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Lawrence O’Donnell Takes On Steve King Regarding “Obama And The Muslim Question”

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On The Last Word tonight, Lawrence O’Donnell tackled Bill O’Reilly‘s “non history-marking, non news-making” (So… why report on it for a… news… network?) interview with President Barack Obama, specifically that he asked Obama about the Muslim Brotherhood.

O’Donnell then aired clips from Sean Hannity‘s talk with several Iowa Republicans, many of whom believed – incorrectly – that Obama’s foreign policies are influenced by the fact that he is Muslim. O’Donnell followed up by asking why it is that these people believed this, pointing towards comments made by Congressman Steve King, who, when speaking to a constituent, said Obama is “at least a Marxist” who “surely understand the Muslim culture” because “doesn’t have an American experience.”

O’Donnell brought King himself onto the show to discuss this “experience:”

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  • Color Me Badd

    Steve King is a piece of human filth.

  • grafxmail7

    Color Me Badd said:
    Steve King is a piece of human filth.

    You’re being too nice!!!

  • George C

    How many MSNBC shows are now dedicated to doing a FoxNews recap ?

  • Olby Sucks

    Steve King=Patriot.

  • WCinWI

    “many of whom believed – incorrectly – that Obama’s foreign policies are influenced by the fact that he is Muslim.”

    Can you prove this? There was a good guest on Anderson’s show tonight talking about the MB and if only the President could’ve said some of the points that she mentioned. I understand that he can’t use the colorful language she used, but still anything would’ve been nice.

  • grafxmail7

    Olby Sucks said:
    Steve King=Patriot.

    Steve King is a Coward.

    At least John Old Man McCain didn’t slither in the slime with that crazy old lady.

    You all talk a tough but you’re Cowards! HAHA!

  • WCinWI

    George C said:
    How many MSNBC shows are now dedicated to doing a FoxNews recap ?

    How many shows run on MSNBC on any given day? There’s your answer!

    (And I knew yours was a rhetorical question.)

  • WillP

    I like O’Donnell, but the Last Word is the worst produced show during the evening on MSNBC. And speaking that this is a man with great success in Holly wood it is even more pathetic. Where is the music? What are the individual segments of the show? This show should not be in prime time until it undergoes a major facelift.

  • Call_Me_Ishmael

    “Bill O’Reilly’s ‘non history-marking, non news-making’ (So… why report on it for a… news… network?) interview”

    What is with this new meme that seems to taken hold on the right that appears to take the form:

    “If you think the topic/person/event is so idiotic/evil/impolitic, why even report it? Just ignore it like the right wing media ignores all the pecadillos of the left wing”. Note that O’Donnell, like O’Reilly is an opinionator on a news network. Both produce reports on issues that would be out of place on one of their networks news programs.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Joseph-Glackin/100000892011713 Joseph Glackin

    Hey, Ishmael! When did you pop out of the whale? Faux News says, “We report, you decide.”, then provides 24/7 opinion and commentary. Check out Kelly, Cavuto, Douchy and the rest of the daytime crew. They’ve all read the memos on correct-speech from their bosses. The evening lineup are pure opinion, they’ve never met a fact they couldn’t bend, twist or ignore. Brother O’Reilly interrupted the POTUS 73 times in an interview! That’s not journalism, that’s arguing.

  • Alz

    George C said:
    How many MSNBC shows are now dedicated to doing a FoxNews recap ?

    These types of Liberals only tear things down. They really don’t add much. They literally have very little talk about except tearing down their enemies.

  • Alz

    We shouldn’t forget that whenever Lawrence is mentioned, it is very important to point out that he is a Socialist. I’ve seen “Socialist Lawrence O’Donnell” used. People should know that he uses an abnormal belief system.

  • rr98411

    Joseph Glackin said:
    …. Brother O’Reilly interrupted the POTUS 73 times in an interview! That’s not journalism, that’s arguing.

    Wow, we are up to 73 times, it is not quite midnight on the left coast, maybe we can hit triple digits by then. Jeeze tak about facts that can be twisted, bent and yes, I will ignore this tidbit.

  • murf

    Wasn’t Larry OverDose just complaining about O’Reilly ‘s ‘ interrupting interview ‘ with Obama ?

  • Grammie

    rr98411 said:
    Wow, we are up to 73 times, it is not quite midnight on the left coast, maybe we can hit triple digits by then. Jeeze tak about facts that can be twisted, bent and yes, I will ignore this tidbit.

    .
    Thanks for that little tidbit. I love a good laugh right before bedtime. LOL

  • Gasket

    WCinWI said:
    Congressman Steve King, who, when speaking to a constituent, said Obama is “at least a Marxist” who “surely understand the Muslim culture” because “doesn’t have an American experience.”

    Birther alert!

    Alz said:
    We shouldn’t forget that whenever Lawrence is mentioned, it is very important to point out that he is a Socialist. I’ve seen “Socialist Lawrence O’Donnell” used. People should know that he uses an abnormal belief system.

    You are a socialist too. You are using socialized media right now, genius! Did you even watch that segment he tore Glen Beck a new asshole explaining WHY he said that? I am going to guess NOT.

    Joseph Glackin said:
    Hey, Ishmael! When did you pop out of the whale? Faux News says, “We report, you decide.”, then provides 24/7 opinion and commentary. Check out Kelly, Cavuto, Douchy and the rest of the daytime crew. They’ve all read the memos on correct-speech from their bosses. The evening lineup are pure opinion, they’ve never met a fact they couldn’t bend, twist or ignore. Brother O’Reilly interrupted the POTUS 73 times in an interview! That’s not journalism, that’s arguing.

    Yup. Bill Sammon gives them (straight news “journalists”) ideological and partisan talking points. This has already been proven with the leaked memos.

    Regarding Steve King…

    Congressman Steve King, who, when speaking to a constituent, said Obama is “at least a Marxist” who “surely understand the Muslim culture” because “doesn’t have an American experience.”

    1. Obama can not be a Marxist. He’s a religious man. Those are two immiscible concepts.
    ..
    2. The latter part of that statement infers mutual exclusivity; As if you can not understand “Muslim culture” while having an “American experience.” The premise is false. There are Americans who are Muslim. They therefore have both the American experience and understand Islamic culture. Conversely, there’s no causal relationship between the two. It’s a non-sequitur. It does not follow. That statement is not supported by factual evidence. Islam has been around since the founding of this country. Basically, Steve King is an idiot and a demagogue showing his true xenophobic colors; I bet they include YELLOW.

  • Grammie

    Now THAT was a belligerent interview!!!

  • OxyCon

    On The Last Word tonight, Lawrence O’Donnell tackled Bill O’Reilly’s “non history-marking, non news-making”

    What’s that say about Obummer?

  • Yoda002

    Color Me Badd said:
    Steve King is a piece of human filth.

    I couldn’t agree more!

  • Yoda002

    Olby Sucks said:
    Steve King=Patriot.

    He is pure evil.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/David-Mangan/100000213524770 David Mangan

    grafxmail7 said:
    Steve King is a Coward.

    At least John Old Man McCain didn’t slither in the slime with that crazy old lady.
    You all talk a tough but you’re Cowards! HAHA!

    You and your sidekick Color Me Badd seem to project a lot.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/David-Mangan/100000213524770 David Mangan

    murf said:
    Wasn’t Larry OverDose just complaining about O’Reilly ’s ‘ interrupting interview ‘ with Obama ?

    Obummer likes to filibuster and run out the clock any time he’s asked a tough question and LOaD is a fervent Obummer addict, so he’s complaining that BOR was acting like a journalist, which behavior is not allowed on MessNBC.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/David-Mangan/100000213524770 David Mangan

    WCinWI said:
    How many shows run on MSNBC on any given day? There’s your answer!

    (And I knew yours was a rhetorical question.)

    Of course, MessNBC would be forced to talk about Obummer’s failures which are becoming too numerous to count, so they have to always do the “look over there [at Fox]” lest the bedizened lefturds actually wake up from their trance.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/David-Mangan/100000213524770 David Mangan

    Color Me Badd said:
    Steve King is a piece of human filth.

    Look in the mirror, my dear, and get a view of the whole package…!

  • Nacho

    LOL, I was wondering where the Hannity/Luntz bullsh!t was. It crossed my mind to make a joke about it after the interview but they REALLY did it.

    The best comedy is when it comes from “reality.”

  • TfT

    LOD is melting down.

    I love how King gets LOD’s panties in a wad … too funny. LOD needs to stop making mountains out of molehills. The left’s continued pursuit of Obama’s birth status is getting ridiculous; they ought to just drop the subject all together. It is they, and only they, who constantly talk about it. That tact won’t work in 2012 and LOD needs to know that.

    MSNBC is melting down.

  • Nacho

    TfT said:
    LOD is melting down.

    I love how King gets LOD’s panties in a wad … too funny. LOD needs to stop making mountains out of molehills. The left’s continued pursuit of Obama’s birth status is getting ridiculous; they ought to just drop the subject all together. It is they, and only they, who constantly talk about it. That tact won’t work in 2012 and LOD needs to know that.

    MSNBC is melting down.

    I agreed “LOD” failed in this King interview. I like a lot of what the guy stands for but honestly, I get more of my exposure of him from this website than actually watching his show on TV.

    The racist Rep. Steve King won this round.

  • sarainitaly

    “many of whom believed – incorrectly – that Obama’s foreign policies are influenced by the fact that he is Muslim.”

    if they believe it to be so, how can it be incorrect? you may not believe it, but they do.

    they are also basing their beliefs on actual facts that his father and step father and majority of his family are muslim, and that he was registered as a muslim at school, and wrote about attending a mosque as a child…(and he bowed to the saudi king. haha)

    people that believe he is christian are working with a bunch of lies that were exposed during the campaign, and by Wolff, that Obama lied about attending church regularly, and that he used the church to get elected, and he now attends church twice a year.

    just sayin’…like hillary said, “as far as i know, he isn’t muslim”, but no one really absolutely knows, do they?

  • Nacho

    haters gonna hate, just sayin’…

  • sarainitaly

    Nacho said:
    haters gonna hate, just sayin’…

    someone believing someone else is muslim doesn’t make them a hater.

  • Nacho

    sarainitaly said:
    someone believing someone else is muslim doesn’t make them a hater.

    Those people were making much deeper allegations beyond him just being Muslim.

    “Anyways” I was referring to you and your eagerness to defend them.

  • sarainitaly

    Nacho said:
    Those people were making much deeper allegations beyond him just being Muslim.

    “Anyways” I was referring to you and your eagerness to defend them.

    i’m just stating facts, nacho cheese, and commenting on the post.
    not hatin’ on anyone.

  • TfT

    LOD truly is an idiot for his arguments in this interview – makes himself look like an idiot.

    Is JFK a German? LOL

    LOD is working overtime to defend and protect hehimself. It is simply too funny and watching LOD try to tell King it is his duty to defend Obama….as if LOD would have anyone defend Palin from the hate speech and lies pushed out there on her.

    Too funny.

    LOD needs to stop bringing up the birther and muslim issue.

    King won this discussion hands down, LOD looks like an idiot for his arguments.

  • skyfet

    Rep. King, has always been a disgrace to the people of Iowa.

  • http://www.armwood.com armwood

    The Muslim question is not about religion, it is about race. It is old style race baiting in new cloths.

  • http://www.armwood.com armwood

    sarainitaly said:
    “many of whom believed – incorrectly – that Obama’s foreign policies are influenced by the fact that he is Muslim.”

    if they believe it to be so, how can it be incorrect? you may not believe it, but they do.

    they are also basing their beliefs on actual facts that his father and step father and majority of his family are muslim, and that he was registered as a muslim at school, and wrote about attending a mosque as a child…(and he bowed to the saudi king. haha)

    people that believe he is christian are working with a bunch of lies that were exposed during the campaign, and by Wolff, that Obama lied about attending church regularly, and that he used the church to get elected, and he now attends church twice a year.

    just sayin’…like hillary said, “as far as i know, he isn’t muslim”, but no one really absolutely knows, do they?

    Barack Obama’s father was an atheist. What planet are you living on?

  • skyfet

    sarainitaly said:
    “many of whom believed – incorrectly – that Obama’s foreign policies are influenced by the fact that he is Muslim.”

    if they believe it to be so, how can it be incorrect? you may not believe it, but they do.

    they are also basing their beliefs on actual facts that his father and step father and majority of his family are muslim, and that he was registered as a muslim at school, and wrote about attending a mosque as a child…(and he bowed to the saudi king. haha)

    people that believe he is christian are working with a bunch of lies that were exposed during the campaign, and by Wolff, that Obama lied about attending church regularly, and that he used the church to get elected, and he now attends church twice a year.

    just sayin’…like hillary said, “as far as i know, he isn’t muslim”, but no one really absolutely knows, do they?

    So to you being a Muslim is a slur? right
    So is being a Mormon also a slur?
    I bet it was a slur to be a protestant, when King Louis XIV persecuted them in the 18th century.
    I bet in certain parts of Glasgow being a Catholic is a Slur
    I also bet in some parts of Glasgow being a protestant is also a Slur

    From your glowing, your disdain for their religion (Islam) is shown blatantly. So what the hell if he is a Muslim (which he isn’t), there are Muslims fighting in the armed forces, some died whilst on mission. They show more loyalty by laying their life for the country than your behind can ever dream off, as you live in the socialist state, taking benefit t of the legacies left behind by Mussolini and his predecessors’ in Italy.

  • The Real Royal King

    sarainitaly said:
    “many of whom believed – incorrectly – that Obama’s foreign policies are influenced by the fact that he is Muslim.”

    if they believe it to be so, how can it be incorrect? you may not believe it, but they do.

    they are also basing their beliefs on actual facts that his father and step father and majority of his family are muslim, and that he was registered as a muslim at school, and wrote about attending a mosque as a child…(and he bowed to the saudi king. haha)

    people that believe he is christian are working with a bunch of lies that were exposed during the campaign, and by Wolff, that Obama lied about attending church regularly, and that he used the church to get elected, and he now attends church twice a year.

    just sayin’…like hillary said, “as far as i know, he isn’t muslim”, but no one really absolutely knows, do they?

    Thank you for your wonderfully written homage to ethnic and religious intolerance, Tumbleweed. The wonderful thing about having you in Belusconireich bashing our President and his family and offering your harsh, unabated criticism of America and Americans trying to right itself and themselves after eight (8) grueling years of Neo-Conservative rule is that we have unbroken hours of Tea Party platitudes, you filling in for the Bitter and Tormented Michelle-in-Utah whilst she has retired to her boudoir with her “Men on a Mission” and Chris Lee Calendars. You can well imagine how thankful we all are for that.

  • The Real Royal King

    sarainitaly said:
    i’m just stating facts, nacho cheese, and commenting on the post.
    not hatin’ on anyone.

    How terribly drôle! Thank you.

  • The Real Royal King

    skyfet said:
    So to you being a Muslim is a slur? right
    So is being a Mormon also a slur?
    I bet it was a slur to be a protestant, when King Louis XIV persecuted them in the 18th century.
    I bet in certain parts of Glasgow being a Catholic is a Slur
    I also bet in some parts of Glasgow being a protestant is also a Slur

    From your glowing, your disdain for their religion (Islam) is shown blatantly. So what the hell if he is a Muslim (which he isn’t), there are Muslims fighting in the armed forces, some died whilst on mission. They show more loyalty by laying their life for the country than your behind can ever dream off, as you live in the socialist state, taking benefit t of the legacies left behind by Mussolini and his predecessors’ in Italy.

    What is the Glasgow deal? I ask because my wife and I take holiday in the Hebrides now and again, and often overnight in Glasgow en route to Oban.

  • skyfet

    The Real Royal King said:
    What is the Glasgow deal? I ask because my wife and I take holiday in the Hebrides now and again, and often overnight in Glasgow en route to Oban.

    They have two big soccer teams over there. Loyalty to these teams is aligned to your faith. If you are Catholic you support Celtic, if you are a Rangers fan you a likely to be protestant. The violence between the 2 faiths has been around before soccer, but in present days it is the modern day of shown loyalty. The differences now manifest itself through the sport. Any player of a certain faith that plays for the other team is vilify by the fans. Some of the violence do lead to death sometimes.

  • The Real Royal King

    skyfet said:
    They have two big soccer teams over there. Loyalty to these teams is aligned to your faith. If you are Catholic you support Celtic, if you are a Rangers fan you a likely to be protestant. The violence between the 2 faiths has been around before soccer, but in present days it is the modern day of shown loyalty. The differences now manifest itself through the sport. Any player of a certain faith that plays for the other team is vilify by the fans. Some of the violence do lead to death sometimes.

    I certainly understand the tension. We have worshiped at St. Columba’s Oban a couple of times, and the homilies have unscored the siege mentality Catholics seem to have in that part of Scotland.

  • sarainitaly

    skyfet said:
    So to you being a Muslim is a slur? right
    So is being a Mormon also a slur?
    I bet it was a slur to be a protestant, when King Louis XIV persecuted them in the 18th century.
    I bet in certain parts of Glasgow being a Catholic is a Slur
    I also bet in some parts of Glasgow being a protestant is also a Slur

    From your glowing, your disdain for their religion (Islam) is shown blatantly. So what the hell if he is a Muslim (which he isn’t), there are Muslims fighting in the armed forces, some died whilst on mission. They show more loyalty by laying their life for the country than your behind can ever dream off, as you live in the socialist state, taking benefit t of the legacies left behind by Mussolini and his predecessors’ in Italy.

    huh?

    where did i say it was a slur? i am not the one running from *obama is a muslim* like it is the equivalent of the plague. i thought he was muslim in 2004 at the DNC, and when he first announced his bid. i thought it might be a good thing, to help with muslim tensions around the world. He and his supporters are the ones treating the possibility that he is muslim like it is a slur.

    i provided reasons why people think he is a muslim – facts.
    i don’t care if he is muslim, christian or atheist. i don’t like the lies. and the dude abides in the lies.

  • sarainitaly

    The Real Royal King said:
    Thank you for your wonderfully written homage to ethnic and religious intolerance, Tumbleweed. The wonderful thing about having you in Belusconireich bashing our President and his family and offering your harsh, unabated criticism of America and Americans trying to right itself and themselves after eight (8) grueling years of Neo-Conservative rule is that we have unbroken hours of Tea Party platitudes, you filling in for the Bitter and Tormented Michelle-in-Utah whilst she has retired to her boudoir with her “Men on a Mission” and Chris Lee Calendars. You can well imagine how thankful we all are for that.

    what do you know – more irrelevant off-topic blather….

  • sarainitaly

    armwood said:
    Barack Obama’s father was an atheist. What planet are you living on?

    Obama, Barack (16 October 2006). “My spiritual journey”. Time. Retrieved 5 March 2008. “My father was almost entirely absent from my childhood, having been divorced from my mother when I was 2 years old; in any event, although my father had been raised a Muslim, by the time he met my mother he was a confirmed atheist, thinking religion to be so much superstition.”
    http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1546579,00.html.

    But it is a mistake to conflate his African identity with his Muslim heritage. Senator Obama is half African by birth and Africans can understandably identify with him. In Islam, however, there is no such thing as a half-Muslim. Like all monotheistic religions, Islam is an exclusive faith.

    As the son of the Muslim father, Senator Obama was born a Muslim under Muslim law as it is universally understood. It makes no difference that, as Senator Obama has written, his father said he renounced his religion. Likewise, under Muslim law based on the Koran his mother’s Christian background is irrelevant.

    Of course, as most Americans understand it, Senator Obama is not a Muslim. He chose to become a Christian, and indeed has written convincingly to explain how he arrived at his choice and how important his Christian faith is to him.

    His conversion, however, was a crime in Muslim eyes; it is “irtidad” or “ridda,” usually translated from the Arabic as “apostasy,” but with connotations of rebellion and treason. Indeed, it is the worst of all crimes that a Muslim can commit, worse than murder (which the victim’s family may choose to forgive).

    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/12/opinion/12luttwak.html

  • Olby Sucks

    Sara, I love reading your posts, but, I’m begging you to stop re-posting the phony queens drivel.

    Btw, if you come out top the west coast you better look me up. ;)

  • sarainitaly

    Olby Sucks said:
    Sara, I love reading your posts, but, I’m begging you to stop re-posting the phony queens drivel.

    Btw, if you come out top the west coast you better look me up. ;)

    i keep hoping mediaite will ban him for perpetually being off topic….

    i was just in seattle!

  • Olby Sucks

    Family or just visiting?

    I’m near Lake Tahoe and it’s just pure Heaven this time of year! Cold, but, beautiful! Maybe next time. ;)

  • sarainitaly

    I finally just watched this video. BLECH. LOD is a nutjob! he kept trying to make points and get gotcha moments and he FAILED completely! “Was Reagan German?” OMG that was so stupid.

    At the end of the clip when he was asking King to denounce when people say he is a Muslim, like McCain did, was loony. It’s not anyone’s job to defend Obama’s religious beliefs but Obama.

  • writer

    No religion should be mocked, especially Islam, and the sooner those rotten, no account Mormons learn that, the better.

  • sarainitaly

    Olby Sucks said:
    Family or just visiting?

    I’m near Lake Tahoe and it’s just pure Heaven this time of year! Cold, but, beautiful! Maybe next time. ;)

    some family is there, i was visiting for the holidays. i want to go to lake tahoe!

  • me1ranger

    Good one Sara..don’t change a thing. Also..didn’t barry’s stepfather legally adopt him? He was muslim also. In fact that’s how he was enrolled in public school in Indonesia.

  • Olby Sucks

    Sara, is that your facebook pic? I would say post a link but we have stalkers in our presence. Mean ones, too.

  • sarainitaly

    no, it’s not. and yes, there are mean stalkers. i used to link to my blog, but i removed the link because of them.

  • writer

    sara is kinda hot. Like Palin. Right, King?

    (Hee, hee.)

  • Olby Sucks

    sarainitaly said:
    no, it’s not. and yes, there are mean stalkers. i used to link to my blog, but i removed the link because of them.

    What’s your blog?

  • Penguin60

    TfT said:
    LOD looks like an idiot for his arguments.

    BOR took heat about his interviewing technique. This jerkoff doesn’t even let King answer one question before he asks another equally stupid question.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Arthur-Clough/1419363514 Arthur Clough

    Lawrence, we were just reading about you—knuckle dragging Neanderthals.
    Nice try on King last night but he blew you off on your pathetic try to embarrass him.

  • CLTstraightguy

    Gasket said:
    1. Obama can not be a Marxist. He’s a religious man. Those are two immiscible concepts.

    LOL, yeah He is as religious as those that have to be to hold on to power.
    Bush got slammed for going to prayer breakfasts, a weekly prayer and church routine. Making references to his Christian faith, and the Church.

    Barak has steered more away from “his faith”, and has done what most Dems have done, been a religious spectacle not for the sake of following faith, but moreover making it a routine, rather than a lifestyle. The difference between former President Bush and President Obama forms a very large gap in regards to a religious persona.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tony-Westover/1496648721 Tony Westover

    What Steve King says is factually correct, it’s just that simple. He grew up in Indonesia — the most populus Muslim country on earth — so of course he understands Muslim culture. And Obama didn’t have the American experience because his radical communist mother dragged him around the world until she selfishly dumped him on her grandparents.

    Doesn’t make him Muslim, but it’s the people who are making that claim, not Steve King.

    But Steve King is calling Obama a Marxist, which isn’t correct. No, it’s much worse: he’s a Progressive.

  • Eruptor75

    Obama is as much of a Maxist as he is able to be in the confines of the Founder’s system of checks and balances. Luckily, he can’t really ever achieve the goals his ideology has set forth. President Obama is the most clever politician that we have ever seen. With all of his negatives, he still destroyed Mccain in 2008. His Hope signs brainwashed the lesser minds like an Obi- Wan hand gesture. If he wins in 2012, despite all of his video documented false promises and outright lies, it will be because Americans have all turned into intellectually-challenged zombies.

  • http://ja-js.blogtownhall.com RME KRNL

    O’Donnell probably isn’t quite so stupid (although he may be) as to have really missed King’s point about Obama’s Cairo speech. He just pretended not to get King’s point so he could pursue his attack on King, Republicans and anyone else who questions who Obama is, from those who think he might be Muslim to those who think he probably isn’t a natural born citizen.

    Truth is, since the majority Democratic Party nor the lamestream media did a proper job of vetting Obama during the 2008 campaign and since he has kept all of his real birth, early travel, school and medical documents concealed, none of us really knows who Obama is. He is, however, thus, truly the modern day Manchurian Candidate and president.

  • http://rtcportraitsandmore.com Tcopper

    I don’t know why everyone is so afraid of Muslims? What they should be afraid of is these home grown terrorist and their acts. Incase you forgot here a little reminder.

    – July 2008: A gunman named Jim David Adkisson, agitated at how “liberals” are “destroying America,” walks into a Unitarian Church and opens fire, killing two churchgoers and wounding four others.
    – October 2008: Two neo-Nazis are arrested in Tennessee in a plot to murder dozens of African-Americans, culminating in the assassination of President Obama.
    – December 2008: A pair of “Patriot” movement radicals — the father-son team of Bruce and Joshua Turnidge, who wanted “to attack the political infrastructure” — threaten a bank in Woodburn, Oregon, with a bomb in the hopes of extorting money that would end their financial difficulties, for which they blamed the government. Instead, the bomb goes off and kills two police officers. The men eventually are convicted and sentenced to death for the crime.
    – December 2008: In Belfast, Maine, police discover the makings of a nuclear “dirty bomb” in the basement of a white supremacist shot dead by his wife. The man, who was independently wealthy, reportedly was agitated about the election of President Obama and was crafting a plan to set off the bomb.
    – January 2009: A white supremacist named Keith Luke embarks on a killing rampage in Brockton, Mass., raping and wounding a black woman and killing her sister, then killing a homeless man before being captured by police as he is en route to a Jewish community center.
    – February 2009: A Marine named Kody Brittingham is arrested and charged with plotting to assassinate President Obama. Brittingham also collected white-supremacist material.
    – April 2009: A white supremacist named Richard Poplawski opens fire on three Pittsburgh police officers who come to his house on a domestic-violence call and kills all three, because he believed President Obama intended to take away the guns of white citizens like himself. Poplawski is currently awaiting trial.
    – April 2009: Another gunman in Okaloosa County, Florida, similarly fearful of Obama’s purported gun-grabbing plans, kills two deputies when they come to arrest him in a domestic-violence matter, then is killed himself in a shootout with police.
    – May 2009: A “sovereign citizen” named Scott Roeder walks into a church in Wichita, Kansas, and assassinates abortion provider Dr. George Tiller.
    – June 2009: A Holocaust denier and right-wing tax protester named James Von Brunn opens fire at the Holocaust Museum, killing a security guard.
    – February 2010: An angry tax protester named Joseph Ray Stack flies an airplane into the building housing IRS offices in Austin, Texas. (Media are reluctant to label this one “domestic terrorism” too.)
    – March 2010: Seven militiamen from the Hutaree Militia in Michigan and Ohio are arrested and charged with plotting to assassinate local police officers with the intent of sparking a new civil war.
    – March 2010: An anti-government extremist named John Patrick Bedell walks into the Pentagon and opens fire, wounding two officers before he is himself shot dead.
    – May 2010: A “sovereign citizen” from Georgia is arrested in Tennessee and charged with plotting the violent takeover of a local county courthouse.
    – May 2010: A still-unidentified white man walks into a Jacksonville, Fla., mosque and sets it afire, simultaneously setting off a pipe bomb.
    – May 2010: Two “sovereign citizens” named Jerry and Joe Kane gun down two police officers who pull them over for a traffic violation, and then wound two more officers in a shootout in which both of them are eventually killed.
    – July 2010: An agitated right-winger and convict named Byron Williams loads up on weapons and drives to the Bay Area intent on attacking the offices of the Tides Foundation and the ACLU, but is intercepted by state patrolmen and engages them in a shootout and armed standoff in which two officers and Williams are wounded.
    – September 2010: A Concord, N.C., man is arrested and charged with plotting to blow up a North Carolina abortion clinic. The man, 26-year–old Justin Carl Moose, referred to himself as the “Christian counterpart to (Osama) bin Laden” in a taped undercover meeting with a federal informant.
    – January 2011: A 22-year-old gunman named Jared Lee Loughner with a long grudge against Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and a paranoid hatred of the government walks into a public Giffords event and shoots her in the head, then keeps firing, killing six people and wounding 14 more. Gifford miraculously survives.
    – January 2011: A backpack bomb with the potential of killing or injuring dozens of people is found along the route of a Martin Luther King Day “unity march” in downtown Spokane.

  • CLTstraightguy

    Tcopper said:
    I don’t know why everyone is so afraid of Muslims? What they should be afraid of is these home grown terrorist and their acts. Incase you forgot here a little reminder.

    – July 2008: A gunman named Jim David Adkisson, agitated at how “liberals” are “destroying America,” walks into a Unitarian Church and opens fire, killing two churchgoers and wounding four others.
    – October 2008: Two neo-Nazis are arrested in Tennessee in a plot to murder dozens of African-Americans, culminating in the assassination of President Obama.
    – December 2008: A pair of “Patriot” movement radicals — the father-son team of Bruce and Joshua Turnidge, who wanted “to attack the political infrastructure” — threaten a bank in Woodburn, Oregon, with a bomb in the hopes of extorting money that would end their financial difficulties, for which they blamed the government. Instead, the bomb goes off and kills two police officers. The men eventually are convicted and sentenced to death for the crime.
    – December 2008: In Belfast, Maine, police discover the makings of a nuclear “dirty bomb” in the basement of a white supremacist shot dead by his wife. The man, who was independently wealthy, reportedly was agitated about the election of President Obama and was crafting a plan to set off the bomb.
    – January 2009: A white supremacist named Keith Luke embarks on a killing rampage in Brockton, Mass., raping and wounding a black woman and killing her sister, then killing a homeless man before being captured by police as he is en route to a Jewish community center.
    – February 2009: A Marine named Kody Brittingham is arrested and charged with plotting to assassinate President Obama. Brittingham also collected white-supremacist material.
    – April 2009: A white supremacist named Richard Poplawski opens fire on three Pittsburgh police officers who come to his house on a domestic-violence call and kills all three, because he believed President Obama intended to take away the guns of white citizens like himself. Poplawski is currently awaiting trial.
    – April 2009: Another gunman in Okaloosa County, Florida, similarly fearful of Obama’s purported gun-grabbing plans, kills two deputies when they come to arrest him in a domestic-violence matter, then is killed himself in a shootout with police.
    – May 2009: A “sovereign citizen” named Scott Roeder walks into a church in Wichita, Kansas, and assassinates abortion provider Dr. George Tiller.
    – June 2009: A Holocaust denier and right-wing tax protester named James Von Brunn opens fire at the Holocaust Museum, killing a security guard.
    – February 2010: An angry tax protester named Joseph Ray Stack flies an airplane into the building housing IRS offices in Austin, Texas. (Media are reluctant to label this one “domestic terrorism” too.)
    – March 2010: Seven militiamen from the Hutaree Militia in Michigan and Ohio are arrested and charged with plotting to assassinate local police officers with the intent of sparking a new civil war.
    – March 2010: An anti-government extremist named John Patrick Bedell walks into the Pentagon and opens fire, wounding two officers before he is himself shot dead.
    – May 2010: A “sovereign citizen” from Georgia is arrested in Tennessee and charged with plotting the violent takeover of a local county courthouse.
    – May 2010: A still-unidentified white man walks into a Jacksonville, Fla., mosque and sets it afire, simultaneously setting off a pipe bomb.
    – May 2010: Two “sovereign citizens” named Jerry and Joe Kane gun down two police officers who pull them over for a traffic violation, and then wound two more officers in a shootout in which both of them are eventually killed.
    – July 2010: An agitated right-winger and convict named Byron Williams loads up on weapons and drives to the Bay Area intent on attacking the offices of the Tides Foundation and the ACLU, but is intercepted by state patrolmen and engages them in a shootout and armed standoff in which two officers and Williams are wounded.
    – September 2010: A Concord, N.C., man is arrested and charged with plotting to blow up a North Carolina abortion clinic. The man, 26-year–old Justin Carl Moose, referred to himself as the “Christian counterpart to (Osama) bin Laden” in a taped undercover meeting with a federal informant.
    – January 2011: A 22-year-old gunman named Jared Lee Loughner with a long grudge against Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and a paranoid hatred of the government walks into a public Giffords event and shoots her in the head, then keeps firing, killing six people and wounding 14 more. Gifford miraculously survives.
    – January 2011: A backpack bomb with the potential of killing or injuring dozens of people is found along the route of a Martin Luther King Day “unity march” in downtown Spokane.

    You have proved the fact that there are many wack jobs in this World, however the atrocities that you sight as Right Wing Extremism, doesn’t even touch Muslim Fanaticism NOT EVEN CLOSE. Hey, the proof is in the pudding, sure one bad apple spoils a whole bunch, but like I told my Muslim friend, We are talking about an entire orchard here…

  • Penguin60

    Tcopper said:
    I don’t know why everyone is so afraid of Muslims? What they should be afraid of is these home grown terrorist and their acts

    I beleive most Americans are afraid of all, but congrats for making crime a right/left issue. Geez, how partisan can you get?

  • Penguin60

    believe

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