When a Fox News anchor, reacting to his own network’s surging Email traffic, warns urgently on camera of a rise in hate-filled, “amped up” Americans who are “taking the extra step and getting the gun out,” maybe we should listen. He has better sources in that underground than most.
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These are the words of NY Times columnist Frank Rich, who warned in his weekend Op-Ed column that conservative extremists who have been stirring the pot of hate against President Barack Obama, are causing a dangerous emergence of violence among Americans that may have already caused the murder of abortion Dr. George Tiller, and could soon cause more reaction. (EDITOR’S NOTE: OKWASSUP! reported on a similar story HERE just prior to the November election).
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HE WRITES:
What is this fury about? In his scant 145 days in office, the new president has not remotely matched the Bush record in deficit creation. Nor has he repealed the right to bear arms or exacerbated the wars he inherited. He has tried more than his predecessor ever did to reach across the aisle. But none of that seems to matter. A sizable minority of Americans is irrationally fearful of the fast-moving generational, cultural and racial turnover Obama embodies — indeed, of the 21st century itself. That minority is now getting angrier in inverse relationship to his popularity with the vast majority of the country. Change can be frightening and traumatic, especially if it’s not change you can believe in.
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This article is truly a MUST READ, and can be found IN ITS ENTIRETY HERE!
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One reader refers to the GOP “loosing the hounds of Hell upon us.” I’d like to share a bit more of that readers response: Butler Crittenden-6-14-09: “Mr. Rich, you’re being too generous about Mr. McCain using his “guts and clout to step up . . . last fall” to “penetrate the alternative reality” that hysterical pundits and supporters were spewing at that time. It was too little, too late. He selected mindless Sarah Palin as a red meat sop to his irate base, and she didn’t step forward any more than he did.Clearly there was no honeymoon, unless perhaps you mean Mr. Obama’s offering the desperate Republicans one. But their echo machine never let up, never drew a deep breath. Millions of us noticed what Camille Paglia saw. Daily Thom Hartmann and Ed Schultz have calmly pointed out a few of the righties’ newest outrages. Website galore do the same.… Read more »