Exploiting 9/11: "Conservative" politics in the 9/11 era

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By threatening to burn copies of the Koran on Saturday, Terry Jones is holding the world hostage to his insane hatred, threatening to unleash intold violence. He is, in effect, a terrorist. He seeks to intimidate and coerce through the threat of violence and the generation of hatred and fear. And, as Rachel Maddow explains below, he is only able to do this because of a climate of hatred and fear that's been deliberately created over the years by a number of extremist political figures, most notably, Newt Gingrich.

Newt Gingrich: Terrorist Mastermind
by: Paul Rosenberg Fri Sep 10, 2010 at 10:30
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Newt Gingrich is whipping up hatred and fear towards Muslims and Islam today. But it's merely a matter of political convenience. He will target anyone he finds convenient. In mid-1990s, starting just before he became Speaker, Gingrich blamed liberals, welfare recipients and the welfare state for all manner of horrors, real and imagined. For someone who spoke endlessly about "personal responsibility", he had an amazing ability to shift the blame for a series of horrific murders off of those who actually committed them, and onto vaguely defined groups of people defined by Gingrich as the enemies of "normal Americans."

Rachel Maddow has the scoop on Newt Gingrich's exploitation of fear of Muslims

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