Why is the conservative media getting so hysterical about Obama targeting right-wing extremists?

[NNN0LHI]

http://mediamatters.org/items/200904150014?f=h_top

Conservative media freak-out: claim Obama DHS targeting conservatives in report on right-wing extremists

Summary: Conservatives in the media are citing a declassified DHS report detailing potential increases in right-wing extremism to claim that the Obama administration is targeting conservatives and others simply because they disagree with administration policies and proposals. snip

On the April 14 edition of CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight, Dobbs asked viewers: "Do you think a person concerned about borders and ports that are unsecured, illegal immigration, Second Amendment rights, or a returning veteran from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is likely or even possibly probable, as the Department of Homeland Security suggests, to be a right-wing extremist?" As Media Matters for America noted, the DHS report warned of a possible resurgence among extremist groups that "will attempt to recruit and radicalize returning veterans in order to exploit their skills and knowledge derived from military training and combat," citing, in part, a 2008 FBI report authored during the Bush administration.

On the April 14 edition of Fox News' Hannity, Hannity stated that DHS "is warning law enforcement officials about the rise in right-wing extremist activity" and asserted that the department "would define it as people that maybe think we're not controlling our borders, people that have pro-life bumper stickers." Hannity later claimed: "Now if you disagree with that liberal path that President Obama's taken the country down, you may soon catch the attention of the Department of Homeland Security. Now the DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis has issued an intel assessment that warns of a rise of what they're calling right-wing extremism. But critics of the report say their definition of a right-wing extremist sounds awfully close to somebody who might simply just disagree with the Obama administration."

During the April 14 edition of Fox News' Your World, guest host David Asman stated that Tantaros is calling the DHS report "an attempt to silence the right." Tantaros later said of the report, "I'm just wondering if this is just an effort to shut up their critics."

In her April 14 blog post, titled, "Confirmed: The Obama DHS hit job on conservatives is real," Malkin wrote: "{T}he piece of crap report issued on April 7 is a sweeping indictment of conservatives."

[Stellabella]

1. Because they're the right-wing extremists.

And they KNOW they are fomenting violence. I'm just waiting for one of those assholes to get their asses sued off.

[Rocknrule]

10. It'd be great if Fox, Coulter, etc. had to give everything they owned

to the Knoxville church shooting victims' families

[Stellabella]

12. Yep. Perfect.

Then ship Coultergeist off to Bangkok and let her fend for herself. (Sorry, Bangkok!)

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. it's a direct attack on their base and viewers.

[Demeter]

3. Cockroaches Run When You Turn on the Lights

[The Magistrate]

4. The Guilty Flee When None Doth Pursue, Sir....

These people know they are seditionists and traitors, and so assume the report is aimed at them, though in fact it is not, but rather at the usual coterie of white-supremacists and ultra-religious radicals who do indeed fantasize, if not actually plot, various acts of sabotage and murder. There is no doubt the right-wing media, Fox News in particular, are actively engaged in whipping up these sorts of people in hope they will commit outrages against President Obama's government.

[NNN0LHI]

5. Kind of like when someone gives me an answer to a question I never asked

Thats what it reminds me of anyway.

Great to see you around this magnificent day, Sir.

Don

[Robbien]

6. Because getting hysterical gets people to retract/apologize

Didn't the Obama Admin go on MSNBC to "explain" the report
and didn't Peter Coyote just apologize for calling GOPers wingnuts

The wingnuts go hyper nuts when criticized and they get DC Dems and the media quivering in their boots.

[Turbineguy]

7. Fox left out

people who ate spaghetti.

Watch out, spaghetti lovers, "They" are out to get you!

[get the red out]

8. If your viewers get themselves locked up on terrorism charges

your ratings might go down.

[OHdem10]

9. Anyone with a thimble full of Intelligence should recognize that

Right Wing Extremists Groups usually means The Arian Nation, The Skin Heads
The KKK or Separatists in Idaho.

As usual the GOP on constant look for a Wedge to divide the country,
has "interpreted" the report so as to make it look like they are
attacking rank and file Republicans.

Look, the GOP is looking for any instance in which they can try to
make Obama and Democrats look bad.

If they want to absorb the guilt and defend groups like the Klan, so
be it.

[sinkingfeeling]

11. First off, the report came from the BUSH DHS not Obama's.