Sick Fux.
BECK: Last week, I head you say that — you were on with Dennis Miller. ... You two were talking about an insurrection coming.
O’REILLY: Tax revolt.
BECK: He used the word insurrection. And not in a comedic way.
O’REILLY: Yeah, tax revolt. I think people, when they figure out how badly they’re going to get hurt in the next few years, there’s going to be a tea party on taxes and its gonna get nasty. Nancy Pelosi’s going to be bobbing up and down in the Boston Harbor.
This statement appeared to be too much for Beck even, who replied, "Uh, I don’t think that’s necessary."
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What will inspire this hoped for insurrection? Certainly not words spoken over and over and over by the likes of Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly and the rest of the ClusterFox crew. No, it'll be grassrootsy. Yeah, that's the ticket.
And Glenn Beck's shallow, feigned sigh of "That's not necessary" falls kind of short when he himself has joked about poisoning Nancy Pelosi.
This is, without a doubt, as close as you can come to actually calling for a violent insurrection without actually saying "We should have a violent insurrection." This is more like hoping for an insurrection, and then setting up the buses to get people to the insurrection, promoting it and then walking around in the middle of it while saying loudly "If we do have to kill someone here, I can think of a few names."
And this, this is fair and balanced. Have you ever heard anybody in the media openly daydream about the public murder of a Republican? I'm not saying they should, nor would I condone it if someone did, but can you just imagine what would happen if that were to happen? Certainly that person would be fired on the spot if they worked for an orgaqnization that gave two shits about their reputation. Sadly, Fox doesn't have two shits to spare, both of them are busy occupying the hosts jobs of the Gleen Beck and Bill O'Reilly shows.
Very recently, Actual Neo-Nazi's attempted to join an anti-immigration tea party. It says a lot about your political movement when actual Nazi's are on your side, and it says a lot about the people leading your movement when they are less disturbed by that then the poor, misled people who are actually there on the ground. It is both sad and ironic that the people shreiking about creeping fascism are on the same side of the political spectrum as actual fascists.
That doesn't excuse the organizers and promoters of this disgrace to our nation. IF any violence takes place at any of these astroturfed tea party tax revolts, the blame lies squarely on the shoulders of their biggest cheerleaders at Fox and their enablers in the Republican party. IF any harm should come to Speaker Pelosi, or any other elected official, the blood will be on THEIR hands. May the Gods forbid such a thing should happen.
The real crime is the one committed every day by these sick fux against our Democracy. What goes on at Fox and in the Republican party on a daily basis is nothing short of an actual insurrection against our Democracy. They shriek at the rule of law and prefer authoritarianism, they hide Corporatist intent behind a fake populist platform, they undermine our Democracy at every chance they get, and all in the name of "freedom and liberty". Congressman Alan Grayson was 100% right when he said that Fox and the Republican party is the enemy, and Joseph Goebbels would certainly be proud of the propaganda job they are doing. Hell, they are practically running his playbook!
The fact that the tea party protests mirror fascism in their hate of the other, inspired by the moneyed powers that would manipulate people, defend torture and the Governments illegal spying on citizens and war crimes is undeniable, and Godwin forgive me for bringing it up, but it is not fiction, it is reality, and when the people who are the biggest promoters of the "insurrection" against Democracy openly daydream of murder and violent revolution against a Democratically elected Governemnt, well, it doesn't take much to see what sort of people they truly stand with, and what disgusting means they would allow to be used to come to their preferred ends.
The sick fux.
For the record, I am Jewish by birth, and I have ancestors who literally died in Nazi internment camps, and others who survived.
I don't like to go there, but let's not kid ourselves, the people who support torture, spying on American citizens without cause and wars of aggression are running the Goebbels playbook to a T, and if we ignore that, we will only see worse.
First they came for . . .
Crossposted at The Progressive Electorate.com and Docudharma.com