"Training school." Where have I heard this one before? Let me remember...
Oh yeah. That.If you're of a certain age, you'll recall this that this picture and this allegation used to be encountered often. It was sold as a postcard throughout the Sahara of the Bozart.
So why do the smear-merchants trot out this "goes to school" canard only when blacks are involved? After all, we never saw any "Michael Moore goes to terrorist training school" allegations. Such things were not said about John Kerry or Gore or even Clinton (despite his youthful trip to the USSR).
Obviously, this mode of attack trades on racist stereotypes. Blacks -- it used to be believed -- are normally docile and loyal to their white overlords. Blacks do not come to rebellion of their own accord; that idea has to be inserted into their heads by some master manipulator, by the Evil Other. The real schemer has to be some unseen white guy, because only a white could ever be a foe worthy of one's steel. A black may be an evil henchman, but he is not competent enough to be an evil mastermind.
Or so ran the stereotype. I had hoped never to see this particular "lesson" again.
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Apparently FOX got the email that's going around about this. I know, because someone sent it to me. If I'm capable of researching it on Snopes
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/muslim.asp
you'd think they'd be able to, but then that would be giving them too much credit. Fact checking is for pussies, fear mongering is much more their style.
I predict that this tactic will have the same effect as the RNC's attempted last-minute smear of Jim Webb by publicizing out of context dialogue from his novels. It was so over the top that most people recognized it for what it was.
That being said, I do think that certain cultures (rather than races) are more likely to be pliant than others.
That Fox News segment was just so...smarmy. So what else is new? The talking heads are just using so much innuendo to try to smear the guy. It's disgusting. I want to take an hour-long shower just to cleanse myself after watching that crap! Blech!
Bingo! It never occurred to me to see the smear in that light, but it is logical and perfectly consistent with the white supremacists' determination to paint their adversaries of color as inferior to justify their position of power and privilege.
I do not have any intentions of voting for Obama but Fox News has pissed me off like never before with this slur. Which Fox producer went to FASCISM school>
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Their lead story this a.m. is entitled,
"Chicken Hawk Bill Kristol Lets the Cat Out of the Bag: Iraq "Surge" Might Take an Additional Five Divisions (50,000 to 75,000 Soldiers)".
On a related note, I've posted my opinion here and there on the net that the "Iraq Surge" is just a smokescreen to hide the real surge of naval forces in the Persian Gulf. From Yahoo News:
"This week, the administration sent another aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf — the second to deploy in the region."
Neo-Nazis train at terrorist schools in philippines kicking off a wave of Neo-Nazi/Arab terror decade of fun:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_McVeigh
FBI covers it up.
Islamic and Neo-Nazi conspiracy
In Others Unknown: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing Conspiracy, Stephen Jones, McVeigh's first, court-appointed lead defense counsel (prior to the death-penalty phase of the case), and Jones's co-author Peter Israel discuss several other possible suspects and continued to implicate Terry Nichols' brother, James.[24]
Jones and Israel suggest in Others Unknown that Terry Nichols had crossed paths with suspected Islamic terrorists during his frequent visits to the Philippines before the attacks. Nichols' father-in-law at the time was a Philippine police officer who owned an apartment building often rented to Arabic-speaking students with alleged terrorist connections. Former counter-terrorism adviser on the U.S. National Security Council Richard A. Clarke speculates on the improvement in Nichols's bomb-making techniques as a possible link to Philippines-based Islamist terrorists in Cebú and the southern islands, plus several telephone calls he made there long after he and his wife had come back to the U.S. together, in his 2004 account of the work he undertook for several administrations, Against All Enemies.
McVeigh's defense attorneys also submitted a theory to the court that Islamist Terrorists and American Neo-Nazis conspired in the bombing. They pointed out that location and day of the attack indicated the possibility that those seeking revenge for the execution of Richard Snell may have been involved.[25]
In presiding over the trial, Judge Matsch rejected these arguments and did not allow them to be presented as a defense. There remains no credible documented evidence of Islamist or other foreign links to the Oklahoma City bombings.
Nice post, and thanks for reminding me of what happened to MLK. Leave it to the FAKE NEWS NETWORK to throw all journalistic integrity out the door.
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