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UTUSN

(70,681 posts)
Tue Apr 16, 2013, 08:53 PM Apr 2013

Caller to local radio wingnut station demanded "equal" terrorist billing for LEFTies

She ran her mouth for five minutes on how the librul media was only naming domestic radical wingnuts and Muslims as probable perpetrators, that they never mentioned the possibility of LEFTist extremists.

For once, the wingnut host challenged the point, saying that the last extremists on the Left he remembers were back in the '60s, and he asked her whom on the recent Left would she cite. She couldn't come up with anybody. The wingnut co-host helpfully named the Unibomber, then threw in as radicals the Occupy movement. She yipped for joy and said, "THANK you, yes, those Occupy people!1 And then those Environmentalist people are always doing CRAZY THINGS!1" And she griped repetiously that the media should be naming "ALL THREE" possibilities: Right, Muslims, AND LEFT.

A couple of years ago even Tweety mused, (paraphrasing) "When we think of radical extremists/violent, it's not so much on the Left. They don't do that sort of thing so much."

Yeah, them scary Occupiers.

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Caller to local radio wingnut station demanded "equal" terrorist billing for LEFTies (Original Post) UTUSN Apr 2013 OP
You'd hope that the answer to her rhetorical question would precipitate a moment of self-reflection. Old and In the Way Apr 2013 #1
I'm surprised the caller didn't give the usual "Code Pink" response npk Apr 2013 #2
And don't forget those "Nuns on the Bus" BumRushDaShow Apr 2013 #3
Yeah those Catholic ladies can be a real terror, LOL. npk Apr 2013 #4

Old and In the Way

(37,540 posts)
1. You'd hope that the answer to her rhetorical question would precipitate a moment of self-reflection.
Tue Apr 16, 2013, 09:08 PM
Apr 2013

"She couldn't come up with anybody."

Duh...there hasn't been a significant militant left movement since VietNam ended. Why...'cuz we're socialists, remember? We like people. It's the anti-socialists who are also borderline socio/psycho paths who act on their violent fantasies that we have to worry about. Of course, that that could describe members of AlQaeda or any number of similar domestic Republican front groups.

npk

(3,660 posts)
2. I'm surprised the caller didn't give the usual "Code Pink" response
Tue Apr 16, 2013, 09:11 PM
Apr 2013

I mean all those women running around trying to put handcuffs on Dick Chenney. They definetely are dangerous extremists capable of bombing a marathon.

npk

(3,660 posts)
4. Yeah those Catholic ladies can be a real terror, LOL.
Tue Apr 16, 2013, 10:05 PM
Apr 2013

Hope they don't find anymore holes in Ryan's budget. That poor poor man child.

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