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JHB

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3. Third reason: opportunist RW media nuts latching onto it as yet another...

Reply to procon (Original post)

Wed Aug 23, 2017, 08:30 PM

Aug 2017

...tool to bash President Obama. Glenn Beck, then on Fox, took the lead, but they all flogged it to one degree or another.

"Obama is calling YOU, America-loving viewer, a terrorist, a radical. If you don't worship him, you're a 'threat to the nation!' Are you going to stand for this? No!" ... followed by ads to buy gold and Cialis.

It didn't matter to them what was in the report. Their lies about it was just more poop to throw.

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Several years ago the federal government issued reports warning of rightwing extremists. [View all] procon Aug 2017 OP

Yep malaise Aug 2017 #1

I remember it. K&R. n/t ms liberty Aug 2017 #2

Third reason: opportunist RW media nuts latching onto it as yet another... JHB Aug 2017 #3