes to the right,” wrote Marcotte in a Thursday column for Salon. “Conservatives will give you any reason under the sun for their views, except the real one…[But] increasingly, conservatives are rebelling, eager to say what they really think, even if it hurts them politically.”

Salon Writer: To Get a Gun, You Should Have to Take a Bullet
By Tom Blumer | October 17, 2015 | 8:17 PM EDT

D. Watkins has written at Salon.com for about 1-1/2 years.

In his previous columns, he has shown that he fits right in with the "white privilege and oppression of blacks explains everything" crowd. Friday (HT Twitchy), he went into uncharted territory, seriously suggesting that no American should be able to own a gun until they "know the pain of getting hit" (bolds are mine):

Salon: Ted Cruz Encourages Domestic Extremism and Terrorism
By Michael McKinney | October 16, 2015 | 2:06 PM EDT

On Friday, Salon featured two articles taking fire to presidential candidate Ted Cruz. Authored by Heather Digby Parton, one piece was titled, “Paranoid Rise of the Militant Right: Inside the Growing Threat of Domestic Extremism” and examined the Department of Justice’s new focus on domestic extremists, and the author zeroed in on right-wing extremism. The second was written by Simon Maloy, who offered the slippery-slope argument against Cruz under the title, "Ted Cruz's Crazy 'Jackboot' Talk: When Inflammatory Rhetoric Starts Getting Dangerous."

Salon: Climate Deniers Are Worse Than Holocaust Deniers
By Michael McKinney | October 14, 2015 | 3:56 PM EDT

The "mainstream media" came under attack at Salon.com on Tuesday. Paul Rosenberg raged against the Associated Press for refusing to use the term ‘climate denier’ after activists on the Left demanded that. Rosenberg argued that denier was more appropriate than skeptic or doubter, and gave undeserved legitimacy to the skeptic movement. Rosenberg would continue on to describe how Climate Change, or in this case, Global Warming, would lead to more fatalities than the Holocaust, claiming that Climate Denial is worse than Holocaust Denial.

Salon: Baby-Haters are People Too
By Matt Philbin | October 9, 2015 | 1:26 PM EDT

Oh Salon, is there any group, no matter how small, insignificant or just plain silly, that you won’t offer up as a misunderstood minority?

On Wednesday, Salon readers learned of Alanna Weissman. She hates your kids, and she’s not sorry. You hear that, your first reaction is to shrug bemusedly and walk away. Kids aren’t everyone’s cup of tea. But stop right there! Weissman’s a marginalized minority, damn it. And she will be heard.

Salon: Pope 'Ratf***ed' Into Meeting Kim Davis, But Openly And Purposefully Met With Gay Couple
By Spencer Raley | October 5, 2015 | 9:03 PM EDT

Last week, liberal news outlet Salon did their best to convince themselves that Pope Francis never even wanted to meet with Kentucky clerk and conscientious objector Kim Davis. And they did so quite colorfully, claiming that the pontifix was “Ratf***ed” into a meeting with the Rowen County, Kentucky elected official.

Salon Writer Calls Michelle Malkin a 'Right-Wing Rage Monkey'
By Tom Blumer | October 5, 2015 | 4:17 PM EDT

Poor Gary Legum at Salon.com. How dare supporters of the right to keep and bear arms as clearly defined in the Constitution's Second Amendment push back against the gun control movement's cynical exploitation of Thursday's Roseburg, Oregon massacre?

Legum is outraged that "The right tells us (again) to ignore the elephant in the room." He must mean the fact that the area in question at Umpqua Community College was a "posted" gun-free zone with only unarmed security guards, right? Of course not. Legum is upset over Americans' "irrational attachment ... to weaponry" — so upset that he descended into profanity and name-calling that would likely end his career forever if he were a right-wing commentator.

Lefty Blogger Plans to Pray For Pope, Whose Meeting With Kim Davis Was a ‘Hamhanded Blunder…A Sin Against Charity’
By Tom Johnson | September 30, 2015 | 9:09 PM EDT

Esquire’s Charles Pierce is a graduate of a Jesuit university (Marquette). It’s among the many reasons he’s been a big fan of Pope Francis, the first-ever Jesuit pontiff, and it’s probably one factor in his vehement disappointment that Francis met with, and apparently encouraged, gay-marriage objector Kim Davis last week in Washington.

Pierce referred to the pope’s behavior regarding the “nutball” Davis as “a fcking [sic] blunder,” “a sin against charity,” and “the dumbest thing [he] ever has done.” He concluded, as if addressing Francis, “I will pray for you, because, damn, son, you need it.”

Salon: Republican Party Presidential Nominees are ‘Stolidly Faith-Deranged Candidates’
By Erin Aitcheson | September 28, 2015 | 3:48 PM EDT

Liberals trashing on religion goes together like Monday morning and coffee: it’s just the norm. From the momentous visit to America by Pope Francis to the recent CNN Republican debate where some candidates had the audacity to mention their personal religious convictions, faith and religion has been just too prevalent these days for some lefties.

Jeffry Taylor of Salon is one. “These are trying times for rationalist rejecters of make-believe celestial tyrants and human-authored ‘magic’ books,” he wrote on Sunday. According to Taylor, all these “religious delusions” are killing right-wingers and everyone else, and journalists are not doing their part to call out the insanity.

Atlantic Writer Throws Temper Tantrum Over Christianity On Salon, Suggests God Raped Virgin Mary
By Spencer Raley | September 24, 2015 | 6:59 PM EDT

Jeffery Taylor, a liberal writer for The Atlantic, took to Salon this week to try and ease his conscience on the issue of Christianity. He did this, naturally, by completely blasting the faith of millions of Americans, Catholics and otherwise, with obscene and offensive comparisons and descriptions, along with a few slaps directed toward GOP candidates who confidently profess their faith.

Bloggers Say Goodbye to Scott Walker, Who Didn’t Connect With GOP’s ‘Increasingly Disreputable Base’
By Tom Johnson | September 23, 2015 | 10:13 PM EDT

A few months ago, many liberals, including much of the bloggerati, were afraid that Walker had a good chance to win not only the Republican presidential nomination but also the presidency. Now that Walker’s out of the GOP race, several lefty pundits have weighed in on why.

Salon Writer: GOP Presidential Debate Was a ‘Master Class in Lies. Joseph Goebbels Would Be Proud’
By Tom Johnson | September 20, 2015 | 4:18 PM EDT

A common allegation against Ronald Reagan during his White House years was that he confused movies with the real world. According to Chauncey DeVega, the current Republican presidential candidates do somewhat the same thing, and have added video games and a bit of Comic-Con to the mix.

“Wednesday night’s CNN debate showed the American people an alternate reality where Chuck Norris movies are the Bible for statecraft,” sniped DeVega in a Friday article. “Adult children who dress up and give speeches as they role-play being President of the United States are competing in a real life Republican cosplay competition to be one of the most powerful people on Earth.” DeVega also declared that the debate was so hysterical that it amounted to a “master class in lies. Joseph Goebbels would be proud.”