The GOP's Anti-Obama Propaganda

[EraOfResponsibility]

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Today’s Republicans are thumbing through Newt Gingrich’s worn playbook of 1993 looking for tips on how to blunt President Barack Obama’s political momentum and flip it to their advantage. In doing so, they also appear to have dug in to what might be called the secret appendix....


So far at least, the Republicans are experiencing less success against Barack Obama than they did against Bill Clinton. According to opinion polls, Obama remains widely popular with an American public that favors his more activist agenda for reviving the American economy and confronting systemic problems like energy, health care and education....


Fox News, in particular, has been floating the idea of armed rebellion. On Feb. 20 – the one-month anniversary of Obama’s inauguration – Glenn Beck hosted a special program called “War Room” that “war-gamed” various scenarios including the overthrow of an oppressive U.S. government when “bubba” militias rise up and gain the support of the American military.

Such insurrectionist musings on Fox News are not likely to be taken seriously by most people. Indeed, many Americans may find it amusing that Fox has developed a heartfelt concern about disenfranchising voters after its enthusiastic embrace of Bush's undemocratic "election" in 2000 or that Fox now feels a sudden reverence for the Constitution after eight years of defending Bush as he trampled it.

But this sort of Fox chatter runs the risk of feeding the well-nursed grievances of angry white “bubbas” and possibly inspiring a new Timothy McVeigh.


read the whole article here: http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/20484

[kwenu]

1. Me thinks Rove is far from retired.

If you've noticed they all get the same talking points. Doesn't matter though, they are still floundering.

[genna]

2. What do you propose any American should do about it?

Al Sharpton has gone for the FCC guideline for concentrated media.

Your attention is focused on content.

Keith Olbermann makes it his business to address content by pressing his audience about the logical extension of 'Comedian' Rush Limbaugh, Bill O, and the Hannity talking points. It is not about shame so much as it is DING DING DING beware of these dangerous slanderers.

Where would you take it?

[La Lioness Priyanka]

3. is anyone surprised?

[Jennicut]

4. The militias came when Clinton was in power in the 1990's, David Koresh and Ruby Ridge

Tim McVeigh was part of that movement against the government. I remember the Oklahoma City bombing, watching it as a teenager in high school. Is this what Glen Beck and other Rethug pundits want? The killing of innocent people to serve their agenda, of which the majority of the American public does not want? If they don't like it here they should just leave, isn't that what they told us in 2004?