Right-Wing media figures such as Glenn Beck have directed conspiratorial, goofy, unhinged rhetoric at President Obama, depicting him as a threat to their audience’s very way of life.

In recent months, the violent, doomsday, and anti-intellectual rhetoric that has long been a staple of conservative media has taken a notable turn in at least three significant ways: previously confined to the right-wing media fringe, the rhetoric is now a constant across the full spectrum of conservative media; it is louder and meaner, with conservative media figures appealing overtly to feelings of anger and paranoia in their audience; and it is focused, tied to the specific political aim of undermining the Obama administration and the Congress.

For more on emerging culture of conservative paranoia, read Media Matters’ report at: THIS LOCATION

The Lying and Fear-Mongering Is Pandemic

Below, Glenn Beck falsely asserts that the Iowa Supreme Court’s decision striking down the state’s ban on same-sex marriage “is actually about going into churches … and saying you can’t teach anything else.” In fact, the ruling does not affect religious institutions’ definitions of marriage.

Right-Wing Media LIARS advanced similar falsehoods about the 2008 decision by the California Supreme Court that affirmed the constitutional right of same-sex couples to marry.

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