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Lint Head Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-03-11 09:42 PM
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I just had a realization. I know I'm slow but.
What is happening is Beck, Limbaugh and Mike Savage are blaming Obama for a world take over by Muslims.

The fanatics will eventually boldly claim a conspiracy using national media outlets and not just over short wave radio or using code words on Fox. This is setting up an attempted coup by right wing extremist groups in this country. I hope the Secret Service is on alert around the White House gates. There are no weapons detectors on the roadways leading into Washington D.C. and idiots with guns bought by the gross in Arizona could show up en mass and do something stupid. The media in Egypt has been shut down and Limbaugh is laughing. Glenn Beck is making the wing nut case. Millions watch Fox and listen to Limbaugh. I think we are in a dangerous time in our country and people need to do more than 'jaw bone' about the right wing nut hate talkers.

How many people have to be threatened until something bad happens before reasonable people intervene?
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leftstreet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-03-11 09:43 PM
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1. Exactly how many people in the US listen to this garbage?
:shrug:
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Lint Head Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-03-11 09:48 PM
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2. Limbaugh has 20 million possible listeners a week.
Beck has around seven million ardent listeners.
The Savage Nation has an audience of 8 to 10 million listeners on 400 stations across the United States.
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cynatnite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-03-11 09:50 PM
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4. I wonder if that includes the Armed Forces radio...
where people are subjected to this garbage. Maybe the millions account for all the places where this crap is on whether anyone likes it or not.
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leftstreet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-03-11 09:50 PM
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5. Not sure what 'possible' means, but there are 350+ million people here
7 to 10 million listeners doesn't sound like much
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Lint Head Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-03-11 09:52 PM
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7. Remember part of that 350 million number are children.
It doesn't take but a few thousand to cause major problems as is evident in Egypt.
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leftstreet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-03-11 09:58 PM
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12. The people of Egypt aren't 'causing' the problems. The Rich Fucks did
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RagAss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-03-11 09:51 PM
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6. Yeh...but their all the same people.
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-03-11 10:28 PM
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22. Yeah but 20 million people will create some mayhem
for the record, it will nto be 20 million either, but enough for cells to cause real trouble.
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madokie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-03-11 10:30 PM
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23. The key word there is possible
someone here works in the industry and they explained how those numbers are determined and they are about as misleading as these subjects are anti-America hate mongering sob's.
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-03-11 09:55 PM
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10. Enough to make trouble
Please DO WATCH Radio Rwanda.
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leftstreet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-03-11 09:59 PM
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13. (sigh) The PEOPLE are not making the trouble. They're responding to it
Jeez
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-03-11 10:04 PM
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14. here
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Lint Head Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-03-11 10:22 PM
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17. This is it.
:hi:
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leftstreet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-03-11 10:24 PM
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18. You're comparing the Egyptian uprising to US Teabaggers?
:wtf:
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-03-11 10:27 PM
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20. No, this is about Fox and how FOX is stirring trouble
you asked who would be the ones causing trouble IN THE UNITED STATES... these are the ones who would be causing trouble in the US.

Unless you started talking Egypt while some of us are sticking to the OP. WHich again is about OUR OWN LOVELY RIGHT WING.
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-03-11 10:12 PM
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16. A hell of a lot
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goforit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-03-11 09:50 PM
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3. Yes ...you have to take this ignorance seriously.
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Khan Descend Donating Member (94 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-03-11 09:53 PM
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8. What should we do?? I'm out of ideas.
Do you have a plan we can adopt?

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RagAss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-03-11 09:53 PM
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9. Intervene how?
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Lint Head Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-03-11 10:11 PM
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15. Is inciting people with false accusations to riot and injure others not a crime?
The Mubarak thugs are rioting based on the lies of a dictator and a state controlled media.

Or our law makers and law enforcers in the is country cowards? I think not. It will take a brave
law maker or law enforcer to intervene and save our country from this. The authorities are too busy chasing
phantom terrorists created by the vilifying people that are not US citizens or not the color
right wing nuts think the ruling class should be.
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RagAss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-03-11 10:27 PM
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21. Inciting who to riot?
Think about it...who kills everyday in this country? People with nothing to live for, that's who.
They have lots of practice too...look at the news.

And then there's Joe "Middle Class Fundy" who goes to the gun range on Sundays after church and then drives back home to his gated community in his $40,000 SUV.

Where's Joe gonna be when the shit hits the fan and those who kill all the time take to the streets?

Not enough people stop and think about this. Funny thing about uprisings is they never turn out the way you think they will.
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-03-11 09:56 PM
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11. Yes, that is the plan
:-)

Happy thoughts, aren't they.

Not perhaps an open insurrection, but they are playing with fire and they are NOT crazy. They know exactly what they are doing.
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Brilliantrocket Donating Member (196 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-03-11 10:26 PM
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19. Religion is so damaging to our world.
While the way that those men portray Obama is misleading, I feel they are right about Islam. We need to work as hard as possible to stomp out delusion. I know this isn't a popular view ,but imagine our world if religion overtakes reason?
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