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• Friday, March 2, 2007 09:55 AM

  also @ Raj

  "Why is naming the Jews 'unAmerican'? Because it is segregating them as a group, setting the ground for anti-Semitisism ... it is a match lit near a pile of excelsior" - Anna Lindherg, in response to her husband giving a speech where he blamed Jews for the impending war with Germany.

  Was Ann Lindberg wrongly demonizing Charles from labeling his speech 'unAmerican'?

  Does that quote have any relevance to Sean Hannity writing a book that begs for the grace of God to deliver America from Evil - Hannity is categorical, there is Evil in the world, period ... its Evil, there are no explanations - Evil derived from Terrorism, Despotism, and Liberalism. Is it fair to surmise that Hannity is suggesting - at least in his title - that terrorists, despots, and liberals are all Evil to be delivered from?

  Is there something wrong with me quoting this

  I think I know who these people ... are talking about when they talk about the Judeo-Christian tradition. By "Judeo-Christian", I suspect, they mean evangelical. (And by evangelical, I'll bet, they mean anti-abortion, pro-school prayer, anti-gay rights, pro-Star Wars, extreme right-wing Reaganite Republican. - Hendrik Hertzberg, "Antidisestablishmentarian", The New Repulic, Sept. 16, 1985

  and then making the point that part of what led to the persecution of Jews in Germany was there segregation out of society for not real Germans. Is it wrong to say that when Bill O'Reilly talks about "traditional" Americans being at war with "Secular Progressives" he's framing his argument the same way fascists have done? Is it wrong to say that there are Dominionists in the conservative movement who talk about war with secular progressives, but unlike O'Reilly, mean it literally.

  Is is demonizing to point out that O'Reilly, by presenting his moderate, figurative "war" between "traditionals" and "S-P"s is providing the extremists within the Dominionist movement the cover they need to make their views sound and appear mainstream.

  Do you think that relates in anyway to the Washington Post writing an editorial whitewashing a right-wing dictator after his death?

  —m.b.f.
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