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On March 12th, 2014, Austin Ruse (head of the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute, or "C-FAM"), filling in for American Family Radio's usual lunatic, Sandy Rios, more than lived up to her standards by insisting that "the hard left, human-hating people that run modern universities" should "all be taken out and shot."

Hopefully, it does not need to be explained to anyone why Ruse's comments are out of line and should not be welcome anywhere in the public forum.

If nothing else, the Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute must now either disavow Austin Ruse or remove "Human Rights" from their title. Under no circumstances whatsoever is it appropriate to call for an ideological opponent to be murdered. http://www.examiner.com/article/austin-ruse-liberal-university-profess
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He took to Twitter to call liberals "dumb" and "stupid" before ultimately deleting his account. Ruse then opened the radio show by taking aim at the critics who he said "have their panties all in a twist" about his comments.

“The pajama boys over at Right Wing Watch have their panties all in a twist about what I said, and I sometimes think that the left is really dumb, these are the low-information voters that make all of these mistakes when they get into the ballot box and all of these mistakes as they go through their lives and one of the reasons is because they are so dumb,” Ruse said. http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/austin-ruse-liberal-professors-s
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American Family Association Cuts Ties With Austin Ruse After He Called For Professors To Be Shot

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UPDATE: Even though Austin Ruse spent yesterday’s broadcast insisting that wouldn’t back down from his comments that left-wing professors should be “taken out and shot” because he wasn’t serious and his critics are all “dumb” “pajama boys,” today he told Talking Points Memo that he is now sorry:

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“I deeply regret and apologize for using the expression 'taken out and shot' on the Sandy Rios Show this week. It was not intended to be taken literally.”

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Austin Ruse, who regularly filled in as a guest host for American Family Radio’s Sandy Rios, has lost his gig after we reported Wednesday on his call for liberal professors to be “taken out and shot.” Ruse is a leading Religious Right activist who heads the Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute (C-Fam) and is a writer for conservative outlets such as Breitbart News and The Daily Caller.

The day after we posted the audio, Ruse lashed out at Right Wing Watch and defended his comments. Yesterday, Ruse deactivated his Twitter account and the American Family Association, which runs American Family Radio, removed audio episodes of the Wednesday and Thursday broadcasts from its website. On today’s edition of Sandy Rios In The Morning, AFR host Dan Celia filled in. On its Facebook page today, AFR said that Ruse “is no longer on the air with us and will not be filling in on AFR in the future.” http://www.pfaw.org/blog/brian-tashman

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Ruse or his team have participated in every major UN social policy negotiation since 1997 including the multi-year negotiations that created the International Criminal Court. ( http://c-fam.org/en/austin-ruse)

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At the UN Human Rights Council in recent years, Russia has pushed for, and passed, a resolution on “traditional values” and human rights. The initial Russian draft, Austin Ruse has written approvingly, “could easily have come from the pen of Tony Perkins at the Family Research Council”; http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/following-the-russians.ht
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His tactics included packing UN meetings with supporters – sometimes priests and nuns — who intimidated women’s and progressive groups, and in some cases virtually staged putsches in NGO spaces. “We attended all of the women’s meetings and essentially took them over,” he boasted. “Memos were going back from [conferences] in New York to governments in the European Union that radical fundamentalists had taken over the meeting, and that was us.” http://paper-bird.net/2013/09/09/austin-ruse-wants-to-take-your-childr
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(Ruse)has briefed members of the U.S. House and Senate on U.N. matters, as well as briefing White House and National Security Council staff. Ruse has also briefed senior government officials, journalists, Church and non-governmental leaders from around the world. Same

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