Fox News Dog Whistles to the Far Right Again

[SpartanDem]

This is the headline currently up at Fox "News" It is in reference to this part of Obama's speech today at West Point:




"The international order we seek is one that can resolve the challenges of our times,'" he said in prepared remarks. "Countering violent extremism and insurgency; stopping the spread of nuclear weapons and securing nuclear materials; combating a changing climate and sustaining

global growth; helping countries feed themselves and care for their sick; preventing conflict and healing its wounds."

Of course, as Fox is obviously aware, the phrase New World Order has long been a favorite of the most extreme rightwing fringe groups. Everyone from Christian fundamentalists to The John Birch Society to white supremacists and militia groups. Pat Robertson even wrote a book with that title, which was about a worldwide Jewish conspiracy, among other things.

Perhaps the most famous adherent of this conspiracy was Timothy McVeigh:

McVeigh was convinced that the United Nations planned a "New World Order"—an "establishment of a single world government designed to place severe limits on ... freedom... with American gun owners their prime targets."

And the phrase is alive and well today.

There is currently a wildly popular documentary on the right called The Obama Deception. The "About" page describes the film thusly:

The Obama phenomenon is a hoax carefully crafted by the captains of the New World Order. He is being pushed as savior in an attempt to con the American people into accepting global slavery.

Fox is well aware of what they're doing (the headline is still there as of this writing). They've spent plenty of time riling up the Tea Baggers, of course, but this is taking things to a whole different level. The far right understands this dog whistle very well.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/5/22/868969/-Fox-Breaks-Out-the-Biggest-Dog-Whistle-of-Them-All





Can they be anymore blatant about trying to get him killed

[mrcheerful]

1. Wasn't the NWO a Reagan/Newt ideal? Wasn't that what they both were trying to achieve

when they started the drive towards a global economy? Weren't they the ones who said a global market was what America needed? Since when did the NWO become a liberal thing?

[Carter Hayes]

2. Projection is their resort when they are out of power n/t

[sandnsea]

5. It was a Poppy Bush thing

And isn't anywhere near what Obama said.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=103&topic_id=537629&mesg_id=537632

[SpartanDem]

6. It's dependent on ideology

it started on the far right and to them it's about US sovereignty that's why the far right is so opposed to involvement in the UN and international treaties. They see it as pathway to one world, socialist government. Belief in the NWO on far left is relatively new and is tied to economics and military power indeed some on DU have called this speech Obama's NWO speech.

[XemaSab]

3. New World Order

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc7i0wCFf8g

[sandnsea]

4. "They" who??

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x537629

[JDPriestly]

7. Ironically, the New World Order is the brainchild of the religious right.

Jeff Sharlot traces the history of that concept in The Family. It's fascinating. The "New World Order" is brought to you by the religious right, lock, stock and barrel. And of course, Fox News's viewers are the sheepie of the religious right.