Posted on 04/19/2010 3:20:46 PM PDT by Starman417
Spinning the lazy susan of political debate on the kitchen table around, this particular Hank Stuever WaPo article today, promoting Rachel Maddow's MSNBC special, ""The McVeigh Tapes: Confessions of an American Terrorist" , did a serious raising of eyebrows... The mainstay of Maddow's presentation, "remembering" the Oklahoma City bombing, is actually a thin disguise for a story bent on warning against our current "anti-government" voices of dissent today. Instead of "remembering", it's some sort of bizarre link that the nation, protesting the Obama/Pelosi/Reid leaderships, is going to go McVeigh or Waco on us.
But in a demented defense of MSNBC's la femme whacko, she's not alone in her quest to not "let a perfectly good crisis go to waste". The DNC's #2 darling, Bill Clinton, is jumping on that same bandwagon. And then, of course, there's Obama's FBI appointee, Robert Mueller, saying the same thing.
This not-so-new-thrust at dissing the opposition's voice nestles nicely with Obama's Homeland Security appointee, Janet Napolitano, and DHS report last spring, warning about "right wing extremism", and singling out American military as prime suspects.
Getting the idea now? Politicizing the very sad events of the Oklahoma City bombing is quite justified these days, if it shuts up the opposition.
Whoa Nellie there. First of all, I'm finding it somewhat disingenuous to focus more exclusively on "domestic" citizens as the biggest threat. And if that were the truth, I'm still waiting for some mea culpa on agency actions that could have prevented the Ft. Hood shooter. Instead we get the Obama CIA, ordering a hit on Yemen cleric, Awlaki... again to the sounds of crickets by the media. Isn't this the same thing they were chasing Cheney and the Bush WH around on just a few years ago?
Secondly... and most importantly... our military, and now our citizens, exercising our First Amendment rights are not domestic terrorists. In fact, they are engaging in a very American tradition - questioning what our government is doing on "behalf" of the nation.
Read more at floppingaces.net...
CNN was doing a full court press today. They were demonizing everyone who wasn’t a ‘progressive’.
They have been playing this note since day 1 of the kenyan’s regime.
Remember “clinging to guns and religion” and “close watch of militias?”
To paraphrase none other than hillary clinton: It is our DUTY to speak out against this administration. This one moreso than any in history.
If anyone’s been paying attention by now they realize that the left’s complaints about Bush/Cheney mean nothing...
The patriot act passed again in Congress WITHOUT sunset provisions.
The wars are STILL being paid for by supplementals. You heard no complaints about the $33B supplemental passage/signage.
The question is, who’s coordinating it? My money’s on Rahm.
I assume we will see “Specials” regarding the American extremists: Students for a Democratic Society, The Black Panthers, The Weathermen, Alger Hiss and associates, ETC ETC /S
“CNN was doing a full court press today. They were demonizing everyone who wasn’t a ‘progressive’.”
The MSM lives in a Parallel universe where bad is good and good is very bad...lol.
Absolutely, I suspect the WH in this smash-mouth gangland attack on dissent and dissenters.
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MAN are they arrogant for opening up this door....
And lost in all of this is what really happened with McVeigh. He had anti-government sentiments, true. He also apparently had some contact with militia groups. But, his outrage about government was triggered by the raid on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco Texas on April 19, 1993. A good Democrat named Bill Clinton was president. His attorney general ordered the raid on that compound, which resulted in the tragic deaths there. McVeigh went off the deep end because of the actions of Bill Clinton’s Justice Department. Has anyone heard that little factoid in the MSM, amid the observations of this 15th anniversary of OKC bombing???????
Let’s remember the reason the OK City building was bombed.
It was, however inappropriate, retaliation for the Waco massacre of the Branch Dividians by the Clinton administration.
Ever since then Clinton has been trying to make everyone believe it was because of Rush Limbaugh.
A failing last ditch Alinski style play from a losing bunch of radicals.
-"Tea Party nut jobs"
-"it was all proven!" congressional members spit on and called 'N' word
-"it's a white movement" people of color were not present at tea party
-"why do you associate yourself with 'these' people?" to Tom Tancredo regarding tea party participants
-" do you have a problem with people of color?" also to Tom Tancredo
Just watching Woof Blitzed sitting there while bubba bumbled and rambled on about how all terror threats since the 70s were right wing.........made me want to puke.
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