Right Wing Watch

[[File:Right Wing Watch Logo.png|thumb|right|250px|RWW's logo.]]
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<b>Right Wing Watch</b>, a project of People For the American Way, is a project dedicated to ongoing presentation of [[right wing]] organizations and their communications (e-mails, television and internet broadcasts, blogs, websites).<ref>[http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/about-right-wing-watch About Right Wing Watch], ''Right Wing Watch'', September 11, 2013.</ref>  It keeps track of and presents many of the embarrassing, vitriolic, or bigoted things that are said by them on a variety of topics, including [[LGBT rights]], [[Islam]], and [[reproductive rights]].

RWW is unashamedly partisan, making it not necessarily the best direct source to use when you're trying to establish a case, but it does its homework and works to get its claims right.

==Goals==
The goal of Right Wing Watch is, by showing the many backwards things said by important right-wing organizations, to show that the organizations are harmful and should not be taken seriously (except as a menace to humanity). Many of the organizations they showcase are, despite the inhumane treatment they wish upon whatever groups they dislike, still taken quite seriously in the [[media]] and are often brought in to provide [[Balance fallacy|counterpoints]] to individuals on a panel that may disagree with them. By giving additional context to what the beliefs of these organizations and people espouse, they can show that the groups are not just "another side of the argument", but rather dangerous extremists whose very ''existence'' ought to be banned (of course, when many of your positions involve denying human rights to minority groups based on their immutable characteristics, it's hard to come up with arguments that don't appear as extreme and bigoted as they actually are).

==Organizations they keep track of==
Right Wing Watch keeps track of a variety of organizations, but the groups they track do tend to be extremist in one regard or another. Common threads seem to include being against [[homosexuality]], [[birth control]], [[abortion]], [[divorce]], [[feminism]], [[Islam]], [[secularism]], and [[atheism]]. Despite this, the groups bill themselves as just supporting [[Family values|"traditional" family values]], defending [[the United States as a Christian nation]], or otherwise trying to promote a return to the [[good old days]]. Several of the groups want more than just preventing things like [[gay marriage]], going as far as to call for a return to the days before ''[[Lawrence v. Texas]]'' and the return of the criminalization of sex acts between homosexual men.

* [[American Family Association]]
* [[Christian Broadcasting Network]]
* [[Concerned Women for America]]
* [[Family Research Council]]
* [[John Birch Society]]
* [[Liberty Counsel]]
* [[WallBuilders]]
* [[Eagle Forum]]
* CitizenLink

A more complete list of organizations they keep track of or have reported on is available [http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/organizations here].

==People they keep track of==
Right Wing Watch tends to focus on individuals within the organizations that are high up or are a public face in the associations (on the radio, through press releases, on their blogs). This avoids accusations of the [[association fallacy]], since the individuals are often representative of or representatives of the group they are members of.

* [[Jim Bakker]]
* [[David Barton]]
* [[Glenn Beck]]
* [[James Dobson]]
* [[Bryan Fischer]]
* [[Mike Huckabee]]
* [[Alex Jones]]
* [[Mike Lindell]]
* [[Greg Locke]]
* [[Tony Perkins]]
* [[Janet Porter]]
* [[Pat Robertson]]
* [[Wayne Allyn Root]]
* [[Styxhexenhammer666]]
* [[Donald Trump]]
* [[Rick Wiles]]
* [[William Donohue]]

A more complete list of the people they keep track of or have reported on is available [http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people here].

==Their YouTube channel==

They also run a [[YouTube]] channel to upload (usually) short clips of people that they keep track of to save you the time of watching their entire videos to see the good bits, with their watermark in the corner of the video. Chances are, if you watch ''[[The Daily Show]]'', any show in the [[TYT]] network, or any [[MSNBC]] show that mocks Republicans, you've seen a video with their watermark a few times.
Here are some of the people that they upload videos of frequently.

* [[Bryan Fischer]], who has accused them of cyber stalking him more than once.
* [[Glenn Beck]]
* [[Matt Barber]]
* [[Pat Robertson]]
* [[Alex Jones]]

In 2013, Colorado Assembly candidate Gordon Klingenschmitt tried to use the [[Digital Millennium Copyright Act]] to shut down RWW on the grounds that it was violating copyrights by using extracts of his stupid videos in their own videos. RWW was briefly taken down twice, until the [[Electronic Frontier Foundation]] added their weight and threatened to take Klingenschmitt to court.<ref>[https://www.eff.org/takedowns/attempt-silence-political-speech-right-wing-watch Attempt to Silence the Political Speech at Right Wing Watch], Takedown Hall of Shame, Electronic Frontier Foundation, 2013</ref>

==See also==
* [[Media Matters for America]]

==External links==
*[http://www.rightwingwatch.org/ Right Wing Watch]
*[http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQSoBGVRy5x6SaKbzh5_xiw Their YouTube channel]
*[https://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-b-keegan/right-wing-watch-10-years_b_12443186.html History of RWW by Michael Keegan of People of the American Way]

==References==
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