Right-Wing Exposed

Limbaugh, Hannity and other right-wing talk radio gurus regularly tell us that America has not had another terrorism attack on our soil since 9-11 due to the successful war on terror being waged by the Bush Administration.  They mention the Iraq War and the Patriot Act as major reasons for our respite from terror.  I believe that they will soon be forced to swallow their words, as America comes under the most devastating attack in our nation’s history; an attack that will prove the failure of President Bush’s anti-terror policies, including the Patriot Act and our invasion of Iraq.

It will be seven years this September since Al Qaeda’s previous assault on America.  Why is that significant?  The number seven is an extremely meaningful and important number in the Bible, the holy book for both Christians and Jews.  I believe that our enemy is planning a seven-year surprise for our nation.  Remember that Al Qaeda selected a significant American number, 9-11, for their previous attack.  I predict that this time their number will be “seven”, Christianity’s and Judaism’s special Biblical number.  I expect that Al Qaeda plans to present us with their version of a special seven-year anniversary gift; a colossal, devastating, nationwide attack producing hundreds of thousands of casualties.  And,  I would suggest that the exact date may very well be September 7th, 2008, seven years after 9-11.  Our enemy will probably declare their attack to be “pay-back” for our invasion of Iraq, and for our presence in general on Islamic soil.

Why am I making this daring prediction?  And, what do I think the attack will be?  I am making this prediction because I believe it will happen.  Al Qaeda has not forgotten about us; they still hate us intensely.  They have not decided to leave us alone, while attacking other locations around the globe.  Let us not forget that they refer to us as the “Great Satan”.  Moreover, the reason we have not been attacked thus far is not because of Bush’s Patriot Act, because random suicide bombers could have blown themselves up at various public venues numerous times since 9-11, as they have continued to do in many spots throughout the world.  And, Bush’s invasion of Iraq has only intensified their hatred of us, not mitigated it.  Yet, we have been “attack free” for over six years.  What’s going on?

Our enemy spent several years planning 9-11; an attack limited to a few targets in a couple of cities.  This time they’re planning something bigger.  This time it will be nationwide.  This time the casualties may number in the hundreds of thousands.  This time they want to crash our stock market and bring America to its knees.  This time they want to hit more than just America’s commerce and transportation industry.  This time they want to hit America’s lifestyle, its soul, and everything we hold dear.  This time they want to attack our religion, our recreation, our pastimes, as well as our transportation and commerce. 

What will the attack be?  I mentioned the fact that suicide bombers could have easily attacked our restaurants, hotels and other venues in the past, but they have completely refrained.  Why?  Suicide bomber attacks have been Al Qaeda’s favorite and most effective means of attack throughout the world.  And, America is their number one enemy.  Doesn’t it seem a bit peculiar that Al Qaeda has exempted their top enemy from their favorite and most effective method of terrorism?  There is only one logical answer.  They have not wanted to alert us in advance of what’s coming.  If they had used suicide bombers before in America, we would be “on the lookout” for them at our public gatherings.  We would have utilized special bomb detection devices at our public venues.  This would have prevented them from succeeding with a major terrorist attack of this nature.  However, America has “conveniently” never had a single suicide bombing attack, which has resulted in us not being “on alert” for them.  In other words, we are a ”sitting duck” for such an event as the one I’m about to describe.

September 7th, 2008, seven years after 9-11, just happens to be opening day for the National Football League, when stadiums across America will be filled to capacity.  At the same time, Major League Baseball will be entering the final weeks of the pennant races, when baseball stadiums will be jammed with fans.  September 7th of this year also happens to be on a Sunday, when “America’s religion”, Christianity, meets to worship in churches across our nation.  Furthermore, many of these churches are mega-churches with thousands of Christians packed shoulder to shoulder.  Sundays are also big days for amusement parks and shopping malls.  For terrorists who like significance, and who like to get their “bang for their buck”,  there could be no more effective time to simultaneously attack America’s religion, recreation, pastimes and commerce than on a Sunday in September, especially a Sunday that falls seven years after 9-11, on the 7th day of the month.

Imagine several hundred suicide bombers simultaneously detonating their bomb vests in sports stadiums, shopping malls, Christian mega-churches, amusement parks, hotels, restaurants, and airline, Amtrak and bus terminals in cities across America, including the normally safe and peaceful cities in the heartland of America, such as St. Louis, Kansas City, Minneapolis etc.  The casualties could number in the hundreds of thousands, and our economy would come to a standstill, as people would be afraid to enter any and all public buildings, choosing to stay in the safety of their own homes.  Al Qaeda would have reserved their favorite method of terrorism, suicide bombing, for one simultaneous, unexpected, colossal, nationwide attack.  And, they would have pulled it off “under the radar” of Bush’s vaunted Patriot Act, as they patiently utilized face to face communications and hand-written notes that Bush’s wiretapping could not detect or stop.

I don’t want to be “chicken little”, but I do believe that a scenario similar to the one I’ve described is coming soon.  And, as the likes of Hannity and Limbaugh have been pointing to more than six years without an attack as being evidence that Bush’s strategies are working, the real truth is that Al Qaeda has been using this time to plan a terrorist event that will make 9-11 seem like a non-event by comparison.  Furthermore, Al Qaeda’s operatives have been spending their time “fitting in” with the environments that they will soon attack.  They have purchased season tickets and have been attending the games for the past two or three years at the stadiums they will bomb.  They have been weekly attendees at worship services at the mega-churches they will attack.  They have been regular patrons at the hotels, restaurants and shopping malls they will blowup.  They have become well-known and trusted in their environments, waiting for the precise moment when they will all simultaneously detonate their bomb vests on a day that may well be remembered and labeled as being “Black Sunday”.

If I am correct, and I fear that I am, this may well be the event that prompts us to bring our soldiers home from Iraq to protect our own cities.  This may well be the event that changes America’s foreign policy forever.  

Well, well, what have our right-wing talkers been up to this week?  These guys know how to “talk trash” better than professional sports athletes.  Rush Limbaugh, the king of trash talk, can always be counted on to come through with some whoppers.  While commenting on the Clinton and Obama race, Rush said that the “super delegate” system used by Democrats displays their ignorance.  He then asked why we would want to trust our health care system to be managed by such people as them, stating that these ignorant Democrats would run up a huge debt for our nation.  Knock, knock Rush, is anybody home?  Have you heard about the huge national debt we’ve run up under the Bush Administration?  Have you heard about the half a trillion dollars we’ve squandered in Iraq?  Have you heard about the collapse of our housing market and the devaluation of the dollar during the Bush Administration?

Limbaugh also stated that the Democrats super delegate system showed that they don’t trust their own voters, and revealed their lack of morality, integrity and character.  Rush, can you say hypocrisy?  When it comes to not trusting your party’s voters, what about you and your fellow right-wing talkers?  Every day throughout the primary races Republican voters were being told who to, and not to, vote for by Rush and his cohorts.  Obviously these right-wing talk gurus don’t trust their fellow Republican voters either.

When it comes to the morality, integrity and character accusations against Democrats, Limbaugh was not alone.  Michael Medved and Hugh Hewitt joined Rush in his character inquisition of Democrats.  Hewitt devoted 30 minutes to having his listeners call in and vote for who is more sleazy and immoral, Eliot Spitzer or Bill Clinton.  Hugh, why didn’t you make the choice between Spitzer and Larry Craig? 

Michael Medved did a comparison of Spitzer with Kwame Kilpatrick, the Democratic Mayor of Detroit, in which Medved stated that most scandals involve Democrats.  Are you sure about that, Michael?  What about Bob Barr, the Republican congressman from Georgia?  What about Mark Foley, the Republican congressman from Florida?  What about Ken Calvert, the Republican congressman from California?  What about Ed Schrock, the Republican congressman from Virginia?  What about Helen Chenoweth, the Republican congresswoman from Idaho?  What about Larry Craig, the Republican senator from Idaho?  What about Duke Cunningham, the Republican congressman from California?  What about Philip Giordano, the Republican mayor from Waterbury, Connecticut?  What about Jim West, the Republican mayor from Spokane, Washington?  What about Louis Beres, the Republican chairman of the Oregon Christian Coalition?  Do you need more reminders, Mr. Medved?  I assure you that more could be recited.

I guess it’s probably time to stop for this week’s edition of “Right-Wing Thursday”.  You can only stomach so much of these guys’ rhetoric.  This will allow us a week to recover until next week’s “spotlight” on the “not right”.   

It’s “Right-Wing Thursday” and it seems appropriate for me to focus on some of our favorite talk radio hosts this week.  This was primary week and Rush Limbaugh and Laura Ingraham decided to switch party affiliations for a day and encouraged their vast listening audiences to vote in the Democratic primary instead of the Republican.  Obviously Limbaugh and Ingraham don’t have much confidence in their own party’s candidate, so they felt the need to try to sabotage their Democratic opponents.  I don’t think that this would have been what our founding fathers, whom both Limbaugh and Ingraham like to refer to regarding many issues, would have endorsed.  I don’t think they would have supported trying to cheat the political process.  I guess right-wing talk show hosts only like to ponder what our founding fathers would do when it serves their political agenda.

It is apparent that right-wing pundits fear an election against Obama.  Limbaugh stated that he was hoping to “bloody him up a bit”.  That’s certainly a nice Christian attitude that I can assure you Jesus would not endorse.  For that matter, the screaming, angry, name-calling demeanor of conservative talkers such as Laura Ingraham, Michael Medved, Mark Levin and Michael Savage would also flunk the WWJD test.  It’s rather ironic that many of these hosts consider themselves to be Christian/religious.

Michael Medved, the guy who says that 80% of Americans are doing better than ever financially, also dedicated time this week to complain about the waste of six billion dollars in federal funds being spent on school lunch programs.  However, it doesn’t seem to bother Medved that we are spending that much every three weeks in Iraq.  Evidently Medved believes that spending money for war is more important than spending money to feed America’s hungry children.  At least Michael has his priorities straight.

Medved also spent time questioning Obama’s Muslim connections.  The fact that Obama has stated that he is a Christian and that he is a member of a Christian church is not enough for Medved.  Perhaps Michael can get some “religious police” to check into Obama’s true religion.  Maybe he can divert some of that money we waste on feeding our children and hire Kenneth Starr to do one of his in-depth investigations into Obama’s true religion.  Oh well, it’s always good entertainment tuning in to Medved and his cohorts for another dose of right-wing misinformation.

Right-wingers dominate the air waves of talk radio.  They also like to dominate those who call in with differing opinions.  Although professing to be morally superior than those on the “left”, conservative hosts like Laura Ingraham, Michael Medved and Michael Savage regularly resort to name calling and shouting people down with whom they disagree.  They freely dispense disparaging labels upon their opponents and have no problem resorting to shameful mockery, such as Rush Limbaugh’s mimicry of Michael Fox’s physical symptoms resulting from his disease.

Right-wing talkers also have an uncanny ability to come up with unique facts and figures to support their positions, whether or not they can be substantiated.  Dennis Prager recently stated that more people had died from dog bites than from second hand smoke.  On another occasion when confronted about how he was using the term “hypocrisy”, he simply said that the dictionary definition was wrong.

Michael Medved always seems to come up with statistics that contradict common knowledge and common sense.  In the midst of the obvious hard times in America, Michael Medved tells his listeners that 80% of Americans say that they are doing better than ever, even as America experiences record numbers of home forclosures, credit card debt and households without health insurance.  I wonder what color the sky is in Michael Medved’s world.

Hugh Hewitt and Dennis Prager have recently stated that John McCain can’t be a conservative because he believes in global warming.  This is especially interesting because Prager has often said that liberals have no room for disagreement on key issues.  He says that the left ostrasizes anyone who does not agree, and declares that such people cannot be true liberals.  He has frequently stated that the left requires you to believe in global warming in order to be considered as a liberal.  However, right-wing talkers, like Hewitt and Prager, are doing the same thing to McCain.  He is being ostrasized because he does believe in global warming.  So right- wingers have no room for diagreement either when it comes to global warming.  If you want to be considered a conservative by right wing talk gurus, you have to oppose global warming.  This is pure hypocrisy.  Oh, but that’s right, Dennis Prager says that the dictionary definition of hypocrisy is wrong.