Wingnut Hate a la carte
by digby
I imagine that most people have read Media Matters’ jailhouse interview with the Glenn Beck fanatic who planned a terrorist attack against a liberal foundation. It’s quite a story. But one of the things I think hasn’t been highlighted is the help of David Horowitz, Alex Jones and Michael Savage in forming this fellow’s lunatic philosophy. This lunatic demonstrates how you can order wingnut hate a la carte from all across the media landscape.
I posted this a while back because it’s such an awful message, but I’m not sure anyone noticed. It’s from David Horowitz and I first saw it on TV here in LA. He’s been raising money for the last few months to run it in various markets (but particularly here in Los Angeles for some reason):
Creepy stuff. Now the shooter was all upset about Soros, but I don’t know that he had any particular POV about Israel. However, it’s not really about specifics, it’s just creating this overriding sense that Obama is working on behalf of the enemy — whoever that may be today (gays, Muslims, liberals, feminazis, ACORN, immigrants whatever.) And then once they create it, their spokespeople come out and say this:
“I think some of this stuff is just a sign of how much fear and anxiety has built up,” Gingrich said, “but I think the president has an obligation to slow down and say, if you’re president of all the people, what is it the White House is doing that so frightens a third of the Republican Party that they don’t even believe something as simple and as obvious as his self-professed religious belief.”
It’s not a conspiracy, it’s just a combination of toxic worldview and cheap opportunism. And this environment is ripe for both.
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