Re: Understanding the Witch-Hunt Against Obama

"Anti-Obama rhetoric" is using his own words when doing the "witch
hunting".... The man is a clown.

On Sep 19, 7:02 pm, Tommy News <tommysn...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Understanding the Witch-Hunt Against Obama
> The paranoid style of American politics is alive and well, using all the
> classic smear tactics used against minorities and citizen heroes like Martin
> Luther King.
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> America is in the midst of a 21st-century witch hunt. A loose-knit network
> of right-wing ideological strategists, Republican Party operatives and media
> demagogues generate the odious smears. Their goal is to stymie the Obama
> administration's policy initiatives, capture Congress in November and unseat
> President Barack Obama in 2012. This propagandizing echoes the scapegoating
> of liberals, union and community organizers, peace activists, gay people,
> Jews and people of color during the anti-communist witch-hunts of the
> McCarthy era.
>
> Anti-Obama rhetoric also mimics 1960s slurs dubbing Rev. Martin Luther King,
> Jr. a dupe of a communist conspiracy — claims circulated by groups like the
> ultra-conservative John Birch Society, the white supremacist "Citizens'
> Councils" and the Ku Klux Klan. Billboards and flyers with this revelation
> appeared across the South, and postcards were distributed nationwide.
>
> The underlying message is that liberals are either tools or agents of the
> plot to build collectivism and global governance. Such claims, once used to
> label President Franklin D. Roosevelt a fascist, and have resurfaced against
> Obama, who is tagged as Hitler and Stalin. Such sloganeering is a classic
> trope that distorts a complex idea into a short metaphor full of rich
> cultural or political baggage.
>
> Into this guilt-by-association cesspool swims Aaron Klein, who fancies
> himself a shark of an investigative journalist but is really just another
> bottom-feeder. Klein, a senior staff reporter for the hard-right
> conspiracist *World Net Daily*, worked with Internet crank Brenda J. Elliott
> (therealbarackobama.wordpress.com) to write the new book *The Manchurian
> President: Barack Obama's Ties to Communists, Socialists and other
> Anti-American Extremists.*
>
> Similarly gawdy anti-Obama books include: Newt Gingrich's *To Save America:
> Stopping Obama's Secular-Socialist Machine*, Sean Hannity's *Conservative
> Victory: Defeating Obama's Radical Agenda* and Brad O'Leary's *The Audacity
> of Deceit: Barack Obama's War on American Values*. Slightly more histrionic
> are: Jerome R. Corsi's *The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of
> Personality*, and Floyd Brown and Lee Troxler's *Obama Unmasked: Did Slick
> Hollywood Handlers Create the Perfect Candidate?*
>
> According to *The Manchurian President*, Obama was groomed for office by a
> nest of socialists, communists and other dangerous radicals based in Hyde
> Park, the South Side neighborhood that includes the University of Chicago.
>
> Klein writes, "[Brenda Elliot and I] began to realize the scope of Obama's
> radical associates and mentors … We realized we were piecing together an
> intricate puzzle that revealed a man with an agenda far more radical and
> dangerous than he portrays — a politician backed by groups and individuals
> who seek to drastically alter the U.S. system or destroy it altogether."
>
> The book identifies Marilyn Katz, a well-known anti-war activist and
> public-relations consultant, as part of Obama's Chicago cabal. The writers
> spend "a lot of time mapping" an alleged subversive network of Obama
> operatives, Katz says.
> Continued:http://www.alternet.org/story/148180/understanding_the_witch-hunt_aga...
> Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
> Have a great day,
> Tommy

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