HBO's RIGHT AMERICA: FEELING WRONGED

[Joey Liberal]

I watched an HBO documentary last night that was truly scary. It's called RIGHT AMERICA: FEELING WRONGED. A reporter followed the McCain/Palin campaign all over the country and interviewed republicans in each city and state. The hateful and ignorant crap these people came up with was stunning. If you haven't seen it, you can't miss it.

The visit to a NASCAR race was especially enlightening. One redneck tells the reporter that he doesn't like black people and that women should not be allowed to vote.

The concert by Hank Williams Jr. made me never want to listen to his music again.

At least three right-wingers cried at the mere thought of McCain not winning the election.

Many compared Obama to Hitler.

Here's the link to HBO:

http://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/rightamerica/index.html

[jgraz]

1. Someone said it was like watching the opposing cheerleaders cry

after your team won the Superbowl. :rofl:

I can't wait to see it.

[JVS]

3. LOL!

[Joey Liberal]

4. Dont miss it!

It's that good. It makes me fear for this country. Republicans have gone over the edge.

[LSparkle]

6. I still need to see "Jesus Camp" -- sounds like it might be in the same vein

"Good" (!) double feature perhaps.

[Joey Liberal]

8. This is even better than Jesus Camp

But Jesus Camp was scary too.

[jgraz]

31. Jesus Camp creeped me the fuck out

:scared:

[Joey Liberal]

35. Me too nt

[GiveMeFreedom]

49. May Jesus Bless You!!!

:rofl: couldn't resist!!

[Joey Liberal]

2. Here's a YouTube clip

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPUl-eNDzUE

These people are scary.

[Kalyke]

18. That should be renamed: Swansong for the Last Backward White Guy.

Geesch.

[Beaverhausen]

34. Yikes. That is scary but at least we can watch knowing they didn't win

[StreetKnowledge]

36. Note how most of those nutcases....

Cannot justify their crap. Pure, undistilled, racist bullshit. And it all, every bit of it, comes from the Reich wing and the clowns like that fat motherf***er Limbaugh and BillO the Insane Clown.

Those f***ers don't deserve to vote. Heresy it might be, but if you believe that shit, you ain't competent to vote, simple as that.

[elizfeelinggreat]

41. You are right to blame the hatemongers

I truly believe they have hurt our country, really damaged our country, and should make some kind of restitution. Like admitting their lies in public and being banned from any public speaking job in the future.

[wroberts189]

39. thx....nt

[Chulanowa]

45. "Wud ah hand muh fyrearmmer, firearm over to uh muzlim?"

And then my connection breaks and the video pauses indefinitely on this guy who looks like he makes a living in a Pensacola bait shop and smirking.

Promises to be a hoot!

[Joey Liberal]

61. That dude was a total idiot - hand over his gun?

Who in the heck would ask him to do that? Oh, I forgot - Rush Limbaugh...............

[Bluebear]

55. Oh my word.

[fascisthunter]

5. the biggest bunch of intellectually and morally bankrupt losers

to live in this country and be so misinformed is telling. You have to want to believe bullshit to ignore facts the way they do.

[Joey Liberal]

7. It truly is frightening nt

[NoQuarter]

21. No kidding.

I DVR'd it and watched in the early wee hours of Tuesday. So many times I just wanted to scream, the stupid was so overwhelming - but I thought I might wake the hubby.

[flakey_foont]

9. I watched that last night

actually rather scary to think that some of these critters are running around loose. Some highlights as I recall (not verbatim, don't have transcripts)

People who live in cities aren't real Amurkins
Obama is the anti-Christ because he is tall, sophisticated and has strong ties to Europe (I am not making this up)
Several people were interviewed saying that if Obama was elected they were going to leave the country (and all I could say was "Buh bye")
and, Hank Williams, Jr. ?? Jiminy Christmas!!!.....that old fart was embarrassing to watch

and the ever popular, "Obama is a Muslim/communist/socialist/terrorist"

[Joey Liberal]

10. How did America sink so low?

I didn't think we had that many morons in this country.

[JHB]

19. Did we ever really get above this?

Fifty years ago this same raw material formed lynch mobs: terrorism as spectacle. We've improved in that the officials can no longer turn a blind eye to something that naked, but we're not nearly as far removed from that era as we'd like to think.

[Joey Liberal]

24. Sad, but true nt

[NoQuarter]

23. I liked the nitwit

who wrote "Obama is a socialist" on his T-shirt and someone had to point out to him that he spelled "socialist" wrong.

Then, of course, he didn't even know what socialism was. He was going to dictionary.com to get a definition so he could continue with his on-camera interview.

What.A.Moran.

[Joey Liberal]

25. Yes, that dude was PATHETIC:).............. nt

[Prophet 451]

47. None of them know what socialism is

Having debated with a lot of them over the last couple of years, they seem to believe any program for the common good or general welfare is socialism. Hell, most of them think progressive taxation is socialist. The word has been so over-used that it now seems to mean "anything the Right doesn't like".

[JHB]

50. No greater example of that than Newsweek...

...and its "We are all socialists now" cover.

Talk about having a discussion on the Right's terms!

[JackRiddler]

62. This is thanks to many decades of propaganda work by the PTB. A century or more.

[lunatica]

46. Muslin... not Muslim

:rofl:

It's too priceless not to stick it in here...

[devilgrrl]

53. I'm at the part where their going off on flag pins...

oh my! :eyes:

[bertman]

11. And the best part is that most of these imbeciles are armed to the teeth.

Best reason I know to keep and bear arms.

[Joey Liberal]

12. Hell yeah!

And my Pit Bull hates republicans.

[flakey_foont]

16. that is truly frightening

and some of them truly seem to believe that they have a sacred obligation to defend and maintain their fantasy of the US as a Christian nation

[Downtown Hound]

13. They really are batshit insane

I have no idea how so many Americans got to be this way, but it is what it is. We live in a nation with a lot of crazy people. Scary and disturbing.

[orleans]

this was made by alexandra pelosi

there was a thread on here the other day about this--salon did an interview with her.

on edit: here is that thread
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5062048

here is my comment on it:
oh yes, she heard them say obama was the antichrist over and over and over again
but she only put it in her film 1 time because she didn't want people to think she was only putting the crazies in the film or that she was biased.

so--she made herself & the film biased in the other direction.

way to go pelosi. (what a jerk)

[WilliamPitt]

14. Children of the Corn

[Cheap_Trick]

32. "He wants you, too, Malachai. He wants you, too..."

cheesy but fun and creepy film.

[JHB]

15. Salon interview with reporter, Alexandra Pelosi

(yes, Nancy's daughter).
Feb. 16, 2009 | When Alexandra Pelosi made the Emmy-winning documentary "Journeys With George" in 2000, about her 18 months on the campaign trail with soon-to-be-President George W. Bush, her mother, Nancy, was not yet speaker of the House, and the name "Pelosi" was not yet an epithet on the lips of Republicans.

Eight years later, Pelosi went back out on the GOP campaign trail and into the lion's den, in the waning days of John McCain's failed bid for the White House. In her latest film, "Right America: Feeling Wronged," which debuts on HBO Monday night, Pelosi attends McCain and Sarah Palin rallies in 28 states and puts her microphone in the faces of some very passionate conservatives. As defeat looms, she watches the Republican base go through a very public grieving process, with most of the stages that psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross described -- denial, depression and a whole lot of anger -- but not very much acceptance. Salon spoke to Pelosi by phone.

http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/int/2009/02/16/alexandra_pelosi/

[bertman]

33. I think it should have read ". . . and the name Pelosi was not yet an epithet on the lips

of DEMOCRATS."

[BlooInBloo]

17. Classic article on this: "The right's two-pronged religion of rage and self-pity"...

A classic of Greenwald's.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/10/02/self_absorption/

The Right in this country -- meaning the faction that followed George Bush for the last eight years -- long ago ceased being a movement of political ideas and is driven by two, and only two, extreme emotions: (1) intense, aggressive rage towards their revolving door of enemies, and (2) bottomless self-pity over how unfairly they're being treated. As their imminent defeat looks increasingly likely (potentially on a humiliating scale), these two impulses are in maximum overdrive, feeding off one another in endless self-perpetuation (the more they lose, the more victimized they feel, the more they rage against their enemies who oppress them, etc.).

The Right's rejection by the public can't possibly be due to anything they have done. It can only be due to some extremely vicious enemy that oppresses them uniquely and so very unfairly. For the moment, they're only losing because The Leftist Mainstream Media hates them and is deeply biased against them. Blue Texan points out just some of the painfully obvious idiocy at the heart of this specific strain of woe-is-me-ism:

It's pretty clear that and the drooling Malkinites in wingnutland are getting ready to blame the corporate media when Obama wins.

The problem with this narrative is that:

a) the GOP has dominated national electoral politics for a decade, in spite of said "liberal media" conspiring to elect Democrats, and;

b) the wingnut bloggers themselves spend lots of time and energy obsessing over the idea that the mainstream media has an ever-diminishing influence/relevance (how many posts has done this year of the New York Times stock price/circulation figures?)

I'm not sure how they square all of this in their little brains exactly, but it makes my head hurt.

Needless to say, whether the excuse-making is coherent or consistent matters not in the slightest. The objective, as always, is to believe that they are weak and hapless victims being stomped on by some Evil, Unfair Force, and that self-pitying worldview can then explain away every last one of their failings. That is the mentality that lies at the heart of today's right-wing ideologue; more or less, it's all there is (for a long time, it was also the media and the Left's fault -- but not theirs -- that things were going so poorly in Iraq, even though they controlled all the branches of the Government).

[renate]

37. that is, not surprisingly, an excellent article--thanks for the link! n/t

[Zomby Woof]

43. Right-wingers have ALWAYS been that way

They were whiny, self-pitying crybabies when Robert Taft and Joseph McCarthy shit all over the Senate floor 60 years ago. I could go back further, but the examples are so numerous, I plucked that one out of the air.

The article states the truth very well, but it is a truth with longevity, and it isn't going to change.

[Joey Liberal]

58. I used to be a republican (I'm ashamed)

And I don't recall thinking and acting like these modern day idiots.

[truebrit71]

20. "the name "Pelosi" was not yet an epithet on the lips of Republicans"....

...or Democrats for that matter...

Her relaives are just as bad as she it appears...

[Motown_Johnny]

22. That is Nancy Pelosi's daughter, Rachel Maddow interviewed her last week

and showed some clips from the movie. (after the GOP in Exile segment)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhxZ3l7vKUY&feature=related

I don't get HBO so I have not seen it (no real interest).

[ejpoeta]

26. was that the one nancy pelosi's daughter did? i know she had a

documentary about something similar to that.

[Joey Liberal]

29. She did a great job on this one nt

[PM Martin]

27. Hank Williams Jr.

Now we know the Republican party has hit a new low.

[Joey Liberal]

28. For sure. Junior was awful. nt

[SoCalDem]

30. just another schlub, clinging to father's famous coattails

like the schlub we just kicked to the curb..

[wroberts189]

38. "At least three right-wingers cried at the mere thought of McCain not winning the election"

Boohoo... I have felt their pain for 8 years so bad my health is failing.

I hope they have a good cry.

[Catshrink]

40. Does that mean Jeebus doesn't love them anymore?

Can't they accept "God's will" or does that only work when it goes their way?

[Mz Pip]

42. When it doesn't go their way

it's the devil's doing. You betcha.

[endarkenment]

44. I managed about five minutes

at around which time I thought 'this is the same shit I had to watch all summer and fall, I hate these people, I hate everything about them, they are as alien to me as bug creatures from sagitarius', and changed the channel.

[EnviroBat]

57. They are like a retarded disease.

Sad thing is these fuck-nuggets are everywhere, and they're breeding like rats...

[Dukkha]

48. so is Caribou Barbie their god now?

wow
:eyes:

[Fluffdaddy]

51. This is a must watch for all liberals........... Know your enemy

[Joey Liberal]

56. Very true

You'll get a good look at just who watches Faux News, who is listening to Rush Limbaugh and who actually voted for McCain/Gidget. It's truly frightening.

[devilgrrl]

52. This is hurting my skull

OMG! They are beyond ridiculous, so proud to be racist and ignorant. Unbelievable.

:crazy:

[Joey Liberal]

54. It really is amazing - and scary nt

[Fluffdaddy]

59. I was shock to learn that those people really believed that crap....and

It was not just "say anything" bad about Obama to win the election. It was so scary I had to watch it twice.

[spanone]

60. this has always been a part of america, unfortunately