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The Rightwing Hate Machine (first part)

The radical right wing of American politics; has in recent years gotten more and more vile, full of hate and fear.

Political pundits like Ann Coulter and talk show hosts like Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh fire off their hate-seeking-missle on a daily basis.

However I draw a distingtion between what I call the 'right-wing' and 'traditional conservatives'. There is nothing wrong with having a conservitive view of politics. But right-wing politcs in today's America has moved so far to the right of the political spectrum, that it's moved into dangerous teretory. The Young Turks news show compiled a very compelling list of quotes of right-wing talk show hosts and pundits; exposing their radical views, and here they are all credit goesto the TYT Network.

Three parts to this, first below is quotes, second is incidents of right-wing violence and third is some forum posts I collected online.

"I want people in Minnesota armed and dangerous on this issue of the energy tax because we need to fight back. Thomas Jefferson told us, having a revolution every now and then is a good thing."

Rep. Michele Bachmann
R-MN

"...if this Congress keeps going the way it is, people are really looking toward those Second Admendemnt remedies and saying my goodness what can we do to turn this contry around? I'll tell you the first thing we need to do is take Harry Reid out."

Sharron Angle

"I tell people don't kill all the liberals. Leave enough so we can have two on every campus-living fossils-so we will never forget what these people stood for."

Rush Limbaugh

"We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed, too."

Ann Coulter

approving of the tea party... "the militant wing of the Republican Party."

Newt Gingrich

"We have become, or are becoming, enslaved by the government... I dare'em to try to come throw me in jail. I dare'em to. I'll pull out my wife's shotgun and see how that little ACS twerp likes being scared at the door. They're not going on my property."

Erick Erickson
CNN Commentator

"My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times building."

Ann Coulter

'Put anything in my scope and I will shoot it.' - In Barton's PowerPoint presentation specificaly regarding the Obama Administration.

Rep. Joe Barton
R-TX

"I am convinced that the most important thing the Founding Fathers did to ensure me my First Amendments rights was they gave me a Second Amendment. And if ballots don't work, bullets will."

Joyce Kaufman
Former Chief of Staff for Rep. Allen West