MediaMatters: Washington, D.C. — Today, Media Matters for America held a panel discussion on the growing culture of extremist, anti-government, and violent rhetoric in conservative media.
Media Matters Senior Fellow Eric Boehlert, who has written extensively on the subject, hosted leaders from the Southern Poverty Law Center, America’s Voice, NARAL Pro-Choice America, the National Council of La Raza, and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights to examine how the mainstreaming of extremism impacts our security, politics, and culture.
“The conservative media are giving a national platform to what was previously relegated to the right-wing fringe,” said Boehlert.
“Mainstreaming this rhetoric sends the message that violent behavior is acceptable, if not welcome. We all need to learn from the recent tragedies in Kansas and Washington, D.C., that this type of hate has no place on the airwaves.” [ READ MORE ]
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SNIPPETS FROM THE SOME OF THE “Psycho” ACTORS:
Michael Savage declares: “The white Christian heterosexual married male is the epitome of everything right with America”
WATERGATE BURGLAR G. Gordon Liddy on carbon offsets: “You go to Africa and you sign poor little black people who cook their food on an open fire and you pay them not to cook their food
Rush Limbaugh comments about sending Judge Sotomayor “a bunch of vacuum cleaners.”
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