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Originally Posted by urville
When these politicians AND pundits like Beck play these games where they make suggestive statements well... people just as dangerous as both those men, no matter where on the right they are, start thinking their being asked or sanctioned to act.
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All those cited examples above weren't easily impressionable people. They were rock solid in their beliefs, unchanging. Some rich guy with a microphone didn't align them with the Aryan Nation and buy them a chemistry set.
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Originally Posted by urville
Again, beck is just a another flavor, he's like extremism light, all the danger half the evidence. You know, Mussolini came out to announce Italy's joining Germany and in one of those speeches he said something like (paraphrased) that they would usher in the new order of the world in which the farmer and small businessman would rule, and there was more, i need to find the book, nevertheless... whats great is that same basic words were used and, lol, then repeated as is the Fox custom, all over that network as the conservative ideal that they would have to "take back by any means necessary".
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I don't remember CNN acting as Bush's brassiere during his presidency. If we want to draw WW2 parallels though, we could start with a leader talking about bringing change to the people while setting up his own youth brigade...