What’s Bad for the Country Is Good for Our Profits: Right Wing Wishes America the Worst
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Rush Limbaugh saying he wants President Obama to fail. That is the quintessential image of today’s GOP. They’re becoming irrelevant and marginalizing themselves with their hate speech and obstructionism of any real reform or threat to the status quo. And like a cornered animal fearing for its life, they could be dangerous.
Take Bill O’Reilly and his role in the murder of Ob/Gyn Dr. George Tiller. Or Glenn Beck’s circus of the nutty, where some nimrod advocated for another terrorist attack on American soil to further the right wing agenda while Beck nodded agreeably.
Mark Karlin’s Editor’s Blog at Buzzflash has more:
Yes, even to me, it seems a bit absurd to think that the right wing is on Al-Qaeda’s payroll — although the enemies of our nation are getting their money’s worth without paying a cent to the great Republican media noise machine.
Much has been made of Rush Limbaugh repeatedly wishing Obama fails — and therefore America deteriorates even further, destroyed to the ground. Isn’t Osama wishing the same thing?
And then there’s Glenn Beck who nightly — with a smirk on his face and a few million in his pocket for being a demagogic lynch mob television host — warns us that America is careening toward destruction. The other night he had a guest on who urged that only another 9/11 type terrorist attack would save our nation. Beck urged him on, with a smile and a barely concealed money-making strategic passion.
All around the right wing media echo chamber, the deceived dispossessed white working class masses — robbed of their wallets and jobs by the Reagan economic doctrine of “I’m rich I deserve it and make me richer at the expense of the working person in America” — are told that the U.S. under Obama is turning into a “dark” foreboding failure that must be met with resistance, some of them suggest “armed” rebellion.
A colleague of ours recently forwarded a Politico article of July 5th, in which it details how the right wing media makes money off of demonizing Obama and forecasting the destruction of the U.S.:
“I’m seeing a lot of people, conservatives and other people, who are starting to get extremely concerned that permanent damage can be done or is being done to their country,”[best selling author and nutter radio host] Mark Levin told POLITICO.
….The emotions fueling this media boomlet sometimes border on a barely suppressed rage. A website maintained by Levin’s fans, where people chew over the host’s ideas and new book, brims with anger at the president. Wrote one reader: “I CANT SLEEP SEEING this country being destroyed DAMM IT OVER my dead body i will let this happen/THESE BASTARDS HAVE GOT TO BE STOPPED IMMEDIATELY.”
Wrote another: “Bottomline, do you know of any way we can remove these idiots before this country goes down the crapper? I WILL HELP!!! Should I buy a gun? Should I store produce, etc?”
And a third took the rhetoric a step further: “Another American revolution will have to be fought — there will be blood.”
Even more disturbingly, a right wing financed book publisher, Regnery — which was the key purveryor of Clinton conspiracy books in the ’90s and “hate Hillary” tomes — thinks disaster in America is good for business.
“We are very bullish on our books coming out for the rest of this year,” says Marji Ross, president of Regnery Publishing, a conservative house. “Our little motto here is, what’s bad for the country could be good for our business.”
