The Rise of the ‘Right-Wing Nuts’
Posted by Bobby Eberle
June 15, 2009 at 7:20 am
Apparently, there is a large, underground movement occurring in America... one that has the far left shaking and fearful. It is the rise of the "right-wing nut."
According to the liberal media, free speech is only free if a liberal is attacking a conservative. David Letterman can tell sex "jokes" about Sarah Palin's teenage daughter, and all is fine. However, if Sarah Palin and others try to enlighten America on the dangers of government control, we are all labeled as "nuts." Are you ready to join the club?
Last Thursday, I wrote about the fact that Not All 'Crazies' are Created Equal. If someone kills an abortion doctor, that is big news. If a crazy, old man goes into the Holocaust Museum and kills a security guard, that is big news. But if a Muslim extremist goes to an Army recruiting station and kills a soldier, that is no big deal. That is how the media covered recent stories.
Following the shooting at the museum, left-wing "journalists" came out of the woodwork to paint the incident as some kind of larger movement among members of the "far right." It didn't matter to the media that this man has been unstable for decades... long before Obama came onto the scene. If they can group all of us together as "wackos," they will do it. Actually, this guy was more of a left-wing nut (a 9-11 conspiracy "truther"), but you wouldn't know that from the media.
It is not only their coverage of events that they slant, but it is conservative reaction to events that they use for additional ammunition. Frustrated at government bailouts? Upset with trillions more dollars of debt? Concerned about government control of the financial sector, General Motors, and possibly the health care industry? If so, then you are like me... but you are also a target of the media. Just take a look at this clip:
Note that this whole segment is described with the headline, "The Politics of Hate." Questioning the role of government is now hate speech? What's next, lumping government criticism under hate crimes laws? This is crazy.
Chris Matthews declares that "there's no such thing as the 'government' that's coming to get you," but what are we to think when "the government" takes more and more power away from the American people. This is exactly what the Founding Fathers feared when they put our government together, and it is a sentiment that has been with the American people from Day 1.
So, by warning people about the dangers of government, Palin is speaking the language of far right nuts? How can her comments be described as "coming up to a line," as Matthews put it? And it's not just Matthews who is saying this kind of thing. Apparently, the left-wing strategy is making its way across the country.
In a column called The Big Hate, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman writes, "Today, as in the early years of the Clinton administration but to an even greater extent, right-wing extremism is being systematically fed by the conservative media and political establishment."
Krugman's next sentence begins with a line that is most upsetting and SHOULD BE the focus of media attention: "Now, for the most part, the likes of Fox News and the R.N.C. haven't directly incited violence..."
For the most part? Are you kidding me? What does he mean by that? Is Krugman saying that there are some recent incidents where Fox News did directly incite violence? This statement deserves immediate clarification by Krugman!
He goes on to write, "And at this point, whatever dividing line there was between mainstream conservatism and the black-helicopter crowd seems to have been virtually erased." Sounds eerily similar to what Chris Matthews was saying, doesn't it?
So, the left wing can make jokes about Sarah Palin's daughter, and it's ok. Jeremiah Wright can talk about "them Jews," and it's ok. But we can't talk about the government or we are accusing of crossing a line that incites violence and stirs up the right-wing nuts?
This is the type of information that all of us need to pass along to our friends and colleagues who don't follow politics and the media as closely as we do. They need to know what's going on in order to combat it. If we all just sit idly by, we will slowly (or not so slowly) lose our freedoms.
If the media has the nerve to blame conservative news and conservative commentary for violence... which is exactly what they are doing, then what is next? Labeling conservatives as a menace to society? Locking us up? They are talking about "right wing nuts" in order to make their audience afraid. It is our job to spread the word and show Americans what is really happening to this great country.
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Back around 1950, the Young Republicans printed a book that listed the "Communist Manifesto" for America. They would flood the teaching, lawyer, judge, entertainment and political professionals with fellow travelers. Looks to me like they have pretty well succeded.
