11.03.12
Reading the enemy’s fan pages
I try to read the WaTimes opinion page a few times a week. It gives you a comprehensive grasp of the extremists and their audience built on hate speech. It is the DC Republican power structure’s newspaper, where they go first to get their severe philosophies top billing. So if Guns, Booze & Jesus maddens, it is the place for your comfort.
From “Re-election will result in the Socialist States of America:”
President Obama must be defeated on Tuesday. Our republic hangs in the balance. A second term would enable him to achieve his seminal goal: the transformation of America into a European social democracy. The nation of our Founding Fathers will cease to exist. Our constitutional system will be replaced by a corporatist superstate based on arbitrary, centralized power and the fusion of big government, big business and big labor …
We are becoming a nation of economic deadbeats and social parasites. Mr. Obama has forged a new redistributionist order: Tax consumers are devouring the wealth of taxpaying producers. In the process, he is breeding an army — a vast electoral pool — of government dependents. Soon, America will hit the tipping point at which the productive classes are outnumbered — and outvoted — by the nonproductive ones …
While it did not take long it was expected. Former vice president Al Gore put out a statement on his blog on Tuesday and blamed the intensity of Hurricane Sandy on “global warming pollution.”
New York and New England were hit with powerful hurricanes in 1821 and 1938. In 1821, the hurricane was called, The Great September Gale. In 1938, the hurricane, aptly named the Long Island Express, slammed New York and New England with winds of up to 120 MPH. The Berkshire Eagle lists other hurricanes and tropical storms dating back to 1635 that have hit the east coast.
Is Mr. Gore saying that these massive hurricanes were caused by some form of man-made global warming…really? Please.
Occasionally you will see something entirely out of character at the WaTimes. Matt Taibbi, in a blog post, pointed to “FEMA to the rescue: why Obama is right and Romney was wrong” by Catherine Poe.
But it’s not actually in or on the Opinion page. Instead, shuffled off to “Communities.”
However, early in the week the Opinion page did feature Cult of EMP Crazy chieftain, birther and Islam-o-phobe Frank Gaffney explaining that Sandy would be a fortuitous distraction for the Obama administration, the calamity of it deflecting attention from the the real issue, Benghazigate:
The president could nonetheless see a silver lining in this horrific “weather event.??? For one thing, he gets to posture as the leader of the nation in a terrible time of testing, the one to dole out federal emergency assistance and the great consoler around whom we instinctively rally in such circumstances.
Perhaps more importantly for Team Obama, many voters are going to have many other things on their minds for the next few, critical days instead of thinking about the evidence that their commander in chief was seriously derelict regarding the murderous attack in Benghazi, Libya …
Chuck said,
November 3, 2012 at 10:36 am
What’s really disturbing is that there are some real tinfoil hat types who believe that Obama CAUSED the hurricane:
http://www.project.nsearch.com/profiles/blogs/confirmed-highest-haarp-readings-ever-seen-where-sandy-makes-lan
…and I won’t even talk about the Infowars followers.
Honestly, when did schools quit teaching how to think rationally?
George Smith said,
November 3, 2012 at 1:27 pm
Seems like decades ago.
Many people have suspected that Hurricane Sandy was created and was being manipulated by HAARP for a long time now but now we have CONFIRMATION thanks to a neat website …
“neat website” Somewhat nonchalant about a storm that covered almost half the country. And doesn’t answer the obvious question … why did we use it on ourselves? Couldn’t we have called down a typhoon on Pakistan or China, first?
I used to have one of those crazy books on HAARP. Got it near the end of the old Crypt Newsletter days, I think. It was responsible for everything from mind control to being a trigger of earthquakes. Only dandruff and halitosis seemed to be excluded. Threw it out when I moved.
The Infowars people are so far right it’s difficult to ascertain if they will vote for Romney, vote for Gary Johnson in protest or stay in the bars.
The right reminds me almost constantly of the old Star Trek episode, Turnabout Intruder, the one where Kirk is taken over by the bitter fascist scientist lady he jilted. And there are these scenes throughout where he freaks out, chews the Enterprise’s carpet and screams about mutiny and plots against him. Which, it turns out, there are because Bones, Spock and Scotty think he’s gone insane.
Anonymous said,
November 4, 2012 at 10:52 am
“I try to read the WaTimes opinion page a few times a week.”
You, sir, have a stronger stomach than I.
DD said,
November 5, 2012 at 1:52 am
Maybe you could consider it part of the jump-on-the-grenade thing. But it’s a lot beyond that because they do exactly what they say. And it’s antideluvian — something I thought I’d walked away from through education, thirty years ago. Lots of people thought the same. Times were sort of still OK and it was easy to ignore. Now it’s no laughing matter. The hate and ignorance did not go away, did not get diluted. It is stronger now because the US disinvested in everything that was good for the sake of big business. And this is what comes out the exhaust pipe of a country that believes in nothing but corporate and military power; it becomes a convenience to cultivate fascism and scapegoating so as to be able to recruit half the benighted populace as a private army.