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Threats of Insurrection, Violence Are Common on the Right

By Clavell Jackson

It is clear to me that there is a large segment of this country which is clinically insane -- and much of this madness is motivated by the election of President Barack Obama. There is even a term for this -- Obama Derangement Syndrome.

There is plenty of evidence of this on FOX News and AM radio, but that pales in comparison to the hard-core lunacy on web sites such as World Net Daily and Big Government. World Net Daily, also known as World Nut Daily, is home to conspiracy theories which warn that Obama is a foreign-born Muslim and also publishes the embarrassing work or real-life ditz and Saturday Live vet Victoria Jackson (no relation). Jackson's drivel is so factually and grammatically incorrect that even a high school paper would hesitate to publish her articles. One of her recent columns accused Obama of being similar to Hitler, because Hitler "had a white mother, had a secret army and hated Jews."

Right-Wing Watch, a web site funded by People for the American Way, tracks inflammatory comments from the Religious Right, a group that has always mixed madness with political intensity. A recent article on Right-Wing Watch about William Gheen of Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, an anti-immigration group, said Obama is such a threat to White America that his group no longer accepts him as a legitimate president and was considering "extra-political activities that I can’t really talk about because they’re all illegal and violent." Yes, a political group just threatened a violent insurrection against the U.S. government.

Unfortunately, this is not uncommon. Over the last three years we have seen an increasing tide of disrespect and violent rhetoric coming from political figures and media commentators. Lunatic presidential candidate Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-Minn.) once said that she suspected Obama of having anti-American views and former Nevada senatorial candidate Sharron Angle suggested angry voters should take up "second amendment remedies" if the polls didn't work.

Is it any wonder that many media sources reported that Obama was getting 30 death threats a day stretching the Secret Service to breaking point. Yes, many people are upset about the recession, but this is more than economically-motivated frustration. This is refusal to accept Obama as the nation's leader. America has been through tough economic times before when Franklin Roosevelt was president, but we didn't see this level of violent rhetoric. FDR did face an attempted coup from a group of oligarchs, including Prescott Bush, who wanted to install a fascist government. You won't find much information about the "Business Plot," in American history books though.

I have to believe that much of this is racial. Although the myopic GOP continues to say that is not, the evidence is in plain sight. FOX News has a long string of racial slights such as accusing Obama of "having hoodlums in the hizzouse," and "chugging forties." Glenn Becks rants were so offensive, FOX finally had to let him go. And there is a long history of racist comments from GOP politicians which include comparing Obama to a monkey, using the phrase "tar baby" and sending cartoons of the White House lawns festooned with watermelons. If you want to see really vile comments check out the commentary section on Foxnews.com. A recent story about Somalia referred to the country as "Niggadishu." Note to the GOP, if you can't see it, that's because you don't want to see it.

Many of the Obama haters will call him a communist, a Muslim, a liberal, even if he is none of those things. Obama has pursued largely moderate positions, to the point of alienating his liberal supporter. But it seems that some white people cannot swallow the idea of a black man in the White House. How dare Obama address the nation, how dare he go on vacation, how dare he take off his jacket in the Oval Office and how dare he fly on Air Force One? Like the other presidents didn't do any of the same things.

This hatred has sunk deep into the core of the political system. We now have an opposition party that will vote against any legislation if it has the hint of making Obama and the Democrats look good. As the recent debt crisis showed, Republicans are willing to crash the economy to achieve their political point.

The future does not look any better. If Obama wins a second term, and I believe he will, the GOP will try to impeach him. Presidential candidate Herman Cain has already said this would be a good idea! It will probably fail and cost the nation a lot of time and money, but as long as it gives the Democrats a black eye, the GOP is happy.

We are only in the Summer of 2012, we have almost a year of political campaigning ahead of us and I am already exhausted. We've got a bumpy ride ahead of us.

Tea Party Monster is Choking its Republican Creator

It's a sign of how awful the mainstream media is when some of the best reporting is found in Rolling Stone. Yes, Rolling Stone, a magazine that is known for covering drug-addled rock stars, broke the story that took down former Afghan commander, Gen. Stanley McChrystal. And Rolling Stone Matt Taibi has also done some of the most hard-hitting and insightful writing about the mortgage crash and Wall Street's shenanigans.

Taibi also did one of his trade mark acerbic pieces about the Tea Party. Taibi says, "A hall full of elderly white people in Medicare-paid scooters, railing against government spending and imagining themselves revolutionaries as they cheer on the vice-presidential puppet hand-picked by the GOP establishment. If there exists a better snapshot of everything the Tea Party represents, I can't imagine it."

The article features an illustration where a Frankenstein-like monster, representing the Tea Party, is being stitched together by Sen. Mitch McConnell. It's interesting because the Tea Party, which was a creation of the Republican party, is beginning to look like it's eventually going to choke its creator.

The fiscally conservative Tea Party was supposed to have sprung up in opposition to President Barack Obama's health care reform legislation. But where were these people when President George W. Bush was waging two unfunded wars, giving tax cuts to billionaires and pushing the Medicare prescription drug benefit? According to figures from the Congressional Budget Office, Dubya increased the deficit by $5 trillion, while Obama has only increased the deficit by $1.4 trillion so far. (In spite of their reputation for fiscal conservatism, Republican presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush increased the deficit, while President Bill Clinton left a budget surplus.)

In reality, the Tea Party is a triumph of branding. It was the same GOP repackaged in a new shiny box, kind of like the new coke. The Tea Party, a supposedly grass roots movement, is actually funded by Americans for Prosperity, a group that is headed by former Republican Congressman Dick Armey. It's sponsored by the Koch brothers, some of the wealthiest political backers in the country. The brilliance of the Tea Party is that it managed to get middle-class Americans to get out and march in the sun for policies that benefit billionaires!

But then something unexpected happened, the Tea Party began to get out of control. The Tea Party's popularity let clueless politicians like Christine O'Donnell, who has never won a race in her life, and Sharon Angle, who became famous for running away from the media, and mistaking Latinos for Asians, get a national spotlight. O'Donnell and Angle were so wacky, that voters ended up electing Democrats, even though the mood of the nation was supposed to be turning against them.

But it didn't stop there. The Tea Party movement also swept up politicians like Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who bragged about secession while balancing the budget with Obama stimulus money, and the idiotic Rep. Michele Bachmann, who claims she is for small government, even though she has received millions of dollars in federal money, and used to work for the IRS!

Now we have a lot of angry, white people who are pushing for the Tea Party's fascist mantra. The Tea Party is steering the Republican party even further to the right. So what happens when you push a party that is already pro corporation and anti-regulation even farther? You get fascism. As Benito Mussolini said, fascism occurs when the state and corporate interests merge.

Mainstream Republicans are worried. Former White House adviser Karl Rove actually said Tea Party presidential candidates were coming across as too far right. In an interview with Rev. Al Sharpton on MSNBC, Dallas Tea Party leader Phillip Dennis called Karl Rove, "a big-spending, big-government moderate!" Now when Karl Rove, the man who was nicknamed "Bush's brain," is called a moderate, the crazy train has left the station.

The thing is politicians like Speaker John Boehner and Karl Rove, are old-time insiders. They know how the system works, and they realize that Republicans can't get elected if they let a bunch of lunatics, who say they want to let the U.S. default on its debt, who don't believe in global warming and who want to turn Medicare into a voucher system, get elected, the Republicans are screwed. Senior citizens vote en masse, and they won't take kindly to politicians who want to eliminate the programs that keep them alive.

And it seems the American public is finally waking up to the fact that by voting in Tea Party politicians, they essentially handed the lunatics the keys to the asylum. Tea Party governors Rick Scott, John Kasich and Scott Walker are already facing revolts at home as voters realize they are trying to cut essential services and go after teachers, cops and firefighters. According to a recent New York Times article, the Tea Party is less popular than Muslims and atheists.

But the genie seems to be out of the bottle. The Tea Party has unleashed a wave of wild-eyed ideologues who are going to drive the Republican party right off the cliff. And right now the Democrats are pulling up a deck chair and grabbing some pop corn.

Right-Wing Pundits Strive to Keep Americans Dumb

Bill O'Reilly

I do not understand the American right wing. I don't understand how people who make less than $100,000 vote for policies that benefit millionaires, and I don't know why people who are on their third marriage constantly prattle about family values.

Much of the commentary coming from the right wing is baffling because it is glaringly inaccurate. Some would say it is blatant lies. Liberal media watchdog group Media Matters is constantly kept busy fact checking and stating the errors from the right-wing noise machine.

In many cases, it is obvious that the commentary is incorrect, so I must conclude that this is done deliberately. Right-wing commentators must know they are talking nonsense, but they continue to say it because they need the great unwashed masses to believe, and act on it.

For example, Americans are lead to believe universal health care is an evil socialistic plot . This message is constantly repeated in the right-wing media, yet European countries like Sweden, Norway, France and Britain, have socialized medical systems which are far superior to the U.S. The United Nation ranks France as having the most efficient health care system in the world. (The U.S. is ranked no. 37.) In addition, you don't see Canadians scurrying across the border to use our profit-driven health care system.

I was reminded of the fallacy of the right-wing media when watching Bill Maher's "Real Time," often the most intelligent hour on television. Right-wing commentator Margaret Hoover, a great-granddaughter of President Herbert Hoover, said that you could not compare Andres Breivik, the suspect in the Norwegian massacre, to Muslim terrorists. Hoover said that unlike Al-Qaeda, Breivik was not connected to an internationally terror network.

Huh? How can a commentator with a national stage spout such nonsense? There is a long trail of evidence showing that Breivik had connections with Islamophobes in America, such as Pamela Geller, author of the blog Atlas Shrugs, and the neo-fascist English Defense League in Britain. Geller has gained prominence for her virulent hatred of Muslims. She has also been given a platform on FOX News to promote wacky views such as accusing Jewish Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan of supporting Nazi ideology.

Commenting on Breivik's ties to the international Islamophobe network, Max Blumenthal writes: "Judging from Breivik’s writings, his hysterical hatred of the Labor Party’s immigration policies and tolerance of Muslim immigrants likely led him target the government-operated summer camp at Utoya. For years, the far-right has singled Norway out as a special hotbed of pro-Islam, pro-Palestinian sentiment, thanks largely to its ruling Labor Party In 2010, for instance, the English Defense League called Norway a future site of 'Islamohell,' where unadulterated political correctness has ruled the roost, with sharp talons, for decades.'"

And Slate.com writer William Saletan states: "In a manifesto posted online, the admitted killer, Anders Behring Breivik, praised Geller. He cited her blog, Atlas Shrugs, and the writings of her friends, allies, and collaborators—Robert Spencer, Jihad Watch, Islam Watch, and Front Page magazine—more than 250 times."

To add insult to injury, FOX News blowhard Bill O'Reilly said that the liberal media was eager to brand Breivik a Christian. According to O'Reilly, "no one believing in Jesus commits mass murder." Of course, as Bill Maher pointed out, anyone with a superficial knowledge of history can reel off a long list of "Christians" who have killed large numbers of people.

This is ridiculous. O'Reilly and other right-wing commentators must know what they are saying is BS. O'Reilly is not a stupid man, before he went down the FOX News hole, he was an Emmy-winning journalist and he also has a master's degree from Harvard -- one of those Ivy League colleges that he lambasts.

In a Playboy magazine interview Deepak Chopra says that O'Reilly is not as ignorant as he seems, and just plays a bigot on TV. And this may be true with other FOX commentators. A few years ago, Gretchen Carlson, a Rhodes scholars, said she had to go and look up what the word ignoramus meant.

So if we assume that FOX News commentators know what they are saying is incorrect, what is their goal? To keep the ignorant in the dark, if that is the case, they may be a method to their madness and it seems to be working.

A 2010 University of Maryland study described FOX News viewers as "the most consistently uninformed." The study said that FOX News viewers were more likely to believe blatantly incorrect statements like Saddam Hussein was behind 9-11 and President Barack Obama was largely responsible for the deficit. (All the facts point to the Bush tax cuts, two underfunded wars and the Medicare drug benefit as causes of the budget deficit.)

Is it any wonder that FOX News viewers constantly regurgitate these lies? And maybe that was Roger Ailes goal all along. Ever since his days in the Nixon White House he has dreamed of creating a propaganda network that broadcasts directly to American living rooms. Maybe FOX should change its motto to "We report the propaganda, you decide to believe it."

Phony Conservatives Court ‘Values Voters’

Gingrich

One of the mysteries of the GOP is it's relationship with so-called values voters. This issue has become especially pertinent considering that several Republican presidential candidates are planing to speak at “Rediscover God in America,” a telecast that will beamed to millions of church goers.

One of the speakers at this event is Newt Gingrich. Yes, that Newt Gingrich, who is married to his third wife, who used to be a staffer. The same Newt who got booted as speaker of the House for failure to impeach President Bill Clinton. While he was trying to impeach Clinton, Gingrich was also getting blow jobs from Callista, now wife no. 3. Apparently, he did this so he would not have to lie about having extra-marital sex. Like Clinton, apparently Newt does not consider oral sex to be sex.

My first thought when I read about this, why do social conservatives keeping buying this crap? You often wonder who is really fooling who here?

Most of the GOP presidential candidates seem to be sophisticated political operators and I doubt if they believe in the Rapture (even though they claim to) or really hate gays. Evidently they must be okay with gay people, because they tolerated former closeted gay man, Ken Mehlman, running the GOP during the Bush years.

The conservative voters who are supposed to suck up this family values crap, are not much better. The Conservative South is known for its frequent divorces and remarriages, high teen pregnancy rate and high STD rate.

The GOP sticks to these wedge issues because it knows that they will always garner the votes of “conservative” working, class people. It seems that while Jim Bob and Darlene, might like universal health care, voting against gay marriage and abortion is more important.

In reality, Americans love their porn, quickie divorces, the right to choose and don’t mind gay people, as long as they stay in the closet. And here are two statistics that indicate how conservative red states really are. According figures from the adult entertainment industry, the state that consumes the most online porn is conservative Utah, second only to Missippi. And the no. 1 day for online porn use? Sunday.

FOX Using Black Panthers Case to Stoke White Fear

President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder

Just when you thought FOX News could not get any lower, they prove you wrong. FOX News' audience is 95 percent white and many of their stories play on white fears. John Gibson, a former FOX News contributor, reporting on a story about the nation's changing demographics came out point blank and said that "white people need to have more babies."

The latest story to get white people diving under the beds and reaching for their guns is a claim that the Department of Justice dropped a case involving white voter intimidation. During the 2008 election some members of the New Black Panther party were spotted patrolling election booths to guard against voter intimidation. They were armed with dangerous weapons such as "sticks."

FOX News tried to promote the story, but it disappeared quickly. Now former Justice Department lawyer J. Christian Adams is claiming Attorney General Eric Holder deliberately dropped the case because "voter intimidation cases involving white people were not important."Adams is a self-described conservative who also writes for Pajamas Media, a right-wing web site, so he is not exactly objective. Media Matters also reports that while Adams was with the Justice Department, officials declined to pursue civil rights charges against the Minutemen for intimidating Hispanic voters.

Justice Department officials have described Adams as a "disgruntled employee who distorted the facts." And judging by the many incidents of death row inmates being released due to false testimony, this would definetly not be the first case of a prosecuting attorney embellishing the facts.

There are several things wrong with this story. First of all, any black person who has had a run in with the law knows that the authorities have no problem throwing brothers in jail. Secondly the Justice Department, under the Bush administration, was a hot bed of cronies who were selected based on their loyalty to the president, rather than on their legal ability. In addition, the Bush Justice Department was infamous for not acting on civil rights cases. The Black Panthers in question where guarding a voting booth in a largely black neighborhood, which probably did not attract many white voters. And it is sadly ironic that the Bush administration tried to pursue a voting intimidation case against black people, when there were hundreds of clear cases of voter intimidation in black neighborhoods in the 2000 election.

The Holder Justice Department looked into the case and likely dropped it because they knew there was nothing to it. One of the Black Panthers was an accredited poll watcher and he did not have a weapon in his hand.

Of course that never stops FOX. They have folded this story into their continued narrative about white people being under threat by the encroaching black and brown hordes. Evidently FOX never lets the truth get in the way of a good story. By the way Adams' story has been picked up by Stormfront, white supremacists' favorite online destination.

Daily Beast Names Beck, Hannity, Limbaugh on List of Top 25 Conservative Journalists

Beck Had Said That He is Not a Journalist

It's difficult to take some of the arguments coming out of the political right seriously. After all these are the people who say that George W. Bush kept the nation safe from terrorist attack, and want a return to tax cuts and deregulation, the same polices that tanked the economy.

But this list of the top 25 Conservative Journalists, written by the Daily Beast's Tunkun Varadarajan, a research fellow at the right-wing Stanford Institute, is staggeringly inaccurate and just downright stupid. Varadarajan lists Glenn Beck as no. 2 on the list. He also lists neo-fascist propagandists, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, on the list. Now Limbaugh, on various occasions, has said that he is not a journalist, and is just a comedian. And any no journalism professor worth his salt would ever describe Hannity as a journalist.

Appearing on television doesn't make you a journalist. Also opinion columns does not make you a journalist. Beck even said explicitly on "The View" that he is not a journalist, and does'nt bother to check his facts. Of course, anyone with Google and a semi-functional brain could tell you that.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-02-10/the-rights-top-25-journalists/?cid=hp:beastoriginalsC6

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FOX News Responds To Haiti Criticism By Making Homophobic Jokes

Never underestimate the depths to with the "journalists" at FOX News will sink to. The network has received widespread criticism from media watchers for its lack of coverage of the Haiti earthquake tragedy. While more than 20 networks picked up the Haiti telethon, FOX News, which brags about being the no. 1 news network, ignored it. Nielsen ratings show that 95 percent of FOX viewers are white, so I guess the FOX News directors figured their viewers wouldn't be interested in a story about poor, dead black people.

Right-wing watchdog Media Matters picked up on FOX's lack of coverage and tallied how few hours they dedicated to the earthquake. In response, Greg Gutfield, host of "Red Eye" created an animated piece which depicted David Brock, founder of Media Matters, talking about masturbating with a male intern.

Brock, a former conservative writer, came out of the closet several years ago and has been open about his sexuality. Evidently, he does not have a problem with his sexual preference, although FOX does.

It's telling that FOX should react to Media Matter's criticism by making homophobic jokes. In his book "Blinded by the Right," Brock says that the right is riddled with closeted homosexuals, and this has been reinforced by the scandals involving Larry Craig, Mark Foley, Ted Haggard and Jeff Gannon. And if you thought those were bad, that was just the tip of the ice berg. There are still many closeted GOP politicians such as Florida Gov. Charlie Crist and South Carolina Lt. Gov. Andre Brauer. Many of these stories are highlighted on Mike Roger's Blog Active, a site that outs closeted politicians who vote against gay issues.

Overt homophobia is a classic sign of a self-loathing, closeted gay. But apart from the obvious reason behind the attack, FOX News never denied the fact that Media Matters' claim was accurate.

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Ex-Conservative Facing Death Threats

If there was any doubt that the American conservative movement has gone off the rails and is now feeding on itself like a bunch of crazy sharks, consider the case of Charles Johnson.

Johnson, the owner of the political blog, Little Green Footballs, made news last year when he penned an article laying out why he was washing hands of the right. He complaints included fascism, white supremacy, bigotry, rabid hatred of Obama and anti-science attitudes -- the usually stuff.

The story, while surprising, is not the first case of a political activist who had switched sides. Left-wing writers Arianna Huffington and David Brock, both started out as Conservatives. David Horowitz, once a hard-core leftist, is now a rabid right winger. However Johnson was hit by a flood of death threats and has now had to move to a gated community.

If there was ever a way to convince people you are not crazy, threating one of your own with violence is not it.

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-et-onthemedia8-2010jan08,0,7949604,full.column

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Limbaugh Says American Health Care System is Best in the World

News reports say that Rush Limbaugh was rushed to hospital with chest pains while he on vacation in Hawaii. I debated whether to write about this, because it is not good to make fun of another person's suffering. But after Limbaugh came out with a politicized response to his recovery, all bets are off.

At a news conference, Limbaugh praised the hospital staff and said that "America has the best health care system in the world." What numbskull's like Limbaugh fail to mention is that America has the best health care system -- for people who can afford it. Limbaugh, a multi-millionaire, probably has a great health care package that covers in all kinds of situations, including emergency rooms visits. Even if his insurance only covers 80 percent of his bill, he can easily cover the rest of the costs.

The average America has a lousy insurance plan, which only covers part of the costs, leaving them stuck with huge medicals. They also have to deal with profit-driven health insurance companies, who make money by denying or delaying medical treatment. Remember Andrea Yates, the Texas mom who drowned her five children? Well Yates had severe mental problems and was recommended to be kept under medical care, unfortunately her medical coverage ran out and the health insurance company sent her back home. So lack of adequate coverage literally killed five children.

Many Americans have lost their jobs and insurance, and have to rely on emergency room visits. For many Americans, they simply cannot afford to see the doctors, and avoid going altogether until the problems becomes critical.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2010/01/01/2010-01-01_rush_limbaugh_declares_countrys_health_care_system__and_his_own__are_just_fine.html

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Media Matters Names Beck Misinformer of the Year

Congratulations to Glenn Beck, who caps a stellar year in which he called the president a racist, got dropped by 80 advertisers and cried on air. Media Matters added to Beck's honors by branding him Misinformer of the Year, although that could apply to the entire line up at FOX News.

Still Beck's on screen antics put him at the top of a dubious list. I can't believe that anyone watches him for news. Glenn Beck and serious political commentary should not be mentioned in the same sentence. The people who should be worried the most are Republicans, because Beck's band of lunatics, the Teabbaggers, are equally mad at the GOP as they are at the Democrats. The sad thing about Teabaggers is they are mad at someone, but they can't just figure out who it is. This is great case of the insane leading mad.

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Limbaugh Says Obama is "Power Thirsty Little Man-Child"

This formula is getting old. Every few days conservative propagandist Rush Limbaugh says something outrageous, and then the media gets all in fuss over it. Limbaugh does this to get ratings, and he knows he has to keep coming up with more outrageous things to say. Limbaugh's show should come with a disclaimer that says "for entertainment purposes only," unfortunately there are some people who believe everything he says. Limbaugh's arguments don't stand out to scrutiny, this is a guy who has a four-hour daily show which brings him millions of dollars. He also said that his talent is "on loan from God." Maybe Limbaugh is jealous because Obama has managed to keep a woman and impregnate her -- two things Limbaugh will never do.

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Right-Wing Website Site Posts Offensive Immigrant Song

This headline might be redundant, because if an offensive song turns up online, the chances are that it will be on a right-wing site. Human Events posted a parody of "Felize Navidad" on it's web site, which includes charming lyrics such as "Illegals in my yard, Throw them some pesos and they work so hard." Real funny. A few months ago Bill Maher said that not all Republicans were racists, but if you were a racist, there is a good chance that you are Republican.

I have said this before, but it seems as if the GOP needs to have a come to Jesus meeting about race. The party has a reputation of being a pro-White (and anti non-white), and it is not helping when these offensive incidents keep cropping up. One way to ensure that the GOP stays a minority party is appealing to white people, a shrinking minority in a country where Latinos are the fastest growing ethnic group.

Having a black face as the leader (Michael Steele) is not going to solve the problem.

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Right-Wing Blogs Run Fake Story About Muslim Terrorists

Did you hear the story about Tedd Petruna, who was got on a flight full of suspicious looking, porn-watching Arabs who didn't speak English? Then Petruna and a handy Texan managed to thwart the would-be terrorist all by themselves Well if it sounds like an episode of "24," that's not surprising because the whole thing was made up! But that didn't stop right-wing bloggers from running it like the gospel truth. It also made it to Glenn Beck's 9-12 blog, which is not surprising.

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2009/12/fish_stories_more_risky_via_email.php

Andrew Sullivan Joins the Ex-Conservative Bandwagon

For several months I have been saying the Republican party is on its last legs, and the evidence seems to get louder and louder every day. Recently Charles Johnson, founder of the blog, Little Green Footballs, threw in the towel with the right wing. Now Andrew Sullivan (above), a writer with The Atlantic, has joined him. Like Johnson, Sullivan says he has been turned off by the increasingly hysterical tone of the modern-day conservative movement, birthers, Palintologists, homophobia and Glenn Beck.

The GOP seems to be engaged in a civil war, where the moderates are trying to stop the Teabaggers from taking over. The winner of this fight will determine the future of the Republican party, which might be as a minority party.

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/12/leaving-the-right.html

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