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Exposed: Right-Wing Think Tanks and Bloggers Conducted Secret 10-Year Campaign to Fan

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Actually, it is quite consequential. If the groups are so small that the average American has no knowledge of them, what influence have they had? Small groups with no exposure have minimal ability drive national debate. If the accusation is that these groups created massive hysteria it fails when no one knows who the groups are.

There is some validity to it, however. Even political organizations can be small and still have a disproportionate influence in the conversation. As far as Islamophobia is concerned, I think that topic was far too broad to be concentrated at the hands of a handful of men and women.
 
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There is some validity to it, however. Even political organizations can be small and still have a disproportionate influence in the conversation. As far as Islamophobia is concerned, I think that topic was far too broad to be concentrated at the hands of a handful of men and women.
This is nothing more than a Soros smear campaign.
 
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This is nothing more than a Soros smear campaign.

I would be very careful about laying it at the hands of Soros. Otherwise, you're playing the game the report is playing.
 
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Maybe it has something to do with the 17,678 deadly terrorist attacks carried out by Muslims since the attacks on 9/11/2001? In July of this year alone there were 167 jihad attacks, which killed over 700 people and injured more than a 1000...

Naa... That can't be it... It's all a manufactured right wing conspiracy.
Maybe those deadly attacks have something to do with the fact that we've killed thousands of innocent Muslims in the Middle East for no good reason. You think?
 
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The only Muslims I oppose and will protest is Shiites, they promote Sharia law and the Left have decided they are good safe people they can deal with.

They ignore the fact that they murder their own torture and kill woman and girls for perceived problems that don't exist in the real world, and are only in the empty heads of those who want Sharia Law to take root here.

Anyone who backs these radicals are clearly foolish and Anti-American.

We can not allow this Sharia BS to take hold it would destroy everything this nation was built on.

Some Liberals don't make any sense at all.

They claim to be for human rights but fight to allow the murder of unborn children but protest the execution of mass murderers. Now that is what I call crazy and as inconsistent as one can be.
 
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I find the accusation in the OP very telling. Why?

One of the first threads I started in this forum was entitled. In that thread, I wrote the following:

The reason I've posted this thread is as I've watched reactions from those individuals who are for Sen. McCain, one common theme has emerged: many Republican voters have this premature and/or unwarranted fear that somehow Sen. Obaman's policies will take this country backwards, not forward, and that somehow one's "values" will be treaded upon. Personally, I really don't understand where this mentality is coming from. Therefore, I'm trying to wrap my mind around it, this despite all the evidence to the contrary.

Case in point: The McCain aids and Palin speeches that mirror those of Sen. Clinton's where both camps have used Sen. Obama's middle name in an effort to connect him with radical Islam and terrorism in the minds of would-be voters (i.e., "Hussein" = Muslim = radical Islam = terrorism). This is one example of how a play on our fears distorts and blinds us from looking for truth while also affording openess and fairness to both sides.

From the article in the OP:

Some 28 million DVD copies of the ‘Obsession’ film were distributed to households in key swing states on the eve of the 2008 presidential elections in an apparent effort to sway voters against Obama.

It's just unfathomable the lengths towhich some people will go to to discredit someone. While I can understand some folks leading a charge against the implementation of Sharia Law in the U.S., fact is it ain't gonna happen. Despite our claims to be a nation of religious tolerance, fact is the Christain influence is too great in this country to every allow our basic moral or ethical values to be co-oped by religious fanaticism. Moreover, our political system is always in a constant state of flux; ever 2-4-6 years each level of power (less the makeup of the Supreme Court) changes by a vote of the people. If we don't like a candidate be it an incumbant or a fresh face, we simply vote out the old and bring in the new (i.e., the November 2010 mid-terms) OR we skip the loose cannons altogether (i.e., Christine O'Donnell). Nonetheless, it is interesting that now after nearly 8 years the root of such visceral religious hatred is finally coming out. This reminds me of all the "planted seeds of hatred" that was once thrust upon Blacks (as studied from history) in the lead-up to the Civil Rights era.
 
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Of course, there's also the warmonggering side of this equation - planting the seeds of hatred leading up to the War in Iraq or the War on Terror. Thus, the report mentioned in the OP begs the question as to whether or not those who espouse such hatred, i.e., Islamophobia, were they successful? Clearly, they did not succeed in keeping Obama out of the White House. And since there hasn't been riots in the streets, i.e., the perverbal "holy war" between Christians and Muslims in the U.S., one has to ask "was it worth wasting all those millions of dollars just to fabricate religious hatred?"
 
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There is a similar story on Al Jazeera website
 
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Seems to me that this belongs in the conspiracy section.

Why? Because you just don't like finding out you were manipulated or because you actually read the article.
 
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Why? Because you just don't like finding out you were manipulated or because you actually read the article.

The Irony of you posting this... that is trending into EPIC territory sir.
 
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What strikes me as funny, is the liberal attempt to cast this as something unusual. Is there a small group of people in this country that still hates Jews, Blacks, Mexicans, Christians, Gays, or just about any other minority you can name? Of course there is.


One has to wonder what liberal thinks the word extremist means, I know what extremist doesn't mean, and that is tolerance, understanding, or a willingness to admit they are wrong. Hell right here on these pages we have right and left wing extremists, and they “know” who they are, yet if you ask them they will deny it to their last breath.


So yes I'm sure there is a small group of people out there that hate Muslims and yes, I'm sure they are promoting their views, so what? There are also groups out there promoting their view that 9/11 was a conspiracy of the Bush administration, or that Obama isn't a citizen of the US, or that we have the bodies of aliens from another world.


This is a big part of the problem with this country today, this sort of news is given far to much credence, and only helps these types of groups reach even more weak minded people, and it diverts attention from those things that are important.
 
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Seemed rather obvious to me, not secret.

It was as transparent as "liberal bloggers" like Justin R. and Juan Cole who supported "the surge" in Iraq. When you think "surge" think death squads and the "Salvador Option".
 
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Yes. He does not want to dig into content, so he falls back on his old standby, attacking the source. If WND published an article on Obama not being an NBC, liberals would comment on the source, then blow up the details. The second part is not something Grim will do since it is hard.

If I could direct your attention here: http://www.debatepolitics.com/break...-limbaugh-accuses-bachmann-jumping-shark.html is this link the same thing or am I missing something? Not to mention all the vitriol and bullcrap being tossed around.

C'mon Redress. How do you really go about refuting content that isnt reliable in its "facts". To be realistic, I dont see many WND posts floating about.
 
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There are also groups out there promoting their view that 9/11 was a conspiracy of the Bush administration, or that Obama isn't a citizen of the US, or that we have the bodies of aliens from another world.

This is a big part of the problem with this country today, this sort of news is given far to much credence, and only helps these types of groups reach even more weak minded people, and it diverts attention from those things that are important.

Um, so if there was no 9/11 conspiracy, as you say, why then did the Bush admin. not act on the foreknowledge they had, and prevent it from happening in the first place?:roll:
 
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Right-Wing Think Tanks and Bloggers Conducted Secret 10-Year Campaign to Fan Fear of Muslims

The Leftists have been doing this kind of thing for decades.
 
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Um, so if there was no 9/11 conspiracy, as you say, why then did the Bush admin. not act on the foreknowledge they had, and prevent it from happening in the first place?:roll:

Because the information they had only told them the "what", and not the "when", or "where. Without the latter two pieces of info, there was no way to prevent the attacks.

Unless, of course, Bush hassled every Arab/Muslim looking person that boarded an airplane. I'm thinking the Libbos would have wet their pants over that, though.
 
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The only Muslims I oppose and will protest is Shiites, they promote Sharia law and the Left have decided they are good safe people they can deal with.

They ignore the fact that they murder their own torture and kill woman and girls for perceived problems that don't exist in the real world, and are only in the empty heads of those who want Sharia Law to take root here.

Anyone who backs these radicals are clearly foolish and Anti-American.

We can not allow this Sharia BS to take hold it would destroy everything this nation was built on.

Some Liberals don't make any sense at all.

They claim to be for human rights but fight to allow the murder of unborn children but protest the execution of mass murderers. Now that is what I call crazy and as inconsistent as one can be.

You don't have to be afraid of Sharia law here.

I got this.

If people gather around somebody with rocks I'll drive my car back and forth through said crowd until they understand that I forbid theocracy in America.

Me and my Mercedes 300sd have Sharia well in hand.
 
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I don't think it counts as a secret if it's on every major news network, all over the internet, and is common knowledge.
 
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