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1 posted on 01/18/2007 10:12:59 AM PST by neverdem
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To: neverdem

Excellent post -- thanks.


2 posted on 01/18/2007 10:20:08 AM PST by Albion Wilde (...where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. -2 Cor 3:17)
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To: neverdem

Who is Hedges and why should I care?

The world is full of idiots. And full of idiots who know how to write.

If I use my precious, God given time to read such drivel, am I not an idiot too?


3 posted on 01/18/2007 10:21:38 AM PST by Al Gator (Refusing to "stoop to your enemy's level", gets you cut off at the knees.)
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To: neverdem

What continually amazes me is how much the tactics of the left in this country are beginning to resemble those of the NSDAP in late '20s/early '30s Germany. If any group in the US has taken up the "fascist" mantle, it's the radical left.


4 posted on 01/18/2007 10:24:05 AM PST by Doug Loss
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To: neverdem
Getting down to political substance, Hedges declares that the dominionist movement “is openly hostile to democratic pluralism, and it champions totalitarian policies, such as denying homosexuals the same rights as other Americans...

This sounds a lot like the atheist left.

It's the left that continues to find ways to cheat at the ballot box and keeps demanding, and getting, extra rights for homosexuals.

5 posted on 01/18/2007 10:28:15 AM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: neverdem
Seeing his attempt at chivalry, she froze with indignation — face reddening, fists clenching — and shrieked: “Fascist!”

Trashist sow!

6 posted on 01/18/2007 10:30:10 AM PST by Graymatter
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To: neverdem
His new book is called American Fascists — The Christian Right and The War on America, and, as the title suggests, subtlety is not its strong suit. The front cover bears an image of Jesus holding the American flag. The back cover launches straight into the Nazi comparison: It announces that the legions of “the Christian Right” — the “ideological inheritors” of the Third Reich — have “found a mask for fascism in patriotism and the pages of the Bible.”

He's crazy. Certifiable! He should spend some time in Iran, or Korea, or Saudi Arabia to see some real fascists. An entire book on projection.

7 posted on 01/18/2007 10:31:06 AM PST by Rummyfan (Iraq: Give therapeutic violence a chance!)
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To: neverdem
dominionist movement

He also warns that, if the dominionists have their way, “Women will be removed from the workforce to stay at home, and all those deemed insufficiently Christian will be denied citizenship. . . . The only legitimate voices in this state will be Christian. All others will be silenced.”

What "movement" is this guy talking about?? I've read about the "Christian Reconstructionists" that hold these views, but I believe their international headquarters consist of a trailer out in the California desert. There is a war on freedom in America, waged both by the "secular" left and the "religious" right, but if it were a movie, the "dominionists" wouldn't even be extras.

9 posted on 01/18/2007 10:37:51 AM PST by Freedom_no_exceptions (No actual, intended, or imminent victim = no crime. No exceptions.)
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10 posted on 01/18/2007 10:43:12 AM PST by Gritty (The MSM are active accessories to war waged against the free world–an enemy within-Melanie Phillips)
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To: neverdem

More sobriety from the left.


13 posted on 01/18/2007 10:47:50 AM PST by Ieatfrijoles (110%)
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To: neverdem
“Dominionism”

This nonsense was espoused by Kevin Phillips in his book American Theology. It is in no way supported by anywhere near even 1% of American Evangelicals.

This is another publication in the genre of which Rabbi Lapin has warned.

Another Koolaid drinking author writing lies to make money.

14 posted on 01/18/2007 11:43:48 AM PST by happygrl
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To: neverdem

Hmph... I thought us Jews controlled America.


16 posted on 01/18/2007 12:23:09 PM PST by bruin66 (Time: Nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.)
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To: neverdem

I thought Hedges was a leftist nut a few years back when he was hooted off a commencement stage after ranting about the "evil" U.S. He has now confirmed his insanity with this book.


18 posted on 01/18/2007 1:37:57 PM PST by driftless2
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To: neverdem
More remarkable is that this thoroughly distorted vision of American politics is being espoused by such a solidly mainstream journalist. Chris Hedges worked for 15 years at the New York Times. He has won a Pulitzer Prize, and is now a bestselling author. He’s considered a respected writer and thinker in the liberal cocktail set on both coasts. And here he has written an entire book that is premised on delusion, riddled with paranoia, and positively dripping with sensationalism.

Why is that remarkable? Delusion, paranoia and sensationalism are commonplace among elite journalists. Dan Rather, MoDo, Krugman, Jason Blair and Helen Thomas ring any bells?

19 posted on 01/18/2007 2:16:05 PM PST by LexBaird (98% satisfaction guaranteed. There's just no pleasing some people.)
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To: neverdem
I watched Chris Hedges do his ranting of a left stump speech this morning on C-Span.

I began to count the lies and then he began to distort, spin, twist, deceive, corrupt, embellish, and just plain bald faced lie so much that I began to wonder if he was a sane man. I am not speaking in hyperbole, the man really did come off as a man struggling with his own sanity and barely clinging to reality.

Almost every accusation he made toward the "religious right" was a lie.

However his hysterical accusations of power grabbing, constitution violating, court abusing, hate mongering, cursing, and baiting did match one particular group, that group is the one to which HE belongs.

Hedges is just your typical far left secular or religous fanatic who hates America.

20 posted on 03/17/2007 9:56:15 AM PDT by Old Landmarks (No fear of man, none!)
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To: neverdem

Huh. I never heard of Chris Hedges, but he certainly doesn't sound like a serious person, to say the least. I wonder what makes the author of this review take the assclown seriously enough to review his book?


21 posted on 03/17/2007 10:02:53 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: neverdem
It is evoked anew by the latest literary venture of Chris Hedges, the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and leftist provocateur.

And, it can't be emphasized enough (and as the article notes), a longtime Officially Credentialed Reporter for The New York Times.

24 posted on 03/17/2007 10:16:39 AM PDT by untenured
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To: neverdem
"Pulitzer talent takes on the Right -- and comes up short." So, Chris Hedges is a little faggot? [Where's Ann when we need he in-put?]
25 posted on 03/17/2007 10:19:07 AM PDT by MHGinTN (If you've had life support. Promote life support for others.)
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