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Red Scare Revival: Right Wing Attacks BuzzFlash

Submitted by meg on Wed, 11/26/2008 - 12:00pm.

Analysis

A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS
by Meg White

When a right-wing blogger calls your writings "extreme liberal bile and dung," you know you must be doing something right.

My recent article about the paranoia of Grassfire.org's campaign to assemble an army of resisters against the Obama Administration garnered an extreme response from the Web site DequalsS.com. In case you're wondering, the domain name stands for Democrat = Socialist. As for other information about the writer, all I could find was an IP address. The site's mission statement section is no help either, saying "I'll put some stuff here later… do you really care what my mission is anyway?" And the author didn't sign the entry, so I can't say this to him/her directly, but I'll use what the writer refers to as "the liberal sewer called BuzzFlash" to send this message:

Calm down. Seriously, relax. Your ramblings are starting to look dangerously like those of Joseph McCarthy.

Despite his/her professed distaste for Sen. John McCain as a candidate for president, the McCain campaign's "Obama as socialist" message really seems to have made an impression on the writer. In this particular entry, Obama is "the Marxist," and "the left is wholly ideologically aligned with communism."

If anything, the blog entry made me realize I'm not up on the latest in radical right lingo. What does the writer mean when they refer to Michelle Obama as the president-elect's "deranged, 'race aware' wife?" Whaa? Maybe I should be checking Michelle Malkin's blog more often (after all, it is the very first on DequalsS' list of noteworthy links).

And we're the delusional ones, because we "believe that all of the facts pointed out about Obama and his criminal, communist intent for America's future are false."

The main point of my piece, that the radical right is unwilling to compromise in any way, was underscored by this writer's intolerance.

"Anything and everything the left does, I will resist," the blogger promises. The entry ends by encouraging the reader to check out Grassfire.org: "Join up to stay abreast of what our side is doing to squash liberalism, Obamunism and the disease they bring to our Republic."

With posts such as "How To Go F**k Yourself" and "Hillary Clinton... Sec of State... Nation Pukes...," I shouldn't be surprised that my juxtaposition of the melodrama of old horror movies and the current political landscape was lost on this blogger. How about a little Sixth Sense humor? I see red people...

No? Oh well. That whole thing probably wasn't as clever as I imagined it to be, anyway. Besides, it's easier to rave semi-coherently than it is to laugh.

The writer does not need to join a resistance army, though they are free to do so, if it will make them feel better. The recommendation from Dr. Meg? Deep breaths.

A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS

The "Right" should be scared. Very scared.

Submitted by JosephEBacon on Thu, 11/27/2008 - 9:49am.

I wonder how these sick freaks feel knowing that they put the Patriot Act in Obama's hands to use? We've seen how Bush has used the "Patriot Act" against us. We've seen Bush allow torture, disappearances, wiretapping and snooping on his part. Hell we now know that Bush wiretapped his pal Phony Blair too!

Very soon, the tables are gonna turn on them and their paranoid fantasies are metastasizing. Is Obama going to go after them the way Bush went after us? Let that single thought ferment in their pinhead minds!

The Right deserves to be scared. Deservedly so.

Just rants from deranged fascists

Submitted by tunghoy on Thu, 11/27/2008 - 8:34am.

Whenever I see incoherent rants vomited by the deranged reich-wing, I figure it comes from a lone lunatic toiling away late at night in pajamas.

These are mentally unbalanced fruitcakes who are in desperate need of psychiatric care (cf. Savage Weiner, Glenn Beck).

Scare tactics -

Submitted by Janejane on Wed, 11/26/2008 - 8:25pm.

read this: www.ourfuture.org Article: "Talking Turkey: 10 Myths Conservatives Believe About Progressives." written by Sara Robinson. An in depth review of the myths and how to speak to those people who ridicule your thinking about progressive ideas. These 10 points should be explained to anyone you meet who gives you grief and the "fear factor" when they talk about our new President. She writes well, topic flows fast and you want to read all 10 of her answers.

Like maladjusted children

Submitted by lefttomyowndevices on Wed, 11/26/2008 - 7:28pm.

After spending a good deal of time at conservative blogs in attempt to understand an alien world view, the descriptive words that come to mind are "childish" and "deluded." Think of the kids you knew who wouldn't share their toys, always turned to bullying rather than negotiation when disputes arose, couldn't understand how anyone could have a different opinion about something than they did, insisted on holding that opinion even when confronted with facts to the contrary, and attacked the person who presented the facts.

Now compare that to the people who snear that negotiation is for sissies, adamantly explain away the science behind evolution and climate change, and claim---in the face of potent evidence that unregulated markets lead to chaos---that we now need LESS regulation. These are worse than maladjusted children. They are dangerously deluded adults who should never be allowed in positions of authority.

Aaaahhh! The sweet sounds of

Submitted by Clemsy Diggs on Wed, 11/26/2008 - 7:19pm.

Aaaahhh! The sweet sounds of winger desperation. Careful! Cornered, rabid hamsters bite!

What you are seeing is the

Submitted by Paul Revere on Wed, 11/26/2008 - 7:14pm.

What you are seeing is the death rattle of the extreme right. They are dieing, they are dieing.

So they are Antisocialists?

Submitted by Freedem (not verified) on Wed, 11/26/2008 - 2:35pm.

These are folk who prefer to be unsocialized? The Bush administration has certainly given us a good look at what unsocialized folk can accomplish when they get what they want.

If the Gang Of Pirates think that the only good Democrat is a dead Democrat, only a fool would think it bipartisan to accommodate them.

Screw em

Submitted by GOPHater on Wed, 11/26/2008 - 2:15pm.

The fricking right wing aholes will be out of power for generations after the country sees what adult leadership can do. I hope they all die off so we can resume our lives.

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