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… It’s all fun and games until the guy who identifies with YOU goes on a murderous rampage Bob Cesca explains: As early as a few minutes after the Oslo attacker was arrested by authorities, reports crawled across my twitter timeline claiming that the shooter was a tall blonde man. We now know that was indeed the case, but that did not prevent virtually the entire Reich-Wing media-sphere from spending the next several hours speculating that it must be the work of Muslim extremists. The ironic, and distinctly Freudian, thing is that the attacker is actually a christian conservative nationalist who believes President Obama is a Marxist and that his attacks were “necessary” to defeat liberal immigration policies and stop the spread of Islam. Sound familiar? Related: Crusades 2.0: the video presentation of Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik Understanding terrorism: rightwing Christians vs. fanatical Muslims [Breivik] “believed the actions were atrocious, but that in his head they were necessary.” The Oslo terrorist not only has ties to right-wing extremism, but he’s a Pamela Geller fan Anders Behring Breivik: Christian conservative, nationalist, anti-Islam
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It’s all fun and games until the guy who identifies with YOU goes on a murderous rampage

Bob Cesca explains:

As early as a few minutes after the Oslo attacker was arrested by authorities, reports crawled across my twitter timeline claiming that the shooter was a tall blonde man. We now know that was indeed the case, but that did not prevent virtually the entire Reich-Wing media-sphere from spending the next several hours speculating that it must be the work of Muslim extremists.

The ironic, and distinctly Freudian, thing is that the attacker is actually a christian conservative nationalist who believes President Obama is a Marxist and that his attacks were “necessary” to defeat liberal immigration policies and stop the spread of Islam. Sound familiar?

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Chuck Hagel: “Reagan wouldn’t identify with this party”

“Reagan wouldn’t identify with this party. There’s a streak of intolerance in the Republican Party today that scares people. Intolerance is a very dangerous thing in a society because it always leads to a tragic ending. Ronald Reagan was never driven by ideology. He was a conservative but he was a practical conservative. He wanted limited government but he used government and he used it many times. And he would work with the other party. … Now the Republican Party is in the hands of the right, I would say the extreme right, more than ever before. You’ve got a Republican Party that is having difficulty facing up to the fact that if you look at what happened during the first 8 years of the century, it was under Republican direction. … The Republican Party is dealing with this schizophrenia. It was the Republican leadership that got us into this mess. If Nixon or Eisenhower were alive today, they would be run out of the party.” – former Sen. Chuck Hagel to Foreign Policy magazine 

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