Nothing demonstrates more clearly that Obama Pelosi and the other monkies have no reasoning to support their schemes to steal from us
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 7:55 PM, dick thompson <[email protected]>wrote: > Psssssttt! Lee Harvey Oswald was not a right winger! > > > > > > http://mediamatters.org/blog/200909180004 > > > A President was killed the last time right-wing hatred ran wild like this > > September 18, 2009 9:10 am ET by Eric Boehlert > > That being John F. Kennedy, who was gunned down in Dallas, of course. > > I've been thinking a lot of Kennedy and Dallas as I've watched the > increasingly violent rhetorical > attacks<http://mediamatters.org/blog/200909170027>on Obama be unfurled. As > Americans yank their kids of class in order to save > them from being exposed to the President of the United States who only > wanted to urge them to excel in the classroom. And as unvarnished hate and > name-calling passed for health care 'debate' this summer. > > The radical right, aided by a GOP Noise Machine that positively dwarfs what > existed in 1963, has turned demonizing Obama--making him into a vile object > of disgust--into a crusade. It's a demented national jihad, the likes > of which this country has not seen in modern times. > > But I've been thinking about Dallas in 1963 because I've been recalling the > history and how that city stood as an outpost for the radical right, > which never tried to hide its contempt for the New England Democrat. > > Now, in this this month's *Vanity Fair*, Sam Kashner offers up in rich > detail the hatred that ran wild in Dallas in 1963. To me, the similarity > between Dallas in 1963 and today's unhinged Obama hate is downright > chilling. > > Kashner's fascinating cover > story<http://mediamatters.org/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vanityfair.com%2Fpolitics%2Ffeatures%2F2009%2F10%2Fdeath-of-a-president200910%3FcurrentPage%3D1> > actually > chronicles the professional struggles of writer William Manchester who was > tapped by the Kennedy family, after the president's assassination, to write > the definitive book about the shooting. The *Vanity Fair* articles details > the power struggles, and epic lawsuits, that ensued prior to Manchester's > publication. > > But this unnerving passage from *VF* caught my eye. In it*,* Kashner > retraces Manchester's step as he researched his book. It's unsettling > because if you insert "Obama" for every "Kennedy" reference, it reads like > 2009: > > Manchester also discovered that Dallas “had become the Mecca for > medicine-show evangelists … the Minutemen, the John Birch and Patrick Henry > Societies, and the headquarters of [ultra-conservative oil billionaire] H. > L. Hunt and his activities.” > > “In that third year of the Kennedy presidency,” Manchester wrote, “a kind > of fever lay over Dallas country. Mad things happened. Huge billboards > screamed, ‘Impeach Earl Warren.’ Jewish stores were smeared with crude > swastikas.…Radical Right polemics were distributed in public schools; > Kennedy’s name was booed in classrooms; corporate junior executives were > required to attend radical seminars.” > > A retired major general ran the American flag upside down, deriding it as > “the Democrat flag.” A wanted poster with J.F.K.’s face on it was > circulated, announcing “this man is Wanted” for—among other things—“turning > the sovereignty of the US over to the Communist controlled United Nations” > and appointing “anti-Christians … aliens and known Communists” to federal > offices. > > And a full-page advertisement had appeared the day of the assassination in > *The Dallas Morning News* accusing Kennedy of making a secret deal with > the Communist Party; when it was shown to the president, he was appalled. He > turned to Jacqueline, who was visibly upset, and said, “Oh, you know, we’re > heading into nut country today.” > > Manchester discovered that in a wealthy Dallas suburb, when told that > President Kennedy had been murdered in their city, the students in a > fourth-grade class burst into applause. > > Today, conservatives are expressing > outrage<http://mediamatters.org/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fvoices.washingtonpost.com%2Fcapitol-briefing%2F2009%2F09%2Frepublicans_denounce_pelosi_fo.html>that > Rep. Nancy Pelosi had the nerve to raise concerns about the onrush of > violent political rhetoric. The Noise Machine claims it has *no idea* what > Pelosi's talking about. But the truth is, America's most famous bouts of > political violence (i.e. JFK, Oklahoma City, etc.) have always been > accompanied by waves of radical, right-wing rhetoric. Given that history, > the GOP's insistence that the hate now filling the > streets<http://mediamatters.org/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fphotos%2F42406957%40N04%2F3912803085%2Fin%2Fset-72157622349394928%2F>couldn't > possibly inspire violence seems woefully naive. > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
