6 worst right-wing moments of the week

 

On Friday evening, the News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch took to Twitter to express his feelings that all Muslim people, even the peaceful ones, “should be held responsible” for “their growing jihadist cancer.”

Everyone can stop trying to solve the problem of campus rape. Phyllis Schlafly has a brilliant idea: schools should stop admitting so many women.

Favorite Fox guest, right-wing blowhard Rudy Giuliani, has long loved the police state, and seldom misses an opportunity to call for ramped up policing. He displayed this penchant in the wake of recent police shootings of unarmed black men—which he says are the fault of the black community—and went at it again in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in Paris this week.

His reasoning is not so much pretzel logic as a complete Catch-22. Anyone who opposes surveillance and profiling of the Muslim community is clearly up to no good. In other words, innocent people don’t insist on their civil rights.

Despite about 20 women coming forward with allegations of rape and sexual assault against him, Bill Cosby is still out there, doing comedy shows and yucking it up. About rape! At a show in London this week, a woman in Cosby’s audience was walking toward the bar. Cosby asked where she was going, and she replied she was getting a drink. “You have to be careful drinking around me,” Cosby coyly cracked, a reference to his alleged penchant for drugging women in order to more easily rape them. The audience erupted in laughter.

There are no words.
 

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6 worst right-wing moments of the week — Rupert Murdoch says every single Muslim “responsible” for terrorism - Salon.com