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BLACK IS AN IMPEACHABLE OFFENSE: PART ONE (OF THREE)
On May 7, 2012 , GOP Presidential candidate Mitt Romney attended a town-hall meeting in Euclid, Ohio. “We have a president right now who is operating outside the construction of our Constitution,” a...
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BLACK IS AN IMPEACHABLE OFFENSE: PART TWO (OF THREE)
On March 9, 1954, Edward R. Murrow, the most respected broadcast journalist in America, assailed the “smear-and-fear” tactics of Wisconsin Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy. The forum was Murrow’s...
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BLACK IS AN IMPEACHABLE OFFENSE: PART THREE (END)
In 1964, bestselling novelist irving Wallace dared to imagine the then-unthinkable: The elevation of the first black President of the United States. Wallace’s hero is Douglas Dilman, a moderate who...
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THE POLITICS OF SCAPEGOATING: PART ONE (OF THREE)
“All revolutions,” said Ernst Rohem, leader of Adolf Hitler’s brown-shirted thugs, the S.A., “devour their own children.” Ernst Rohem Fittingly, he said this as he sat inside a prison cell awaiting his...
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THE POLITICS OF SCAPEGOATING: PART TWO (OF THREE)
“Judge not, that you not be judged. For with what judgment you judged, you shall be judged, and with what measure you mete, it shall be measured to you again.” So warns the Gospel of St. Matthew,...
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THE POLITICS OF SCAPEGOATING: PART THREE (END)
With the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the Republican Party went into a tailspin of dismay. For almost 50 years, Republicans had conjured up The Red Bogeyman to scare voters into sending them to...
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THE PIRATES OF LIMBAUGH
On April 8, 2009, four Somali pirates boarded the Maersk Alabama when it was located 240 miles southeast of the Somalian port city of Eyl. The ship, en route to Mombasa, Kenya, was carrying 17,000...
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THE POLITICS OF SCAPEGOATING: PART ONE (OF THREE)
All revolutions,” said Ernst Rohem, leader of Adolf Hitler’s brown-shirted thugs, the S.A., “devour their own children.” Ernst Rohem Fittingly, he said this as he sat inside a prison cell awaiting his...
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THE POLITICS OF SCAPEGOATING: PART TWO (OF THREE
“Judge not, that you not be judged. For with what judgment you judged, you shall be judged, and with what measure you mete, it shall be measured to you again.” So warns the Gospel of St. Matthew,...
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THE POLITICS OF SCAPETOATING: PART THREE (END)
With the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the Republican Party went into a tailspin of dismay. For almost 50 years, Republicans had conjured up The Red Bogeyman to scare voters into sending them to...
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BLACK IS AN IMPEACHABLE OFFENSE: PART ONE (OF TWO)
Since the end of World War II in 1945, Republicans have regularly hurled the charge of “treason” against anyone who dared to run against them for office or think other than Republican-sponsored...
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BLACK IS AN IMPEACHABLE OFFENSE: PART TWO (END)
In 1964, bestselling novelist irving Wallace dared to imagine the then-unthinkable: The elevation of the first black President of the United States. Wallace’s hero is Douglas Dilman, a moderate who...
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REPUBLICANS AND WEAPONIZED HATRED: PART ONE (OF FOUR)
On June 17, 2015, Dylann Roof, a white high school dropout, gunned down three black men and six black women at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. At 21, Roof was...
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REPUBLICANS AND WEAPONIZED HATRED: PART TWO (OF FOUR)
“The Republican Party has weaponized its supporters, made violence a virtue and, with almost every pronouncement for 50 years, given them an enemy politicized, racialized and indivisible.” So wrote...
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REPUBLICANS AND WEAPONIZED HATRED: PART THREE (OF FOUR)
The electoral success of Senator Joseph McCarthy’s Red-baiting treason slanders proved too alluring for other Republicans to resist. Joseph McCarthy Among those who have greatly profited from hurling...
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REPUBLICANS AND WEAPONIZED HATRED: PART FOUR (END)
When President Barack Obama set out to provide healthcare for all Americans–-and not simply the wealthiest 1%–-Republicans tried to frighten voters with lies. The most infamous of these was that...
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THE “TWO MINUTES HATE”–A GOP GIFT: PART ONE (OF THREE)
The Right’s fixation on transgender “dangers” is only the latest in a long string of “enemies” painted by the Republican party. During the 1960s and 1970s, the “enemy” was blacks. The key to winning...
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THE “TWO MINUTES HATE”–A GOP GIFT: PART TWO (OF THREE)
In 1953, Red-baiting Wisconsin United States Senator Joseph R. McCarthy finally overstepped himself. He attacked the leadership of the United States Army as “a hotbed of traitors” and convened an...
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THE “TWO MINUTES HATE”–A GOP GIFT: PART THREE (END)
Republicans and their Rightist allies have repeatedly compared President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler. But their propaganda campaign draws heavily on the Nazi leader’s own advice. In Mein Kampf,...
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THE PIRATES OF THE RIGHT
As supporters of President-elect Donald Trump demand that “everyone must get behind our President,” it’s worth recalling how Right-wingers “got behind” President Barack Obama. On April 8, 2009, four...
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