On this date in both 2014, as well as 2015, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” profiled Tamara Scott, a member of the Republican National Committee from Iowa, who hosts a conservative talk show there, and once served as the Campaign Co-Chair for Michelle Bachmann’s disastrous 2012 presidential run. When we last looked in on Ms. Scott, she had been opposed to gay marriage and was floating a false report from the Family Research Council that claimed keeping a ban on it saves the United States $280 billion a year and she’s also argued against same-sex marriage because she believes people could start marrying objects like the Eiffel Tower (they can’t). Scott also believes in the sinister Agenda 21 conspiracy theory, thinks that migrant children fleeing violence in Central America are “highly trained warriors who might rise up against Americans”, and has been convinced for over a year now that refugees fleeing Syrian are doing so to start a “stealth jihad” in the United States. Scott also praised Michelle Bachmann for trying to root the Muslim Brotherhood out of American government, and claimed that that group also was behind the attacks in Benghazi. Scott believes there is a correlation between prayer being taken out of schools, and a rise in rape and murder (in reality the rates of those violent crimes have dropped in the past two decades) and also doesn’t believe a separation of church and state is not guaranteed in the Constitution. She’s so paranoid about other faiths that after a Wiccan prayer, and then a prayer by a Muslim imam were performed in the Iowa Statehouse, Tamara Scott responded by admitting that she “prayed for a storm” to hit during the Wiccan prayer, because that’s very Christian of her. Oh, and during the debate to remove the Confederate flag from the state capitol in Charleston, South Carolina, after the shooting at the Emanuel AME Church by a white supremacist, Tamara Scott, on her radio show, claimed the shooting was “not a racial issue” but was actually an attack on Christianity and that the Confederate flag is actually a symbol of fun and affection because of how it was portrayed on “The Dukes of Hazard”. When we last left Tamara Scott, though, she had started providing cover for presidential candidate Donald Trump by saying he somehow was factually correct when he talked about Mexicans being rapists (he’s not), and had just outed herself as anti-vaccination advocate and started claiming that disease outbreaks in public schools were not a result of children’s parents avoiding vaccinating them, but actually because we were using a “socialistic model in schools” where children are forced to share pencils.
Here’s our latest updates on Tamara Scott:
- June 1st, 2016: Tamara Scott again hosts Eileen Dannenmann, head of the Vaccine Liberation Army on her show, and promises the listening audience that if elected, Donald Trump would launch investigations into the link between autism and vaccinations. (Hint: there isn’t one, and some GOP morons in Congress like Bill Posey have actually already held hearings on it that made them laughing stocks).
- June 28th, 2016: In spite of Donald Trump being possibly the worst example of a Christian that the GOP could ever have pushed forth upon their Evangelical wing, Tamara Scott still endorses him a few weeks before the Republican National Convention, and berates a caller who had reservations about voting for Trump because of his racist comments and making fun of a disabled reporter by claiming THEY were not a good Christian for not forgiving for his “past mistakes” (that Trump feels he doesn’t have to ask forgiveness for).
- August 25th, 2016: Scott has an particularly xenophobic interview with anti-Muslim hate group leader Brigitte Gabriel, and after it, lies to her audience by claiming President Obama was bringing 100,000 to 200,000 Syrian refugees into the United States by November (nearly ten to twenty times the actual number), and claiming that terrorists were becoming more “aggressive” because they feared a Trump presidency.
- October 26th, 2016: Tamara Scott became our latest contestant of Republicans who break Godwin’s Law, deciding that pro-choice advocates are “even more devious than Hitler.”
Tamara Scott, of course, also helped write the 2016 GOP Party Platform, which was the most extreme in the history of the party, particularly in how fervently anti-gay it was. That should not shock anyone, with a fanatic like her helping draft it. We’re expecting continued insanity from Scott and her cohorts on her radio show going forward, and look forward to the day where the Republican Party sever ties with her for being nuttier than a can of Planters.