# Freakouts of the Right **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 28, 2022, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631 "2022-04-28T22:36:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2022, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/61 "2022-04-29T16:53:24Z")
Not exactly a freak-out, but weren’t Republicans ridiculing Democrats a few years ago (Obama in particular) for using Teleprompters when giving speeches? ---
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2022, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/62 "2022-04-29T17:00:58Z")
A mooslim [sic] caliphate “the tactics of Saul Alinsky” ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2022, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/63 "2022-04-29T17:08:07Z")
Yeah! Saul Alinsky. I remember when that was making the rounds, as if all liberals or progressives following his every word. All the liberals and progressives I knew were “huh? Who’s that?” ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2022, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/64 "2022-04-29T18:07:50Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > Benghazi, CA Governor Newsom’s pandemic management, Nancy Pelosi assuming the gavel, BLM, George Soros, Hunter Biden and his alleged misdeeds, Kamala Harris being VP, Obama as President, ACORN, swift-boating John Kerry, gender-neutral restrooms, The Clintons (literally, anything relating to the Clintons), Antifa, January 6, 2021, People’s Convoy, pandemic restrictions… 🎵 We didn’t start the fire… ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2022, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/65 "2022-04-29T18:15:02Z")
| Trump Fact-Checked during debate | Sharia Law | Obama saluting a marine with a coffee cup in his hand | Michelle Obama food initiatives | Jewish Space Lasers | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Obama paying for a muslim culture museum out of his pockets (2013) | Tea Party | Michelle Bachman | Polls oversample democrats | Joe the Plumber | | Ha! There was a trucker protest in 2013, too! | Austerity (Debt Ceiling debate 2013) | Government shutdowns in 2013, 2017, 2018 | Kyle Rittenhouse worship | Innumerable Book bans | | Walmart selling satanic messages in music | Walmart NOT selling guns! | Republicans mad about Obama’s Christmas cards | Voting to remove protection from VA’s pro-gun control governor (2015) | January 6th denial | ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2022, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/66 "2022-04-29T18:16:39Z")
Currently at 110… and I feel there is SO much missing. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2022, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/67 "2022-04-29T18:17:10Z")
I don’t think this thread has mentioned the annual War on Christmas bullshit, with various complaints about Starbucks holiday cups, people not saying “Merry Christmas” all the time, and so on. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2022, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/68 "2022-04-29T18:18:27Z")
I do have a “War on Christmas” (post 25), but think the Starbucks controversy merits its own mention (like the Obama Christmas card freakouts). Realized that “Central Park Five” is outside my scope. Fuck it, gonna leave it in there. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2022, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/69 "2022-04-29T20:06:56Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > > [@wolfpup](#): > > > > IIRC, this was the scandal of asking for Dijon mustard on his burger on Air Force 1. {…} > > From what I can find, and sort of trust, Ray’s Hell Burger in Arlington, Virginia. I believe you’re right. There was also a story covering Obama during the first few days of his presidency, where he ordered a burger on what may have been his first flight on AF1, and I probably got the two stories conflated. That burger, apparently, didn’t cause a scandal – though it’s possible that he may have had Dijon mustard on that one, too, but the scandal was covered up by the pro-Obama lamestream media! ---
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2022, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/70 "2022-04-29T21:06:14Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > Yeah! Saul Alinsky. I remember when that was making the rounds, as if all liberals or progressives following his every word. All the liberals and progressives I knew were “huh? Who’s that?” Yes yes, they sure are a projecting bunch, aren’t they? All of the right wing dim bulbs I knew were equally clueless as to who he was or what his “tactics” were as well. What mattered was the repetition of that exact phrase that was uttered in synchronicity in the RW media, like so many other buzzwords in their hive minds. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2022, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/71 "2022-04-29T21:31:23Z")
Oh, _hell_ no. It’s on, now. I fundraise for The Trevor Project. ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2022, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/72 "2022-04-29T22:36:56Z")
I know this one pre-dates 2000, but I think its place in the chronology of the GOP’s adoption of scorched-earth political tactics merits an honorable mention: The “murder” of Vince Foster. When my right-wing friends were screaming about Benghazi, I would ask them if they remembered who Vince Foster was, and was amazed at how few of them did. (I took to telling them that “Benghazi” is “Vince Foster” in Arabic.) Some of these are people whom I knew at the time, who can’t remember all the ridiculous claims they hyperventilated about for years: Hillary was having an affair with Foster. Bill murdered Foster. (Or was it vice versa?) Around 1996, Ken Starr announced that he had examined the case, and concluded that there was no evidence of foul play in Foster’s death. When I showed this to a right-wing friend, he calmly concluded that Starr was trying to make the perps think that the heat was off, so they’d start talking. After which, the truth would finally come out. (I am _not_ making that up). Still waiting. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.E](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.e/32/8932_2.png) [@Mr.E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.E)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2022, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/73 "2022-04-30T01:01:12Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > > [@SingleMalt](#): > > > > yoga being taught to children > > Huh? I missed this one I guess. This is a topic that’s been covered extensively on [Kevin Underhill’s Lowering the Bar](https://www.loweringthebar.net/2021/05/alabama-nervously-decides-to-lift-yoga-ban.html) blog, which reminded me of another conservative freakout he extensively covered about a decade ago: [Sagging pants](https://www.loweringthebar.net/2010/09/georgia-town-enters-fight-against-sagging-pants.html) ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2022, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/74 "2022-04-30T01:23:37Z")
> [@teelabrown](#): > > What was that thing back in the Clinton administration? Something about Bill getting a haircut while riding in Air Force One, and the cost thereof. Snopes rates this as _False_. It was widely reported (correctly) that Clinton got an expensive haircut by fabulous glitterati hair stylist Christophe abord AF1 with the engines running, while sitting on the runway. It was also widely reported (falsely) that this shut down the airport for an hour or two. Two runways were closed, but the other two remained open, sufficient for the traffic of the day to keep things moving. Snopes mentions that even the $200 price of the haircut may have been an exaggeration. > **[Did Bill Clinton Hold Up LAX Air Traffic for a Haircut?](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bill-clinton-hairgate/)** > > A decades-old, false story about President Bill Clinton's holding up air traffic at the Los Angeles International Haircut to get a $200 haircut on Air Force One will probably never go away. > [@](#): > > In fact, even the one true aspect of the Hairgate story was likely exaggerated. Later reports noted that Clinton’s “$200 haircut” likely “cost less than $150, perhaps far less (the hairdresser charged $150 for a first-time haircut, but Clinton was an established customers and thus paid less).” ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2022, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/75 "2022-04-30T10:49:00Z")
Leave us not forget the child smuggling in furniture ring. > **[Wayfair: The false conspiracy about a furniture firm and child trafficking](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-53416247)** > > It's gone global, and involves a US-based furniture company and unfounded allegations of human trafficking. ---
**Author:** ![yarblek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/71e660/32.png) [@yarblek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yarblek)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2022, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/76 "2022-04-30T11:25:04Z")
Here is what Obama said exactly: “I’m gonna have your very basic cheddar cheeseburger, medium-well. I just want mustard, no ketchup. You got a spicy mustard or something like that? Dijon mustard or something?” So he didn’t even order dijon mustard, he just wanted a spicy mustard and used dijon as an example of the type he meant. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2022, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/77 "2022-04-30T11:34:53Z")
He also said “Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula?”, and that was excitedly used by the right to paint him as a coastal elite (e.g. not one of us “real” Americans). He said it in Iowa where, granted, there was no Whole Foods, but its not like arugula was unknown to Iowans - its probably grown there and sold in every other grocery store. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2022, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/78 "2022-04-30T12:43:30Z")
20 more… | Starbucks Christmas | TN tries to make Bible Official State Book | After I acted like a fascist, racist, grifter, libs are preventing me from getting a job! | PePe LePew being left out of LeBrons Space Jam | 2021 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Protest | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | When MLB moved the All-Star game from Atlanta | Delta getting pummeled | Let’s Go, Brandon! | Crisis Actors | Sandy Hook | | Obama golfing | Supply-Side Economics | Participation Trophies | Duke Lacrosse scandal | HPV vaccine | | _THE_ MLK quote | Ivermectin | The Debates are unfair! | Liberal Media | AOC | The MLK quote references the sole quote of MLK which conservatives trot out every MLK day, the ‘content of our character and not the color of our skin’ line. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2022, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/79 "2022-04-30T13:04:54Z")
Oh, yeah - AOC and “the squad!”… [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/payt4sD5nro/hqdefault.jpg "ACE VENTURA 2 BAT CAVE") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=payt4sD5nro) ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2022, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631/80 "2022-04-30T13:08:40Z")
Anybody here remember how Obama’s large enthusiastic crowds proved that he was just like Hitler? You don’t hear that much anymore. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freakouts-of-the-right/963631.md?page=5)