Fox "War Games" The Coming Civil War

by Glenn Greenwald - February 22nd, 2009 - Salon

Bill Clinton's election in 1992 gave rise to the American "militia movement": hordes of overwhelmingly white, middle-aged men from suburban and rural areas who convinced themselves they were defending the American way of life from the "liberals" and "leftists" running the country by dressing up in military costumes on weekends, wobbling around together with guns, and play-acting the role of patriot-warriors. Those theater groups -- the cultural precursor to George Bush's prancing 2003 performance dressed in a fighter pilot outfit on Mission Accomplished Day -- spawned the decade of the so-called "Angry White Male," the movement behind the 1994 takeover of the U.S. Congress by Newt Gingrich and his band of federal-government-cursing, pseudo-revolutionary, play-acting tough guys.

Love the sarcasm and ridicule. If you want to see what serves for standard anti white male rhetoric on the left wing web sites, sans profanity and perversion, this is an excellent example.

Want to read a few of the bizarre lies the left wing radicals have come to believe? Here are a few from this one short article:

"Even as Bush seized and used ... tyrannical and unconstitutional -- limitless, unchecked surveillance activities, detention powers with no oversight, expanding federal police powers, secret prison camps ... impenetrable federal government secrecy and comprehensive domestic spying databases conducted in the dark and against the law ... warrantless eavesdropping on Americans in violation of the law ... motivated by fear of losing its cultural and demographic supremacy ... disturbingly ugly atmosphere that marked virtually every Sarah Palin rally ... her fear-mongering cultural warnings ... resonated so stingingly with the rabid lynch mobs that cheered her on ... pure, illustrative derangement ... given rise to the endless corruption, deceit, lawbreaking, destruction, and outright thievery of the last eight years ... all of this drooling rage is nothing more than the familiar face of extreme right-wing paranoia ... "

By the way, this author is the same person who is convinced that Obama has failed to stop the persecution of the "innocent victims" held in Guantanamo, with agonizing concern expressed in his article "Was Binyam Mohamed brutalized at Guantanamo in the last month?" These left wing radicals want the war against Islamo-fascism ended now and America rendered impotent by disbanding our military!

These are the people who were the early enthusiastic supporters for Barack Obama. The MSM has cleaned up their fanatical attacks against all Republicans, but the essence of their charges is repeated. The Alinsky style smearing of Palin, Gingrich, Bush, Limbaugh, Coulter and every other conservative or libertarian who dares disagree with them, proves their tactics have not changed and their hate has not lessened.

It is unfortunate that so few Americans realized these radical extremists are the core of Obama support. If that truth was better known, perhaps the illusion of his being "moderate" would not have gained so much credibility.