Michelle Malkin defends skinheads?
April 14, 2009 3:25 pm ET by Eric Boehlert
As C&L's Dave Neiwert details, Malkin and company are all up in arms (save it for the tea parties, people!) about a brief report by the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Intelligence and Analysis that raises a red flag for law enforcement about the possible rise in right-wing extremism.
The question is, why do Malkin and fellow conservatives care what the government thinks about radical, violent movements on the far right? Or do Malkin and fellow conservatives feel some sort of kinship for that kind of thing?
From Neiwert:
The report -- which in fact is perfectly accurate in every jot and tittle -- couldn't be more clear. It carefully delineates that the subject of its report is "rightwing extremists," "domestic rightwing terrorist and extremist groups," "terrorist groups or lone wolf extremists capable of carrying out violent attacks," "white supremacists," and similar very real threats described in similar language. Nothing about conservatives. The word never appears in the report.
Yet here's Malkin:
By contrast, the piece of crap report issued on April 7 is a sweeping indictment of conservatives.
Again, why does Malkin feel the need to attack a report about "domestic rightwing terrorist and extremist groups"?
Writes Neiwert, "What's actually happened is this: The DHS accidentally held a mirror up to Michelle Malkin. And she's shrieking at the self-recognition."
UPDATE: From Glenn Greenwald:
Conservatives have responded to this [DHS] disclosure as though they're on the train to FEMA camps.
UPDATE: Sean Hannity on Fox News made the same conclusion Tuesday night that Malkin did: that the DHS report on "domestic rightwing terrorist and extremists groups" was really about conservatives. Hannity wondered if the government would be keeping tabs on people who attended "tea parties." Is Hannity suggesting there will be lots of "white supremacists" and "long wolf extremists" at the tea parties? Because that's who the DHS was flagging.
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At least Anchor Bbaby malkin is finally admitting that the conservative base is comprised of Nazis, skin heads, the Klan, terrorists, and extremists. Thank you, Anchor Baby!!!
First they came for the abortion clinic bombers and I did not speak out because I am not an abortion clinic bomber. Next they came for the neo-nazi skinheads and I did not speak out because I am not a neo-nazi skinhead. Next they came for the gay bashers and I did not speak out because I am not a gay basher...
All she is doing is what right wingers with a megaphone have been doing since Obama got the DEM nomination, they are tapping into the paranoia that grips their ideology. If that means defending Timothy McVeigh types so be it. A few weeks ago I wondered on this blog if a McVeigh struck today and said it was because of his hatred of Obama's federal government would the right wingers on Fox and the radio handle it? Would he be a freedom hateing terrorist or would he be a liberty loving patriot. I guess it depends on which website you go to and which cable news network you watch.
Timothy McVeigh murdered an awful lot of Americans in a single morning, many of them just children at a daycare center... and however you'd sift through his murderous intentions, you'll arrive at some bizarre political reason: he was murderously angry at something to do with the Federal Government (hence the Federal building he bombed), and maybe also because of the strange and disasterous events at Waco (hence the timing of his attack, which was an anniversary of the Waco debacle)... our Law Enforcement authorities can and should protect our lives, regardless of the reasons the murderers may have for taking those lives... there is no "off limits" or "out of bounds" here: if someone wants to bomb a building and murder innocent men women and children, then who cares what their reasons are, just stop the murderous bastids... why would anyone take offense at that logic?
For that matter, why would anyone invoke Waco these days, if they weren't in truth trying to provoke another Timothy Mcveigh?
We're reaching a strange and perverse elastic limit of sorts, where strange Republican snakes such as the snake woman malkin, want to take offense at the investigations and defenses we make, against murderers like Timothy McVeigh, or against anyone like him, or like-minded with him and like-minded with this snake woman malkin.
And purely as an aside, could people please stop acting so defensive and reactionary to mere words? The above transcribed words, of someone called Niewert, are so reactionary and defensive about the word "conservative", that the whole point is lost... you'd think it was a matter of semantics being debated here, as opposed to matters of life and death.
Timothy James McVeigh (April 23, 1968 – June 11, 2001) was a United States Army veteran and security guard who was convicted of bombing the Alfred P. Murrah Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995, the second anniversary of the Waco Siege, as revenge or to inspire revolt against what he considered a tyrannical federal government. The bombing killed 168 people, and was the deadliest act of terrorism within the United States prior to the September 11, 2001 attacks. He was convicted of 11 federal offenses, sentenced to death, and executed on June 11, 2001.
McVeigh was known throughout his life as a loner; his only known affiliations were voter registration with the Republican Party when he lived in New York, and a membership in the National Rifle Association while in the military.[8] Despite the former, McVeigh self-identified as a libertarian in a statement that was reported by MSNBC.com and The Washington Post;[9] and in 1996, while in federal prison, he voted for Libertarian candidate Harry Browne in the United States presidential election, 1996.[10] The LP said that he violated the nonaggression principle and thus was not a true libertarian.[11]
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_McVeigh
Opps. Looks like someone else should "look it up" as to what political party McVeigh was registered to, because it looks like he was registered as a, yep, republican, although he tended to vote libertarian (which as most of us know, is another name for republican). This is too easy.
Yeah, i noticed this to. But C&L and MMFA have captured it perfectly.
She has essentially been called out for what she (and Beck) are: inciting radical militia-style violence against the govt.
I feel like she had passed phase 1 of her deprogramming regimen
So I did my research to find out why the conservatives might think this was point at them. Near as I can tell, the reason that most conservatives were upset is because of the footnote attached that defines "rightwing extremism in the United States" as including not just racist or hate groups, but also groups that reject federal authority in favor of state or local authority. That last part is a bit of a manifesto for the conservatives - smaller federal government, more power to the state governments and courts and all. So it does appear that would include them in the mix that the Homeland Security department was talking about - that is, if we are going strictly by the release that homeland security sent out.