Almost every week, Republicans join a competition to see who can say the most outlandish things, and in the process, they push the envelope on just how lunatic InsaniTEA can become. I trust that you will believe it, when I tell you that last week was no exception.
Rupert Murdoch: Basically, just don’t be Muslim.
Fox, O’Reilly, CNN and right-wingers of all kinds have been harping away at the Muslim community all week about the need for moderate Muslims the world over to condemn the Charlie Hebdo attack and subsequent violence in Paris. Many Muslims and their leaders have done just that, although Fox can’t seem to locate these numerous condemnations. Bill Maher grudgingly seemed to make some distinction between more moderate and extremist Muslims on Friday night, though he still refers to the “Muslim world” as a single block of identically minded violent people. But Rupert Murdoch does them all one better. Blame moderate Muslims, even if they condemn extremist jihadis.
On Friday evening, the News Corp CEO took to Twitter [Fascist delinked] to express his feelings that all Muslim people, even the peaceful ones, “should be held responsible” for “their growing jihadist cancer.”
It seems there is only one solution: Don’t be Muslim. Just stop being Muslim. But that is probably not enough. Stop being from the Muslim part of the world. You can’t expect us to be able to tell who is Muslim and who is not.
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Does this extreme Republican actually believe people can change their heritage? Maybe he cold tell them to be Latinos, so he can express his hatred by calling they illegals instead.
This is only one of six Republican lunacies from last week alone. Click through for the other five.
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TY TC
My tweet response to Rupert:
By your example, until you recognise and destroy the growing cancer that is wealth inequality, you will be held personally responsible for the economic destruction of the middle and working classes.
Excellent response!
I second excellent response..!
1. Rupert ~ You have helped fuel the haatred thesse people have for the rest of the world by spewing your Right Wing-nut hatred of all who are different from you.
2. Phyllis ~ I'm surprised she didn't suggest closing colleges to women. After all, you don't need a college education to be barefoot, pregnant and cater to your man.
3. McTurtle ~ I like Jon Stewart's explanation for this best of all.
4. Rudy ~ He should know these things. He was "mayor of NY during 9-11". LOL
5. George ~ He should retire from public life along with Pat Robertson. They are both becoming more demented every day.
6. Bill ~ He should follow George and Pat and fade into obscurity.
Right-Wing Lunacies
Rupert Murdoch……… It's amazing how hate breeds not only power and greed, but little Murdoch dolls.(were's chucky?)
Phyllis Schlafly…………… Maybe she should have got an education in human rights!
Mitch McConnell……….. Best joke of 2015
Rudolph Giuliani…………… Must be nice to know he has want a be hero in Christie.
George……. Who's that?
As we all know, author J. K. Rowling certainly does have a way with words. Here are a few of her Twitter rejoinders to Rupert's rabid racist remarks:
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jan/11/jk-rowling-condemns-murdoch-tweet-charlie-hebdo-harry-potter-news-corp-muslims-christian
I love her. Not only as an author. You know she has given enough to charity to "lose her status as a billionaire."
I saw these and then had a vision of Murdoch being . . . well Murdoch. Her words need to be held high as the lights of enlightenment!
1. I damned well refuse to be held responsible for the hordes of Chrustian terrorists (with growing numbers) in the United States. http://wellthisiswhatithink.com/2015/01/12/the-ten-worst-terror-attacks-on-america-by-christians/ I don't see why good Muslims should be held responsible for these lunatics (apologies to the moon).
2. I don't think boys have the faintest idea what a cost-benefit tradeoff is. But then neither dies Schlafly.
3. It would be even funnier if all those cretins didn't believe it.
4. Plenty of so-called Christian churches are in fact saying things that are dangerous. I would be more comfortable of they were under surveillance. Fat chance.
5. While I have never agreed with George Will, at one time he was a much more rational human being. y surmise is that he is actually proving man-made climate change by the man-made fumes he has ben inhaling causing mental deterioration.
6. England had one (Jimmy Savile), Australia had one (Rolf Harris), now we (know we) have one too – a comic presumed family friendly behind which persona a sexual predator is hiding. One has to wonder how many others there are. My deepest sympathy to any comedian who is not a sexual predator. Long may your names stay clean.
I agree and follow your blog now… 😆
"recognize and destroy their growing jihadist cancer"? What does he think the Kurds and Iraqis (and, clandestinely, Iran) who are fighting to destroy ISIS with the help of oru Air Force are doing? These people seem to have no idea of current events.
Full Definition of LUNACY
1
a : insanity
b : intermittent insanity once believed to be related to phases of the moon
2
: wild foolishness : extravagant folly
3
: a foolish act
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lunacy
Seems that only intermittent option of 1.b. is not appropriate.
1. Rupert Murdoch is the current #1 asshole in the World for spreading extreme religious right's cancerous faux noise.
2. Phyllis Schlafly's best solution is that she, herself, should fade away quickly into obscurity.
3. Bought Bitch Mitch McTurdle… pathetic excuse as a political pol spewing untruths.
4. Just be glad that Rudy Giuliani never got the nomination as a candidate for POTUS.
5. George Will should not be taken seriously at all. What is he breathing these days… his own gaseous farts.
6. Bill Cosby's creepiest joke is a definite Yes. Cosby needs to be taken off the show biz circuit. What is even more creepy are the people attending his shows.
This is an opinion piece that appeared on the blog of Paul Marek, on February 21 2006, under the title of "Why the Peaceful Majority is Irrelevant." http://cjunk.blogspot.com/2006/02/why-peaceful-majority-is-irrelevant.html
The article was picked up by the Israel National News and appeared the publication in March 2007. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/6996#.VLQVw92Ym6Y
Op-Ed: Why the Peaceful Majority is Irrelevant
History lessons are often incredibly simple.
Published: Sunday, March 18, 2007 4:46 PM
Paul E. Marek is a second-generation Canadian, whose grandparents fled Czechoslovakia just prior to the Nazi takeover. He is an educational consultant specializing in programs that protect children from predatory adults.
I used to know a man whose family were German aristocracy prior to World War II. They owned a number of large industries and estates. I asked him how many German people were true Nazis, and the answer he gave has stuck with me and guided my attitude toward fanaticism ever since.
“Very few people were true Nazis,” he said, “but many enjoyed the return of German pride, and many more were too busy to care. I was one of those who just thought the Nazis were a bunch of fools. So, the majority just sat back and let it all happen. Then, before we knew it, they owned us, and we had lost control, and the end of the world had come. My family lost everything. I ended up in a concentration camp and the Allies destroyed my factories.”
We are told again and again by experts and talking heads that Islam is the religion of peace, and that the vast majority of Muslims just want to live in peace. Although this unquantified assertion may be true, it is entirely irrelevant. It is meaningless fluff, meant to make us feel better, and meant to somehow diminish the specter of fanatics rampaging across the globe in the name of Islam.
The fact is that the fanatics rule Islam at this moment in history. It is the fanatics who march. It is the fanatics who wage any one of 50 shooting wars world wide. It is the fanatics who systematically slaughter Christian or tribal groups throughout Africa and are gradually taking over the entire continent in an Islamic wave. It is the fanatics who bomb, behead, murder, or execute honor killings. It is the fanatics who take over mosque after mosque. It is the fanatics who zealously spread the stoning and hanging of rape victims and homosexuals. The hard, quantifiable fact is that the “peaceful majority” is the “silent majority,” and it is cowed and extraneous.
Communist Russia was comprised of Russians who just wanted to live in peace, yet the Russian Communists were responsible for the murder of about 20 million people. The peaceful majority were irrelevant. China’s huge population was peaceful as well, but Chinese Communists managed to kill a staggering 70 million people. The average Japanese individual prior to World War II was not a war-mongering sadist. Yet, Japan murdered and slaughtered its way across Southeast Asia in an orgy of killing that included the systematic murder of 12 million Chinese civilians – most killed by sword, shovel and bayonet. And who can forget Rwanda, which collapsed into butchery? Could it not be said that the majority of Rwandans were “peace loving”?
History lessons are often incredibly simple and blunt; yet, for all our powers of reason, we often miss the most basic and uncomplicated of points. Peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by the fanatics. Peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by their silence. Peace-loving Muslims will become our enemy if they don’t speak up, because, like my friend from Germany, they will awaken one day and find that the fanatics own them, and the end of their world will have begun.
Peace-loving Germans, Japanese, Chinese, Russians, Rwandans, Bosnians, Afghanis, Iraqis, Palestinians, Somalis, Nigerians, Algerians and many others, have died because the peaceful majority did not speak up until it was too late. As for us, watching it all unfold, we must pay attention to the only group that counts: the fanatics who threaten our way of life.
This op ed piece shoud be published again, it is very relevant today.
OK, I've said my piece on Murdoch . . . oh crap, my keyboard is dissolving before my very eyes for having mentioned him again!
Phyllis Schlafly — The woman is irrelevant! Please, someone put her out of our misery!
McTurtle — And I wonder how he accounts for the employment numbers that have steadily gone up despite his obstruction? Significant numbers like GDP grow quite literally grow, amass building up. They don't just magically pop out of a hat, go up over night. The hat is McTurtle's trick. My apologies to all the real turtles of this planet who are stuck with this moron claiming a relationship to them.
Giuliani — You reap what you sow! Perhaps Giuliani should be under constant surveillance, and not by his security people.
George Will — I say tighten his bow tie and do the world a favour.
Bill Cosby — I always liked Cosby, even before he was Cosby. He used to play Alexander Scott opposite Robert Culp in I Spy. As far as the recent spate of sexual misconduct accussations, the man deserves his day in court, like anyone else. His joke however was very ill advised in my opinion.
Murdoch is, to borrow from a friend, a man of evil intent. The more hatred he can stir up the more people will watch his hateful tv station, and the more money he will make.
I really thought Shafely had disappeared, sadly, she has not. I am not positive she is a female. If she is, then she needs serious counselling.
McConnell….. well, you all ready know what I think of him!
Giuliani is a pompous windbag,
George Will has evidently lost his mind, too. He used to be a reasonable writer.
Bill Cosby,,,, what Lynn said.
Thanks all. Prison volunteer day tomorrow. Pit stop.