Hate in the Mainstream
Quotes from the Far Right
鈥淲e鈥檝e got a Muslim for a president who hates cowboys, hates cowgirls, hates fishing, hates farming, loves gays, and we hate him!鈥�
鈥擟ountry singer HANK WILLIAMS JR., speaking to a crowd at Texas鈥� Sept. 2 Stockyards Music Festival, where he also attacked 鈥渜ueer guitar pickers.鈥�
鈥淗uma Abedin is a Muslim Brotherhood operative and she has been all her life. 鈥� This is worse than Alger Hiss.鈥�
鈥擬uslim-bashing pundit DAVID HOROWITZ, baselessly comparing State Department official Huma Abedin to Communist spy Alger Hiss, during a Sept. 29 appearance on Salem Radio Network鈥檚 鈥淭he Janet Mefferd Show鈥�
鈥淲ouldn鈥檛 life for blacks in America today be more enjoyable and successful if they would only learn to appreciate the value of a good education?鈥�
鈥擜rkansas state Rep. JOHN HUBBARD (R-Jonesboro) 鈥� who also called slavery a 鈥渂lessing in disguise鈥� because slaves were 鈥渞ewarded with citizenship in the greatest nation ever established鈥� 鈥� in 2009 comments he said he stood by in the Oct. 10 Jonesboro Sun
鈥淪ame-sex marriage will be the ultimate destruction of our country because it destroys the very foundation upon which this nation is based.鈥�
鈥�ROY MOORE, the 鈥淭en Commandments鈥� jurist recently re-elected as Alabama chief justice despite having been stripped of the position in 2003, speaking to a Tea Party rally on Oct. 6
鈥淥ur country might have been better off if it was still just men voting. There is nothing worse than a bunch of mean, hateful women.鈥�
鈥擬ississippi Tea Party activist JANIS LANE, in a little-noticed Jackson, Miss., Free Press interview publicized by the blog of The Nation magazine on Oct. 10
鈥淟et鈥檚 also stop the insanity by suspending the right to vote of any American who is on welfare.鈥�
鈥擱ock star TED NUGENT, proposing a solution to the debt crisis in a Dec. 3 Washington Times column on the misdeeds of so-called 鈥渇edzillacrats鈥�
鈥淪o non-whites, non-Christians, and non-marrieds 鈥� see it as being in their group interests to tear down traditional American culture.鈥�
鈥�ROGER SCHLAFLY, son of Eagle Forum founder and antifeminist Phyllis Schlafly, in a Dec. 11 post on Eagle Forum鈥檚 official blog
鈥淸W]e鈥檙e basically going to have an open heyday for 鈥� polygamy, perhaps adult incest and who knows what else.鈥�
鈥擯acific Justice Institute President BRAD DACUS, speculating on Dec. 12 about the impact of a possible Supreme Court ruling against the Defense of Marriage Act
Quotes on this page were compiled from media accounts, web pages, e-mail groups and Media Matters for America, a group that monitors the far right.
