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Schlafly advises Republicans: Ignore Hispanics and ‘reach out to… white voters’
Conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly says Republicans are making a mistake by trying to court Hispanics with comprehensive immigration reform legislation. “I think that’s a great myth because the Hispanics who come in like this are going to vote Democrat,” Schlafly told the Focus Today radio program in a clip obtained…
Phyllis Schlafly chides Facebook chief Sheryl Sandberg: ‘Feminism is at war with Mother Nature’
Calling her a “typical feminist,” conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly devoted a radio address to deriding Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg and her book, Lean In, saying it illustrated what Schlafly called problems with feminism. “Too many women come to their senses only after age 40 and then find it’s…
Phyllis Schlafly complains ‘only men’ blamed for sexual assaults against women
Conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly on Tuesday joined those condemning the Pentagon’s decision to allow women in combat, saying the new policy would lead to increased rates of sexual assaults. Schlafly, a notorious anti-feminist, wrote at Human Events that the policy would adversely effect male soldiers, who would be enticed by…
The Faulty Premise of the Marriage Threat
Over the holiday, Fox News decided to troll women for thinking they’re people with this misogynist blather from Phyllis Schlafly’s niece Suzanne Venker (and you better bet that’s her married name!) about the “war on men”. To summarize: Venker believes men are entitled to female submission, and by not being…
Schlafly: Obama ‘trying to treat Christians like smokers’
In a radio segment released Tuesday, conservative anti-feminist writer Phyllis Schlafly claimed that President Barack Obama is “trying to treat Christians like smokers” by eradicating “all evidence of religion from public places.” She pinned her theory on a speech given by President Obama in 2010 in which he misquoted the…
Phyllis Schlafly: Don’t date feminists
Conservative political activist Phyllis Schlafly on Thursday had some advice for the students at The Citadel college in South Carolina: stay away from feminists. While giving a lecture entitled “Conservative Intellectual Tradition in America,” the 87-year-old Schlafly told the all-male audience that “feminist is a bad word and everything they…
Facts, Whores!
As you might know, Phyllis Schlafly said that 70% of unmarried women voted for Obama because they kicked their husbands out and needed big government welfare. She later refined that comment to unmarried moms, because as everyone knows, an unmarried woman past the age of 18 just gushes out babies…
Wingnuts move from denying we’re Real® to denying we even exist
It would be hard to imagine a worsening of the panic amongst right wing nuts over the realization that fetus-worshiping racists who believe that 95% of their tax money goes to welfare lost the election, but alas, paranoia spirals often have no obvious end point. The birthers started off with…
Mother Schlafly wants YOU to choose the workshops for her wingnut conference
If you are in the St. Louis, MO area on September 25-26, you can stop by the St. Louis Frontenac Hilton and join some luminaries of the far-right fundamentalist conservative agenda at "How to Take Back America." Take a look at the "co-chairmen" and host committee; with Phyllis Schlafly and…
Are you racing to buy tix for the Values Voter Summit?
Mark your calendars! On September 12-14 at the Hilton Washington Hotel the professional “Christian” set will hold its 2008 Values Voter Summit. Featured confirmed speakers include Newt Gingrich, Tony Perkins, Michael Medved, Phyllis Schlafly and Gary Bauer. The bleating in the press release indicates California marriage equality is going to…
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