6 Right-Wing Lunacies This Week: Rupert Murdoch's Post-Hebdo Advice Is 'Just Stop Being Muslim'

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http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/6-right-wing-lunacies-week-rupert-murdochs-post-hebdo-advice-just-stop-being


1. Rupert Murdoch: Basically, just don’t be Muslim.

Fox, O’Reilly, CNN and right-wingers of all kinds have been harping away at the Muslim community all week about the need for moderate Muslims the world over to condemn the Charlie Hebdo attack and subsequent violence in Paris. Many Muslims and their leaders have done just that, although Fox can’t seem to locate these numerous condemnations. Bill Maher grudgingly seemed to make some distinction between more moderate and extremist Muslims on Friday night, though he still refers to the “Muslim world” as a single block of identically minded violent people. But Rupert Murdoch does them all one better. Blame moderate Muslims, even if they condemn extremist jihadis.



2. Phyllis Schlafly’s solution to campus rape: Fewer women.

Everyone can stop trying to solve the problem of campus rape. Phyllis Schlafly has a brilliant idea: stop admitting so many women.


3. Mitch McConnell invents a time machine, takes credit for things he had nothing to do with.

You can be as cynical as the day is long, but you can never out-pace or predict the sheer outlandishness of congressional Republicans. And so it was, that in one of his first acts of the new year, newly minted Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell took credit, retroactively, for the economic recovery seen in the positive job numbers in December. His pretzel logic? It was all the excitement about the incoming Republican-controlled Congress, McConnell said.

4. Rudolph Giuliani: If you oppose mosque surveillance, you’re obviously up to no good.

Favorite Fox guest, right-wing blowhard Rudy Giuliani has long loved the police state, and seldom misses an opportunity to call for ramped up policing. He displayed this penchant in the wake of recent police shootings of unarmed black men—which he says are the fault of the black community—and went at it again in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in Paris this week.

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1. Murdoch: "Maybe most Moslems (sic) peaceful ..." Let's not be too generous there, Bob!

"Maybe!" That would leave the impression that "most Moslems" are violent, hence actual or potential terrorists.

And 'maybe' most right wing publishers like to stir up divisions between people in order to advance their political agenda.

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