Stand By Your Slander
Now, don’t go taking it back, J-Nap. We right-wing extremists have never been taken more seriously.
She offered an apology to veterans, saying it wasn’t her intention to offend. It may not have been the intention of the report authors or Napolitano to offend or overreach, but that was certainly the effect. And it remains a mystery why Napolitano felt it necessary to distribute a shoddy nine-page report that was supposedly in the works under the Bush administration for a year, as Napolitano claims, containing zero data backing up the claim of a “resurgence” of rightwing extremist violence — and was padded with analysis from the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center to stir fear of “disgruntled military veterans.”
I don’t think the theme of the psychotic soldier has been sufficiently explored in film, fiction, or media, do you?
I’ve never served in any organized military movement beyond my one year in the Cub Scouts, but as a former liberal, I volunteer my knot-tying skills (frayed as they are by time and disuse) to my new conservative—make that rightwing extremist—brethren.
Bowlines for Liberty!
Anyway, why is she apologizing? As Rush noted yesterday, isn’t this the same language as his “bitter clinger” comment?
This DHS report that maligns and impugns conservatives as “right-wing extremists” is straight from Obama. It’s straight from his heart. It’s straight from his head. It is precisely how he views anybody who opposes him.
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“So it’s not surprising, then, that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them, or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.” Well, that’s… You talk about a foundation? That is an excellent foundation upon which this DHS report on right-wing extremists could be built: bitter clingers, angry, people don’t look like they do, immigration, anti-trade.
So don’t think this is Janet Napolitano, folks. This is Barack Obama.
Martino said,
April 16, 2009 @ 11:45 am
He left out the part about how we enjoy hurting kittens to satisfy our frustration over the recent rise in price of Turtle Wax.
What a Special Olympian.
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April 23, 2009 @ 10:33 pm
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