24 Aug 2023 9:28 am
American Thinker is a daily online magazine dealing with American politics from a politically conservative viewpoint.[1][2] It was founded in 2003 by attorney Ed Lasky, health-care consultant Richard Baehr, and sociologist Thomas Lifson, and initially became prominent in the lead-up to the 2008 U.S. presidential election for its attacks on then-candidate Barack Obama.[3] The magazine has been described as a conservative blog.[4][5] The Southern Poverty Law Center has called the site "a not so thoughtful far-right online publication".[6]
In the aftermath of Donald Trump's loss in the 2020 U.S. presidential election, the American Thinker published a variety of articles that had claims of election fraud.[7] Faced with a lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems, Lifson acknowledged that the site had relied upon "discredited sources who have peddled debunked theories".[8] The American Thinker likewise admitted that its election claims were "completely false and have no basis in fact" and that "it was wrong for us to publish these false statements."[9]
One of the American Thinker's most prolific contributors, Raymond Ibrahim, has written over 100 articles extremely critical of Islam.[10] Another, David Solway, in the months following the 2020 presidential election, contributed seven articles perpetuating the myth of a stolen election based on evidence such as "Biden's rallies routinely featured twenty or so vehicles in a car park. That alone tells us that Biden was never in the game."[11][12] The site has been described as sympathetic to the counter-jihad movement, having published writers such as Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer and Paul Weston.
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Pamela Geller (born 1958) is an American anti-Muslim, far-right political activist, blogger and commentator.[6] Geller promoted birther conspiracy theories about President Barack Obama, saying that he was born in Kenya[7] and that he is a Muslim.[8] She has denied genocides where Muslims were victims, including the Bosnian genocide and the Rohingya genocide.[9][10]
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MAGAS have lost the values we all were taught as children.
They surely once upon a time knew that hating Muslims was wrong.
And what would our parents have done to us for spreading false rumors about the United States of America?
The sin cussed world being hateful, mean and cruel is nothing new.
What is new is tens of millions worshipping Trumpism.
In the aftermath of Donald Trump's loss in the 2020 U.S. presidential election, the American Thinker published a variety of articles that had claims of election fraud.[7] Faced with a lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems, Lifson acknowledged that the site had relied upon "discredited sources who have peddled debunked theories".[8] The American Thinker likewise admitted that its election claims were "completely false and have no basis in fact" and that "it was wrong for us to publish these false statements."[9]
One of the American Thinker's most prolific contributors, Raymond Ibrahim, has written over 100 articles extremely critical of Islam.[10] Another, David Solway, in the months following the 2020 presidential election, contributed seven articles perpetuating the myth of a stolen election based on evidence such as "Biden's rallies routinely featured twenty or so vehicles in a car park. That alone tells us that Biden was never in the game."[11][12] The site has been described as sympathetic to the counter-jihad movement, having published writers such as Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer and Paul Weston.
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Pamela Geller (born 1958) is an American anti-Muslim, far-right political activist, blogger and commentator.[6] Geller promoted birther conspiracy theories about President Barack Obama, saying that he was born in Kenya[7] and that he is a Muslim.[8] She has denied genocides where Muslims were victims, including the Bosnian genocide and the Rohingya genocide.[9][10]
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MAGAS have lost the values we all were taught as children.
They surely once upon a time knew that hating Muslims was wrong.
And what would our parents have done to us for spreading false rumors about the United States of America?
The sin cussed world being hateful, mean and cruel is nothing new.
What is new is tens of millions worshipping Trumpism.