by Cockney Robin | I am increasingly entranced with the American right. Even as the US Congress considers the the Bush Administration's possible war crimes and such, Fox News presenter Bill O'Reilly can't see any stretch in comparing MoveOn.org---which I believe is a rather outspoken progressive political advocacy group---to the Ku Klux Klan, home of 'White Pride TV' (forgive me if I don't link to their site). He said:
'Obama must condemn organizations like MoveOn and DailyKos if he truly wants to run without a race component....It is not a stretch to say MoveOn is the new Klan.“
Really? He doesn't even think this is a little bit of a reach?
Only someone whose reasoning capacity and knowledge of history were either very, very seriously impaired or fundamentally flawed to start with would take this analogy seriously.
I am officially in love with Fox News. There ought to be a place for hysterical, angry right-wingers to jabber nonsense at their own apart from the rest of the media. Let us now point and laugh. Newshounds---which is currently one of my two or three favorite blogs because they keep an eye on Fox and provide helpful summaries of their excesses---states:
Tonight Bill O'Reilly, in response to the delivery of 600,000 signed petitions to FOX News headquarters announced with authority, "It is not a stretch to say Moveon is the new Klan."..Juan Williams and Angela McGlowan joined O'Reilly for an hysterical attack on Moveon and a vehement but unconvincing denial of racist smears against Obama on FOX News.
O'Reilly was careful not to reveal the details of the petition and avoided the worst examples including his own comment about " a lynching party" for Michelle Obama. Then of course there was the infamous chyron during a segment with Megyn Kelly and Michelle Malkin. " Stop picking on Obama's baby mama." There are so many well documented examples that O'Reilly can only hope a prolonged and vicious attack on the messengers will control the damage. (Newshounds)
You can view the video at The Newshounds site.
Here's a telling video from the MoveOn site on Fox's attacks on Obama, which I have posted here. It certainly shows that the people of this organization understand that it's better to point and giggle than to foam at the mouth with (made for television) outrage, which appears to be the M.O. for Fox. Well done, people of MoveOn.org.!
Here is the delivery of the petition (with 620,000 signatures) by HipHop artist Nas, previously a stranger to me. Well done, Nas!
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Damozel adds:
Here is Stephen Colbert's interview with Nas and Colbert's stirring defense of Fox.
As Colbert notes, 'Nothing says 'thug' like a clearly worded argument submitted in writing and supported by the signatures of concerned citizens..' Why does Nas think Fox is racist---it's 'Fox and Friends'?
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bill is a dump ass. he just want attention but he is worthless
Posted by: webstigma | July 27, 2008 at 05:54 AM
I am having a problem with the Klan
Here in Georgia and they just do what ever they want and flaunt it
I have reported it I have called these watchdog groups
I even called the justice department in DC cause my courts will not help
The lady in DC goes and says "how can we help you
you are in Georgia we are in DC You should call social services"..
The watchdog groups are watching what???
and our government is putting people in government that are more moronic than the last republicans
Yeah Obama (big republican pretending to be a democrat) he worked for the c
Klan sutter and hopkins (now Foley and Lardner) a southern law firm in DC who gained fame thru its cliental southern banks such as wachovia, suntrust etc, and one of its partners who was chief counsel of the Irs and with the treasury department and task force on organized crime
all under Nixon he even fed nixon info from the irs treasury and task force Nixons bug in the white house was this person
(find this info in a book called power to destroy by john andrews)
you'll find him The bug I call him in Brunswick Georgia with the rest of the civil war round table which he is a high member
glynn county and camden county Ga also atlanta then savannah Ga Jacksonville Fla
the klan is not slowly withering away it is alive and well here in Georgia's and floridas government (Florida is where a lot of confeds ran when the Yanks came, and then created there KKK) and its people
also members of our federal government
Why do you think you cannot get cases into court in a timely manner why do you think it takes so long and they only give a certain amount of time to get your case to them here read this Klan trick straight from our government
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, April 7, 2009 - The right to counsel - the most basic protection against unlawful imprisonment and the most fundamental constitutional right, upon which the enforcement of every other right in the criminal justice system depends - is being systematically denied to poor people accused of crimes in the five counties of the Northern Judicial Circuit of northeast Georgia.
Approximately 300 people are currently without lawyers to represent them after Mack Crawford, Director of the Georgia Public Defender Standards Council ("GPDSC"), in August of 2008, failed to renew contracts with three lawyers who were providing representation to defendants whose interests conflicted with those of defendants represented by the Northern Judicial Circuit public defender office.
The Klan motto which is adopted by our law enforcement and judicial system and politicians is
even if they did not do it get them just as long as you make the community feel safe thats what counts..
You know what this means right
This is the Klan showing off
America is no more
Posted by: TedIV | May 02, 2009 at 02:20 AM