Right Wing Racism Alive and Well in Georgia

Looks like homophobia is not the only Civil Rights issue of the day.  I’ve often said one of the biggest problems with the right-winging, tea-bagging population in this country is they have a difficult time understanding or dealing with the fact a man of color is in the Oval Office.

Don’t believe me…proof is in the pudding.

According to a post on WALB:

A doll found hanging off a Main Street building in Plains is causing controversy.

Controversial enough to get the United States Secret Service involved.

Witnesses say it was an image of President Barack Obama with a rope around his neck, and the display was found hanging in one of the city’s most recognizable sites dedicated to former President Jimmy Carter.

A few people were able to snap pictures of the black doll before it was taken down.

“I saw this stuffed thing hanging up,” said Alonzo Davis, Plains Resident.

Davis is one of the people who saw the doll hanging off the brick building, he said a sign on the front had President Obama’s name on it.

“People have seen it and have the pictures but no body is talking about it,” said Davis. “I don’t think it’s right I don’t know if it’s someone horse playing or what.”

Plains is proud of Jimmy Carter, with patriotism on display almost everywhere. Tourists walked around with no idea of what happened Saturday morning, but some who live here are speaking out.

“It’s wrong what they did, but I’m not shocked to hear about it,” said Plains resident Trevor Sims. “It’s a nice place to live and visit but some people out there don’t like it.”

“Some people out there don’t like it.” Yes, just as I don’t like right wing lunatics like Rush Limbaugh, Michele Bachmann, etc. But you don’t see me hanging effigies of them. There are Republican “leaders” who have been asking for Obama’s failure. They’ve been publicly praying for his death. This is the problem with the right and their first amendment rights. Speech is one thing. Saying you hate something or someone is your right…but when people like Bachmann, Limbaugh, Beck, et. al., open their mouths and spew hateful, racist bigotry and rhetoric, it’s a crime because they are inciting acts of violence in those who are undereducated and simply put, too stupid to know not to act on their hate.

The right wing Republicans ARE criminals and they should be treated as such!

Schaeffer: Religious Right is American Equivalent of the “Taliban”

Yup, that’s right, Frank Schaeffer, formerly with the religious right, equates the American religious right with the Taliban, and I have to say I agree. According to Schaeffer, “This is serious stuff”, and it is.  The religious right is literally calling for the death of President Obama.  Certainly very “Christ like”.  I’m sick to my stomach about this, and if Jesus has time to get off his dinosaur, I’m sure he’s rolling over in his grave.

SICK, SICK, SICK!  This is the incitement of violence, and it’s also treason.  It’s a plot to kill the American President, but a very deranged group of un-American, American citizens.

This has to stop!  This has to stop now and this is my warning to the Becks, O’Reillys, Hannitys, and Limbaughs and all other right wing nut jobs in this country who are nothing more than a mere embarrassment, a pimple on the ass of America, don’t ever let yourself been seen crossing a street in front of my car…I’ve been having trouble with my brakes, but I’m not having trouble with reverse!  (Oooh, how does that feel?  Is that a threat?  NO. Don’t take it seriously, I wouldn’t risk the damage to my auto as it means more to me than you ever will…I’ll just say the same little “prayer” for you.)

Don’t miss Frank Schaeffer on gayagenda.com’s Blog Talk Radio show coming December 2, 2009!

Should President Obama Take On Fox News?

There’s a post on Mercury News that claims President Obama is making a mistake by taking on FOX News. Below is an excerpt:

I never dreamed I would come to side with Fox News. I loathe its tone, its choice of stories, it snarling right-wing politics, the arrogance seeping from stars like Glenn Beck.

But the Obama administration, in branding Fox the adversary — not a traditional news organization, but an advocate — has made me what I could not make myself: a defender.

Why is the Obama team wrong? Let’s acknowledge first that their analysis is correct; Fox does push a point of view. It does it for the ratings, the glory and the money.

Then again, so does MSNBC. Does anyone want to argue that Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann are less opinionated than Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity?

Admit it: The traditional face of news has changed irrevocably. In the days when sources of news were limited, we worshiped Walter Cronkite. As sources of opinion expand to blogs, cable TV and Twitter, the center erodes. There is no national consensus anymore.

So Fox is only a nastier player in what has swept over the media generally. And the response from the Obama administration should not be what is morally right or what feels good. It should be what’s wise.

It’s my opinion however that someone has to take on FOX’s unfair and unbalanced attempt at reporting and why not the target of their aggressions?  I would love to see them shut down.  I stand for freedom of speech, but let’s face it, you can’t yell “fire” in a movie theater, and if you’re going to promote lies, hate, racism and bigotry, should you be allowed to fuel the illegitimate fires of the right wing flames?

Freedom of speech is one thing, but I personally believe that reporters, who reach the general public, should be held to a standard, and FOX’s line of right wing lunatics have gone so far to incite violence, which is a danger to national security.

So, there’s my view…now what’s yours?

Coalition Takes Action Against Right-Wing Media With StopTheWitchHunt.org

The following was released on October 29th by StopTheWitchHunt.org:

This Halloween, take action against the lies and hate speech that Glen Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Lou Dobbs, Paul Brown, and Pat Buchanan have been spewing in a nationwide witch hunt.

Echo Justice, a coalition of national and local organizations launched a multi-media counter to the right-wing’s echo chamber. StopTheWitchHunt.org is a newly formed multimedia watch dog portal that will use social media and mobile communications to take a grassroots stand and “call out” the mischaracterizations and hate speech that has been going on for too long.

“History has taught that bad things happen when good people are silent,” says Makani Themba- Nixon, Executive Director of The Praxis Project and a member of the Echo Justice coalition. “StoptheWitchHunt.org allows us to confront these scare tactics and make our voices heard.”

The website is designed to give voice to the millions of Americans who believe it is time for talk-show hosts and elected officials to stop stoking the racial anxieties of the fringes of America.

Beck and his fellow band of hooligans have been telling scary stories about President Obama whom Limbaugh has disrespectfully referred to as “the little black man child.” Beck recently accused the biracial President of having “a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture.” And he has attacked a number of key Administration officials accusing them of being socialist and anti-American. Limbaugh, who has a history of making racially charged remarks about Obama, has called the mixed-race president “a halfrican American.” Days before the President’s inauguration in January, Limbaugh said, “I hope he fails” – the verbal equivalent of putting a razor blade in a candy apple.

StoptheWitchHunt.org is just the beginning of a multi-media campaign to support a new resistance to these Halloween Goons. Visit stopthewitchhunt.org or text WITCHHUNT to 228466 to build public support for a more responsible journalism.

SOURCE: StopTheWitchHunt.org

Stop Glenn Beck’s Race Baiting

Fox’s Glenn Beck recently said President Obama is “a racist” and has a “deep-seated hatred for white people.” Beck is on a campaign to convince the American public that President Obama’s agenda is about serving the needs of Black communities at White people’s expense. It’s repulsive, divisive and shouldn’t be on the air.

Join us in calling on Beck’s advertisers to stop sponsoring his show.

Add your voice now at: ColorofChange.org