Meet today's Republican Party: kooks and kooks who resort to violence

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Via Think Progress:

Democrat Arrested At Eric Cantor’s Campaign Event

After Endorsing Violent Revolution, GOP House Candidate Claims Ginsburg Wants To Exterminate African-Americans

Rand Paul Head-Stomper To Victim: ‘I Would Like For Her To Apologize To Me’

Steve Benen:

'THIS IS THE WORLD THAT FOX NEWS HAS CREATED'....

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Rachel chatted with some Joe Miller supporters campaigning on a street corner, but before she could walk away, the activists wanted to emphasize that they resent Sen. Lisa Murkowski for being one of 19 Republicans to vote to confirm Eric Holder as the U.S. Attorney General. Rachel asked why that was a bad thing. That's when it got amusing.

One young man insisted that Holder is "the most anti-gun attorney general this nation has ever had." When Rachel asked how he arrived at this, he had absolutely no idea why he believes what he believes. He referenced Holder's "voting record beforehand," which made no sense, since Holder has never held elected office. Asked what it was, exactly, that Holder did on gun policy he didn't like, the Miller supporter -- who, remember, feels so strongly about this issue that he brought it up -- replied, "I, uh, I honestly, uh, I don't know enough about him to answer that truthfully."

So, Rachel moved to the next voter who's mad about Holder, and who also brought up the subject. "He's anti-gun," the woman said. Asked what he'd done that's anti-gun, the Miller support replied, "I don't have all the facts, but I know that he is."

Paul Waldman noted, "Keep in mind that these are folks who are so mad about this particular issue, and so fervent in their defense of their Second Amendment rights, that they're out on a corner talking to people about it."

In the same segment, a third Miller supporter insisted Holder was bad because of "the voter intimidation with the Black Panthers."

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THE KENTUCKY STOMPER'S RIDICULOUS EXCUSE....


Media Matters: Attack on MoveOn worker is just the latest example of right-wing violence

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1. List should grow to include threats such as Angles "second amendments remedy" statement,

Beck's dousing of a dem in gasoline, Paladino's threat to "take out" a reporter, etc. The list will be very long.

Add the abortion doctor murders and violence and Oreilly's encouragement of such...

...others should add more, and perhaps a candidate or two or move on can begin to build an overall case for crazy republican arrogance and violence. Frustrating that no one, aside from Grayson and Sanders and Franken, is connecting the dots and pointing out the full dangerousness of the gop in every sense of the word.

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2. They're called fascists.

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3. This is the world that Fox News created - but it isn't just Fox News.

It is all those advertisers who pay Fox News for their bs. We need to hold them accountable also.

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4. Fox drives the media narrative. n/t