KKK revival and the Fox Noise Talking Heads. by LaFeminista Sun Apr 05, 2009 at 04:19:24 AM PDT
Here's a portion of that diary:
"I am not sure how much the recent spate of senseless gun crimes is related to the incitement by the likes of Beck, O'Rielly, Hannity, Coulter and Limbaugh etcetera, it depends on how much influence you are willing to accredit them with, and judging by Limbaugh's and Fox's popularity this seems significant.
However there is another organisation making a come back since we elected an African American who is desperately trying to repair the shattered economy left by his Phoney Texas Ranger Rancher predecessor.
Now the KKK is making a slow steady comeback at[sic] it is easy to see why...
The Klan is adapting its message and the conditions are ripe for its return as can be seen from many comments on right wing websites such as Free Republic, Redstate, and Little Green Footballs. You don't even need to go to white supremacist websites to see the build up of hate.
Today the Klan is a mere shadow of what it used to be and there are at least 34 differently named Klan groups. "They are a fairly low-rent bunch of people, many of whom use their local organisations as a way of raising money for themselves," says Mark Potok, director of the Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama.
But the economic crisis is swelling their ranks and already, a month after the inauguration of the first black president, the tidal wave of interracial harmony that greeted Obama's election is starting to recede.
"Things are certain to get worse," says Potok. "The ingredients are all there: a dire economy that is certain to get worse; high levels of immigration; the white majority that is soon to turn into a minority and a black man in the White House." ...
The wingnut news talk show pundits better watch what they are preaching as it is beyond the boundaries of incitement to violence. Beck's 'we surround them' being one of the worst cases.
I also point to the 'lets take America back crowd' as I always wonder who they want to take it back from, you and me apparently, and there is no way I am giving it to them...
The 'Thar gonner take ur gunz away' crowd will resort to violence, as has been to recently horribly demonstrated.
The Glenn Beck's and Rush Limbaugh's of this world are playing with fire when they pander to these lunatics to promote their own sorry careers."