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DeadElephant_ORG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-08 03:48 AM
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HATE on steroids. Right-wing desparation boiling over.
Commentary gathered by Media Matters (with links to source video and audio)
http://mediamatters.org/items/200810240017?f=h_top

On Monday, Savage responded to Colin Powell's endorsement of Obama by insisting, "The only people who don't seem to vote based on race are whites of European origin." Later in the week, Savage said welfare recipients (read “Black Folks") shouldn't be allowed to vote. Fellow radio host Jim Quinn went a step further over the edge, declaring that there was "good reason" for allowing only landowners to vote.

A Washington Times columnist called Barack Obama a "Marxist" who believes that "murdering innocent babies ... is an inalienable right."

Syndicated columnist Thomas Sowell compared Obama to Hitler, Mao and Jim Jones. What's the similarity? Well, they all spoke inspiringly of "change."

Bill O'Reilly recently declared that Nancy Pelosi practices her speeches too much, noting that Hitler also practiced speeches before delivering them (O'Reilly claimed he wasn't comparing Pelosi to Hitler. Right.)

For radio host Bill Cunningham, comparing Obama to Hitler doesn't go far enough. He prefers to suggest that Obama is the antichrist.

KSFO radio host Lee Rodgers falsely claimed that Obama has admitted that he would "stand with the Muslims" against "the Western world" -- a twisted fantasy reminiscent of Savage's claim to "doubt" that Obama "would take our side" in the event of a terrorist attack.
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Trajan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-08 03:52 AM
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1. OK ... Im going to K&R ....
Just because I like the concept ....

And to point out that yet another DU nick arrives in the forums previously unseen .... With over a thousand posts ....

I was told we cannot change our nicks ... Yet I see this happening often ...

I dont get it ...
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DeadElephant_ORG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-08 03:58 AM
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2. previously unseen??
I'm confused. See my lengthy journal of posts. The nickname has always been "DeadElephant.ORG".
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Trajan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-08 04:00 AM
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3. Maybe I live a sheltered life
Edited on Sun Oct-26-08 04:01 AM by Trajan
Or maybe you do ....

Please accept my apology, if one is necessary ....

EDIT: Great stuff too .... Very nice designs ... Clean and crisp ....
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DeadElephant_ORG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-08 04:02 AM
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4. very good to make your acquaintance
and thank you.
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Poseidan Donating Member (630 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-08 04:02 AM
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5. conservatives...
Edited on Sun Oct-26-08 04:04 AM by Poseidan
Such short-sightedness. What happens when time proves their claims untrue?
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man4allcats Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-08 04:25 AM
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6. These people should be arrested, tried, convicted and
hanged as traitors. How much longer will we let our country and its democracy go before we do something? Washington, Jefferson, Franklin and Lincoln are no doubt spinning in their graves.
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Marsala Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-08 04:28 AM
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7. Okay, let's not go too far in the opposite direction
There is still freedom of speech in this country. Let's leave the traitor-calling to the Reich Wing.
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man4allcats Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-08 04:34 AM
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8. Okay. Point taken.
Nazis! Hang'em!
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sarahdemva Donating Member (265 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-08 06:08 AM
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9. HATE must be defeated at the ballot box
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