{"id":1209,"date":"2010-04-19T02:06:51","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T09:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=1209"},"modified":"2010-04-19T18:29:45","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T01:29:45","slug":"happy-gop-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/19\/happy-gop-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy GOP Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"oklahoma-city-bombing\"<\/a> Fifteen years ago today, an extreme right wing terrorist, Timothy McVeigh, with\u00a0Terry Nichols, bombed the Oklahoma City Federal\u00a0 Building in what was the worst terrorist attack in our history, and remained so until extreme religious right wingers flew airplanes into the twin towers and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001.\u00a0 Republicans, in the guise of their Teabagger lackeys, are celebrating McVeigh today with Second Amendment demonstrations in and just outside of Washington, DC.\u00a0 Since the seditionist lies that GOP party leaders like Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, Glen Beck, Michelle Bachmann, and many others seem designed to inspire violence against the US government, I have labeled April 19 as GOP Day to recognize their vision for America: War, hatred, greed, racism, homophobia, and intolerance.<\/span><\/p>\n

Also today, Rachel Maddow<\/a> is narrating a special: \u201cThe McVeigh Tapes: Confessions of an American Terrorist\u201d at 9 PM EDT on MSNBC.\u00a0 I suspect she will properly link McVeigh to today\u2019s extreme right.\u00a0 She has made the MSM quite nervous.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"rachel_maddow\"<\/a> It\u2019s hard to read faces, but voices are even harder to gauge. Timothy J. McVeigh, the anti-government extremist who killed 168 people in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, had a calm, almost reassuringly matter-of-fact way of speaking. He could have been a building inspector, a driving instructor or a Persian Gulf war veteran, which, of course, he was, having earned a Bronze Star before he went completely off his head.<\/p>\n

\u201cSee, with these tapes, I feel very free in talking \u2019cause I know you\u2019re using the information appropriately,\u201d McVeigh told a journalist in a prison interview. \u201cHere, I\u2019m just letting it all come out.\u201d The reporter, Lou Michel, co-author of \u201cAmerican Terrorist: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing,\u201d shared 45 hours of those taped prison interviews to MSNBC.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe McVeigh Tapes: Confessions of an American Terrorist,\u201d which will be shown on Monday, the 15th anniversary of the bombing, comes at a time when right-wing militia groups are on the rise, or at least more audible, and heightened anti-government talk is heating up anti-anti-government fervor. McVeigh\u2019s descent into violence is presented as much as a cautionary tale as a commemoration.<\/p>\n

\u201cNine years after his execution we are left worrying that Timothy McVeigh\u2019s voice from the grave echoes in a new rising tide of American anti-government extremism,\u201d is how the MSNBC commentator Rachel Maddow, who narrates the film, puts it in her introduction.<\/p>\n

But strangely, this film, which claims to be the first ever to present McVeigh in his own words, blunts its impact by relying on stagy computer graphics, and even an actor whose looks are digitally altered, to re-enact McVeigh\u2019s movements. Scenes of this domestic terrorist in shackles during a prison interview or lighting a fuse inside a rented Ryder truck look neither real nor completely fake, but certainly cheesy: a violent video game with McVeigh as a methodical, murderous avatar\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <NY Times<\/a>><\/p>\n

Not having seen it (yet), I can\u2019t say, but I have never seen anything she did that was not superior in quality.\u00a0 Watch it if you can.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the meantime, happy GOP day to you all.\u00a0 Try to keep yourselves sane by avoiding Teabuggery in all its forms.\u00a0 I hope that the Republican base (all that\u2019s left, really) will be content to hunker down for some Faux Noise<\/em> and commit no more atrocities.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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