It’s Thursday Threatcon, your intelligence briefing on right wing activity. Below are the best reports, investigations, exposées, and debunkery of right wing activity this week. With so many SCOTUS hearings about marriage equality in one week, we are elevating the kookpocalypse threat level to RAINBOW. Take care and be aware!
- Mike Huckabee says that evangelicals will leave the GOP and form a third party if Republicans back marriage equality. This could be the most consequential American political innovation since the Dixiecrats
- We’ve noted an emerging talking point among opponents of marriage equality: that gay people don’t actually want to get married at all, they just want to ruin marriage for the rest of us
- Word on the street says that an NFL player may soon come out of the closet and continue playing, which we predict will cause a million homophobic heads to asplode. And you thought concussions were the big risk at the big dance
- Media Matters has a great list of the 30 worst arguments against marriage equality
- Intuit, the makers of Turbo Tax, have spent $11.5 million to fight simple and free tax filing, an idea endorsed by Ronald Reagan
- Glenn Beck thinks the Office of Congressional Ethics probe of Michele Bachmann is revenge for her witch hunt of Huma Abedin. Occam’s Razor suggests it is because she is really, really bad at her job
- Huckabee, Bachmann, and Rick Santorum all think you can pray away the gay and closets are cool
- Curtis Bostic, who unexpectedly found himself competitive in the Republican primary runoff for South Carolina’s 1st Congressional district, turns out to be a former attorney in the human trafficking business. Bostic has the endorsement of Rick Santorum
- If Bostic wins against Mark Sanford of Appalachian Trail fame, then he will face Stephen Colbert’s sister in the general election
- Yesterday, a Bostic campaign volunteer admitted hiring Ali Akbar to promote his candidate. Ironically, Bostic is not in favor of Akbar’s right to marry another man
- Salon’s Joan Walsh takes note that Andrew Breitbart’s death left the right wing blogosphere full of “pale imitators.” We thank Ms. Walsh for affirming the essential thesis of this website over the last year and respectfully submit Ali Akbar as Exhibit A without irony
