Demonization

After Tucson, the State of the Union

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jim Wallis

The speech Barack Obama gave in Tucson was a memorial to the victims of a horrible tragedy, but the spirit of his speech could also shape Tuesday's State of the Union address by calling us to be worthy of each victim's sacrifice.

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Pot Luck? Arizona Approves Medical Marijuana Amid Conservative Landslide

Randall Amster | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Demonization, Mexico Drug War, Marijuana, Mexico Drug Cartels, Illegal Immigrants, Medical Marijuana, Mexico, Immigration, Decriminalization, Borders, Drugs, Arizona, War on Drugs, Politics News
Randall Amster

The beleaguered state of Arizona has just concluded one of the most lopsided elections in state history, in which Republicans captured every statewide...

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Charlie Rangel Must (Politically) Die

Danny Schechter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sin, Corruption, Shirley Sherrod, Trials, Demonization, Wall Street, Charles Rangel, New York News
Danny Schechter

It took him 80 years but Harlem's war-hero turned Congressional elder, Charles Rangel, is this week's media poster boy for all the ills of an institutionally corrupt system.

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The Latino Community Wants Accountability in 2010

Clarissa Martinez De Castro | Posted 05.25.2011

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Clarissa Martinez De Castro

The promise of change that energized voting and participation in 2008 is bringing hundreds of Latino community leaders to Washington today.

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Desperate Times Call For Desperate Measures

Clarissa Martinez De Castro | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hate Crimes, Congress, American People, Washington Times, Separation of Families, Solutions, President Obama, Comprehensive Immigration Reform, Poll, Immigration, Dream, Murders, Wall Street Journal, Haiti, Moral Obligation, Immigration Reform, Demonization, Values, Exploitation, Desperate, Nclr, Faith Community, American Principles Project, Advocates, Washington Post, Mark Krikorian, Center for Immigration Studies, Supreme Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor, Blame Game, American Workers, Immigrant Families, Home News
Clarissa Martinez De Castro

As if blaming immigrants for global warming, the financial crisis, and every other ill that is currently affecting our society wasn't enough, Mark Kri...

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Is Paranormal Activity the Next Blair Witch?

Chris Willman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Movie Reviews, Telluride Film Festival, Paranormal, Demonization, Viral Marketing, Ghosts, Horror Movies, Paramount Pictures, Supernatural, Movies, Blair Witch, Entertainment News
Chris Willman

Based on a scream-filled screening I caught at the Telluride Film Festival, Paramount's faith may not be misplaced, though it's anyone's guess whether lightning (or pesky demons) can strike the same public fancy twice.

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Vast Conspiracy of Leftist Parasites and Traitors

Chip Berlet | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Scapegoating, Right Wing, Right-Wing Populism, Demonization, Conspiracy Theories, Politics News
Chip Berlet

With a wink and a nod, right-wing apparatchiks are networking with the apocalyptic Christian right and resurgent armed militias to hobble the work of the Obama Administration.

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It's Not Tyranny; It's the Re-distribution, Stupid

Jonathan Weiler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tyranny, Demonization, Re-Distribution, Politics News
Jonathan Weiler

The profoundly anti-democratic (that's small "d" for those scoring at home) character of contemporary right-wing ideology is too plain to dispute.

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The Dangerous Joining of the Far Right and Far Left

Lanny Davis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Healthcare, Liberal Blogosphere, Blogosphere, Town Hall Debate, Healthcare System, Demonization, Democratic-Party-Ideological-Divide, Universal Health Care, Healthcare Reform, Town Hall Meetings, Extreme Right Wing, Ideological-Divide, Healthcare, Politics News
Lanny Davis

When the far left and the far right join in the Politics of Hate and Demonization, it is time for the vast center-left and center-right of this country to speak up and call them out equally.

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Bridges of Rhetoric and Suspicion

Abukar Arman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Al-Shabab, Muslims, Dhs, Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, Janet Napolitano, Somalia, US Muslim Relations, Obama, Fbi, September 11, Demonization, American Muslims, 9/11, Anti-Muslim Bias, New York Police Department, FBI Surveillance, Muslim World, Politics News
Abukar Arman

We must build bona fide bridges of understanding to significantly reduce elements hindering the ability of the US and Muslim world to work together on critical issues of mutual importance.

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Bigotry, Demonizing Rhetoric and Right-Wing Violence

Chip Berlet | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Conspiracy Theories, Scapegoating, Right Wing Media, Demonization, Holocaust Museum Shooting, Right-Wing Extremism, Dr. Tiller, Politics News
Chip Berlet

Since the inauguration of Barack Obama there have been nine murders by men and women who have intersected with ideologies of White Supremacy, xenophobia, and antisemitism.

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Did Right-Wing Pundits Help Pull the Trigger on Tiller?

Chip Berlet | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Abortion, George Tiller, Glenn Beck Butt Surgery, Conspiracy Theories, Scapegoating, Demagoguery, Demonization, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Scott Roeder, Bill O'Reilly, Politics News
Chip Berlet

Scott Philip Roeder, charged in the shooting death of Dr. George Tiller, was a regular consumer of conservative talk radio, television, and websites. ...

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