Reply #11: "There's something happening here. What it is is EXACTLY clear ..."

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What's Going On

Dan Savage
Sep 17, 2009

We all know, or should know, what's going on here. The right wing media blowhards—the men who run the GOP's racist rump—are going to crank up the paranoid, race-baiting rhetoric until they succeed in pushing a deranged "patriot" over the edge and an attempt is made on the life of President Barack Hussein Socialist Hitler Racist Obama. If the assassination attempt is a success—God fucking forbid—the right wing will have succeeded in removing Obama from office by... what's that phrase again... oh, right: by any means necessary. And the country will be consumed by riots, which will have racial overtones, which the right-wing will point to as proof that they were right: black people, from the dead president on down, are dangerous and violent and coming to get you, white America! The GOP may benefit at the ballot box—because they're the law and order party, the "daddy party"—so why wouldn't these immoral fuckers go for it?

Getting the president killed is a win-win scenario for the Limbaughs, Drudges, Becks, Bachmanns, etc. Let's stop pretending that it's not what they're after.

http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2009/09/17/whats-going-on







Politician won’t apologize for Obama hunting tags remark

BY JESSIE L. BONNER
Associated Press Writer

BOISE, Idaho — Idaho Republican Rex Rammell said Tuesday the hoopla over his remarks about hunting President Barack Obama has been a boon to his campaign, and he again refused to apologize for what he called a joke.

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But Rammell said the publicity has been good for his run for office.

“Hopefully, if there’s people in Idaho that didn’t know me, then they’ll know me now. I think I’ll come out of this much better off,” Rammell told the Rexburg Standard Journal in eastern Idaho, where he lives.

http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/the-wire/2009/09/01/politician-wont-apologize-for-obama-hunting-tags-remark/comment-page-3/







Hatred by the far right of Obama is not hidden in rallies

September 16, 2009
Jerome McCollom

Quick post on the "we don't hate Obama, really" teabag/ 9/11 rallies. How do I say this, have they gone beyond nuts? Here are some of the signs at a 9/11 rally.

A sign with the mustache of Adolf Hitler imposed on Obama.

A sign that said, "Traitors Terrorists Run our government."

A sign that said, "Don't blame me, I voted for The 'American."

One that read, "Obama Bin Lyin."

Heck, at lest I should be happy that they didn't compare President Obama to Charles Manson or Jeffrey Dahmer. At least not yet.

The rightwing states that these rallies are about taxes and 9/11 but they end up about hating Obama. Strange, the right after 9/11 said we had to get behind the president and now the point that they take away from these rallies is to say Obama is an illegal alien. On one hand Obama is a marxist commie socialist ruskie and the next he is a bomb throwing Muslim who wants to impose Islamic law. What's next, Obama is a monarchist? Wait, I think they have said that one too. It's hard to do parody when the other side is actively engaged in doing that to their movement. I don't believe that opposition to Obama makes one a racist but if a person calls Obama a Muslim it is sometimes (though not all) code words for racism. Muslim means different (and that is the worst sin among the far right) and different is bad according to them.

more:

http://www.examiner.com/x-4435-Milwaukee-Progressive-Examiner~y2009m9d16-Hatred-by-the-far-right-of-Obama-is-not-hidden-in-rallies