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5 Crazy Right-Wing Freak-Outs in Just One Glorious Week
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For reasons that I don’t understand -- perhaps it’s subconscious karmic payback for murdering children in a past life -- I feel compelled to read a lot of right-wing blogs.
The wonderful thing about them is the window they offer into the pulsing id of the conservative movement -- up close and personal and without the filters of focus groups or dog whistles. For instance, do you think that Glenn Beck is insane? Oh puh-lease. Beck has precisely nothing on your typical Red State diarist or NewsMax columnist, each of whom is likely to support abolishing women’s suffrage or launching a military coup against Obama at any given time.
To give you an idea of the level of madness we’re looking at here, I’ve decided to share with you the five stupidest, craziest and most inflammatory things that right-wingers said over the span of a single week. When you read these things, keep in mind that these are the sorts of people Republican officials have to interact with on a regular basis. Indeed, the following five crazed tirades are almost enough to make you feel a little sorry for those staffers. Most of them came to Washington to act as soulless money funnels for corporate interests. Instead, they end up spending much of their time taking angry calls from some screamer who wants to privatize his local police force.
Number 5: John Derbyshire takes a bold stand against women’s suffrage
Last week, John Derbyshire, the National Review’s resident British crank, outlined a bold strategy to help Republicans return to power: by denying women the right to vote. The Derb explained that the trouble with women is that “they want someone to nurture, they want someone to help raise their kids, and if men aren’t inclined to do it… then they’d like the state to do it for them.” In other words, uterus-afflicted individuals should be barred from voting because they’re more likely to vote for people who disagree with John Derbyshire. Democracy in action!
Derb tried to show that he wasn’t completely out to lunch, however, by acknowledging that it’s highly unlikely that women will ever give up their right to vote. Of course, if women ever did find their right to vote repealed someday, Derb also said that he “wouldn’t lose a minute’s sleep” over it.
What is refreshing about Derbyshire is that he doesn’t try to hide his bigotry or to disguise it with code words – he just has it right out there. Derbyshire has been known to openly game-plan future race wars, to declare that blacks and Latinos are too stupid to educate and to write entire columns declaring his hatred for Chelsea Clinton back when she was just 20 years old. So in this respect, it’s not shocking that Derbyshire opposes women’s suffrage. What’s shocking is that it took him this long to say it.
Number 4: Erick Erickson threatens to dissolve his own town’s police department
Erick Erickson, the founder and managing editor of RedState.com, has a second gig as a city councilor in his hometown of Macon, Georgia. And apparently, the police force in that town is upset by low pay and long hours and they want to form a union. Erickson’s response? He threatens to simply abolish the entire department!
Writing at the PeachPundit blog, Erickson said that he actually asked the city attorney about the possibility of dissolving the police department. The attorney replied that police unions in the state of Georgia cannot strike or collectively bargain, meaning that any union the police formed would be essentially worthless. This didn’t deter Erickson entirely, however, as he said he’d still rather “contract out to the sheriff’s office than see a union come in” because unions “breed inefficiency, corruption, and taint.”
Regardless of how this ultimately turns out, you have to seriously question the intelligence of a man who talks openly of canning his entire police department. It’s almost as if he’s begging to be pulled over and subjected to multiple anal cavity searches.
Number 3: John L. Perry urges a military coup against Obama
I knew that right-wingers would at some point start harboring fantasies of launching a military coup against Barack Obama, but even I confess that I didn’t expect them to come less than 10 months into his presidency.
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Posted by: ankhet on Oct 5, 2009 12:14 AM
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Posted by: dougontrack on Oct 5, 2009 1:33 AM
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Posted by: donpower on Oct 5, 2009 1:59 AM
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Whew, sorry - okay shouting over...Please, please PLEASE do something - oh rational people of the United States. Your new age of enlightenment is being darkened, blackened very quickly. What do you have to do to convince the Democrats to hoist the middle finger at these evil souless people who are beyond all hope?
Whatever it is, please do it quickly!!
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Posted by: Sister_Lauren on Oct 5, 2009 2:44 AM
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Well in my opinion that is an improvement. Now you will be aware (for a little while) that you were all wrong and actually know very little about them. If we are lucky, they are having the same realization about you.
Sure they say that is what they want, but do they even know themselves? I don't think so.
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Posted by: SkeeterVT1 on Oct 5, 2009 3:05 AM
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NBC, which has the U.S. TV rights through the London Games in 2012, is likely to be in a heated bidding war for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia and beyond.
But the USOC wants to set up its own "Olympics Network" to televise the 2014 and 2016 Games. Needless to say, this does not sit well with the IOC.
The USOC has made several other moves that have also angered the IOC. So it really should come as no surprise that Chicago would end up being eliminated in the first round of IOC voting -- although to be fair, the USOC-IOC feud was little publicized. Even President Obama wasn't aware of the dispute.
So don't blame Obama. Blame the USOC.
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Posted by: Tom Degan on Oct 5, 2009 3:51 AM
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The main goal of the GOP these days is to insure that President Obama's administration is a complete and utter failure. They want to see as many Americans as possible suffer in the next three years, thus, ensuring that they will be able to seize control of the executive branch in 2013. If the president succeeds in making life better for his countrymen and women, they fail. It's as simple as that. Mitch McConnell, to his credit, always looks quite uncomfortable when he is forced to justify policies as atrocious as those being put forward these days by that hideous party. But Cantor always has a serene, angelic smile on his face whenever he is forced to defend the morally indefensible - sort of like last week, at a Town Hall meeting when he told a woman whose mortally ill relative had been left bankrupt by her medical bills that she should rely on charity. He seemed so content with himself. Quite strange really.
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Posted by: PJAW on Oct 5, 2009 4:57 AM
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For those of you who think it's all about winning, you're missing the point entirely. Competition is intended to inspire you to be the best that you can be and if that results in you becoming the "champion", you are then the representative of all competitors. Being obsessed with winning to the point of sacrificing your basic humanity makes you less than the best you can be, and therefore not the best champion, in all endeavors. True "champions" are rare. More common are "winners" who have in fact "lost" something important in their pursuit of personal glory.
I think Obama represented us well in this particular competition. Those who denigrate his effort are petty scolds, likely hoping to divert attention from their own inadequacies.
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Posted by: DHFabian on Oct 5, 2009 5:58 AM
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They progress to a certain point, then fall off the deep end. As they die out (and especially after spectacular failure, as we saw with the Bush administration), they keep upping the rhetorical ante. The bizarre fringes gravitate to the center, gaining the public's attention simply because their ideas are so off-the-wall. The movement's voices become more like something out of Mad magazine, as we see today.
Think of it in terms of mad cow disease. A healthy cow that contracts this disease becomes increasingly sick, and as the disease progresses, it affects the brain, resulting in increasingly erratic and irrational behavior. Ultimately, the cow dies.
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Posted by: Purple Girl on Oct 5, 2009 6:15 AM
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Fire the entire Police Force- there goes not only cops, but everyone who reveres them for their selfless public service. Who do we honor more - the Private in the Army who dies in the line of duty or the private mercenary? the concept of "Selflessness" becomes dubious when compensation is exorbinant. What the Private police force could make in pay- would be offset by the lose in image and status.
As for their claim of a bloodless coup...who says they have the ability to call the shots?
the Left has heard and seen that they are 'Armed and Dangerous'- so you think the Left would show up with a flower and a Joint?? It should be an image in the forefront of every Rightwingers mind after the Presidential campaign.."Palling around with Terrorists"??? Those cartoon depicting The Obama's in Black Panthers attire? Just like Sex- just because you are not talking about it does not mean you don't have it.The Left deserves an accomodation for keeping the more rebellious of our side contained since the early '70's.
They should not underestimate the amount of anger that has accumulated over time on the Left.
As for the Census worker- making insinuations about inappropriate sex only highlight the Repugs recent escapades more prominently.Affairs, solicitation and Prostitution of both kinds and even some Drugs.
That is a topic the Rightwings should be Whistling past.Not to mention the insinuation that all teachers have some 'unnatrual' inclination towards children.BTW- Reports said he has a son. You sick Lying Assholes!
As an MI'er,along with many others in the States around IL, The Olympics would have been a Huge shot in the Arm for what has ailed Us for the last few decades. The Olympics would have had a ripple effect in the region. So cheering the loss of our Bid, reveals an utter disdain for those of us struggling to survive in the Rust Belt. 'Boner' and 'Cant her' are cheering over their own constituents loss. that is not going to sit well with those laid off construction workers, steel workers, assembly line workers or any other industry which could be put back to work for at least the next 7 yrs getting ready for the Games.
so they've insulted every female of every race and culture. The cops and teachers, and those citizens who honor them. Of course the entire Dem party and even an entire region of voters. Brilliant!
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Posted by: Chickensh*tEagle on Oct 5, 2009 6:33 AM
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Gotta admit, Derbyshire is good at what he does. :-)
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"For reasons that I don’t understand -- perhaps it’s subconscious karmic payback for murdering children in a past life -- I feel compelled to read a lot of right-wing blogs."
WHAT? THIS IS PURE STUPIDITY, SORRY.
PEOPLE:
WHY ARE WE LETTING THE BRAD REED'S TAKE US DOWN THIS ROAD OF DISTRACTION??
ARE WE NOT PLAYING INTO THE HANDS OF THE RIGHT BY PUBLISHING THIS NONSENSE AND THEN PONTIFICATING ABOUT IT?
THEY WANT US TO BE DISTRACTED. THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT. PUTTING US ON THE DEFENSE, INSTEAD OF THE OFFENSE.
WE KNOW WE HAVE TO DITCH OBAMA. WHO DO WE HAVE FOR 2012? SHOULD WE NOT START SUPPORTING THEM NOW?
CAN WE TALK ABOUT POSITIVE STUFF INDIVIDUALS, NOT THE DEMOCRAT PARTY, IS DOING?
WHAT ABOUT DENNIS KUCINICH? HE'S CONSISTENT IN HIS VOTES FOR THE PEOPLE AND THE MAJORITY OF HIS DONATIONS ARE FROM THE PEOPLE.
THIS TIME, LET'S START TALKING HIM UP AND SUPPORTING HIM AND WITH MONEY. FORGET ABOUT THE MOVE-ONS, ETC. THEY ARE IN THE POCKET OF THE DEMOCRAT ELITIST PARTY. VOTE FOR THE INDIVIDUAL, NOT THE PARTY. IT'S A BUSINESS LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE.
GIVE ME ONE REASON, OTHER THAN IF WE DON'T VOTE FOR HIM AND SUPPORT HIM, THAT HE CANNOT WIN?
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Posted by: Anthropologist on Oct 5, 2009 7:40 AM
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People- we need to be AFRAID of these jerks- only a couple of years ago they tried to eliminate separation of Church and State in Florida, and also tried to have the state collect funds for Dobson's Focus on the Family (the Florida branch). Some of them are even training their children to be "Warriors for God"- including weapons and tactics training!
Remember- "Jesus Camp"!
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Posted by: Anthropologist on Oct 5, 2009 8:24 AM
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They get marching orders- the people at the "Town Hall meetings" were not random.
I believe that they're being stirred to violence- but in a way that if it fails, the preachers (and the organizations and upstream) can deny responsibility.
Don't forget- nearly a third of the people in New Jersey believe that Obama IS or COULD BE the "AntiChrist".
That comes from somewhere...
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Posted by: pg on Oct 5, 2009 9:01 AM
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I could not find an article related to what you are referring to at NRO about suggesting women should be barred from voting or anything related to the titles given at Huffpo.
Do you have a link to the article Derbyshire wrote?
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Posted by: shryockke on Oct 5, 2009 9:05 AM
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start with the 'end-times' prophecies.
move on to 'money'.
add in utter lack of education and no desire to change said lack.
and top off with utter disconnection with any form of real life.
the 'top 5' you quote are really in some ways the rational ones compared to their followers. the ones you quote actually use complete sentences and sometimes big words. their followers think and speak in shorthand symbols and redefined code words. they deal in rumor and innuendo, without even realizing that it is rumor or innuendo. they believe rumor is truth and innuendo is news.
and their motivation is to become powerful. that's the scary part.
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just a few questions from a concerned Canadian.
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Rick Perry
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Posted by: donpower on Oct 5, 2009 1:59 AM
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Whew, sorry - okay shouting over...Please, please PLEASE do something - oh rational people of the United States. Your new age of enlightenment is being darkened, blackened very quickly. What do you have to do to convince the Democrats to hoist the middle finger at these evil souless people who are beyond all hope?
Whatever it is, please do it quickly!!
Thanks!
Your liberal brother to the North,
- @donpower
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Posted by: Sister_Lauren on Oct 5, 2009 2:44 AM
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Well in my opinion that is an improvement. Now you will be aware (for a little while) that you were all wrong and actually know very little about them. If we are lucky, they are having the same realization about you.
Sure they say that is what they want, but do they even know themselves? I don't think so.
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Posted by: SkeeterVT1 on Oct 5, 2009 3:05 AM
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NBC, which has the U.S. TV rights through the London Games in 2012, is likely to be in a heated bidding war for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia and beyond.
But the USOC wants to set up its own "Olympics Network" to televise the 2014 and 2016 Games. Needless to say, this does not sit well with the IOC.
The USOC has made several other moves that have also angered the IOC. So it really should come as no surprise that Chicago would end up being eliminated in the first round of IOC voting -- although to be fair, the USOC-IOC feud was little publicized. Even President Obama wasn't aware of the dispute.
So don't blame Obama. Blame the USOC.
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Posted by: grindermonkey on Oct 5, 2009 3:05 AM
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Posted by: Tom Degan on Oct 5, 2009 3:51 AM
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The main goal of the GOP these days is to insure that President Obama's administration is a complete and utter failure. They want to see as many Americans as possible suffer in the next three years, thus, ensuring that they will be able to seize control of the executive branch in 2013. If the president succeeds in making life better for his countrymen and women, they fail. It's as simple as that. Mitch McConnell, to his credit, always looks quite uncomfortable when he is forced to justify policies as atrocious as those being put forward these days by that hideous party. But Cantor always has a serene, angelic smile on his face whenever he is forced to defend the morally indefensible - sort of like last week, at a Town Hall meeting when he told a woman whose mortally ill relative had been left bankrupt by her medical bills that she should rely on charity. He seemed so content with himself. Quite strange really.
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Posted by: PJAW on Oct 5, 2009 4:57 AM
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For those of you who think it's all about winning, you're missing the point entirely. Competition is intended to inspire you to be the best that you can be and if that results in you becoming the "champion", you are then the representative of all competitors. Being obsessed with winning to the point of sacrificing your basic humanity makes you less than the best you can be, and therefore not the best champion, in all endeavors. True "champions" are rare. More common are "winners" who have in fact "lost" something important in their pursuit of personal glory.
I think Obama represented us well in this particular competition. Those who denigrate his effort are petty scolds, likely hoping to divert attention from their own inadequacies.
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Posted by: DHFabian on Oct 5, 2009 5:58 AM
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They progress to a certain point, then fall off the deep end. As they die out (and especially after spectacular failure, as we saw with the Bush administration), they keep upping the rhetorical ante. The bizarre fringes gravitate to the center, gaining the public's attention simply because their ideas are so off-the-wall. The movement's voices become more like something out of Mad magazine, as we see today.
Think of it in terms of mad cow disease. A healthy cow that contracts this disease becomes increasingly sick, and as the disease progresses, it affects the brain, resulting in increasingly erratic and irrational behavior. Ultimately, the cow dies.
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Posted by: Purple Girl on Oct 5, 2009 6:15 AM
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Fire the entire Police Force- there goes not only cops, but everyone who reveres them for their selfless public service. Who do we honor more - the Private in the Army who dies in the line of duty or the private mercenary? the concept of "Selflessness" becomes dubious when compensation is exorbinant. What the Private police force could make in pay- would be offset by the lose in image and status.
As for their claim of a bloodless coup...who says they have the ability to call the shots?
the Left has heard and seen that they are 'Armed and Dangerous'- so you think the Left would show up with a flower and a Joint?? It should be an image in the forefront of every Rightwingers mind after the Presidential campaign.."Palling around with Terrorists"??? Those cartoon depicting The Obama's in Black Panthers attire? Just like Sex- just because you are not talking about it does not mean you don't have it.The Left deserves an accomodation for keeping the more rebellious of our side contained since the early '70's.
They should not underestimate the amount of anger that has accumulated over time on the Left.
As for the Census worker- making insinuations about inappropriate sex only highlight the Repugs recent escapades more prominently.Affairs, solicitation and Prostitution of both kinds and even some Drugs.
That is a topic the Rightwings should be Whistling past.Not to mention the insinuation that all teachers have some 'unnatrual' inclination towards children.BTW- Reports said he has a son. You sick Lying Assholes!
As an MI'er,along with many others in the States around IL, The Olympics would have been a Huge shot in the Arm for what has ailed Us for the last few decades. The Olympics would have had a ripple effect in the region. So cheering the loss of our Bid, reveals an utter disdain for those of us struggling to survive in the Rust Belt. 'Boner' and 'Cant her' are cheering over their own constituents loss. that is not going to sit well with those laid off construction workers, steel workers, assembly line workers or any other industry which could be put back to work for at least the next 7 yrs getting ready for the Games.
so they've insulted every female of every race and culture. The cops and teachers, and those citizens who honor them. Of course the entire Dem party and even an entire region of voters. Brilliant!
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Posted by: Chickensh*tEagle on Oct 5, 2009 6:33 AM
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Gotta admit, Derbyshire is good at what he does. :-)
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Posted by: smf1403 on Oct 5, 2009 6:46 AM
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"For reasons that I don’t understand -- perhaps it’s subconscious karmic payback for murdering children in a past life -- I feel compelled to read a lot of right-wing blogs."
WHAT? THIS IS PURE STUPIDITY, SORRY.
PEOPLE:
WHY ARE WE LETTING THE BRAD REED'S TAKE US DOWN THIS ROAD OF DISTRACTION??
ARE WE NOT PLAYING INTO THE HANDS OF THE RIGHT BY PUBLISHING THIS NONSENSE AND THEN PONTIFICATING ABOUT IT?
THEY WANT US TO BE DISTRACTED. THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT. PUTTING US ON THE DEFENSE, INSTEAD OF THE OFFENSE.
WE KNOW WE HAVE TO DITCH OBAMA. WHO DO WE HAVE FOR 2012? SHOULD WE NOT START SUPPORTING THEM NOW?
CAN WE TALK ABOUT POSITIVE STUFF INDIVIDUALS, NOT THE DEMOCRAT PARTY, IS DOING?
WHAT ABOUT DENNIS KUCINICH? HE'S CONSISTENT IN HIS VOTES FOR THE PEOPLE AND THE MAJORITY OF HIS DONATIONS ARE FROM THE PEOPLE.
THIS TIME, LET'S START TALKING HIM UP AND SUPPORTING HIM AND WITH MONEY. FORGET ABOUT THE MOVE-ONS, ETC. THEY ARE IN THE POCKET OF THE DEMOCRAT ELITIST PARTY. VOTE FOR THE INDIVIDUAL, NOT THE PARTY. IT'S A BUSINESS LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE.
GIVE ME ONE REASON, OTHER THAN IF WE DON'T VOTE FOR HIM AND SUPPORT HIM, THAT HE CANNOT WIN?
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Posted by: Anthropologist on Oct 5, 2009 7:40 AM
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People- we need to be AFRAID of these jerks- only a couple of years ago they tried to eliminate separation of Church and State in Florida, and also tried to have the state collect funds for Dobson's Focus on the Family (the Florida branch). Some of them are even training their children to be "Warriors for God"- including weapons and tactics training!
Remember- "Jesus Camp"!
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Posted by: Anthropologist on Oct 5, 2009 8:24 AM
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They get marching orders- the people at the "Town Hall meetings" were not random.
I believe that they're being stirred to violence- but in a way that if it fails, the preachers (and the organizations and upstream) can deny responsibility.
Don't forget- nearly a third of the people in New Jersey believe that Obama IS or COULD BE the "AntiChrist".
That comes from somewhere...
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I could not find an article related to what you are referring to at NRO about suggesting women should be barred from voting or anything related to the titles given at Huffpo.
Do you have a link to the article Derbyshire wrote?
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Posted by: shryockke on Oct 5, 2009 9:05 AM
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start with the 'end-times' prophecies.
move on to 'money'.
add in utter lack of education and no desire to change said lack.
and top off with utter disconnection with any form of real life.
the 'top 5' you quote are really in some ways the rational ones compared to their followers. the ones you quote actually use complete sentences and sometimes big words. their followers think and speak in shorthand symbols and redefined code words. they deal in rumor and innuendo, without even realizing that it is rumor or innuendo. they believe rumor is truth and innuendo is news.
and their motivation is to become powerful. that's the scary part.
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Posted by: wagnerrocks@gmail.com on Oct 5, 2009 10:47 AM
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Dick Wagner
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just a few questions from a concerned Canadian.
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