#right-wing thinking

[tomorrowusa]

John Iadarola on Twitter.

From 2019 -- but the pandemic gibberish coming from Trump and his MAGA zombies has only made John’s observation more relevant.

[vsthepomegranate]

Fox News contributor Erik Rush responded to the Boston Marathon bombings by calling for Saudis to be rounded up without due process and all Muslims to be killed.

via Right Wing Watch

[theamericanbear]

Robert E. Murray read a prayer to a group of company staff members on the day after the election, lamenting the direction of the country and asking: 'Lord, please forgive me and anyone with me in Murray Energy Corp. for the decisions that we are now forced to make to preserve the very existence of any of the enterprises that you have helped us build.' On Wednesday, Murray also laid off 54 people at American Coal, one of his subsidiary companies, and 102 at Utah American Energy, blaming a 'war on coal' by the administration of President Barack Obama.

After Obama reelection CEO reads prayer to staff, announces layoffs | The Washington Post

[theamericanbear]

Why didn’t someone tell me that Obama was seeking ‘fundamental change’, applies ‘critical theory’ to conclude that American does much evil in the world, and is all about getting 'payback for poverty [and] payback for foreign wars'? If you see that person on the ballot, please let me know. I’d like to go canvass for him. Or, as Brad Reed put it: ‘Kenyan anti-colonial socialism looks a lot like American imperial neoliberalism these days … .’

Glenn Greenwald reflecting on the rightwing fantasyland version of Obama that many of us wish actually existed.

[theamericanbear]

First the garbage from Mr. Newt (Grima) Gingrich (brace yourself, this is bile):

The underlying driving force behind this desperate desire to stop unpleasant questions is the elite’s fear that an honest discussion of radical Islamism will spin out of control. They fear if Americans fully understood how serious radical Islamists are, they would demand a more confrontational strategy.

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair warned last week, “The West is asleep on this issue.” Islamist extremists, Blair asserted in an interview with The Telegraph, seek “supremacy, not coexistence” … .

Therefore, whose advice we rely on becomes central to national security. Asking who the advisers are, what their prejudices are and what advice they give is a legitimate — indeed, essential — part of any serious national security system.

It was this question that the National Security Five focused on. They were right to do so and it weakens national security for them to be attacked for simply asking basic questions… .

Isn’t it legitimate to ask: Who advised Clinton to launch a counterterrorism initiative that excluded Israel?

Isn’t it also legitimate to ask: Who advised Otero to give a major speech on terrorism and ignore the attacks on Israel and Israelis? …

Isn’t it legitimate to ask: Who advised the Obama administration to erase Jerusalem from Israel?

Isn’t it fair to ask: Who went back and forged public documents and who told them to do it? … .

Isn’t it appropriate to ask: Who were the Muslim chaplains approved by this extremist? How did he get chosen to be in such a key position? What system of checking for extremism broke down so badly, or is so biased, that it allowed members and allies of radical Islamist organizations to play key roles in the U.S. government?

Greenwald's response:

Framed as a defense of Bachmann and the “National Security Five,” as well as a warning about the Islamic menace, all of this implies — with zero basis, relying on nothing but gross innuendo masquerading as innocent questions (“isn’t it fair to ask?”) — that there are unknown, disloyal Muslims lurking behind State Department policy, plotting to promote Islamic radicals and undermine America and Israel, and that one of them is likely Huma Abedin, the person singled out by Bachmann.

I’m all in favor of having Op-Ed pages publish diverse views (let me know when Politico publishes an Op-Ed on how endless killing of innocent Muslims by America’s foreign policy motivates the sort of radicalism about which Gingirch warns). But for a minimally ethical media outlet, even Op-Eds have to meet basic standards of responsibility and evidentiary support with regard to the claims it asserts. Newt Gingirch’s bigoted, McCarthyite screed — calling for an investigation into unknown, unseen Muslim forces that have infiltrated the U.S. Government — falls as far below those standards as one can get. Politico not only published it, and is not only heavily promoting it on its front page, but devoted more space to it than almost any other single Politico article or Op-Ed is ever given. We find, yet again, that Islamophobia is by far the most acceptable form of overtly expressed bigotry in mainstream American precincts.

[theamericanbear]

I’ve always found it bitterly amusing that while hyperventilating right wingers conjure up conspiracies to establish a UN-controlled one world government in nefarious plots like the attempt to increase bike ridership, corporations are taking actual, concrete and successful steps to render democratic self-governance—in the broadest sense of the phrase—all but meaningless.

The Distant Ocean

[theamericanbear]

Fifty-two percent of Jewish Israelis identify with the statement by MK Miri Regev last month that African migrants are 'a cancer in the body' of the nation, and over a third condone anti-migrant violence, according to the Israel Democracy Institute (IDI) Peace Index for May 2012.

As'ad AbuKhalil, Israeli festival of racism: not in the US press

See also:

Israel to lock thousands of Africans in detention camp | Al Akhbar

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