The Right Wing Media Has Unleashed a Race War that Threatens Our Democracy and Our Personal Safety

[struggle4progress]

By Mark Karlin

... But what none of us expected is that the right wing media shills and their corporate owners would unleash what is becoming an armed rebellion of white males against our governnment: the likes of FOX, Limbaugh, Savage and the whole treasonous crew has lit the match — with a wink and a nod — of the long, historic White Power movement, while inciting the displaced and confused anger of the more casually involved white male who sees the economy and his “entitlement of race and gender” slipping by him.

Make no mistake about it, these are perhaps the first skirmishes in a right wing media convergence with the White Power movement and the official military ordinance lobby for both of them — the NRA.

Yesterday’s domestic terrorism act was not just another murder in America’s shooting gallery; it was the clearest sign in a series of recent shooting deaths that the right wing is going to use the White Power movement as its foot soldiers in leading this nation into bloody attacks, assassinations, and chaos — out of which the white Christian nation will “triumph.” If all of this sounds a bit familiar, it’s because the notion of racial purity and power is a horror that we have lived through before.

How quickly our euphoria has faded. We thought that we would be facing vibrant public policy debates over health care and civil liberties, and now we have to prepare for a war on the “lone wolves,” the militia movement, and the pernicious treason inciting talk show hosts of the right wing ...

http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2009/06/11/the-right-wing-media-has-unleashed-a-race-war-that-threatens-our-democracy-and-our-personal-safety/

[tularetom]

1. Don't blame them - they're just doing what they've always done

The fault lies with the mainstream media who treat these lunatics like people with a legitimate point of view until they actually go off and do something like shoot a doctor or a museum guard. And even then the media lack the guts to link them to hate radio.

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[RandomHero]

4. So what then is the solution

You have identified what you think is the problem, now what then is the solution? Remove all media that you disagree with under the guise of protecting the population? If so then that is a gigantic leap in the direction of a very scary end is it not?

I do not in any way condone lone wolf extremism but charecterizing all media and perspective counter to yours as extremist, racist or hate filled is just completely wrong. This country must have opposing viewpoints and different character types. Only then can agreeable change be made.

Hard line democrats and hard line republicans fall into this mind set "my way is the only way" and that alienates alot of moderates who have increasingly less representation as the days go on.

This is of course just my opinion.