The reason I keep posting articles about Republican hatred and bigotry is that Republicans keep crawling out from beneath their sheets and hoods to provide me example after example. In this latest, Newt Gingrich has once again flirted with birtherism to emphasize Barack Obama’s Kenyan roots.
Since the beginning of the Obama presidency, right-wing media — especially those who work at Fox News — have been carrying out a campaign of not-so-subtle race-baiting.
Today, Fox News contributor Newt Gingrich took this campaign to new levels, reportedly telling the National Review that Obama has pretended to be “normal” but that Obama actually seems to be engaged in “Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior”:
Citing a recent Forbes article by Dinesh D’Souza, former House speaker Newt Gingrich tells National Review Online that President Obama may follow a “Kenyan, anti-colonial” worldview.
Gingrich says that D’Souza has made a “stunning insight” into Obama’s behavior — the “most profound insight I have read in the last six years about Barack Obama.”
“What if [Obama] is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin to piece together [his actions]?” Gingrich asks. “That is the most accurate, predictive model for his behavior.”
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Inserted from <Media Matters>
So the Republican mantra that only white is right goes on. Gingrich’s hateful charge is absurd on its face, because Obama’s Kenyan father took no part in his upbringing. It would surprise to learn that Obama had even heard of Kenyan anti-colonial behavior before Republican racists used it against him.
Of course the reason for such tactics is clear. Republicans have nothing on which to run other than hate and lies. Their new plan for America is the same as the old plan: More tax cuts for the rich and corporate welfare, less services for the poor and middle classes, and zero regulation of corporate criminals.
Every Republican in office is one Republican too many!
The United States marked the anniversary of the September 11 attacks on Saturday with commemorative ceremonies and although a pastor had canceled plans for a high-profile protest burning of the Koran, the Muslim holy book was abused in at least three separate incidents.
Given the notoriety Terry Jones and his Dove World Outreach church have achieved in the last week, what do you think the chances are that Jones will be invited to speak at a gathering of social conservatives any time soon, or that leading Republican presidential contenders and Congressional leaders would attend a conference hosted by Dove World Outreach?
The Summit is being co-sponsored by the American Family Association [bigots delinked], where Fischer is Director of Issues Analysis, and Fischer is scheduled to be a featured speaker [bigots delinked] along with the likes of Michele Bachmann, Jim DeMint, Newt Gingrich, Mike Huckabee, Bob McDonnell, Mike Pence, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, and others.
With a war chest rivaling that of the Republican Party itself, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has emerged in the last year as perhaps the Obama administration’s most-well-financed rival on signature policy debates like health care and financial regulation. 
On September 11, 2001 I left for work right after the first airliner hit. My job that day was to contact executives in Fortune 500 companies in New York to arrange site visits from a team of researchers for a major software development company. I did not think it was an appropriate time to call New York, and said so, but the Account Executive had not yet arrived, and his assistant, a Republican airhead, insisted that we could not allow terrorists to stop us from doing business. I called several companies with no answer at the switchboard or my contact unavailable, for obvious reasons. I dialed a contact whose direct line I already had. Someone else answered the phone. He was in one of the twin towers, above the fire. He asked me to call his wife and tell her he loved her, because the phones there were not working to dial out. I did. She cried. I cried. I was done. I refused to call New York any more that day. The airhead fumed, but a few minutes later, the Account Executive arrived, agreed with me, and called her on her insensitivity. A few of us gathered around the TV in the lunch room. Someone asked what it all meant. I said that I expected Bush to use the attack as an excuse to blame and invade Iraq and as an excuse to curtail our civil liberties. As horrific as that day was, and with respect for the victims’ families, I wish to focus today on the other 9/11, 9/11/1973, because Americans are not the only ones to have been victims of terror.
