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6-12-09--Back in April, there was a huge fuss over an internal report by the Department of Homeland Security warning that current conditions resemble those in the early 1990s — a time marked by an upsurge of right-wing extremism that culminated in the Oklahoma City bombing.
Conservatives were outraged. The chairman of the Republican National Committee denounced the report as an attempt to “segment out conservatives in this country who have a different philosophy or view from this administration” and label them as terrorists. But with the murder of Dr. George Tiller by an anti-abortion fanatic, closely followed by a shooting by a white supremacist at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the analysis looks prescient.
There is, however, one important thing that the D.H.S. report didn’t say: Today, as in the early years of the Clinton administration but to an even greater extent, right-wing extremism is being systematically fed by the conservative media and political establishment.—Krugman, NYT A23
--House’s No. 2 Republican [Rep. Eric Cantor] compares Obama to Putin. –SBT A3
--Andrews [chair of a white advocacy group] said he voted for Obama because “I want to see the Republican Party destroy, so it can be reborn as a party representing the interests of white people, and not entrenched corporate elites.”—Ibid.
--Movies at one South Bend theatre: Angels & Demons, Drag Me to Hell, The Hangover, Imagine That, Land of the Lost, My Life in Ruins, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, Star Trek, The Taking of Pelham, Terminator Salvation. –SBT D6