"We're in a period of neo-McCarthyism. Everybody is running for cover, it's everyman for himself and somebody turn out the light. How you can go from the Obama moment less than a year ago to a period now where a hardscrabble Taliban-in-the-cave, right-wing Republican movement is able to intimidate people to cut and run is beyond me. I have no friends, until this McCarthyist moment dies down. If you're walking down the street and see me, cross the street and keep walking. I understand."
-- Wade Rathke, the former chief organizer of ACORN, after telling reporter Jonathan Tilove "he expects large and well-rooted chapters, such as the one in New Orleans, to survive" - but before discovering the New Orleans chapter will be uprooted - which will probably isolate him further, from NOLA.com.
The wheels of justice are turning slowly in a bizarre kidnapping case involving allegations of cult brainwashing and a woman abducted off a Hamilton street by her own family.
-- Barbara Brown, reporting for Canada's The Spec.com
"We are,...brainwashing our children on the warming topic. We have no better example than Al Gore's alarmists and inaccurate movie which is being shown in our schools and being hawked by warming activists with little or no meteorological-climate background."
-- William Gray, Colorado State University hurricane forecaster, who added that "a mild form of McCarthyism has developed toward those scientists who do not agree". As reported by The Weather Guys for USAToday
The program’s stated intent was for the approximately 7,000 students in U.D.’s residence halls to espouse,...“highly specific university-approved views on politics, race, sexuality, sociology, moral philosophy, and environmentalism.”
-- From a report on the University of Delaware's "Residence Life Citizenship Program" which demanded students define a racist as “all white people living in the United States”; agree that “people of color cannot be racists”; and the U.S. is “an oppressive society” whose “structures of oppression” it is every student's “duty” to eliminate. As reported by Candace de Russy in Pajamas Media.
Kids like those she describes are probably getting a double helping of the left, both at home and in the world at large, and so their worldview is decidedly skewed,...Think about it: what would you believe if you were raised on a steady diet about the failings of the dullard in the White House (who was nevertheless crafty enough to “steal” the 2000 election); about our “reduced standing” in the world since he took office; how capitalism is causing the earth to go up in a jolly blaze of global warming; how we are a nation of evil “haves” and powerless “have nots”; how our foreign policy is to blame for 9/11 and the Middle East considering America to be the “Great Satan”; and how the majority of Americans are a bunch of bigots and racists? Add to that the constant barrage of anti-war and anti-America rhetoric from groups like Code Pink and World Can’t Wait, and the complicity in these sentiments by the mainstream media and the entertainment industry — what would you think? After all, if the likes of Bill Maher, Michael Moore, Keith Olbermann, Susan Sarandon, and the brain trust on The View say it’s so, why would a teenager argue?
"We're in a period of neo-McCarthyism. Everybody is running for cover, it's everyman for himself and somebody turn out the light. How you can go from the Obama moment less than a year ago to a period now where a hardscrabble Taliban-in-the-cave, right-wing Republican movement is able to intimidate people to cut and run is beyond me. I have no friends, until this McCarthyist moment dies down. If you're walking down the street and see me, cross the street and keep walking. I understand."
