The Moral Majority and the Christian Coalition are two of the most despicable organizations in our nation's history. Paul Weyrich was instrumental in getting both of them off the ground.He died today at age 66.
Republican conservative wingnuts are effusive in their praise of this nogoodnik. Lee Edwards of the right-wing Heritage Foundation (which Weyrich founded) called Weyrich "a dedicated conservative and patriot, an excellent strategist."
Hah! He was a dyed-in-the-wool ultra-conservative who filtered everything through his horrendous christianist theocratic ideology.
Pareene at the Gawker pulled no punches in an article titled "Paul Weyrich, Architect of Everything Bad About the Last 30 Years."
He was not a nice man. He was a "hateful bastard, unpleasant bigot." Weyrich was responsible, in one way or another, for everything nasty that is found in the contemporary conservative movement. "He started the Heritage Foundation, the most influential think tank of the Reagan era, with money from the miserable Coors family back in 1973."
He was a "supply-side" economist, and involved in the Iran-Contra scandal. His participation with Jerry Falwell in the Moral Majority enshrined "cheerful hate in mainstream politics for another generation. By the time he went completely mad in the '90s, he was calling for the return of the House Un-American Activities Committee."
He won't be missed.
Read the entire article here.
1 comment:
i hope someone pees on his grave. good riddance
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