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- uncajoe, on 06/12/2009, -31/+216FTA: "Yes, the worst terrorist attack in our history was perpetrated by a foreign conspiracy. But the second worst, the Oklahoma City bombing, was perpetrated by an all-American lunatic. Politicians and media organizations wind up such people at their, and our, peril."
The rightwing says it's the Democrats fault that these idiots can't control their tempers and blame every one of their problems on someone else.
Gimme a friggin' break! - consciousman, on 06/12/2009, -30/+174Rush is playing with fire, some of the things this guy is saying is very dangerous, Rush and Fox News is misinforming the American people.
- sugarazor, on 06/12/2009, -29/+162Right-wing commentators are just plain different than their left-wing counterparts. No liberal could ever get away with saying the things Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Michael Savage and Sean Hannity say on a daily basis. Yet these bile-spewing nitwits not only get multi-million dollar contracts, they set the tone for our political discourse. It also appears that one of them (Rush) controls the party, considering how many times elected officials will bend over backwards to please him and no one would ever dare to try to distance the party from the big fat idiot.
- SoulGrub, on 06/12/2009, -23/+150The country needs some good strong conservative opposition at this point in time, but the current mainstream conservatives and the mainstream conservative public are a joke. It's good that this is finally being talked about, there's no progress to be made when at least one of the sides continue to defy logic and sense.
- spookyttws, on 06/12/2009, -29/+152Yeah, there's nothing like the "Holier than thou" attitude of being strongly against abortion, but supporting war, the death penalty, and inciting violence against those who disagree with you. I don't claim to be better than anyone, but at some point everyone needs to take a step back and look at what they believe in and what the TV is telling them to believe in. You may be Republican, but Fox news isn't your ally, they're in it for the ratings.
And this whole "Obama is a Muslim" thing is getting ridiculous. What if h was?! It isn't a bad thing! - vinceislegend, on 06/12/2009, -10/+100Here is a picture of a puppy dog, to remind you that not everything in the world is ***** and infuriating:
http://www.nerve.com/CS/blogs/theremoteisland/2009 ... - DangerCollie, on 06/12/2009, -34/+118I'm not sure that there's a news organization that feeds the paranoia of the right is the real story here. That's been going ever since humans have been communicating. The real story is mainstream Republicans feeding the lunatic fringe. They are, in fact, inseparable from the extremists.
The Republicans are a divisive, hate-filled plague on this country. - KibblesnBitts, on 06/12/2009, -3/+66It's an Op-Ed piece.....
- udahlen, on 06/12/2009, -6/+56As a European, I'm a bit surprised over the level of hate and intolerance I hear and see in America. It seems to me USA is a very troubled country. It's sad. It wasn't this way 20 years ago.
- Bartboy919, on 06/12/2009, -7/+56Republicans like their presidents like their holy crackers, white and full of jesus.
- Rad1030, on 06/12/2009, -18/+65I attempted to force myself to watch Glenn Becks show for about 5 minutes about an hour ago. I'd rather have my fingernails pulled out with pliers than do that again. While I disagree with a lot of his opinions, it's his delivery that drives me crazy. He acts like he ***** bricks of gold and has God's number on speed-dial. He talks down to his audience, which comes off as a huge insult. This type of programming is a massive drag-net on society, slowly pulling us under until we collapse.
- danielson0014, on 06/12/2009, -19/+66I used to consider myself an Independent and I would support whoever I thought would do the best job. But nowadays I can't help but to see almost all republicans as in bed with theses extremist crazies. There needs to be a open dialogue about what works best for this country to work well, but that's not what the Republicans do anymore. They just yell at everybody and anybody who doesn't fall in line with their increasingly violent and damaging propaganda and straight up lies. Where have all the sane conservatives gone!?! There has to be some left out there! Stand up for your party, please!! I don't want a one party system even if I do agree with most of their policies. Republicans are on their way to being nothing more than a fringe movement like the KKK and holocaust deniers.
- inactive, on 06/12/2009, -4/+48Your panic and desperation is pleasing to us. Continue.
- sugarazor, on 06/12/2009, -6/+49Typical response from the right, thank you for helping my point.
- ConfusedCartman, on 06/12/2009, -3/+44I honestly don't think mainstream conservative media accurately represents mainstream conservatives - I think it just represents the loudest conservatives. Even my grandfather is tired of the ***** on Fox, and he's a right-wing, god-fearing orthodox Catholic.
- sugarazor, on 06/12/2009, -5/+45But the loudest portion are the mainstream now, they're so loud they're pushing out the voices of reason within the party. Look at how Rush and Cheney treated Colin Powell, who is one of the most admired men within the party. Rush, Newt, Cheney, Steele, Huckabee and Palin are the ones out there flapping their gums every chance they get, who else is speaking for the Republican Party that's not bowing to one of these lunatics?
- sugarazor, on 06/12/2009, -2/+41We don't even have a "left" in this country, at least not one that's represented in government. You have the psychotic far-right (neocons), and the right of center Democrats.
- sugarazor, on 06/12/2009, -4/+41Why do right-wingers automatically assume that when people want the Republican Party to go away, that means they want a one party system? I have no problem with a two, three, four or ten party system... but why do any of those need to be the Republican Party?
In order for America to survive, the Republican Party has to die. The Democrats don't have all the answers (they don't even have most of the answers), but the Republicans are merely a roadblock to America's prosperity. - Loki101, on 06/12/2009, -7/+43[Translated] - I'm ok with killing women and babies so long as they're not ours.
- LMN8R, on 06/12/2009, -20/+52This is really all you need to know (watch the first couple minutes)
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?vide ...
I mean, how ***** deliberate can you get? How can it be any more plainly obvious that these pieces of ***** want to do nothing but twist and distort the entire presidential administration to instill fear into the people and insight riots in the stupid? - Jensaarai, on 06/12/2009, -12/+44It's not that there is anything fundamentally wrong with the right wing.
I view it as such: On any side of any political spectrum, you're going to get a certain amount of base voters, then zealots, then left/right wingnuts, then total nuts, then dangerous crazies on the farthest fringe.
Now, in political strategy, you can hype up the base/demonize the other side to a certain extent to win elections. But if you push to hard, you start to turn base voters into zealots, zealots into nuts, nuts into total nuts, and total nuts into dangerous nuts. And a few of those who were already dangerous nuts get pushed off the edge.
The left has been gun shy with pushing too hard since the 60s, and especially since anti-patriotism accusations that have dogged the left since Viet Nam. If you look at things, the left hasn't had too much in the 'dangerous crazies' department worse than a few eco-nuts torching hummers or Greenpeace being retarded.
Meanwhile, in that same time, the right has been indifferent to the dangers of putting rhetorical pressure on the base. Even when ***** went down in the 90s with gun-nut-anti-gov-militias, abortion clinic bombings, or the OKC bombing. They managed to not take flak for the rhetoric that many of these dangerous nuts mimicked. At the same time, that rhetoric reaped rewards in the mainstream, by charging the base -- Republicans could cast Democrats as patriotically suspect, possibly treasonous.
Since then, things have only ramped up.
I think we're going to see a lot more right wing violence over the next few years. Possibly another OKC style bombing. (Though here is where I hope Bush's national security upgrades will succeed.) Eventually, I think after whatever this streak culminates in, we'll hit a period close to the original gun-shy nature with rhetoric the left had for a few years.
And the cycle will continue. - Falling2Rust, on 06/12/2009, -2/+31I'm fine with the Republican party being a part of the U.S. political system. It's the hateful rhetoric that incites extremist violence I have a problem with.
- Loki101, on 06/12/2009, -2/+29Correct, but if these republicans don't speak up... well, you know what they say about "moderate muslims"; silence is consent.
- novenator, on 06/12/2009, -8/+35This is something I've been saying since last fall. McCain started to slide in the polls after briefly surging ahead, and his handlers let the right wing extremists exemplified by Sarah Palin to start to control the message: fear, paranoia, and hate. This didn't get much traction with the majority of voters, but resonated with the most extremist elements of the conservative base. The result, they have attacked literally everything Obama has done since taking the oath, including taking the oath itself. Some of the more ridiculous attacks can be found at: http://digg.com/political_opinion/Top_30_Stupidest ...
The ultimate effect of right wing hate is that it has lead to 3 acts of deadly violence (some would say terrorism) in the last 4.5 months: Pittsburgh, the assassination of George Tiller by someone affiliated with Operation Rescue, and the Holocaust rampage. 3 deadly acts in this short span of time, and fuel is *still* being added to the fire. Mark my words, more violence will come. We can only hope that another Oklahoma City doesn't happen before people start shaming these right wing fanatics down. http://www.librarygrape.com/2009/04/chilling-rise- ... - novenator, on 06/12/2009, -2/+28I was conservative in my youth, then I took a real job and entered the real world. I've been liberal ever since.
- ConfusedCartman, on 06/12/2009, -0/+25Is it just me, or does it seem like every extreme right-winger is also a "man of God"? The problem is the "god" justification - the extreme right justifies death, destruction, etc because they're doing "God's work".
- Zaxcomp, on 06/12/2009, -2/+27Bush and Cheney got the same "bling" too...
- Delphium226, on 06/12/2009, -5/+29You need to broaden your horizons and educate yourself. Not all Muslims are like that just as not all Christians are mouth breathing flat-earthers.
- kanojo1969, on 06/12/2009, -1/+25Are you implying that in the US, the right-wing party is actually left of what you would call center? What exactly do you call right-wing? Compared to most democracies around the world, the democrats are quite a long way to the right. There's no party in the US that promotes the kind of leftist philosophy that you see in europe's governments.
I am flabbergasted that you think the opposite. Jesus. - Delphium226, on 06/12/2009, -1/+25@mejf2loy
So what you're syaing is you're in it for yourself. How civic minded of you. - sugarazor, on 06/12/2009, -2/+26I didn't realize the health and well-being of a nation's citizens is a "leftist" ideal.
And sorry, Obama isn't "left." If anything, he's carrying on the Clinton legacy and trying to be the greatest Republican president we've had in modern history. - rocketpop, on 06/12/2009, -5/+29The whackjob paranoia is starting to get really scary. Granted, I'm in the middle of rural missouri so maybe I see it more, but the fact is that I already know of MORE THAN ONE person (and they are unrelated) who have BURIED a stash of guns--because they think that the government is going to swoop in sometime in the middle of the night in black vans and raid their house.
I know schizophrenics that have made more sense, and that's just the thing: if they are already that riled up and that paranoid, how much further can they go? I mean, not every one of them, but obviously it is wide spread, and if these guys are that messed up already, how many out there are a hair away from domestic terrorism? - QQMore, on 06/12/2009, -9/+33Dugg just to cancel you out.
- Misinformant, on 06/12/2009, -1/+24mejf2loy: "I''ve been a selfish prick all my life" would have been enough to sum all that up. No doubt you'd dash to the unemployment line for your "socialist handout" if you got laid off now and go right back to decrying others who collect on it once you found work again
- Disgod, on 06/12/2009, -5/+27You're getting buried because you made a lame Ad Hominem / red herring argument about Krugman. What he did with Enron has nothing to do with the topic that he is discussing there. You brought up that to attempt to discredit everything he has to say and to try and change the topic. Neither is a valid form of argument against what was said in this article. So, there is every reason to bury your fallacious, off topic raving.
- Dr0x, on 06/12/2009, -3/+25I can't even explain how disappointed I am to see a digg user who actually believes that all Muslims are freedom despising, women beating, Jew haters. You should really try to learn more about other religions and cultures before you end up embarrassing yourself and offending others.
- inactive, on 06/12/2009, -9/+31I'm curious to see what all this escalates to down the road. It's almost like the right-wing desperately wants a SHTF scenario to happen, so much that they will end up causing it themselves.
- temujin1234, on 06/12/2009, -2/+24A major theme in this is news commentators. News commentary is to the news what WWE is to baseball. People should look for actual facts rather than have their opinion spoon fed to them.
- Loki101, on 06/12/2009, -2/+23That was a very nice piece of speak-fu there - disavowing your bad apples and pushing them onto the opposition.
- Loki101, on 06/12/2009, -11/+32Oddly enough, 90% of the time, it's a conservative voicing those words.
- nosliwm, on 06/12/2009, -10/+31Ever hear this one...
What's the difference between the current American Right Wing and the Taliban Leadership?
Nothing.
They just have slightly different targets. - xexx, on 06/12/2009, -2/+22Yeah... cause Republicans would really support this now:
In 1901, as Vice President, the 42-year-old Roosevelt succeeded President William McKinley after McKinley's assassination by anarchist Leon Czolgosz [served September 14, 1901 – March 4, 1909]. As of 2009, he remains the youngest person to become President.[5] He was a Progressive reformer who sought to move the dominant Republican Party into the Progressive camp. He distrusted wealthy businessmen and dissolved forty monopolistic corporations as a "trust buster". He was clear, however, to show that he did not disagree with trusts and capitalism in principle, but was only against corrupt, illegal practices. His "Square Deal" promised a fair shake for both the average citizen (through regulation of railroad rates and pure food and drugs) and the businessman. He was the first U.S. president to call for universal health care and national health insurance.[6][7] As an outdoorsman, he promoted the conservation movement, emphasizing efficient use of natural resources. After 1906 he attacked big business and suggested the courts were biased against labor unions.
1. dissolved forty monopolistic corporations as a "trust buster"
2. "Square Deal" promised a fair shake for both the average citizen (through regulation of railroad rates and pure food and drugs)
3. first U.S. president to call for universal health care and national health insurance.
4. promoted the conservation movement, emphasizing efficient use of natural resources.
5. attacked big business and suggested the courts were biased against labor unions.
Could you IMAGINE a Republican president doing any such thing today? Not a chance. - TigerStar337, on 06/12/2009, -2/+22Krugman states "What will the consequences be? Nobody knows, of course, although the analysts at Homeland Security fretted that things may turn out even worse than in the 1990s — that thanks, in part, to the election of an African-American president, “the threat posed by lone wolves and small terrorist cells is more pronounced than in past years.”
And that’s a threat to take seriously. Yes, the worst terrorist attack in our history was perpetrated by a foreign conspiracy. But the second worst, the Oklahoma City bombing, was perpetrated by an all-American lunatic. Politicians and media organizations wind up such people at their, and our, peril."
The American Terrorists have egos. They do try to one up another. Soon, a wingnut will do something bigger than the Oklahoma City bombing. - dammerung, on 06/12/2009, -4/+24The gentleman speaking in that video is from Newsweek, so his opinions are not necessarily espoused by MSNBC.
- joeditto, on 06/12/2009, -3/+23Yes they are!
- Misinformant, on 06/12/2009, -2/+22Really? Cause from where I'm sitting, old, greedy, rich, white, conservative ***** managed to destroy the entire worldwide economy and put millions out of work.
- niftycake, on 06/12/2009, -11/+30Please can we compare the entire viewership of Fox News + Rush Limbaugh to those who voted republican in 2008. There are millions of Republicans who are as disgusted at Fox News and Rush as liberals. "The Republicans are a divisive, hate-filled plague on this country" Lumping republicans with crazy rightwingers/ faux news is completely ignorant. Weren't we the liberal supposed to be the unbiased and intelligent ones?
- rabidbob, on 06/12/2009, -5/+24Yep .... and ...
“segment out conservatives in this country who have a different philosophy or view from this administration” and label them as terrorists."
So what about the (almost invariably left if not seen as left) anti-war protesters who are now on terrorist watch lists? - asaone, on 06/12/2009, -11/+30It is the same old republican *****, Fear Uncertainty and Doubt. Say it loud and as often as you can and of course blame it on the other guys. Don't bother with the truth it has nothing to do with right wing political news makers/repeaters it is FUD.
- sooperdooper, on 06/12/2009, -0/+19Thanks, I needed that!
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