Hate in the Mainstream
鈥淚f you had any intelligence, you wouldn鈥檛 be a Christian.鈥�
鈥擟alifornia-based, Afghan-born Muslim cleric SHEIK HASSAN ALLAHYARI, in a 2012 comment publicized by the Anti-Defamation League on Jan. 8, to an Iranian Christian who called into his globally broadcast show on San Diego-based Ahl-e-Bait satellite TV
鈥淗ave you ever seen a Muslim do anything that contributes positively to the American way of life?鈥�
鈥擬ichigan Republican National Committee member DAVE AGEMA, in a widely condemned Jan. 17 Facebook comment that led to calls for his resignation
鈥淸S]ubhuman mongrel.鈥�
鈥擱ocker-cum-right-wing pundit TED NUGENT, characterizing President Obama in a Jan. 18 interview with Guns.com for which he later offered a half-hearted apology
鈥淲hy does the media want a gay player to succeed?鈥�
鈥擱adio host RUSH LIMBAUGH, reacting on his Premiere Radio Networks show Feb. 11 to NFL draft prospect Michael Sam鈥檚 announcement that he is gay
鈥淭hese immigrants, legal and illegal, coming in don鈥檛 really understand our country and will probably vote Democratic.鈥�
鈥擯HYLLIS SCHLAFLY, founder of the ultraconservative Eagle Forum, in a Feb. 14 comment on the Internet鈥檚 Dove TV
鈥淸O]nce a child does exist in your womb, I鈥檓 not going to assume a right to kill it just because the child鈥檚 host (some refer to them as mothers) doesn鈥檛 want it to remain alive.鈥�
鈥擵irginia state Sen. STEVE MARTIN (R), who later changed 鈥渉ost鈥� to 鈥渂earer of the child,鈥� in a Feb. 17 Facebook post defending his anti-choice views
鈥淸M]y Dogs are mixed in color, unemployed, lazy, can鈥檛 speak English and have no frigging clue who the r [sic] Daddys are. 鈥� My dogs get their first checks Friday.鈥�
鈥擜 2010 E-mail, first made public Feb. 19, to Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker鈥檚 then-Deputy Chief of Staff KELLY RINDFLEISCH, who described the comparison of dogs and welfare recipients as 鈥渉ilarious鈥� and 鈥渟o true鈥�
鈥淔amily violence is so, so overrated.鈥�
鈥擫LOYD WAYNE OLIVER, Democratic candidate for district attorney of Harris County, Texas, which has that state鈥檚 highest domestic violence rate, defending his call for drastically decreasing efforts to prosecute such cases on Feb. 19
鈥淪uppose we repealed the civil rights laws and fired the bureaucrats enforcing these laws.鈥�
鈥擶hite nationalist pundit PAT BUCHANAN, in a Feb. 25 column for Townhall magazine in which he described civil rights protections as Orwellian
