Posted on 08/17/2010 7:15:21 AM PDT by maggief
Former White House communications director director Anita Dunn on Tuesday launched a furious attack against Republicans who have criticized President Obama’s remarks on the Ground Zero mosque, labeling the GOP as the party of intolerance.
“The Republican party as solidifying its reputation for intolerance in this year, for almost any kind of difference in American society, is going down a very dangerous long term road,” Dunn said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
“They might see some short term things although I think the American people are better than that,” she said.
Coming from Dunn — who is no longer works for the Obama administration but still goes to the White House for regular message meetings — the attacks on the GOP could be viewed as having been coordinated with top advisers to the president such as David Axelrod and Dan Pfeiffer, her former deputy who now runs Obama’s communications shop.
But when asked by e-mail, Dunn told the Daily Caller that Axelrod and Pfeiffer “did not know, approve, or suggest” her comments, which she said were her “own personal opinions.”
Numerous times, Dunn sought to characterize the debate over the mosque as one which pits those who want to preserve religious freedom against a Republican party which she said is “labeling all Muslims in this country as terrorists.”
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I am intolerant of unequal treatment under the law, where an existing church cannot get approval to rebuild its building after it was damaged on 9/11 while the same government wants to push through approval for a mosque in the one place in the U.S. it does not belong.
“The Republican party as solidifying its reputation for intolerance in this year..”
The intolerance card is trumped by the “pander to Islamic extremist card”.
Maybe that's a hopeful sign, if the leftists think that "blame it on Bush" is no longer the all-purpose answer and they have to use a different bogeyman. 40% of the public probably doesn't even know who Newt Gingrich is.
It’s time the GOP started a new initiative called Ground “Zero Tolerance” - a new form of tolerance that tells the PC Coexistence crowd to shove it, in the name of Common Sense.
Ground “Zero Tolerance”
Brilliant!
I see. The controversy OF 0bama’s remarks has become the controversy OVER his remarks. Typical.
Geez, Anita looks so friendly and happy...NOT!
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