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Keith Olbermann is an oracle predicting progressive views that the US later adopts.
As an example of this, he spoke about the US's desire to withdraw from Iraq months before it was popular--when W was droning on about "staying the course" and now it is accepted policy by even the most apathetic red stater.
Now Olbermann is dealing with how the GOP is comparing Obama to Hitler, how the staged demonstrations at town hall meetings aren't about health care but about the GOP's desire to overthrow the recent presidential election.
In the August 6, 2009 'Countdown with Keith Olbermann' article at
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32330236/ns/msnbc_tv-countdown_with_keith_olbermann/
Olbermann states "What is being said by Republican lawmakers and by tea party protesters coordinated by the health care industry is now revealing that the fear being stoked seems to have far more to do with anger over who won the last presidential election than it does with who does and does not have health care insurance... In St. Louis County, Missouri, where Republican Todd Akin addressed constituents, the friendly crowd just loving it when the Republican congressman joked about the lynchings Democrats are receiving at their own events."
Olbermann has a VIDEO CLIP of Akin saying "Different people from Washington, D.C. have come back to their districts and had town hall meetings and they almost got lynched."
The GOP has successfully brainwashed our red staters into believing that the U.S. of A of their youth is gone because of Obama. These are the same lost, poor souls who believed that Sadaam Hussein was involved in 9/11.
Olbermann, as the article continues, notes that "An unruly crowd heckling Democrats Vic Snyder and Mike Ross, who are also leaders of the blue dogs, when those congressmen took questions yesterday at Arkansas children's hospital in Little Rock, one woman nearly reduced to tears.
Not because she fears health care insurance will be taken away but because she fears her America has been taken away."
The poor lady, as the article continues, states "I have never seen my America turned into what it has turned into, and I want my America back."
Another sad soul, as the article continues, states "And I don't think that representatives and senators are going to be able to do it. I'm scared."
The GOP should be proud of itself. It wants to make the country hate the recently elected president and will make up any lie it can. It had no problem raising a consensual sexual act into the impeachment of Bill Clinton, and Clinton was not a left-wing Democrat.
The GOP traditionally has resorted to hate and fear mongering and this trait was never more pronounced than in the recent presidential campaign particularly after the empty vessel of negativity Palin emerged as a phoenix from Alaska.
Olbermann states "Is the fear-is that scare that's in evidence at that meeting and other town hall meetings, it is about the health care plan that's being negotiated by Congress or is it fear and anger about the man who won the presidential election November last? And is there an odd sense here that we could have been looking at these videos at something that came from a McCain/Palin rally?"
Palin had no experience so when she given seminars on the politics of personal destruction that became her sole function.
Jonathan Alter, senior editor at Newsweek magazine replies to Obama: "Yes. It does seem reminiscent of some of those rallies. They're right on
the edge thereof, you know, advocating violence, or other kinds of things.
There is a kind of crack in the common sense of America right now. You're
starting to see that."
This isn't about health care. It is about the GOP using misinformation to confuse the apathetic red staters as Olbermann as the article continues states "Paranoia and anger and "My America"-what happened to the debate about health care? How did these people get convinced that they're going to be what, burned at the stake?"
Alter responds "Well, look, anytime you have wrenching social change, which this will bring-this is a big piece of legislation, you're going to have a lot of folks who are going to be anxious about it. So, in that sense, I'm sympathetic to this woman. But if you pay close attention, you recognize that all of this is very much alarmist, sort of median strip of American politics.It's not out to the left and it's certainly not out to the right. It's not going to make a huge difference in most people's lives. All it's going to do is give people more choice, hopefully lower costs over time-even though it will cost more initially -- and end the fear that all of us should have of what happens to us should we lose our jobs and get sick. For us not to be addressing that, to just continue to discriminate against people who are ill is-that's the real outrage, and that, really, has to be ended this fall."
50 million uninsured US citizens are in danger of becoming ill and losing everything.
Alter clarifies this as he states "It's a civil rights issue. It is also a security issue. People should not have to worry. This was the theme of FDR's presidency. You know, I'm kind of upset with that, but, you know, Social Security, then collective security, internationally. This is health security. It's completing FDR's unfinished agenda. People shouldn't have to worry about this. It's bad enough to be sick without having to worry about how you're going to pay for it."
We have the unrelenting hypocrisy of the GOP as exemplified by Boss Limbaugh.
The article continues "Our runner up, Boss Limbaugh, who has now completed the cycle of racism and gone back to comparing the president to Nazis. "Adolph Hitler, like Barack Obama, also ruled by dictate."
How does the GOP propaganda machine hope that the US public can swallow this? Sadly, no one is stunned by this because the GOP has been capable of this type of hatred for so long. Remember BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA and how the GOP accused Obama of being a Muslim. They linked him to the homeland Weatherman terrorist Bill Ayers and tried to get the US populace to think that Obama is an extremist Islamic terrorist when in actuality he is a moderate Protestant? They started during the presidential campaign of accusing him of not being an American and this is continued by the Birthers.
Obama's numbers are declining, but he is still the most popular politician in the US, far above any member in Congress. At any rate, the GOP's actions are much closer to Hitler's than Obama's are.
Hitler used propaganda to reach the common German citizens, who were afraid for their economic well-being. At these town hall meetings GOP propagandists, taking a clue from Herr Goehring, use propaganda to terrify our populace.
To what extent has the extremist segment of the GOP been involved in this? There was a man with a gun near an Obama rally and he was wearing a sign that Tim McVeigh was referencing in a shirt he wore before bombing the Oklahoma City federal building.
Some lunatic placed a swastika on Rep. David Scott's (D-GA) office. The spokesperson for the insane GOP fringe Rush Limbaugh said "I don't buy this. This is too politically convenient." "I think the Democrats are doing this themselves."
Scott also told CNN that his office also received a fax with a picture of President Obama made up as the Joker that had a swastika on his forehead.
Is it just random lunatics? No! The article "GOP Thugs at Town Halls: Paid By Healthcare" at
http://personalmoneystore.com/moneyblog/2009/08/05/obamacare-town-hall-hooligans/
wonders if it is just that these seem to have been organized and states "No, it doesn't just seem like it. They have actually been organized and paid for! No short term loans or payday loans here - they're receiving cash stipends. In some cases, they'll probably also receive jobs within the Republican Party, much like protesters at the Florida Bush-Gore recount did."
It is hard to tell how this will end, but the hatred that the GOP has unleashed is frightening.
