Category: 3. Enemies and Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause
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New Study Documents Bill O'Reilly's Fearmongering
(from ThinkProgress) A new study by Indiana University media researchers finds that Fox News host Bill O’Reilly calls “a person or a group a derogatory name once every 6.8 seconds, on average, or nearly nine times every minute during the editorials that open his program each night.” Fear was used in more than half (52.4…
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Kent State Shootings: Tape ‘reveals order' to shoot Vietnam protesters
Back from the past: The command, as Alan Canfora heard it on a 37-year-old audio recording recently discovered in a government archive, appeared to leave no room for doubt. “Right here. Get set. Point. Fire.” Then came 13 seconds of gunfire. … “There has been a 37-year cover-up at Kent State. The commanding officers have…
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Military Wife Chews Out William Kristol on C-SPAN
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Veteran CIA Analyst Says Forged Niger Memo Traces Back to Cheney
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Condoleezza Rice Redefines ‘Imminent'
I don’t know about you but when I hear the word imminent I think right now and immediately and within the next several weeks. Imminent threat was a huge part of the justification to invade Iraq. Condoleeza backs away: "But [Iraq was] not an imminent threat," presses Stephanopoulous. "George, the question of imminence isn’t whether…
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American Family Association Blames VTech Shootings on Lack of Prayer
Condoms, spanking, porn, abortion, no prayer, banned Bibles, gay teachers, Hollywood, profanity:
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Group to Track Shariah Mosques and Islamic Centers Inside the US
Right here in river city. This is kinda like the Minutemen for Tracking Muslims: (via) As most of you know, the biggest threat America faces today is from Islamic Jihadists operating all over the world and especially right here in America! … That is where this highly specialized and professional program comes in. It is…
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Bomb Squad Investigates Dark-Skinned Man Recycling Paper
A poet decides to throw out some old manuscripts: Upon my departure, he called the local police department and told them a man of Middle Eastern descent driving a heavily decaled white Beetle with out of state plates and no campus parking sticker had just placed a box next to the trash can. … Because…
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White House proposes retroactive war crimes protection
White House proposes retroactive war crimes protection The Bush administration drafted amendments to the War Crimes Act that would retroactively protect policy makers from possible criminal charges for authorizing any humiliating and degrading treatment of detainees, according to lawyers who have seen the proposal.
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Boston Globe Reporter Charlie Savage Wins Pulitzer for Tracking Bush's Overreach
Excerpts from the winning stories: President Bush has quietly claimed the authority to disobey more than 750 laws enacted since he took office, asserting that he has the power to set aside any statute passed by Congress when it conflicts with his interpretation of the Constitution. … The office of Vice President Dick Cheney routinely…