C-Span this morning ...the hatred and venom towards Iranian President creeps me out

[Roxy66]

Look, anyone who does not think the Holocaust occurred has an alternate reality, but the spewing hatred towards this guy that is expressed in the newspaper editorials, and callers from this morning really surprised me. He did not attack us on 9-11. It just freaks me out that there is so much fear and venom towards a guy who came from a Country, that on 9-11, had people in the streets mourning for the victims in New York. The Iranian people are not Evil. Bush accomplished his mission....the Axis of Evil" stuck...and he has convinced even Dems that he is evil and needs to be destroyed. We will be going to war soon. Would this kind of hatred be encouraged by a Democratic President...or do you think tolerance and diplomacy would be encouraged.

[BlooInBloo]

1. (shrug) He's brown, and this is America. To expect anything else is silly.

I'm with TPM on this one.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/053806.php

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/053780.php

[anniebelle]

2. This is their 'news' feed everyday from the bigots in their world.

I do try to read some of the crap they spew on a daily basis, limpballs, o'liely, insanity (the usual suspects) and the bile their listeners ingest everyday is relieved by calling C-Span every morning.

[Roxy66]

3. One caller suggested taking him to a butcher shop, hang him and

use his body to break the fast for the jewish holiday. Not kidding. This is the kind of thing on C-Span this morning.

[BlooInBloo]

4. (shrug) DUers routinely suggest that certain criminals be killed, tortured, dismembered...

... and all manner of similar acts.

[NavyDavy]

12. links? or are you just attacking DUers?

[BlooInBloo]

17. Here's the most recent one I can recall. I see them routinely.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=1862876

[youthere]

15. That was creepy..first he wanted to throw him on the third rail of the Subway.

[TechBear_Seattle]

5. His name wouldn't happen to be Emmanuel Goldstein, would it?

That would explain the frequent Two Minute Hates.

[BOSSHOG]

6. The callers are only doing

what they have been trained to do. To blindly lash out at whomever limbaugh and hannity instruct them to. hannity was foaming at the mouth yesterday about the Iranian guy (can't spell his name off the top of my head.)

Despite what they are told, they are mindless robots, who also think they are patriotic, that bush is a war hero and that limbaugh is really a great honest American.

[Roxy66]

13. The sad thing is...some Democrats were expressing the same thing

[bemildred]

7. What do you expect from the state propaganda organs?

We have always been at war with Eastasia Iran.

[KG]

8. heck, seems you don't even have to leave DU to find similar sentiments.

[Marrah_G]

9. I don't want to bomb Iran

Nor would I welcome an Iranian leader into my home or country frankly. Their treatment of women and gays is horrible.

I don't care if he goes to ground zero as long as he doesn't use it as a photo opp backdrop to an anti-American speech.

[ShortnFiery]

11. "treatment of women and gays"

You want to know the most horrific DICTATOR of Iran in modern history?

The Shah of Iran whom we and the Brits installed after a democratic election in 1953? :wow:

Mengala would have taken notes on the antics of the brutal Shah's secret police - feared by ALL! :scared:

Now ask yourself, why do you think THEY HATE AMERICA?

Could it possibly be that we GAVE THEM this murderous thug whom they finally ousted in 1979?

Don't doubt that if we had our way, we'd install another Shah of Iran.

But but if you were part of the ruling elite and a woman, you'd be treated A OK. :eyes:

[Marrah_G]

14. I don't disagree with your post

American administrations messing in middle eastern countries has caused huge problems. I still do not give these regimes a pass nor would I ever welcome them with open arms.

Like I said. I don't want to bomb them, but I despise these leaders and it is my biggest hope that someday these religious zealots will be cast out by their own people and that women will finally be treated as full human beings.

[ShortnFiery]

23. Yes, I agree ... I don't give them a pass either - just don't like the beating of the war drums.

Iran has a theocracy. However, as a bordering neighbor of Iraq, they do have a valid interest in their stability. What Bush-Co fail to remind us is that we funded both sides (Iran and Iraq) in a bloody war. The Iraqis WILL NOT allow Iran to take over.

But yes, DICTATORS need to be overthrown by their own people. I wonder, regardless of who's elected President in 2008, will we EVER be able to restore the "balance of power" between our three branches of government? - OR is America cursed with our own MONARCHY known as "The Unitary Executive?"

[ShortnFiery]

10. Yeah, and too many people now have "stars in their eyes" as they listen to this

smarmy political errand boy General on now. :eyes:

A big fat shit sandwich with a dash of jingoism on the side is all they have to sell us to give up OUR CHILDREN to the meat grinder as well as glady relent TRILLIONS of our tax dollars to the war machine corporations.

And FAR TOO MANY PEOPLE are buying into this hype - all because these morally bankrupt men who speak for the war profiteers have *such pretty stars* on their shoulders. :puke: :thumbsdown:

[Arkansas Granny]

16. Bush and his cronies launched a PR campaign against Iran that

is aimed at making the American people feel like an attack on Iran is the only way to keep them safe from terrorists. Unfortunately, it's working.

[DrDan]

18. well - this led to one of the most bizarre radio conversations I have ever heard

We have this reich-wing clown behind the microphone in the Orlando area - Bud Hedinger.

Someone called yesterday as they were discussing this and thought it would be a good idea for junior to meet him a ground-zero and body-slam him. He could obviously "take" him because he is in such better shape. They went on to actually discuss this - like it could actually happen - for several minutes.

These guys have lost the few marbles I used to give them credit for.

[bluedog]

19. C-Span this morning is filled with

RW spewing hate to wards the Democratic Party...move on....and anything that suggests equal treatment in the United States.........They must have gotten their marching orders from the White House lastnight........

[Roxy66]

20. I didnt here one opinion piece this morning expressing a reasonable approach

to the suggestion that he visit Ground Zero. Every article read expressed an unreasonable hatred. My jaw was open for 10 mins straight.

[Roxy66]

21. I'm watching MSNBC right now and there is a NY fire fighter

saying they will not let him get down to Ground Zero if he tries. I'm just amazed that Bush has convinced even reasonable people that Iran had somthing to do with 9-11

[bluedog]

22. ..........he believes that Iran funded and trained

the 9-11 terrorists........what in hell is wrong with these f'ing brain dead people?