The mainstreaming of idiot America

Attempting to talk out of both sides of one's mouth, usually involves inserting one's foot and chewing vigorously. Such is the case here. Mr. Fischer states there shouldn't be a backlash against Muslims in America yet, in the next breath, cheerfully proclaims Muslims shouldn't be allowed to serve in the US military or emigrate to this country...Yeah...No backlash.

Now, picture this...at the Values Voter Summit in Washington this week, Mr. Fischer...with visions of holy war against Islam dancing in his head...will be sharing the stage with GOP leaders and presidential wannabes. People like Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, Mike Pence, Michele Bachman, Jim Demint, Mike Huckabee, and other luminaries of the GOP. Really? Is there ANY political accountability on the right for those actively embracing this formerly fringe rhetoric? So far as can be seen, no. The red meat base of the GOP is actively embracing this message. Never mind that Obama's plea on Friday echoed the sentiments of George W. Bush on the matter...We are not at war with Islam, we are at war with terrorists disguised as Muslims.

What we see here is a group of ideologues for whom Islam is a convenient scapegoat...A different religion which they have differences with. So rather than keep the debate within the theological realm, where it properly belongs, they (by they I mean Limbaugh, Beck, Gingrich, et al) drag the issue kicking and screaming into the political arena. This in order to inflame the emotions of those, and their number is legion, lack the intellectual and emotional wherewithal to see this xenophobia as nothing more than scaring white people for fun and political profit.