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.
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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