Scary stuff on the right

[Max2147]

Am I the only one who's worried about the way the far right in the US has been acting lately?

I think this article sums up my fears about this pretty well: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/14/op...14rich.html?em

Mainstream conservatives need to follow McCain's lead and put a stop to this sort of stuff.

Shepard Smith's now-infamous comments about the people writing to Fox News:

There are always going to be some nutjobs out there on both sides of the spectrum. But the marked increase in activity from the far-right and their calls for action, not just words, are downright frightening.

Ya know I'd be very wroried about the right in the US if it weren't for the left also making asses of themselves.

[sunvalleyslim]

Bravo CastleBravo........enough nuts on both sides......

[Max2147]

Indeed, there are nuts on both sides. That's not what I'm afraid of.

As I said in my initial post, what worries me is the dramatic upswing in the nutjob activity on the right since the early part of the election. There's been a very clear change from a year or so ago, as Smith makes clear in his discussion of the Fox News emails.

Originally Posted by sunvalleyslim

Bravo CastleBravo........enough nuts on both sides......

That was my point bud!

[mookiemookie]

You can thank the McCain/Palin campaign for their contributions to the national discourse. Whipping people up in a frenzy over threats, real or imagined, has consequences.

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

You can thank the McCain/Palin campaign for their contributions to the national discourse. Whipping people up in a frenzy over threats, real or imagined, has consequences.

Or the Obama Biden campaign in doing the same thing. And continuing. Which politician is wrong?

[AVGWarhawk]

There is always a sitting Democratic President when things like this happen. No abortion clinics have been bombed or abortion Dr shot while a Dem is in the White House. The Fed bldging Oklahoma City OK was bombed when Clinton was in. Really, this far right thing has been going on for a long time when a dem is in the White House. Only difference, it must be a slow news day to have the media start pointing it out or DHS saying 'see we were right'. Total nonsense. Again, nothing new going on here for the right while a Dem is in the White House. Welcome to the world of making up good news stories and putting a twist to it.

Originally Posted by CastleBravo

Ya know I'd be very wroried about the right in the US if it weren't for the left also making asses of themselves.

The ones on the left rarely resort to violence. Take for example the Bush-era. A time when the left could have resorted to violence and what was there? A couple of measly protests, that's all. I'd say the violent ones usually reside on the right, the Timothy McVeigh - types.

[SteamWake]

and part 2 of the plan comes to fruition.

Whats that part you ask?

It is to pit one side versus the other instead of working to a common goal.

[Max2147]

Originally Posted by SteamWake

and part 2 of the plan comes to fruition.

Whats that part you ask?

It is to pit one side versus the other instead of working to a common goal.

I think that protecting our country from violent extremists should be a common goal, whether those extremists are foreign or domestic. As far as I can tell, the far right is the only type of extremism that had seen a huge upswing in the past year or so.

[LoBlo]

Currently, the far right holds the most bigoted sections of our population. So when presented with the image of an individual with a different ancestry than their own it fuels the core of their fears.

This didn't happen in the last 3 democratic presidents because Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, and Lydon Johnson were all white southerners, which tends not to set off the *alarms* of most of the countries cores of bigotry. Obama is not a white southerner, so the fear, paranoia, and hate arises more vehemetly than in the previous 40 decades.

The increased rancor that Shepard Smith is seeing is at least partially related to this, IMHO.

[August]

Originally Posted by LoBlo

Currently, the far right holds the most bigoted sections of our population.

You have any kind of proof at all to back up this outrageous statement?

[sunvalleyslim]

Right on August............Come on LoBlo.....I will agree to disagree, but show some facts for all us at periscope depth.......

[Max2147]

Originally Posted by August

You have any kind of proof at all to back up this outrageous statement?

I don't think it's that outrageous. He's not saying that everybody on the right is bigoted, just that most of the bigoted people (at least those racist against non-whites) are on the right.

There are bigoted people on the left too, although they tend to be minorities bigoted against whites or other minorities. But I think it's pretty safe to say that the majority of people who find Obama offensive solely because of his race/ethnicity/name/background are on the right.