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'''''American Thinker''''' is a daily [[online magazine]] dealing with [[Politics of the United States|American politics]] from a [[conservatism in the United States|politically conservative]] viewpoint.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.americanthinker.com/static/about_us.html |title =About Us |website= American Thinker |access-date = 2010-06-22 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100623194930/http://www.americanthinker.com/static/about_us.html |archive-date= 23 June 2010 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The Politics of Mayor Bloomberg's Snow Removal Response |date=December 30, 2010 |first=Danny |last=Groner |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/danny-groner/the-politics-of-mayor-blo_b_802720.html |work=[[The Huffington Post]]}}</ref> 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 United States presidential election|2008 U.S. Presidential election]] for its attacks on then-candidate [[Barack Obama]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Libit |first1=Daniel |title=For the Tea Party Movement, Sturdy Roots in the Chicago Area |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/19/us/19cncodom.html |work=The New York Times |access-date=November 20, 2017 |date=February 18, 2010}}</ref> The magazine has been described as a [[conservative]] blog.<ref>{{cite news |title=Still Crusading, but Now on the Inside |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/30/world/30power.html|work=The New York Times|first=Sheryl Gay|last=Stolberg|date=March 29, 2011 |access-date=24 June 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/13/education/13trees.html |title=University Fences In a Berkeley Protest, and a New One Arises |last=McKinley |first=Jesse |date=2007-09-13 |work=The New York Times |access-date=2019-06-24 |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> The [[Southern Poverty Law Center]] has called the site "a not so thoughtful far-right online publication."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2014/04/23/american-thinker-needs-start-thinking|title=American Thinker Needs to Start Thinking|website=splcenter.org|date=April 24, 2014|access-date=March 19, 2021}}</ref>.
'''''American Thinker''''' is a daily [[online magazine]] dealing with [[Politics of the United States|American politics]] from a [[conservatism in the United States|politically conservative]] viewpoint.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.americanthinker.com/static/about_us.html |title =About Us |website= American Thinker |access-date = 2010-06-22 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100623194930/http://www.americanthinker.com/static/about_us.html |archive-date= 23 June 2010 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The Politics of Mayor Bloomberg's Snow Removal Response |date=December 30, 2010 |first=Danny |last=Groner |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/danny-groner/the-politics-of-mayor-blo_b_802720.html |work=[[The Huffington Post]]}}</ref> It was founded in 2003 by attorney Ed Lasky, health-care consultant Richard Baehr, and sociologist Thomas Lifson.


In the aftermath of [[Donald Trump|Donald Trump's]] loss in the [[2020 United States presidential election|2020 U.S. Presidential election]], the ''American Thinker'' published a variety of articles that had claims of election fraud.<ref>{{cite news | work= [[WKBN-TV]] | date = January 15, 2021 | url = https://www.wkbn.com/news/national-world/conservative-website-apologizes-to-dominion-voting-system-after-defamation-letter-from-attorneys/ | title = Conservative website apologizes to Dominion voting system after defamation letter from attorneys}}</ref> Faced with a lawsuit from [[Dominion Voting Systems]], Lifson acknowledged that the site had relied upon "discredited sources who have peddled debunked theories".<ref name="wapo-discredited">{{cite news | work = The Washington Post | first = Amy | last = Wang | title = Newsmax apologizes to Dominion employee for falsely alleging he manipulated votes against Trump | url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/05/01/newsmax-apologizes-dominion-employee-falsely-alleging-he-manipulated-vote-against-trump/ | date = May 1, 2021}}</ref> 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."<ref name="nyt-apology">{{cite news | work = [[The New York Times]] | title = Rudy Giuliani Sued by Dominion Voting Systems Over False Election Claims | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/25/us/politics/rudy-giuliani-dominion-trump.html | date = January 25, 2021 | first = Nick | last = Corasaniti}}</ref>
In the aftermath of [[Donald Trump|Donald Trump's]] loss in the [[2020 United States presidential election|2020 U.S. Presidential election]], the ''American Thinker'' published a variety of articles that had claims of election fraud.<ref>{{cite news | work= [[WKBN-TV]] | date = January 15, 2021 | url = https://www.wkbn.com/news/national-world/conservative-website-apologizes-to-dominion-voting-system-after-defamation-letter-from-attorneys/ | title = Conservative website apologizes to Dominion voting system after defamation letter from attorneys}}</ref> Faced with a lawsuit from [[Dominion Voting Systems]], Lifson acknowledged that the site had relied upon "discredited sources who have peddled debunked theories".<ref name="wapo-discredited">{{cite news | work = The Washington Post | first = Amy | last = Wang | title = Newsmax apologizes to Dominion employee for falsely alleging he manipulated votes against Trump | url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/05/01/newsmax-apologizes-dominion-employee-falsely-alleging-he-manipulated-vote-against-trump/ | date = May 1, 2021}}</ref> 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."<ref name="nyt-apology">{{cite news | work = [[The New York Times]] | title = Rudy Giuliani Sued by Dominion Voting Systems Over False Election Claims | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/25/us/politics/rudy-giuliani-dominion-trump.html | date = January 25, 2021 | first = Nick | last = Corasaniti}}</ref>

== Contributors ==
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One of the ''American Thinker''{{'}}s most prolific contributors, Raymond Ibrahim, has written over 100 articles extremely critical of Islam.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.americanthinker.com/author/raymond_ibrahim/ |title=Articles: Raymond Ibrahim Archives – American Thinker |work=American Thinker}}</ref> Another, David Solway, in the months following the 2020 presidential election, contributed seven articles perpetuating the [[2020 United States presidential election#Claims of fraud|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."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.americanthinker.com/author/david_solway/ |title=Articles: David Solway Archives – American Thinker |work=American Thinker}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/11/donald_trump_is_the_only_legitimate_presidentelect.html|title=Donald Trump is the only legitimate 'President-Elect'|work=American Thinker|first=David|last=Solway|date=November 15, 2020|access-date=March 19, 2021}}</ref>

== Coverage ==
In 2009, in the wake of the election of [[Barack Obama]], the ''American Thinker'' joined a wave of conservative media publications discussing the possibility of a [[Second American Civil War|second Civil War]]. They forecast the possibility of "several regional republics" emerging following the "overbearing, oppressive leviathan" of Obama's presidency.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Avlon |first1=John P. |author-link1=John Avlon |title=Wingnuts: extremism in the age of Obama |date=2014 |location=New York |isbn=9780991247608 |pages=224–227 |edition=2nd}}</ref>

A 2008 column in the ''American Thinker'' drew attention to a [[California]] plan to require [[programmable thermostat]]s that could be controlled by officials in the event of power-supply difficulties. According to ''The New York Times'', the column was "by turns populist..., free-market..., and civil libertarian".<ref>{{cite news |last=Barringer |first=Felicity |date=2008-01-11 |title=California Seeks Thermostat Control |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/11/us/11control.html |url-status=live |access-date=2008-10-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120513220740/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/11/us/11control.html |archive-date=May 13, 2012<!--DASHBot-->}}</ref>

''[[Right Wing Watch]]'' has written about ''American Thinker,'' including that the site had in 2014 published a complimentary piece on white nationalist [[Jared Taylor]] and in 2015 asserted that rainbow-colored Doritos are a "gateway snack to introduce children to the joys of homosexuality".<ref>{{cite news |title=All Posts About American Thinker |url=https://www.rightwingwatch.org/organizations/american-thinker/|work=Right Wing Watch}}</ref> In a 2020 blog post on the site, Thomas Lifson referenced a paper published in ''[[Geophysical Research Letters]]'' to claim that [[sea level rise]] has been slow and constant, and that this rise pre-dated industrialization.<ref>{{cite web
|url=https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/03/new_study_shows_sea_level_rise_has_been_slow_and_a_constant_predating_industrialization.html
|date=March 7, 2020
|title=New study shows sea level rise has been slow and a constant, pre-dating industrialization
|first=Thomas|last=Lifson
|website=American Thinker}}</ref>{{Primary source inline|date=January 2021}} This claim went viral over social media in March 2020.<ref name=ClimateFeedback>{{Cite web |url=https://climatefeedback.org/claimreview/sea-levels-rose-faster-in-the-past-century-than-in-previous-time-periods/ |title=Sea levels rose faster in the past century than in previous time periods |date=March 12, 2020 |website=Climate Feedback |language=en-US |access-date=March 13, 2020}}</ref> The author of the paper describes this interpretation as factually incorrect, constituting climate misinformation.<ref name=ClimateFeedback />

Under threat of litigation, in January 2021 ''American Thinker'' published a retraction of unsupported stories it published asserting that [[Dominion Voting Systems]] engaged in a conspiracy to rig the [[2020 United States presidential election|2020 presidential election]] against President Donald Trump, acknowledging, "These statements are completely false and have no basis in fact."<ref name=":12">{{Cite news|last=Corasaniti|first=Nick|date=January 25, 2021|title=Rudy Giuliani Sued by Dominion Voting Systems Over False Election Claims|language=en-US|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/25/us/politics/rudy-giuliani-dominion-trump.html|url-status=live|access-date=January 25, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210125122130/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/25/us/politics/rudy-giuliani-dominion-trump.html|archive-date=January 25, 2021|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/01/statement.html|title=Statement|date=January 15, 2021|first=Thomas|last=Lifson|access-date=2021-01-15|work=American Thinker}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Evon |first1=Dan |title=Did a Conservative News Site Admit Its Voter-Fraud Claims Were False? |url=https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/american-thinker-vote-fraud/ |website=Snopes |access-date=January 20, 2021 |date=January 15, 2021}}</ref>


==References==
==References==

Revision as of 05:54, 7 February 2023

American Thinker
Type of businessPrivate
Type of site
News, commentary
Available inEnglish
FoundedMarch 2005; 19 years ago (2005-03)
HeadquartersEl Cerrito, California, United States
Founder(s)Ed Lasky, Richard Baehr, Thomas Lifson
Key peopleThomas Lifson, editor-in-chief
Ed Lasky, news editor
URLamericanthinker.com
LaunchedNovember 2003
Current statusActive

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.

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.[3] Faced with a lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems, Lifson acknowledged that the site had relied upon "discredited sources who have peddled debunked theories".[4] 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."[5]

References

  1. ^ "About Us". American Thinker. Archived from the original on 23 June 2010. Retrieved 2010-06-22.
  2. ^ Groner, Danny (December 30, 2010). "The Politics of Mayor Bloomberg's Snow Removal Response". The Huffington Post.
  3. ^ "Conservative website apologizes to Dominion voting system after defamation letter from attorneys". WKBN-TV. January 15, 2021.
  4. ^ Wang, Amy (May 1, 2021). "Newsmax apologizes to Dominion employee for falsely alleging he manipulated votes against Trump". The Washington Post.
  5. ^ Corasaniti, Nick (January 25, 2021). "Rudy Giuliani Sued by Dominion Voting Systems Over False Election Claims". The New York Times.