Wayne Besen at Truth Wins Out summed up his conclusions of TheCall Detroit in a report titled The CallDetroit - A Slick Political Rally Disguised as a Religious Revival. Besen went to TheCall expecting overt Muslim and gay-bashing. What he discovered was a subtle but "brilliant display of political subterfuge." The event was held on 11/11/11 but provides a look at a current model of efforts to draw African American and Hispanic communities into right-wing politics. Also see Talk2action.org articles on TheCall Detroit.
JTA reports on the Zionists of America (ZOA) annual dinner headlined by Glenn Beck and Michele Bachmann. ZOA has not been deterred by Glenn Beck's promotion of anti-Semitic memes and writers like Elizabeth Dilling and Eustace Mullins, and also appears totally unconcerned about the ramifications of alienating the vast majority of American Jews.
Newt Gingrich has been pandering to the Religious Right for decades. Sarah Posner at Religion Dispatches posted a must-see blast from the past - a full-page ad for the American Coalition for Traditional Values conference on "How to Win An Election," from a September 1985 issue of Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority Report.