Fox’s ‘Juggles’ ‘Serious’ Japan Quake Coverage(Downplaying The Disaster)and Obama Bashing: Nitpicking on nonsense issues and pushing blatant lies into the heads of their gullible/racist audience, is a time-tested Fox staple.
At a time when President Obama is tending to almost literally — a “thousand issues” — all at once, both here and abroad, the “stinkingly” biased right-wing media, led by Fox — have attacked him for supposedly not focusing on the crises in Japan and Libya by instead honoring women’s history month, going golfing, and filling out NCAA tournament brackets. Yet, Obama has engaged on both issues by making numerous public addresses and ordering humanitarian relief efforts in Japan and the Middle East. [ READ MORE ]
Who in his right mind would believe blatant, malicious innuendo like these? That, the president of the United States is more interested in basketball than the pressing, critical issues at hand!
The Republican mouthpiece, Fox — needs people to stay stupid in order for their puppets to have a shot at getting elected to congress. Critical thinking is bad for a party which relies on the ignorance, illiteracy and racist emotions of the electorate to win political office.
Trust me, the goons at Fox and most in right-wing talk radio(with exception of the super-sick ones, like Michael Savage) know exactly what they are doing. They utilize the same process religious and political leaders have used for thousands of years to brainwash the gullible. [ SEE: How To Brainwash a Nation ]
“Obama is a secret Muslim and was born in Kenya.” “Welfare queens are stealing our tax money!” “Liberals control the media.” “Saddam Hussein was linked to 9-11.” “Global warming is a fraud…..Well, it’s cold outside now, you know?” “Evolution is a religion.” “Obama death panels!”
In his book “The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right,” David Neiwert argues that it is no accident that lies are believed by the extreme right wing. In fact, for them it doesn’t really matter whether an assertion is true; any belief, whether it is based on fact or not, is legitimized as long as the left is demonized by it. That is because the goal, for many of the extremists, is to eliminate the left as political opponents. Neiwert says that in America, this impulse to exterminate the opposition is almost uniquely confined to the right.
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For further insight, read this article by — Guy Reel, an associate professor of mass communication at Winthrop University.
Hannity Breaks From Serious Japan Coverage For Five-Minute Obama-Bashing Session
Hannity Refers To President Obama As “The So-Called Leader Of The Free World“
Juan Williams Defends Obama On Japan: “You Want Him To Fly Over Like He’s Superman? You Really Think He’s The Messiah”
Beck Continues To Downplay Effects Of Chernobyl Disaster
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Beck Compares Japan’s Reaction To Quake With His 8-28 Rally And 9-12 Project
Rush Limbaugh Amused That Earthquake Hit Environmentally Conscious Country
Beck Falsely Claims “We’re Not Drilling” For Oil “Anymore“
Right-wing radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh spreads the hate: An Ed Show panel talks about Rush Limbaugh’s remarks that Democratic leaders are “white racists.”
Other Conservative Maniacs:
Caught red-handed — Glenn Beck doctors video and lies about Soros quote: In the third part of his special attacking George Soros, Glenn Beck repeatedly highlighted a Soros quote and claimed it demonstrates that Soros wants “global citizens… voting on who represents us.” But Beck deceptively cropped Soros’ quote, completely reversing its meaning. [ READ MORE ]
Mark Levin spoke out against President Barack Obama’s $26 billon jobs bill, saying he is destroying the future of America’s children. Mark Levin is one of the most extremist and frightening HateWing Talker of them all. Clearly, though, there’s an audience for Levin’s twisted vision. After all, his latest book, “Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto,” was a recent No. 1 New York Times bestseller, with over a million copies now in print. And an incredible 1,355 out of 1,538 Amazon customers have given the book a perfect 5-star rating.
“Liberty and Tyranny” rounds up and recycles the usual arguments for (supposedly) limiting government. It’s the same tired, cliched, simplistic arguments that have been trotted out endlessly by today’s GOP (a philosophy, incidentally, that was trounced at the polls by the American people in 2009, who demonstrated that they’re sick and tired of three decades of trickle-down Reaganomics). [ READ MORE ]
Senator Jon Kyl makes roughly $200,000 a year, and has the best healthcare plan the country can offer. It did not prevent this racist anti-immigrant baboon from supporting the EVIL obstructionist maneuvers by fellow Republican Senator Jim Bunning of “Redneck” Kentucky; a move that temporarily deprived millions of Americans of unemployment checks — each amounting to a paltry (average) $240 a week!
“My colleague from Kentucky made a good point,” said Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-AZ) on the Senate floor on Monday. Bunning said he was holding up the bill because he wants it to be paid for with stimulus dollars, during a recession.
Likewise, Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), another anti-immigrant bigot, who runs the Senate GOP’s re-election committee, said he sympathized with his colleague. “I admire the courage of the junior senator from Kentucky, Senator Bunning,” Cornyn said, also on the Senate floor.
Like rats smelling cheese, right-wing radio and Fox News morons — quickly joined in the chorus. FAT Rush Limbaugh said: ‘Jim Bunning Is A Hero To People’ [ SEE VIDEO BELOW ]. Sean KLANnity and his entire “REAL AMERICAN PANEL” applauded Bunning’s obstructionism, and many others — heaped praise on Bunning for blocking worker pay, and relief to the unemployed.
It is important to note that this recession has hit blacks and other minorities a lot harder than their white counterparts. While the national average is roughly 10 percent, black unemployment is as high as 20 percent in some parts of the nation. Young black men in particular, have been hit very hard.
The jobless rate for black Americans has remained much higher than that of whites through good times and bad since at least the 1960s. Same thing with health insurance.
These EVIL Republican politicians know these facts — about blaring job disparities between black people and white folks in America — therefore, sacrificing a few poor “white Democrats” is not a big deal — politically.
One Contra Costa, Calif., gun dealer named Rich predicted that “some nut” would assassinate Obama within one year of any Democratic attempt at gun-control legislation. I witnessed the sale of rocket-propelled grenade launchers and bazookas; I watched a California dealer demonstrate how rapidly he could field strip his .308-caliber sniper rifle, then stash it in a deliberately innocuous-looking backpack and a briefcase that “looks just like a camera case.” Though big guns were the main attraction, a handful of retailers in Reno appealed to some visitors’ apparent enthusiasm for Nazi memorabilia. Swastika-emblazoned flags, photographs of Hitler and his henchmen, and anything related to the Third Reich were available at several booths.
Gun Show Nation: Inside Anti-Obama Extremist Gun Culture
[Max Blumenthal] On April 18 and 19, I attended gun shows in Antioch, Calif., and Reno, Nev., to probe the culture of gun enthusiasts at the onset of the Barack Obama era.
I came away from these events with a portrait of a heavily armed, tightly organized movement incited by right-wing radio to a fever-pitched resentment of Obama and his allies in Congress.
Even as the economy suffers, gun dealers and their Washington lobbyists are leveraging renewed anti-government sentiment into unprecedented sales figures and fattened membership rolls.
“We’ve been swamped today,” an NRA representative from Antioch boasted. “We’ve practically ran out of our materials that we give away at sign-up.”
Fueled by the screeds of radio hosts Michael Savage, Glenn Beck, and the lesser-known, but increasingly influential, online conspiracist Alex Jones, many gun-show attendees I spoke to were convinced Obama planned to usher in a Marxist dictatorship.
They warned that the president’s power grab would only begin with mass gun seizures. “If Obama takes away our guns,” a young, .45-caliber-pistol-toting man from Reno told me, “it’s just a step into trying to take away everything else.”
Indeed, in their minds, average Americans opposed to the Obama agenda would be herded into FEMA-run concentration camps by a volunteer army of glassy-eyed liberal college graduates.
“When they start imprisoning Americans, and people start seeing that we’re the enemy, then that’ll make it hot,” predicted one young man from Antioch sporting a button for former Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul of Texas. “People talk about a revolution,” the young man continued, “an armed revolution. I think police crackdowns on individuals will tip the scales.”
More than a few gun dealers and attendees echoed the young man’s seeming enthusiasm for armed revolt. One Contra Costa, Calif., gun dealer named Rich predicted, during an otherwise casual off-camera conversation, that “some nut” would assassinate Obama within one year of any Democratic attempt at gun-control legislation.
While the prospect of organized right-wing violence against the federal government seems far-fetched at this point, the paranoid rhetoric I documented suggests the militia movement that organized against President Bill Clinton’s policies during the 1990s could experience a dramatic resurgence by mobilizing resentment against Obama.
If a new militia movement coalesces, its members will have no shortage of sophisticated assault weapons to choose from. At the gun show in Reno, I witnessed the sale of rocket-propelled grenade launchers and bazooka guns; I watched a California dealer demonstrate how rapidly he could field strip his .308-caliber sniper rifle, then stash it in a deliberately innocuous-looking backpack and a briefcase that “looks just like a camera case.”
Nearby, I interviewed another dealer retailing a brand of .50-caliber assault rifle that was banned in California because it could supposedly down an airplane. He told me by slightly altering the bullets his gun fired, and by converting the gun from semiautomatic to bolt action, he was able to sell it in California once again.
(Weapons like these are useful to Mexican narco-cartels, too. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ Phoenix field division claimed that “many gun shows attracted large numbers of gang members from Mexico and California. They often bought large quantities of assault weapons and smuggled them into Mexico or transported them to California.”)
Though big guns were the main attraction, a handful of retailers in Reno appealed to some visitors’ apparent enthusiasm for Nazi memorabilia. Swastika-emblazoned flags, photographs of Hitler and his henchmen, and anything related to the Third Reich were available at several booths.
There was obviously no way to gauge the percentage of show attendees who adhered to the racist fringe, but the prominence of so much Nazi regalia suggested they maintained a significant presence. In fact, I learned about the gun shows I attended from a Web site that features a prominent banner ad for the Council of Conservative Citizens, America’s largest white-supremacist group.
On April 4, a neo-Nazi wannabe named Richard Poplawski killed three Pittsburgh police officers with a high-powered assault rifle. By all accounts, Poplawski was an avid follower of right-wing talkers, including Alex Jones and Glenn Beck, who “grew angry recently over fears Obama would outlaw guns.”
In the wake of Poplawski’s massacre, the Department of Homeland Security issued a report warning of the mounting threat of right-wing extremism.
“Heightened interest in legislation for tighter firearms control,” the DHS asserted, “may be invigorating right-wing extremist activity, specifically the white-supremacist and militia movements.”
With its focus on right-wing gun culture, the report compounded the already-palpable paranoia of gun-show enthusiasts. An organizer of the Antioch show told me the heightened specter of government scrutiny prompted numerous dealers to demand a total ban on cameras inside the show.
Even with the restriction in place at both shows I attended, I managed to record enough footage to provide what I think is a vivid journalistic report on gun culture mentality during the first 100 days of the Obama era.
Was the DHS report on right-wing extremism credible? See my video report, “Gun Show Nation,” and judge for yourself.
On April 18 and 19, I attended gun shows in Antioch, Calif., and Reno, Nev., to probe the culture of gun enthusiasts at the onset of the Barack Obama era. 
