May 05, 2011: Media conservatives are insisting that George W. Bush deserves as much credit as President Obama for the death of Osama Bin Laden, if not more. However, making this argument means ignoring what the Bush administration itself reportedly called its “gravest error” — not capturing bin Laden at Tora Bora in 2001 — and Bush’s 2002 statement that he was “not concerned” about bin Laden. [ READ MORE ]
This is also in stark contrast to their usual attacks that Obama is responsible for things that are happening during his presidency, including those tied to Bush-era policies like the Gulf oil spill, the weak economy, and the nation’s deficit problems. [ READ MORE ]
Dishonest Crook Sean Hannity Says Bush Not Obama Deserves Credit For Bin Laden Killing!
Hannity: We Got Osama Bin Laden “Thanks To George Bush“
Brent Bozell: Bush Gets All The Credit, None Of The Blame
Donald ‘Birther’ Trump: Obama is Getting Too Much Credit on Osama Bin Laden
Obama To GOP ‘Appeasement‘ Critics: ‘Ask Osama Bin Laden’
——————————————————–
Osama Bin Laden: Obama Reminds GOP He Won’t Be Underestimated
——————————————————– Other Lies, Distortions, Mis-information and Outright Racism From Fox and Other Right-Wing Political Whore Houses [ WorldNetDaily: Obama "Wants To Import Homosexuals" ]
——————————————————–
Fox Sees “Black Reparations” In UN Climate Deal in Durban, South Africa
“Fuzzy Math“: Fox’s Latest Attempt To Obscure The Current Unemployment Figures — Ever since the Department of Labor released the November unemployment numbers, which showed that the unemployment rate had dropped to 8.6 percent from 9 percent, Fox News has had trouble accurately presenting the data. [ READ MORE ] [ DISHONEST FOX NEWS CHARTS ]
Debating Government Involvement In Health Care, O’Reilly Tries To Claim The Military Is Not Government-Controlled
Limbaugh Plays “First Family Early Kwanzaa Celebration” Parody That Features Jeremiah Wright
Limbaugh Congratulates Himself For Hoping Obama Fails
Limbaugh: Obama “Sabotaged” And “Tried To Undermine” The Iraq War
Limbaugh: Democrats “Can’t Win Unless There Is Vote Fraud” And “Signature Fraud“
Media Matters: We have reached the logical endpoint of the conservative media’s all-out campaign to vilify George Soros: When something in the news makes people mad, run Google searches on the object of the public’s anger, plus “George Soros.” [ READ MORE ]
Osama Bin O’Reilly: George Soros “is a danger to the country“
Coulter advocates profiling: Terrorists “all look alike. They’re all foreign-born … They’re all Muslim”
Fox’s Fred Barnes: TSA should profile for ‘Mohamed Atta look-alikes‘ Really?
Mohammed Atta (left) & Fox’s Brian Kilmeade
Fred Barnes: TSA should profile for “Mohamed Atta look-alikes“
Psychiatrists: Beck Conspiracy Show Raises Concerns About Viewer Reaction; Beck on a Hour-Long Attack on Soros
Media Matters: Three veteran psychiatrists who viewed a portion of a Glenn Beck program repeatedly cited by alleged gunman Byron Williams are raising concerns about the effect that the conspiracy theory-filled clip might have on viewers. [ READ MORE ]
Glenn Beck’s Hour-Long Attack on George Soros:
Notes: On October 21st, The New York Times reported that — “NPR has terminated its contract with Juan Williams, one of its senior news analysts,” after comments Williams made on the October 18 edition of Fox News’ The O’Reilly Factor. Juan Williams said that people identifying themselves ?first and foremost as Muslims? made him nervous when he flew. [ READ MORE ]
Beck accuses Soros of conspiring to attack free speech: “Nobody’s talking about jail … right?” (Part 1)
Beck accuses Soros of conspiring to attack free speech: “Organizing against free speech” (Part 2)
Beck accuses Soros of conspiring to attack free speech: “The emperor’s death star is fully armed and operational” (Part 3)
Beck accuses Soros of conspiring to attack free speech: “People will mock this monologue” (Part 4)
———————————————————–
O’Reilly and Rove flip out over Soros — “the Godfather of the radical left” — and his “smear machine“
Limbaugh lashes out at Soros donation: “We need to make November 2nd Obama’s Katrina“
Limbaugh mocks Michelle Obama over how she asked for prayers
Limbaugh says the “nags” at the National Organization for Women are “a bunch of whores to liberalism“
Behind Obama Muslim myth stands the right wing: Two recently released polls show that an increasing number of Americans believe the falsehood that President Obama is a Muslim. According to the Pew Research Center, 60 percent of people who believe this false claim cite the media as the source of that information — and, indeed, the right-wing media have incessantly promoted this lie. [ READ MORE ]
John Oliver says Muslims are allowed to put a mosque near Ground Zero, just like Catholics can build a church next to a playground. And, “Osama Bin O’Reilly” says there isn’t a Muslim within a mile of Ground Zero! Cenk Uygur proves him very wrong.
1.Attention TV networks: Pam Geller is lying to your viewers — Right-wing blogger Pamela Geller has been a frequent guest on television news programs to discuss the controversy about the building of an Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero, a controversy that her group, Stop Islamization of America, has been largely responsible for driving. She has used these appearances as a platform to make outrageous, inflammatory, and false claims. [ READ MORE ]
Republicans don’t care if they are called out for attacking President Obama at all. They just want him to FAIL, and they have made it clear, by talk and deed — numerous times. They will NEVER give him any credit whatsoever. NONE!
Columnist – John Sammon Republicans are stupid, but they don’t know it, which is one of the reasons the tea party movement of the far right chose as their symbol the Boston Tea Party of the pre-Revolutionary War, a cowardly act of mob vandalism against an unguarded ship carrying British tea in Boston Harbor.
The tea partiers of today never study history, and those few who have never evaluate it. They think the Boston Tea Party was a heroic action.
Some things never change. The colonials of that day were protesting taxes as they do now, but the mob in 1773 dressed as American Indians. Numerous times in American history entire villages of Native American (Indians) were wiped out, men women and children, because they were suspected by the nearest Anglo community of some depredation. The only thing that saved Massachusetts Indians, those few still alive after the Boston Tea Party, was that the colonial’s dress-up act was so goddamned clumsily stupid it fooled nobody.
What a fitting symbol for today’s tea baggers.
With about as much subtlety as a blunt-force object, members of the far right try to mask the blatant racism that has always defined them. Here are 10 ways they do:
1. State’s rights. This has always been a bulwark against attempts by the federal government to legislate equality. States having rights isn’t the issue, misusing the rights they’ve been given is. Officials in Arizona recently criminalized stereotypical Latin-looking skin (if you’re a citizen you have to produce papers showing you’re not an illegal immigrant), for the same reason officials blocked the school door at Little Rock in support of school segregation. Fear of homogeneity. States rights have always been used to advance racism long before Civil War Confederacy slavers championed it.
2. Racists calling someone with whom they disagree racist. Republicans call the president a racist. This is a smokescreen, or the pot calling the kettle black. Have blacks ever run or promoted a segregationist society? Limbaugh, O’Reilly and myself all grew up as boys in a white-only world. The only blacks we saw were servants on TV. That conditioning is hard to un-do.
3. Lumping blacks with government handouts. Traditionally, black Americans had to look to the federal government for enforcement of equality, because individual states wouldn’t. Republicans view blacks and people of color as welfare-sucking leeches. Remember those children’s cartoons where the hungry lion looks at a guy and the guy turns into a roast turkey? When conservatives look at a black person, they see a butler or a shoeshine boy with his hand out begging.
4. Small government. How can Republicans harp on how they’re for small government, when they set record budget deficits during the Bush years and conduct endless nation-building wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? Small government to conservatives means profligate spending on wars and weapons, but none on Americans, especially those of color.
5. Use of tokens. Conservatives realize they can’t totally ignore minorities. Thus, the continuing parade of token non-white people in symbolic meaningless posts from Uncle Tom Michael Steele to Bobby Jindal, or as the Roman Emperor Caligula used to say, “use a dog to catch a dog.”
6. The threat of violence and lynching. This is a right-wing hallmark with a history that needs no explanation.
7. The use of mindless symbolic euphemisms with no basis of reality. Lightening rod symbols are important to conservatives. Thus, they fixate on words like small government and taxes (see#4 above), even though they themselves spend like drunken sailors on weapons and wars. They accuse the president of being born in a foreign country, and endlessly cite his Arabic-sounding name, a Freudian give-away that in addition to their belief that blacks should know their proper underling place, the only good Arab is a dead Arab.
8. When a disaster happens to mostly people of color, like the earthquake in Haiti, or the debacle at the Superdome in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, watch conservative pundits, politicians and pastors. They will forget their occasional caution and say things like “they deserved it,” or “it’s God’s will, they’re in league with the devil because they practice voodoo.”
9. Use of icons. Republicans mythologize Ronald Reagan and John Wayne because they represent a white-only simpler time when blacks knew their place. They describe this as American or “family values.” The family doesn’t include blacks.
10. Republicans even though they won’t admit it, believe in a caste system with whites the top tier. They hide this by saying they’re protecting the rights of tax payers and “average” Americans. Average means white.
