What is being said about liberals?

I'm listening to Mike Malloy, and he made a comment about how our elected officials are having meetings around the country. He alluded to the "things that are being said about liberals and liberalism" in a tone that spooked me. I was wondering if anyone knows what he's referring to specifically?

I'm seeing signs of the changing climate; red stars on professors' doors, remarks wishing harm to liberals by conservative columnists, etc., and it's unnerving to say the least.

But I wasn't aware of anything specifically said by (or to) elected officials in their meetings around the country (besides the "Hey hey, ho ho" clip of young Republicans at a Santorum rally). What have you heard?

-wildflower

ON EDIT: I think he may be about to talk more on this after the break (?)

Also: Part of what alarmed me was that Mike said (if I recall correctly) that these reps were "whipping people up" in these meetings. This just sounds very dangerous.

said we should be sent to Iraq to be human shields I believe.

Quickly transcribing/paraphrasing...

Gibbons compared Bush to Lincoln, and wondered how Lincoln would feel about the dissension the liberals are causing. Complained about celebrities. "I say we tell those tree-hugging, tie-dye-wearing hippies <...etc...> to make movies somewhere else." Said ironically, they'd be put to death by Saddam or Bin Laden. Then made the comment about going to Iraq as human shields. Said it's too bad we didn't buy them a ticket to go. He worked up the crowd to a fever pitch with this speech.

Mike says speech was stolen from Alabama State Auditor Chapman at a "Stand Up America" rally in 2003.

-wildflower (sorry for the poor transcription)

that is the scary part IMHO

Nothing, but if I were unarmed, I'd take steps to change that condition. Seriously.

... that we are FINALLY fired up. We've finally decided we're not going to take any of their shit any more... and they're rattled. So they bluster about, hoping to shut us down before we really re-discover our power.

Nuh-uh. Bring it, Nazi motherfuckers. America is MINE, not yours, and I'm not giving it up without a fight. :grr:

It was a parade float of ours that was torched, right outside where we held our party that night. (I'm a College Dem) It was a debate party with Kerry vs. Bush (the second debate, I believe). Our float was the only one that "spontaneously combusted" out of all the campus organizations that participated in the parade. Of course, this is Mississippi for you. This is nothing new around here.

http://www.reflector-online.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2004/10/12/416c6ca3b651a?in_archive=1

It's very alarming to see the increasing animosity that seems to be deliberately created and fanned. It's one thing if it's citizens doing it, or even the media (as bad as that is). But if the government itself is involved in or encouraging that...it's a whole other level, a level on which I see frightening historical parallels.

Mike was also talking about those weapons created to cause maximum pain to rioters, and the electronic ankle bracelets they're going to experiment with on some immigrants.

Scary times, and as I said, the parallels I see in history alarm me. Up until now the enemy was terrorists, but it seems that is broadening or mutating to include American citizens.

Do you, and others reading this, feel a new sense of unease and fear developing, as I do?

I say "new" because it goes beyond what I felt after the election, and after so many other things that have happened. It has to do specifically with this marking of liberals.

-wildflower

...now, they're on to "phase 2", making it acceptable to hate and take action against the detestable, unAmerican, pagan, liberal scumbuckets who tear down God, country and freedom.

In 1990, I saw this coming--with Rush Limbaugh. I wrote a column, "correcting" the endless lies Rush told each week. I was chastised for focusing on Limbaugh. My editor asked me to drop it. After all, Rush was just a harmless entertainer with an obnoxious mouth.

He wasn't harmless. He wasn't an entertainer. He was a propagandist, using entertainment to promote hatred of liberalism. No one took on Rush, in the beginning, except FAIR (Jeff Cohen).

For nearly a decade, Limbaugh spread boatloads of disinformation. Now, he's being sent on international tours, by our government and meeting with world and military leaders.

Limbaugh and the other hatemongers, are the reason that liberalism is a dirty word. Now, they're whipping up the masses into a rabid lather--directed at anyone who opposes their conservative, fascist world view. And guess what...it's working.

What these nuts have done to the political landscape, in this country, is both impressive and utterly frightening.