New York Times' Paul Krugman Calls Out Conservatives' "Bizarre Reaction" To Terror Attacks

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The New York Times' Paul Krugman called out right-wing media's baseless anxiety about Syrian refugees and "exaggerated" panic over the threat of a terrorist attack as the latest example of the "apocalyptic mind-set that has developed among Republicans during the Obama years."

In a November 20 column, Krugman observed that Fox News contributor Erick Erickson's "bizarre" threat not to "see the new 'Star Wars' movie on opening day, because 'there are no metal detectors at American theaters'" is "part of a larger pattern" of right-wing panic.

Right-wing media reacted to the November 13 ISIS-led attacks on Paris and elsewhere with sweeping and unfounded claims that President Obama's anti-terror response is endangering U.S national security, with some on Fox even claiming that he has "Islamic sympathies." Others vilified Syrian refugees and defended calls for religious litmus tests, only accepting Christian refugees, on the basis that "Muslims might blow us up."

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/11/20/new-york-times-paul-krugman-calls-out-conservat/207001

[KelleyKramer]

1. Who is more likely to shoot someone in a US movie theater?

Wait, I thought these rightwingers told us a long time ago there is NOTHING we can do about nutjobs taking a bunch of guns into a movie theater and killing people

If iirc they call it the 'second amendment rule'

Did they change that rule?

If they did, no one notified me

Does that mean they now support background checks for gun purchases?

Because if we had better background checks for gun purchases, we would have less attacks from the people who are actually doing mass killings in the US every year