The Republican presidential primary should covered by comedians, not reporters.
This is the least serious, most bizarre off the wall group of dumb asses yet, and I thought 2012 was hard to beat. It's impossible to pretend Trump, Cruz, Bush and Rubio have something thoughtful to say. If this were a movie, we would have walked after the first insulting debate and asked for our money back.
HILL: Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump early Tuesday rejected criticism (and) said he was not worried about being compared to Hitler. "We're at war — get it through your head."
The Republican exploitation of the terrorist attacks in France, by candidates desperate to win the White House, does come with consequences. Check out the twitter picture below in Irving, Texas.
This is happening now; gun toting thugs following and intimidating Muslims Americans exercising their First Amendment right. What, in a Christian nation like ours?
Chris Hayes took a closer look at the supposed "Islamization of America," where the leader of the armed protests posted the names and addresses of Muslim's in Irving on Facebook. Irving's wack-a-doodle Mayor Beth Van Duyne has falsely stated the mosque there established the countries first Islamic court to practice Sharia law. That won't radicalize the targets of fear mongering Republicans:
While I've been trying to make the case that Republican are fascists, every conservative troller I've encountered were convinced that it's really just the other way around...
...but as is always the case, when a Republican is making the same case as I am, suddenly everybody starts listening. Here's an incredibly effective ad that should have been produced by a Democrat...instead, it's Gov. John Kasich making my case:
Trump might be shocked to know this:
Smithsonian: The Statue of Liberty was originally designed to be a Muslim woman, the Smithsonian Institution's magazine says. An article on the government-administered museum’s blog, Smart News, claims one of the designers of Lady Liberty drew inspiration from monuments in Egypt and originally intended to construct a veiled female peasant on the Suez Canal. The article cites historian Barry Moreno, author of multiple books about the statue, whose Islamic origins were also reported last week by The Daily Beast.
Howard Dean let loose on Republican fear mongers and fascist. Great stuff and should a part of every Democratic interview with the media:
During the interview below, Chris Hayes received this early Christmas gift from tea party favorite Rep. Steve King, who blathered on about requiring Muslim immigrants to deny their religion in order to stay in this country. King even claims Muslim's don't assimilate well in our Christian nation because they bring with them Sharia Law, which is incompatible to Americanism:
Disappointingly, Democrats were willing accomplices to GOP
efforts to spread stupidity and fear about Syrian refugees. Our own Rep. Ron
Kind jumped on board the “stupid” bandwagon. See the list of gutless Democrats here.
It’s hard to imagine anyone getting behind the following compilation
of reckless uninformed fear laced rants, but they did, marking another very dark moment in U.S. history. I put together all the clips I could find in just a couple of hours, so there's still a whole lot more I missed. Will we look back on all this with utter disgust? This is what the Republican Party is using to divide the public in order to win a presidential election. It's eleven minutes of mostly hate and a few moments of honesty:
The claims that the screening process isn't rigorous enough is total BS, as you can see that by the screen capture here:
Consider this journey into the manufactured fear of Syrian refugee terrorists getting something for nothing:
Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) suggested that Syrian refugees are just trying to come to the United States for a "paid vacation" ... "We’re paying them about $15,000 a year in free health care, free food, free shelter, free clothing, free transportation," according to audio posted by ThinkProgress. "That answers very quickly why so many of them want to come to the United States of America. Were paying them to come here. It's a paid vacation!"
Speaker Paul Ryan constructed this Orwellian take on the refugees, after constructing what would be an indefinite road block to Syrian immigration: "Certified safe by the FBI, Department of Homeland Security
and the Director of National Intelligence." Of course it's never going to happen, and yet...
"We are a compassionate nation. We always have been,
and we always will be."
You would think Ryan had access to the chart below, or have some working knowledge of it after cooking up his impossible test for Syrian refugees trying to come to the U.S.:
The only person that could cut through the GOP rhetoric? Comedian John Oliver picked up where our news media dropped off the face of the earth:
“Every generation has had its own ugly reaction to refugees, whether they are the Irish, the Vietnamese, the Cubans, or the Haitians, and those fears have ben broadly unfounded. In fact, there was only one time in American history when the fear of refugees wiping everyone out did actually come true, and we’ll all be sitting around a table celebrating it on Thursday.”
And religious freedom? It apparently has more to do with contraception and gay marriage than it does letting Muslims freely exercise their religion beliefs:
I didn't see much of this clip showing Mitt Romney's stuttered response to the media over the Libyan attack, so take a look. Or how about the cast and crews denouncement of their manipulated voices in what is now a 15 minute anti-Muslim movie trailer. Ezra Klein:
The tea party not only represents a radicalization of the GOP, but what could be a mob like element that is easily stoked by alarmist radio talkers, who spew what can only be described as conspiratorial theories vilifying Democratic Americans and Pres. Obama.
This is the conclusion I came to while watching an explanation of the violence we're seeing now against our American consulates in the Middle East, in what were dictatorial nations that fostered and depended on conspiracy theories to hold power.
Below, Rachel Maddow focuses on the ridiculous conspiracy theory that ties the U.S. government to the cheap film that continues to spur on the violence, with correspondent Richard Engel
Engel: "There's a mentality that has engulfed this region in the last 40 years. The regions dictators are partly responsible for imposing this mentality. That is, a "closed circuit." It is a way of looking at the world that sees it from a conspiratorial paradigm, and that was convenient for the dictators because it got people hating the west, hating Israel, hating America, and not hating their own leaders..."
Washington Post blogger Rachel Weiner posted this story- RNC Chair: Obama
‘sympathizes with attackers’
WP: In a tweet, Republican National Committee Chairman
Reince Priebus suggested not only that the Obama administration had responded
to the attacks in Egypt and Libya with sympathy
– as Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney argued – but that
President Obama himself personally sympathizes with the attackers.
That would be a baseless lie, and an irresponsible act that should
result in Priebus’ firing. But since it reflects the current right wings fear of the "other," nothing will happen:
Both accusations appear to be based on a statement from the
Cairo embassy, released before the attacks, which condemned “the continuing
efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims.”
(Protesters were spurred by clips of an anti-Muslim film.) The Obama
administration … saying it was not approved by Washington and “doesn’t reflect
the views of the U.S. government.”
The media, Fox News in particular, is now focusing in a long past drone attack, and the anniversary of 9/11 for the unrest, although originally, the story blamed the right wing film.
WP: The director of a controversial anti-Islam film has gone into hiding, according to reports, fearing reprisals over a work that has sparked violence in Egypt and has been linked to events in Libya that led to the deaths of four Americans.
But right wing zealot and religious warrior Sam Bacile’s film may have contributed in some way to the killing. Here's a compilation of clips that will give you an idea of what was so offensive. See Buzzfeed as well:
Is it all about the Republican Party's campaign of religious bigotry and fear mongering?:
“Innocence of Muslims,” was produced and directed by an
Israeli-American, Sam Bacile, a California real-estate developer who called
Islam “a cancer,” in an interview. Mr. Bacile told The Journal that he raised
$5 million from about 100 Jewish donors and shot the two-hour movie in
California last year. A 14-minute
trailer for the English-language film, which was posted on
YouTube in July, attracted little attention until last week, when a version dubbed into Arabic was
posted on the
same YouTube channel and then copied and viewed tens of
thousands of times more …
This is the least serious, most bizarre off the wall group of dumb asses yet, and I thought 2012 was hard to beat. It's impossible to pretend Trump, Cruz, Bush and Rubio have something thoughtful to say. If this were a movie, we would have walked after the first insulting debate and asked for our money back. 
