Fear on the Right means Censorship for the Left

March 13th, 2004 View Comments

The neocons are beginning to panic, as well they should. “Twilight of the Neocons” explores the error of a world view dominated by military response, fear and hate, as exemplified in Richard Perle and David Frum’s latest book. “…there is a growing sense within the GOP in Washington that the neoconservative agenda may have created problems whose solutions are elusive–or worse.”

The GOP is beginning to panic. As well they should. They’ve run a campaign based on lies, hypocrisy, whining, and most importantly, dirty tricks, and then have the gall to get upset when the Democrats do it. People aren’t that dumb. (Well, most of us aren’t anyway.)

The Bush White House should be panicking. Years of lies, even to those in it’s own party, as well as to the American people, are coming back with a vengeance. Add to that a record trade deficit, the Republican Speaker of the House publicly stating that the Administration’s economic bean counters are, well, full of beans, the slowing consumer confidence indicators, the lack of jobs and the lack of WMD’s in Iraq, not to mention the fact that American soldiers, civilians and Iraqi civilians, a lot of them, have died and continue to die every day in Iraq, well… You almost feel sorry for the poor dumb critters in the White House who started it all. Almost.

Ted Rall’s cartoon was dropped by the New York Times website, because in the papers words, the cartoonists work no longer fit “the tone” of the site. But, Rall states it was because of a right-wing e-mail campaign. Read all about it in his blog and read his latest article “First They Came for the Shock Jocks” where he writes about his experience with censorship and the right-wing desire to stop dissent.

“We tell our kids that America learned from McCarthyism, but a new version of the Red Scare is being born in this new century. Powerbrokers connected to what Hilary Clinton clumsily called ‘the vast right-wing conspiracy’ — Bush-Cheney’s neoconservative war profiteers, the Christian Right and their media allies at Fox News and Clear Channel Communications — operate out in the open. Their goal: to crush personalities whose influence and eloquence threatens their plan to recast the United States in their white, heterosexual, pro-business image.

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The Right is running scared. Their wars and economic schemes are revealed to be as fraudulent as their fake president, whose poll numbers are plummeting as he turns to face uncharacteristically unified Democrats. Because they have no record worth defending and no ideas anyone will believe, the new McCarthy-ites have only one line of defense left: censoring their opponents. The question this time is, will anyone stand up for free speech?”

Tena at Eschaton (Atrios) writes on this:

I think the answer to the question is “yes.” However, that doesn’t mean that there isn’t a fight ahead, because it is looking as if censorship may be one of the main dirty tricks the Republicans try to use during this campaign. The Republicans are fighting tooth and nail to shut down political ads such as those by MoveOn. Why do Republicans hate American values?

Like the trolls that hide in the corners of this blog and others around the net, they want ideas they don’t like to just go away, and they will use their formidable power to quell first amendment speech and rights, and they will blame it on others, explain it away and lie to do so. How very patriotic and American of them.

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