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since Wed, 26 Dec 2007 20:04:17.
(Of course, they didn't know it)
The confrontation with Sean Hannity follows the FOX exclusion of Ron Paul from the FOX Republican Forum. (See Bring Back the Fairness Doctrine?.)
All things being equal, Murdoch and his media corporations (FOX, the Wall Street Journal) should be Paul's most avid advocates because of Paul's support of free market principles and responsible government finance, but Paul rejects Bush-Neocon-Jewish-extremist* warmongering and has not sworn fealty to Israel like the other presidential candidates. Even worse, Paul acknowledges no obligation for Americans to pay for Israel.
Murdoch Media (MM) has already shown a pattern of distortion in the coverage of Paul.
From online WSJ Obama, Huckabee Win Iowa:
The hard-copy version of this graph stopped at row four for both Democrats and Republicans. Obviously exclusion of candidates with single digit results was not the goal. If space were the issue, the Democratic side could have shown three bars, and the Republican side could have shown five bars. (The hard-copy version consisted of a Democratic bar-graph over a Republican bar-graph.)
Below are the two Sean Hannity videos. In the second, the Hannity segment starts at about 2:10. Even though Hannity's Islamophobia is usually much more over the top, I failed find a more typical video example of Hannity vicious anti-Muslim and anti-Arab racist hatred and incitement. The video descriptions come from the google-video host locations.
Sean Hannity Videos
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The Revolution is in full swing in New Hampshire fighting for our rights. Taking the Republican party back from neocon traitors.
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The Revolution is in full swing in New Hampshire fighting for our rights. Taking the Republican party back from neocon traitors.
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David Horowitz and his army of Campus Republicans are launching "Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week" October 22-26 on hundreds of campuses across the country. They are ominously calling this "the biggest conservative campus protest ever." Invoking '60's themes like "free speech" and combating the "oppression of women in Islam" as a cover, they plan to harass Muslim Student Associations and Women's Studies Departments, and silence anyone that questions the Bush regime's official narrative, including even those concerned about global warming!
Given the Bush regime's escalating threats toward Iran, the danger of a complicit campus environment cannot be underestimated. The College Republicans can claim to be the victim of the "academic left," but people like them run this country and dominate the world. They are the ones holding "catch an illegal immigrant day" at the same time as the Bush regime's ICE raids are ripping apart immigrant families. This is not just a question of campus politics and a few loud mouth bigots. If we ignore them, they will NOT go away. They have their sights set on the last remaining bastions of critical thinking with the aim of transforming all of society. If they can create an atmosphere at these colleges where it is okay to be openly racist and reactionary, where progressive faculty are intimidated by ridiculous claims of "left-wing academic dictatorship," and radical dissenting ideas are ruled beyond the pale and off the table...then they have won, not only at the universities, but in their efforts to remake the social fabric of this country in a fascist way.
On the other hand, if we can politically confront these college Republicans and their "Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week," expose their real agenda, raise awareness of the growing danger of U.S. fascism and the real fascist direction that the Bush regime has been taking this country in—the endless war, the torture, the Patriot Act, the unlimited domestic spying, and the whole police state infrastructure, the Christian Fundamentalism that is undermining women's rights, gay peoples rights, science, and rational thought—and if we can bring forward a radical student movement that refuses to choose between Islamic Fundamentalism and the Bush Regime's Christian Fascist war on the world...then we can turn Horowitz's plan upside down.
This week will either strengthen their side or strengthen OUR side.
By bringing forward a determined and uncompromising student movement on campuses October 22-26th we can paralyze Horowitz' ability to further target and blacklist professors and be a major part of transforming campuses into centers of intellectual ferment, activism, and organized resistance that are so desperately needed at times like these.
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* Murdoch is Jewish on his mother's side and counts as a major stealth player in the Israel Lobby. He has been willing to run newspapers at a loss in order to provide soap boxes and to give jobs to pro-Israel columnists and pundits.
Given the Bush regime's escalating threats toward Iran, the danger of a complicit campus environment cannot be underestimated. The College Republicans can claim to be the victim of the "academic left," but people like them run this country and dominate the world. They are the ones holding "catch an illegal immigrant day" at the same time as the Bush regime's ICE raids are ripping apart immigrant families. This is not just a question of campus politics and a few loud mouth bigots. If we ignore them, they will NOT go away. They have their sights set on the last remaining bastions of critical thinking with the aim of transforming all of society. If they can create an atmosphere at these colleges where it is okay to be openly racist and reactionary, where progressive faculty are intimidated by ridiculous claims of "left-wing academic dictatorship," and radical dissenting ideas are ruled beyond the pale and off the table...then they have won, not only at the universities, but in their efforts to remake the social fabric of this country in a fascist way.
On the other hand, if we can politically confront these college Republicans and their "Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week," expose their real agenda, raise awareness of the growing danger of U.S. fascism and the real fascist direction that the Bush regime has been taking this country in—the endless war, the torture, the Patriot Act, the unlimited domestic spying, and the whole police state infrastructure, the Christian Fundamentalism that is undermining women's rights, gay peoples rights, science, and rational thought—and if we can bring forward a radical student movement that refuses to choose between Islamic Fundamentalism and the Bush Regime's Christian Fascist war on the world...then we can turn Horowitz's plan upside down.
This week will either strengthen their side or strengthen OUR side.
By bringing forward a determined and uncompromising student movement on campuses October 22-26th we can paralyze Horowitz' ability to further target and blacklist professors and be a major part of transforming campuses into centers of intellectual ferment, activism, and organized resistance that are so desperately needed at times like these.
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* Murdoch is Jewish on his mother's side and counts as a major stealth player in the Israel Lobby. He has been willing to run newspapers at a loss in order to provide soap boxes and to give jobs to pro-Israel columnists and pundits.
2 comments:
The groundswell support for Ron Paul is quite interesting to me. Obviously the guy "gets it" when it comes to US foreign policy and what the Constitution actually stands for. In times like the ones that we find ourselves, these important issues make him a candidate to seriously consider.....The groundswell support does, however, make me very nervous, particularly from the under 40 crowd. Too many of them must have bought into the personal responsibility line of sh*t that has been marketed by the media, republicans and raving lunatics. You see, I actually think Social Security is a good program, I actually think things like the FAA should NOT be left in the hands of private enterprise, I think public education is important.....I'm a big fan of worker's rights and unemployment. Ron Paul's position on all of these is offensive to me and I'm not sure if many of his supporters get the "big picture" here.....frankly, I think many of his supporters are more focused on the "every man for himself" aspect of his positions, and not enough on his foreign policy positions.
Ron Paul is important precisely because the establishment finds him dangerous or at a minimum irritating.
I agree with little of what Paul stands for, except in two BIG areas: US withdrawal from Iraq and ending the fraud known as "The War on Drugs."
Thanks for the videos.
Michael Blaine
www.rudelystamped.blogspot.com
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