The Screech Owls on the Right are spewing out disaster and horror every day. "We are all doomed and Obama is taking us there!" What a bunch of toadies for the Neocon Disinformation Squad.
We know "Fair & Balanced" reporting is the ongoing description of terrorist-loving, America-hating liberals and the Conservative champions who will save us all.
The Salt Lake Tribune
Updated: 09/05/2009 12:14:21 AM MDT
Peg McEntee Jeremy Harmon/The Salt Lake Tribune
So President Obama wants to talk to kids about education. The political right is horrified. It's not only a socialist plot, they say, it's illegal. Even worse, the president is trying to steal the children's minds in some scenario in which a live video of Obama's speech will turn the little ones into leftist automatons.
It's all about fear, and we as a nation seem to be drowning in it.
We are gripped by recession and a 9.7 percent unemployment rate, the cost of living and health care are soaring and our military is fighting two increasingly intractable wars.
I don't buy it. Not the fearmongering, and not the notion that Obama is conspiring to turn our republic into name-your-most-hated nation: Canada, Britain, France.
Politics of fear are still with us