{"id":191713,"date":"2009-07-02T17:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-02T22:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/07\/02\/why-do-right-wingers-hate-america\/"},"modified":"2009-07-02T17:40:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-02T22:40:00","slug":"why-do-right-wingers-hate-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/07\/02\/why-do-right-wingers-hate-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do Right Wingers Hate America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former CIA employee, and torture apologist, Michael Scheuer goes on Glenn Beck&#8217;s show on Fox, and says that <a href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/david-neiwert\/michael-scheuer-fox-americas-only-ho\">Americans need to die from a terrorist attack<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>    <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">S<span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">cheuer<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">: The only chance we have as a country right now is for Osama bin Laden to deploy and detonate a major weapon in the United States. Because it&#8217;s going to take a grass-roots, bottom-up pressure. Because these politicians prize their office, prize the praise of the media and the Europeans. It&#8217;s an absurd situation again. Only Osama can execute an attack which will force Americans to demand that their government protect them effectively, consistently, and with as much violence as necessary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>    <span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Beck<\/span><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">: Which is why, I was thinking this weekend, if I were him, that would be the last thing I would do right now.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prospect.org\/csnc\/blogs\/tapped_archive?month=07&amp;year=2009&amp;base_name=hoping_for_a_terrorist_attack#115691\">As Adam Serwer notes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>But understand, this is not unpatriotic. You can wish all manner of horrors on this country, but as long as these horrors might serve a specific political agenda, you&#8217;re not being unpatriotic. Unpatriotic is a public health care plan. Unpatriotic is a judge modifying subprime mortgage loans to keep a roof over someone&#8217;s head. Unpatriotic is phosphate free detergent. Patriotic is wishing for a terrorist attack on the United States.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Why should we listen to these people about <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">anything<\/span>.  They hate America and Americans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former CIA employee, and torture apologist, Michael Scheuer goes on Glenn Beck&#8217;s show on Fox, and says that Americans need to die from a terrorist attack: Scheuer: The only chance we have as a country right now is for Osama bin Laden to deploy and detonate a major weapon in the United States. Because it&#8217;s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[969,1064,982,1076,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evil","category-media","category-stupid","category-terrorism","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191713"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}