NRA's idea of "American Values."

[Deep13]

While I am generally sympathetic to gun owners and am one myself, I have never appreciated the NRA's tactics or meddling in RW issues unrelated to gun control.

This May in Charlotte, NC, the NRA is having its annual "American Values Forum."

http://www.nraam.org/events/cavfe.html

And who has this organization chosen to discuss American values?

Featured speaker include Fox "News" professional liar Sean Hannity. His employer, Rupert Murdock, is the Joseph Goebbels of our time and Hannity serves his master very well. This is not news to most here. Rather than a reputable journalist, this huge organization has chosen to alienate anyone who might agree with the individual right to own or carry firearms who does not buy into the fascist agenda.

Also featured is former House speaker Newt Gingrich, the guy who served his wife with divorce papers while she was in the hospital with cancer. Is that an "American value?" And of course that does not even touch on his radical record while in office.

Most objectionable of all is Oliver North, a traitor to the United States who sold weapons to Iran who, if not the enemy, was certainly unfriendly. He then disregarded Federal law and interfered with the Nicaraguan civil war by funding the far-right counter-revolutionaries. He then lied his ass off under oath to Congress. A Federal jury convicted him of perjury, but it was overturned on the kind of technicality RWers bemoan when it applies to poor people. And this asshole is elevated by the right as a patriot while Jane Fonda gets vilified and libeled because she took a few photos. So, treason and dishonesty are now an "American values."

The forum will be entertained by noted fascist, Charlie Daniels.

Another conference on American values leadership features America's favorite brownshirt and professional liar, Sarah Palin. Quitting and superstition are apparently American values too. Also featured is anti-UN former UN ambassador John Bolton representing paranoia and xenophobia as values.

The whole thing kicks off with a prayer breakfast hosted by con artist and charlatan, Jonathan Falwell, who succeeds his father as a hateful, bigoted, fundamentalist preacher.

Better hurry if you want tickets!

POST SCRIPT: I really resent these self-rightous, paranoid, hateful, fear-mongers promoting themselves as the "real" American. As far as I'm concerned, the real American values are foreward-looking and include progress, education, secular Constitutional governance, community and inclusiveness. If these people had their way in history, we would still have slavery, or at least segregation, women would not be able to vote, contraceptives would still be illegal and so would labor unions.

[virginia mountainman]

1. Me too..

Wish they would stick to Guns, and gun policy....

[JHB]

2. Will these guys be answering questions? I have a few...

Hannity: how much of the income of your "veterans family charity" goes to verterans' families? And how much goes to your personal expenses?

Ollie: same question

Newt: Which wife are you cheating on right now? Your third or fourth? I've lost track.

[fishbulb703]

3. Gun owner too, hate the NRA. So many Nazi references is silly, though, imo. nt

[Deep13]

4. It's not hyperbole.

This country is so paranoid about the smallest step toward socialism that we have backed into the fascist corner. This country has moved so far to the right that "moderate" is now to the right of Reagan or Nixon. Fascism is the merger of government and industry and we pretty much have that now. And having studied that political aspects of the National Socialist party, I can tell you the American right is using the same playbook. Campaign constantly. Vilify the opponent. Offer something different to ever group of voters that appeals to them even if they don't agree with the full package. Politicize all community events and actions in ideological terms. I see the comparison as apt.

[fishbulb703]

5. I agree, if you use FR as a gauge. Most people are pretty moderate in my experience.

I live in a college town though, and mostly hang out with fellow students. There are a few extremists, but most people basically either want to be left alone to get rich in business or law or medicine, or be left alone to listen to music and have a good time. Its important (imho) to not view people who disagree with you, even to the point of not wanting to even talk to you, as an enemy along the lines of Nazis.

[Deep13]

6. Well, I'm really talking about the leadership of the RW.

Don't forget, there was a time when the Nazis had not yet seized power, had not yet murdered 12 million people, had not yet tried to take over Europe. There was a time when the average person did not know they were monsters and the Nazis themselves never thought they were. The only thing in my judgment that prevents teabaggers or Rupert Murdock from being just like Nazis is the fact that they are not yet in charge, at least not completely.

[fishbulb703]

7. OK, I can definitely agree with that. Corporatists could be considered that for sure.

[Deep13]

8. .

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