Krugman Blames Fox News: Right-Wing Extremism "Fed By The Conservative Media"

[evildevil]

The Big Hate

Back in April, there was a huge fuss over an internal report by the Department of Homeland Security warning that current conditions resemble those in the early 1990s - a time marked by an upsurge of right-wing extremism that culminated in the Oklahoma City bombing.

Conservatives were outraged. The chairman of the Republican National

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[heofmanynames]

Cue the denial monkeys!

[ohkatespade]

The chairman of the Republican National Committee denounced the report as an attempt to “segment out conservatives in this country who have a different philosophy or view from this administration” and label them as terrorists.

Oh, you mean like you guys do to everyone else?! I do believe you were the ones implying that people that didn't agree with you weren't "real Americans".

[bellichka]

I had a dream about him last night.

[ariante]

I love that man. He's a voice of sanity in the asylum that is Fox News.

[tigerdreams]

This man is awesome. How is it that Faux News is still letting him work for them? He's SANE.

[eyetosky]

Glenn! GLENN?! Why would you say that? Why?! You sick fearmongering Godwin motherfucker, why would you even want to pretend to scare people like that?

That's news? Outright lying is news? Isn't that goddamn illegal?

[keeperofthekeys]

...warned viewers that the Federal Emergency Management Agency might be building concentration camps as part of the Obama administration’s “totalitarian” agenda

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...the newspaper saw fit to run an opinion piece declaring that President Obama “not only identifies with Muslims, but actually may still be one himself,” and that in any case he has “aligned himself” with the radical Muslim Brotherhood.

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Jon Voight, the actor, told the audience at a Republican fund-raiser this week that the president is a “false prophet” and that “we and we alone are the right frame of mind to free this nation from this Obama oppression,” Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader, thanked him, saying that he “really enjoyed” the remarks.

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