Yesterday, a Department of Homeland Security report about the rising radicalization of rightwing extremists was leaked. The right wing was immediately incensed, viewing the report on radical extremists as an attack on conservatives. MSNBC host Joe Scarborough, for example, tried to suggest it was a report about Republican loyalists.
However, this morning, Fox Newss Catherine Herridge revealed that the report, along with an earlier report on radicalized left-wing groups, was actually requested by the Bush administration but not completed until recently:
HERRIDGE: Well this is an element of the story which has largely gone unreported. One looks at right-wing groups, as you mentioned. And a second is on left-wing groups. Significantly, both were requested by the Bush administration but not finished until President Bush left office.
Herridges reporting undermines her networks own reporting over the past 24 hours. Since news of the DHS assessment broke yesterday, Fox anchors and guests have been seizing upon the report as evidence that the administration is trying to intimidate tea party goers or stifle speech:
ANDREA TANTAROS: Its free speech and the Obama administration is trying to shut it down.
JAY ALAN SEKULOW: The Obama administration here under Department of Homeland Security has allowed a new regime to come into place that basically says this: Our focus is going to be on the right-wing groups.
SEAN HANNITY: What do you think of that interpretation, especially coming from a guy that started his political career in the home of an unrepentant terrorist who bombed the Pentagon and capital and sat in Reverend Wrights church for 20 years?
DANA PERINO: If Bush had done that we would be having a very different conversation. It wouldnt have taken a week to find it out. There would have been a special prosecutor. We would have had to come out and apologize.
Watch a compilation, ending with Herridges report:
To recap, the Obama administration was apparently following the lead of the Bush Homeland Security Department in assessing the very real threat of violent right-wing extremism. Indeed, Bush appointees such as FBI Director Robert Mueller have acknowledged the threat of right-wing extremism multipletimes.
Of course, we can always trust Fox News to jump to conclusions before fully weighing the facts.
READ THE LAST LINE AGAIN JAY YOU WORTHLESS PIECE OF DOG'S VOMIT
Now here are some more of your fellow travelers, traitors and terrorist wanna bees.
The Chicago Tribune reports today that Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL) is considering running for Illinois governor, saying his interest is the result of so much corruption in our state. Responding to reports that Gov. Pat Quinn (D) will raise income taxes to patch a crippling budget deficit, Kirk suggested shooting Quinn:
I think that the decision to raise taxes by 50 percent in Illinois is political suicide, Kirk said of Quinns proposal to raise the tax rate to 4.5 percent from 3 percent, coupled with an increase in the personal deduction. I think the people of Illinois are ready to shoot anyone who is going to raise taxes by that degree.
Last June, Kirk mistakenly referred to then-Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) as Osama, saying that he supports a policy where if we see Obama theres a shoot-on-sight order.
THERE YOU GO VOMIT BOY, CALLING FOR THE ASSASSINATION OF ELECTED OFFICIALS. THATS TERRORISM.
Yesterday, Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) raised the specter of his state seceding from the Union if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people. Today on MSNBC, former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay offered a staunch defense of Perrys statement, saying the Texas governor was standing up for [Texass] sovereignty. DeLay elaborately explained how Texas could secede:
Q: You cant secede from the Union!
DeLAY: Texas was a republic. It joined the Union by treaty. Theres a process in the treaty by which Texas could divide into five states. If we invoke that, and the last time it was voted on was 1985, the United States Senate would kick us out and nullify the treaty because theyre not going to allow 10 new Texas senators into the Senate. Thats how you secede.
So we would kick them out of the Union? Thats nutty! asked Matthews. Yeahits not nutty! DeLay responded. Watch it:
While speaking at a tea party yesterday, Texas governor Rick Perry (R) suggested that his state might have to secede if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people. Last night on Fox News, Beck seemed to agree with Perrys call, insisting that Texas does America best:
VAN SUSTEREN: You know, from here, Glenn, listening to Governor Perry last night and watching your crowd and listening to the things that are coming out of Texas I dont want to be too dramatic, but it almost seems like Texas is going to secede from the rest of the nation.
BECK: I mean, I dont know can we get this back here? [Points to a banner] This is on the jib back over here. This says Texas independence. And the reason is correct me if Im wrong these people love America. They just think Texas does America best!
Newshounds notes that Susterens mention of secession was met with cheers, applause and banner-waving. Watch it:
On his radio show yesterday, Beck declared, You cant convince me that the founding fathers wouldnt allow you to secede. The constitution is not a suicide pact. [States] have a right to back out.
Update
THERE YOU GO JAY, YOU PUELING PUDDLE OF STEAMING PISS. CALLING FOR THE END OF THE UNITED STATES.. TRAITORS BOTH OF THEM.
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." -- Thomas Jefferson
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. - Carl Sagan
I believe that every right implies a responsibility, every opportunity an obligation; every possession, a duty. - John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
HERRIDGE: Well this is an element of the story which has largely gone unreported. One looks at right-wing groups, as you mentioned. And a second is on left-wing groups. Significantly, both were requested by the Bush administration but not finished until President Bush left office.
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness
"A cultist is one who has a strong belief in the Bible and
the Second Coming of Christ; who has a high level of financial
giving to a Christian cause; who home schools his children;
who has accumulated survival foods and has a strong belief in
the Second Amendment, and who distrusts big government."
dOES THAT SOUND TYPICAL OF LEFT WINGNUTS IN DEFININGALL WHO DISAGREE WITH THEIR mESSIAH
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it,
wake up gillis, you and your worthless band of brain dead followers, after the evil notions of their leaders were put to the test, lost the election BIG TIME. The people altered and abolished the rightwing nut/fascist/ rich run every thing and steal the bread from the mouths of the workers, boot in the face of the rest of world, bulling asshole Republicans. So go fuck yourself, no one else will.
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." -- Thomas Jefferson
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. - Carl Sagan
I believe that every right implies a responsibility, every opportunity an obligation; every possession, a duty. - John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
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