Sunday, July 26, 2009

American version of "Al Kayda"?

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/07242009/watch2.html

As I was watching Bill Moyers Journal on the right wing factions in the US, I couldn't help noticing the uncanny resemblance to the "Al Qaida" fanatic rhetoric in the Middle East:

  • Michael Savage's comparison of liberals to Hitler, and liberalism to AIDS
  • Glenn Beck fantasizing about murdering Michael Moore
  • Michael Reagan (son of the former president) asking for shooting and killing everyone who took part/believes in the "9/11 being an inside job" conspiracy theory.
  • Neal Boortz calling New Orleanians/Katrina victims "useless, worthless, parasites" and Muslims "cockroaches" for fasting during Ramadan.
  • Jim Quinn calling "National Org. for Women", National Org. for Whores".
  • Jim David Adkisson's reasoning behind shooting "liberal" church goers "I couldn't get to the generals & high ranking officers of the Marxist movement so I went after the foot soldiers, the chickenshit liberals that vote in these traitorous people.". Al Qaida justifies killings of innocent Americans in the exact same way.
Interestingly enough, other than Reagan's, none of the wiki pages mention these instances, enforcing my opinion of wiki that it's essentially just a collaboration of the opinion of the loudest and the most persistent, but I digress...

I am personally not alarmed since they make up a tiny minority of American population so far, as 2008 elections have recently shown, but can you imagine if they gained actual prominence on American political and cultural scene ? :)

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/07242009/watch2.html

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