On his radio program yesterday, Glenn Beck pointed to a victory by a far-right National Front candidate in an election in France to warn that if people don't stop calling Tea Party leaders such as Ted Cruz and Mike Lee "extremists," it'll give rise to a powerful Nazi Party in America.
"I guarantee you," Beck said, "if we don't wake up, if we don't stop calling people like Mike Lee and Ted Cruz extremists, you are going to see a Nazi-style party in this country."
Saying that the true Right is total anarchy and the true Left is big government Republicans like Mitch McConnell, Beck declared that "
the real center of this country is Mike Lee; he is a reasonable man"
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/beck-if-we-dont-stop-calling-ted-cruz-mike-lee-extremists-itll-give-rise-nazi-style-party-am
When I read this, it kind of stuck out to me, it looked familiar to something else, it looked like this...
"All Taliban are moderate. There are two things: extremism ("ifraat", or doing something to excess) and conservatism ("tafreet", or doing something insufficiently).
So in that sense, we are all moderates – taking the middle path."
- Mohammed Omar, the leader of the Taliban
Where is Omar by the way?