Why Right-Wing Demagogues Are Trying to Peddle Ludicrous Conspiracy Theories on Countrified Americans
Even before Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th president of the United States, the internet was seething with lurid conspiracy theories exposing his alleged subversion and treachery.Among the many false claims: Obama was a secret Muslim; he was not a native U.S. citizen and his election as president should be overturned; he was a tool of the New World Order in a plot to merge the government of the United States into a North American union with Mexico and Canada.
The rest of the story....from ALternet on how America's fearful are being played like fiddles! by email, right wing radio and a very shrewd, coordinated, Republican campaign!
Rman's comment... I do have people sending me these paranoid email messages, with hardly hidden racial messages and other fear mongering the right learned how to do clear back in the Clinton days!
They send me THEIR links, I send them MINE. I bet they dont' read mine because crazy people really LIKE being crazy. It's comforting to t hem, even if disloyal to the country they think they love. (Well, except for the Southerners who are still hopeful the South will Rise Again after the War of the Lost Cause, and that the weaker Union won't be able to fight it. This black president shit is just such a COMPLETE slap in the face. Bad enough to lose to Lincoln... but to have a nigra president is more than a Daughter of the Confederacy should be forced to endure. Its so remeniscent of carpetbagging!)
The rest of the story....from ALternet on how America's fearful are being played like fiddles! by email, right wing radio and a very shrewd, coordinated, Republican campaign!
Rman's comment... I do have people sending me these paranoid email messages, with hardly hidden racial messages and other fear mongering the right learned how to do clear back in the Clinton days!
They send me THEIR links, I send them MINE. I bet they dont' read mine because crazy people really LIKE being crazy. It's comforting to t hem, even if disloyal to the country they think they love. (Well, except for the Southerners who are still hopeful the South will Rise Again after the War of the Lost Cause, and that the weaker Union won't be able to fight it. This black president shit is just such a COMPLETE slap in the face. Bad enough to lose to Lincoln... but to have a nigra president is more than a Daughter of the Confederacy should be forced to endure. Its so remeniscent of carpetbagging!)
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