The Public Eye Magazine

The Public Eye, Fall 2006

Homeland Security and its rhetoric of national security target Latinos, wedging their racial and political identities into “good” and “bad” to create a larger fight against the “global war on terror.”

Bill O’Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, and Ann Coulter: these are perhaps the best known of the right-wing commentators who seem to have trouble with the truth — although their lies have little impact on their careers. The list also includes David Horowitz, the former leftist who has become a spokesman for right-wing causes and, perhaps more importantly, something of a conservative movement tactician.

What are the strategies used by one antiabortion group in Mississippi, and how is the antiabortion movement racialized?

In 2004, the Right deployed state ballot initiatives opposing gay marriage to pull out socially conservative voters on Election Day. While this tactic apparently only enjoyed success in the key state of Ohio, it nonetheless helped frame the national election, provided right-wing candidates with a distinct message, and primed voters to support candidates who supported the marriage bans.