My only comment is that none of this is new for the Republican party. That was the essence of the Southern Strategy - fear of whites' losing their privileged place. They've exploited workers' fear of losing their jobs to convince them that the cause of that fear is Affirmative Action or some other convenient bogeyman. They exploited it in the Red Scare of the 1950's. It's been their stock-in-trade for decades. And the reason is quite simple - their actual policies are staggeringly unpopular. If elections were actually referenda on their policy positions they'd get no more than 20% of the vote. So they've become experts in misdirection. And Democrats, with a few exceptions, have been abysmally bad at exposing their strategy and turning the discussion to their actual policies.

Democrats have to stop being polite. They need to call a spade a spade. This is why it's so refreshing to hear Alan Grayson or Joe Biden call them out on it in explicit terms. Democrats engage in long-winded explanations of why their policies are better. Republicans shout "Liar!" Which will people remember?

There is another factor in almost all the instances of intolerance you've mentioned - from formation of the Klan to anti-immigrant backlash today. That is a disconnect between government and governed. Americans no longer believe their government is looking out for them. No one is addressing their concerns or even speaking their language. Both parties are in the hands of the same people who've shoved Americans' home values underwater, who crap shoot away their futures and bleed them dry with corporate welfare.

Afraid? Paranoid? Very.

The modern American media insists we bury our true feelings and spout politically correct gibberish. Our feelings aren't our own, and everything is wrong about them. Our new, astringent social etiquette has damned us to dishonesty or silence. We cannot dump the incessant sanctimony of the thought police from our heads. The repellent codes we must follow are driving us crazy.

America's scribes, who record more their own arrogant dismissal of Americans than our genuine record, will condemn us out of hand and out of context. We will be portrayed as raving, panicky sheep - fearful of everything and nothing.

In truth, we have plenty of which to be afraid. You want Americans to be kinder and gentler? Less "intolerant"? The powers that be could begin by treating Americans a little kindler, gentler.

They won't. And here's the crazy part: They'll NEVER be blamed for whatever is spawned.

Anatomy of intolerance is ably highlighted today by Matt Bai in the New York Times on the left-wingers' attitudes to the clear and obvious problem we have with Social Security.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/26/us/politics/26bai.html?_r=1&hp

Tolerance:

http://www.mynorthwest.com/category/local_news_articles/20100803/RepublicansAreADisease.com-target-Bothell-couple/

Many Americans (and politicians who the polls) don't want a mosque at Manhattan's Ground Zero.

This is coming from the belief that needs of the many out way the needs of the few, the many believe Ground Zero is halo ground that should not be disrespected by the few who would force their immigrant culture and religious beliefs are the many. The few are resisting efforts by the many to assimilate into the national culture and is disrespecting the wishes of the many. The few could easily accommodate the wishes of the many without giving up any constitutional rights or liberties but choose to be disrespectful and intolerant of the many. The idea of when in Roman do as the Romans do is rejected by the few that freely come to the land of the many.

An increasing percent believe the President is a Muslim.

This is coming from President Obama’s ambiguity on his origin of birth; Obama could have complied with Democrat Phillip Berg’s suit to produce documents to prove his eligibility to be president. Answering that suit would have cleared any ambiguity of his citizenship or religious background but Obama chose to stonewall and refuse to answer complaints regarding or concerning his background or citizenship in a court of law. Obama’s father was a Muslim and by Islamic traditions a son is consider Muslim if the father is Muslim, the majority of Muslim world sees Obama as a Muslim. The fact “Barry Soetoro” went to a Muslim school in Indonesia as a child confuses some people. Obama has sealed his college records that may or may not reveal he was a Muslim in Indonesia. Obama said he found Christ (his words) in Jeremiah Wright’s Church. Liberation theology seems very odd to most Americans and don’t recognized it as Christian doctrine.

I personally think he is a Christian that most Christians don't recognize.

Most Americans approve of Arizona's new law allowing police to stop anyone who looks Hispanic and demand proof of citizenship.

I don’t know of any AZ Law that allows police to stop anyone who looks Hispanic to demand proof of citizenship.

SB 1070 does allow local law enforcement on routine traffic stops to ask for proof of citizenship or to be turned over to ICE if the driver does not provide a proper driver’s license, registration or proof of insurance.

Misrepresenting the AZ Law does not help your cause Mr. Reich.

Most would deny citizenship to children born in the United States to parents who are here illegally.

This coming from the proper reading and understanding of the 14th Amendment itself, if anyone says the original intent of the 14th Amendment was to give birthright citizenship to the children of illegal aliens they are lying.
ludicrous to suggest our 14th Amendment that mentions a legal naturalization process to become a citizen would also give citizenship rights to a group of people that did not follow the same legal naturalized process to become a citizen to begin with!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

Section 1 also includes a formal definition of citizenship. During the original debate over the amendment, Senator Jacob M. Howard of Michigan—the author of the citizenship clause—described the clause as excluding not only "Indians", but also “persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers.” Howard also stated the word "jurisdiction" meant the United States possessed a “full and complete jurisdiction” over the person described in the amendment. Such meaning precluded citizenship to any person who was beholden, in even the slightest respect, to any sovereignty other than a U.S. state or the federal government.

The 14th Amendment’s intent was directed at Freed Slaves and to overturn the Dred Scott decision, not to give “Anchor Babies” citizenship rights. Not acknowledging this commonly known fact about the 14th Amendment is very disingenuous and misleading by the author, it shows how his dogma gets in the way of established history.
The truth is Progressives need “Anchor Babies” to continue their slight advantages at voting booth. When these “Anchor Babies” have finally come to voting age, you all know full well they will not vote for a party that wants to deport their parents back to their countries of origin or deny their parents citizenship rights.

It’s very dangerous for this nation to have people that have come to this country illegally determining the outcome of our elections and it’s just as dangerous to have their children deciding the fate of this nation!

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People, after being endlessly reminded that no one is building a mosque remain persistently and willfully ignorant. It is not a mosque and the proposed community center is not being built anywhere near Ground 0. This is New York City's call. Other opinions are pointless. NYC is perfectly capable of deciding what it wants to allow (or not) without the advice of every low life demagogues in the country trying to run NYC's game.

I see a lot of gross overgeneralizations here like "America is becoming more bigoted and intolerant". Sure, America, like all other countries has a history of bigotry, but it also has a history of forthrightly confronting it. I think most people who live in big cities see plenty of people from other countries, belonging to various ethnic and racial groups who are succeeding in getting ahead in America, and a "bigoted" society would not have such a thing.
A poll I heard yesterday says only 31% of Americans have a "postive view of Islam", down from 40% five years ago. This means a lot of Democrats and Obama voters don't have "positive feelings" about Islam, so it is not just Tea Partiers and Republicans that have this problem.

The problem boils down to this.....Why do so many Americans have doubts about Islam and Muslims? The US has come under attack by radical Muslims, and not just on 9/11. There was also Major Hasas (an American military officer!) at Ft Hood, and there are the American jihadists who went to the Middle East to fight against America there. Now, we can say, as Bush did that "there were a tiny group of extremists who hijacked a great religion". The question that I think is troubling everyone is whether that is indeed the case. The vast majority of Muslims don't carry out terrorits attacks, but WHAT IS THE ATTITUDE OF THOSE WHO DON'T CARRY OUT VIOLENCE IN THE NAME OF ISLAM TO THOSE WHO DO?

There are several possible answers:
(1) Those appalled by the violence and who view it as absolutely unacceptable to Islam, even if there are legitimate grievances with American policy towards Muslims.
(2) Those appalled by the violence because it can cause a backlash against American Muslims.
(3) Those who are indifferent, saying that they had nothing to do with it so it is not their problem.
(4) Those who feel that those who carried out the attacks "meant well" because of "legitimate grievances" against the US, but they didn't understand the true "Islamic" way of dealing with problems like this.
(5) Those who feel that those who carried out the attacks "meant well", but they went too far because they didn't realize the damage that it caused to the image of Islam in the West.
(6) Those how carried out the attacks did the right thing and an individual non-violent Muslim may admire them for it but he doesn't believe he could do it himself.

I am convinced that the Americans who have a negative view of Islami have it because they don't know how most Muslims in the world, and particularly in the US, would classify themselves according to the categories I laid out above. I certainly don't know the answer myself. However, there are certain indicators avialable:
(1) How do American Muslims relate to the internecine slaughter of Muslims by other Muslims in places like Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan, Algeria, Yemen, Somalia, etc? Do they take an active role in denouncing the violence, saying this is a defiling of Islam to carry out such violence in the name of their faith, or are they basically indifferent?
(2) Do American Muslims take an active role in dissemenating information that denounces the attacks carried out in the US and the West?
(3) Are Muslim leaders in the US behaving consistently by denouncing violence while they are the US and then doing the same when they are in Muslim countries (a good negative example is the fellow who was Major Hasan's mentor who denounced the 9/11 violence but then went to Yemen and became an extreme anti-American agitator?).
(4) How is it that "close allies" of the US like Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Egypt expect to be friends of the US and yet, at the same time, have their state-controlled media spew out extreme anti-American and anti-Western propaganda?
All these things are constantly being encountered in the news media and they do affect the people that hear it.

Again, the problem is that most Americans do not know that answers to the question I raised, and until they do, I am afraid Muslims in the US are going to encounter suspicion on the part of other Americans.

Who are you people? Are you for EVERYTHING that tears down this country? It boggles the mind that, since 911, you have been more concerned with the plight of those who MURDERED 3,000 American Men, Women and CHILDREN, than with the Families of the Dead.
"Oh my gosh. Look how these poor people are being treated in Guantanamo. I heard that a KORAN was flushed down the toilet. Somebody help these poor Muslims. I don't care how many AMERICANS they've SLAUGHTERED. They don't deserve to have water poured over their face. And everybody knows that 911 was an inside job, and that no Jews came to work that day, and even if they DID DO IT, America DESERVED IT."
I have an idea. If they want to build their Mosque, let them build it somewhere else. I know that you're too STUPID to realize this, but, just because you have a RIGHT to your Religion, you DON'T have a right to put your Edifice anywhere you want.
Gov. Patterson has offered this Scumbag free land to build his VICTORY MOSQUE someplace else. I'm thinking that they shut put it next to the Waste Treatment Plant. Or someplace where we BURN GARBAGE or throw USED CONDOMS. Maybe someplace where the DIRTY DIAPERS are tossed.
This is NOT a project of PEACE and UNDERSTANDING. If it was, than this Imam and his America Hating, Jew Hating, Hamas Loving, pail of worms looking WIFE, would UNDERSTAND that we don't want it there. This building isn't just NEAR Ground Zero. It IS Ground Zero. It was HIT by that GOAT LICKER - Attas' Jet. Part of the jet crashed in to this building. UNDERSTAND? It's Ground Zero.
Let this Lying sack of Camel Sh*t build his Mosque someplace else. Let him go to 42nd Street. Let him go to 1st Avenue. Better yet, Let him go to Hell.
And he can take all of you self hating queers with him.

Intolerance? Yeah... I know a little bit about intolerance.

Obama is the most intolerant president of outside ideas that this country has ever had. He rarely holds news conferences. His advisers are all leftist ideologues. He does not engage in conversation and rarely departs from his Teleprompter dialogue.

In other words - Obama is absolutely closed to any new ideas, based on the evidence of what is working and what is not working. That is the epitome of "intolerance", is it not? And of course the writer, Robert Reich, being in the same mold of Obama... will never understand this.

And to cap things off... tomorrow I have a meeting with our insurance provider... who has already telegraphed to us that our insurance rates are going to rise dramatically. . Thank you Obama! Welcome to Obama care.

"Many Americans (and politicians who the polls) don't want a mosque at Manhattan's Ground Zero.

An increasing percent believe the President is a Muslim.

Most Americans approve of Arizona's new law allowing police to stop anyone who looks Hispanic and demand proof of citizenship.

Most would deny citizenship to children born in the United States to parents who are here illegally."

This is why many say America is a right of center
nation. I say many in America are a mile wide and a half inch deep. AND KEEP THE GOVERNMENT OUT OF MY MEDICARE!!!

Articles don't get much shallower than this one so I'll be brief.

The ONLY international terrorists are Muslims, and illegal immigrants are costing the US close to half a trillion dollars a year - trillion and not billion.

Michael

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Michael

Democrats et al have got to understand that the Tea Party Republicans have a "take no prisoners" approach this year and 2012. Somehow, I don't know if the D Leadership gets it. Joe Biden is talking some about the "malarkey". He needs to be joined by others. Harry Reid is not my "father's majority leader."
I voted for an 8 cylinder turbo charged candidate in 2008, but it seems in the spirit of bipartisanship, I now have a 4 cylinder Democratic leader in the White House and U.S.Senate.

I said it recently, but it needs repeating; for some reason we don't quite understand as yet, the right wing fear machine led by Fox News isn't getting the fear mileage out of Al Queda and the Taliban they once enjoyed so fruitfully, again for reasons history might reveal but as yet are mysteries.

So they need the WHOLE OF ISLAM to vilify.

Maybe it is that moderate, peace-loving Muslims are living among us, peacefully building their houses of worship and cultural enclaves, so they are so much more exposed to the hate mongers than the exotic and extreme Taliban and Al Queda that the right has depended on for strawman status and perpetuation of the arcane war machine.
By fomenting fear and loathing in places like Iowa and Minnesota and Texas, etc, places where the people do not share their everday lives with a thriving multi-ethnic community, the right wing perpetuates it's money machine.

Seriously, how on Earth can you maintain a bloated no-bid military to make your millionaire pals into billionaires, if you don't have a world-class enemy to hate?

Al Queda and the Taliban were just too trivial in reality to maintain that strawman of global proportions, so now they are attacking a whole religion for what its reprobate members do.

I connected the dots and did not see a picture of fear. My picture is one of Americans who are not afraid, but who are very unhappy with our current political ruling class, which by the way, includes Mr. Reich. The only fear I see from connecting Mr. Reich's choice of dots is the fear being expressed by Democrats of an upcoming electoral disaster and with the help of Mr. Reich, they are desperate to do anything to deflect American's thoughts from the disaster of the past 4 years of a Democratically controlled Congress and the past two years of the Obama presidency. The fear is the thought of these people remaining in power after November.

Fire, ice, asteroids, volcanoes, global climate change, pole shifts, war, gay rights, race, religious disputes, oil disasters, financial collapses, American Idol, political parties, Jersey Shore, riots in Greece... they are all bogeymen with which we distract ourselves from the real threat of our time.

In an age when everyone invents his own truth, there is no community, no commons, only factions and fractures.

Without community, without a sense of commons, there can be no consensus to resist the greedy, the envious, the cynical, the solipsistic and power-mad narcisists who sieze control and turn the institutions of civilization into a series of doom machines, real or imagined.

The question each of us needs to ask ourselves is, which side of this very real conflict are we on?

Do you honestly believe that "every man for himself" and "I've got mine" are real answers, and that the civilization that allows you to operate that way is actually beneficial and will be self-sustaining if everyone thinks and behaves that way?

Or, do you believe that we ARE our brothers' keepers, and that by fostering that belief, and by building a true commons we can all share in order to prosper, we will all end up in a better world?

I guess anybody with a computer can now be considered a journalist or columnist. This guy is so transparent, and I mean that in a derogatory way, that it’s pathetic.

Let's take your ridiculous points one by one and dismantle them shall we? Maybe, just maybe, you will get your head out of your ass and into the light of day.

1. Most Americans don't want a Mosque at Ground Zero.
I could just say, Duh, but then that would equal your writings, so I'll just stick to fact.
Perhaps the memory of the murder of 3000 Americans on that very spot (600 feet away, close enough)by Muslims is the reason? Why don't you understand that? Do you know anything about the Muslim pal?

Let me give you a brief history lesson. Muhammad wanted to be a man of respect due to the incessant demands and challenges by his own father. He therefore decided upon religion to be his venue to fulfill his want.

Since he would be inventing his own legacy, why not reinvent religion? So he took the Torah and even some of the New Testament to shape his warped new religion.

Many opposed this idea as they were perfectly happy worshiping Allah as Arabs had been doing for quite some time.

But Big M wanted to subdue those particular believers as he knew he would be dead monkey shit had he tried to spew his lies in the west.

So he had to figure a way to make Allah a murderous god, a fearful god who believed his followers should "Suck the tongue of boys," "Murder all those who do not belong to the faith," "Treat women no better than any donkey or camel," etc.

Since the god Allah’s doctrine now became subjective to and reflective of one man's ideology, there was no limit to the depravity and whimsical fancy of the god’s new master, Muhammad. It is no different today folks. Believe that. The only moderate Muslim is the Muslim who is outnumbered. He will bide his time as he has for 1600 years. But his agenda is to 1. evangelize. 2. convert. 3. Subject. 4. Transform the countries. Follow their lineage and history. But then that would take hard work and investigative reporting methods wouldn’t it? And as a liberal, you don’t want to work do you? You just want to assume, to throw it out there and see what sticks right?

Today, millions of Christians are being slaughtered, raped, tortured, imprisoned, and displaced only because of their audacity to worship the true God, Jesus Christ. Did you know that pal? Do you care? I doubt it. Why weren’t you fighting to help that little church cut through the red tape? I think the Mayor is a Christophobe and now, you are too. That’s right. You are all Christophobes. Bigots. Haters.

You same zealots for Mosques are not zealous for Churches are you? Hmm. You would rather stand up for people that treat women like dogs? Who behead with knives? Who believe in Sharia Law? Now, who is the idiot?

By the way, this Christian slaughter is done on world wide scale with the absolute blessings of the governments of every Muslim Nation. Oh, for our benefit, some may denounce such atrocities, but let's not be as stupid as you portend we are ok?

2. An increasing number of Americans believe the president to be Muslim.

Gee, I wonder why? Could it be he stated, "We are NOT a Christian Nation?" Or maybe it was the way his head almost hit the ground when he bowed to the Saudi King? Or maybe it was the fact that he threw pastor Grahm out of the WH but is a huge participant in Ramadan at that same house? Or maybe it was his stating that the Islamic prayer heard from the Mosque was the most beautiful sound in the world? A Christian would never state such a thing. Or maybe it was when he let slip in an interview..."my muslim faith..." But the reporter obligingly corrected him..."you mean your Christian faith..." Again, a Christian would never make that mistake. NEVER!

So gee buddy, are you saying that because there is some serious doubt about Muhammad, I mean, Barak Hussein Obama’s Christian faith is stemmed from fear? Really? Or maybe it stems from intelligence? What do you think?

3. Most Americans approve of Arizona's new law...blah blah blah blah, lie, misquote, lie about racism.

You can't be that morally corrupt can you? Without giving you the litany of every atrocity being committed and perpetrated upon the American citizenry and public treasuries concerned with many facets of the economy, I'll just say: YOU ARE WRONG! On all counts. By the way, you heard about the house of horrors on the border today right? How many people were slaughtered in that house? How many beheaded? Yea buddy. Let’s keep the borders open. Good plan. It’s the color of their skin and my shrinking savings accounts that make me want to take an Ak-47 and light up those evil perpetrators. Couldn’t be the incredible vile and evil that the people of that color perpetrate could it? Naw. You’re right.

4. It's called fear. When people are deeply anxious about holding on to their homes, their jobs, and their savings, they look for someone to blame. And all too often they find it in "the other" - in people who look or act differently, who come from foreign lands, who have what seem to be strange religions, who cross our borders illegally.

See, when people need to worry about hanging onto homes and jobs and money, that's because there IS A PROBLEM. You can call it whatever you want as most liberals like you can only label, you can't produce. You can't correct. You can't do anything worthwhile. The only thing you can do is label everyone else, blame everyone else and continue to lead people down the wrong path.

Look or act differently. Let's get this straight> Your beloved president and every one of you lying media puppets are the reason, the cause, the acidic-laden chutes of perpetrating fear. This is your card, your banner, your platform from which you spew. just listen to liberal talk radio. It's vile, its corrupt, and it accelerates fear and propagates hate. How you ask?

You attack the American. You never attack the source or bane of our ire. Everything we believe in, you attack. We are angry at you! Not the person who looks differently for I don't know if you are aware of this fact or not, but the United States is made up of people who look differently one from another. So you must be talking about one specific group of people who all look one way. I wonder who that might be? Care to spell it out there chump?
I've already gone over the "Strange religions" part previously.

Oh, I like how you not-so-subtly mixed in the idea that if we think the President is "one of them" then there is something wrong with us. Let’s check ourselves people. Don’t you dare speak out against the pres. If you do, there just might be something wrong with you. Hey pal, should we call the shrink and get the paddy wagon? You know, this sounds just a little too Orwellian to me. Does it to you?

5.We are far from that. But it's important to understand the roots of America's growing intolerance. And to fight the hate-mongers and cynical opportunists who are using the fears unleashed by this awful economy to advance their own sordid agendas.

Hate mongers. Every clip I see is the left spewing all kinds of hate at the right. Clip after clip, article after article, talk show, cable news shows, line after line, its the left who hate.

You bring up false accusations and try to label falsely. Just like you are doing right now.

We are the most tolerant nation on earth. People, don't listen to this hack, this wannabe. This bum. He got his journalism certificate, not diploma, from an online music school no doubt. Chump. Liar. Do you remember the day after 9-11? I don’t remember any mosques being blown to bits. Do you? How about day 2? Day 50? Week 30? Nothing? Hmm. I’d say we are pretty tolerant, and I’ll bet we would have acted the same way even if our bank accounts were drying up. The problem is Obama.

Hey bud, your president and VP, who just stated it again, believes we are on the right track economically. So why would we believe otherwise? Why shouldn't we be jumping up and down for joy?

It is time to stomp these liars and propaganda mongers out of the light of day. It is time to revolt against the heathens and barbarians who are driving this country to the brink of socialism or worse. By political correctness, they devour the nation.

Yours truly,
Your enemy.

Concerning your facts:
1) A majority felt Japanese interment was a good idea - was it?

2) A majority used to feel interracial marriage should be against the law: Should it?

The Constitution and Bill of Rights exists just for these very times. When the majority tries to trample on the rights of the few.

A christian nation. Simply put this is not a Christian Nation it is a secular nation made up of many faiths and more than a few non believers.

And the true God? Why is your God any truer than anybody else's? I think you might get an argument from the Jews, Hindus, Buddhist, those who follow Shintoism and the numerous other faiths who do not follow your one true God. And I have a feeling if there is an afterlife you are going to run into more than a few of them.

"God has no religion” Mahatma Gandhi

As long as we are making general arguments, I will reply in kind.

Happy is The Left whenever it finds an Ad Hominem reason for rejecting the whole argument, relieving it of the onus even to respond to an issue, happier still if it can find a single reason to reject a pile of issues at once.

A Stellar member of The Left, Reich knows himself to be a shining light - one of the few with a mind and heart clear enough to lead the rest of the pitifully misguided masses of humanity that vote.

Mosques, President Barrack Hussein Obama, Arizona Immigration Law, Citizenship - Whish! Out Reich's window with two easy words: Economic Stress. Wasn't that easy?

Too easy. Economic Stress did not spawn these issues, and it does not spawn genocide. Ideologies spawn genocide, Mr Reich - Nazi-ism, Communism - murdered 4 million and 93 million respectively.

But Politics are still politics the world over. What is Rahm Emmanuel's creed for his President? "NEVER LET A CRISIS GO TO WASTE."

Well let's return to just one issue and look at it again - The Mosque. Do you know that scholars in the Middle East concluded the Mosque is a "Zionist Conspiracy" to incite hatred of Islam? That's right, it goes with the plot by the CIA to knock down the WTC. "Who would do such a thing as build a Mosque on the rubble?!!" they ask. It seems inconceivable to them. No Muslim could be so insensitive about this place!

...And yet, to Mr Reich, it is wrong for US Citizens to question it! Wrong for US Citizens to oppose the Mosque!! It is not rational - it is irrationality caused by Economic Stress, seething out around the edges and driven by unscrupulous demagogues. --What an amazing stance!

There is no real issue here for Mr Reich. He is blithely blinded by his faith in the utter superiority of his thought. He rises above humanity into the light airy space of heavenly clouds of progress!

In a way, he is right. He is not like the rest of us, struggling to come to terms with each other on real issues in a real world that we must live in together.

..Well, no one has died. No one has lost their rights. Few are even talking about depriving anyone of their rights - and they are being castigated from all sides. It is messy, and loud, and difficult -- but no one ever said Democracy should always be easy.

"The Left whenever it finds an Ad Hominem reason for rejecting the whole argument, relieving it of the onus even to respond to an issue, happier still if it can find a single reason to reject a pile of issues at once.", true...very true and that is why there is a progressive jihad under way as we speak to BAN me from this site of progressive propaganda.

Unfortunatley the intollerace comes from the President. He wants us to be tollerant of religous beliefs but has spent 2 years getting us to fear the religous right. Christians and Muslims both believe homosexuality is a sin and the President has basically got America to fear Christians. Now that fear is being transferred to Muslims. I am not surprised. When the president instills intollerance everyone will follow.

Robert Reich you are a perfect example of why the public holds the press in contempt. Among your other lies you state: Most Americans approve of Arizona's new law allowing police to stop anyone who looks Hispanic and demand proof of citizenship.

You are either:
1 Very lazy ... since it is easy enough for anyone (even a reporter!) to access and READ this law. Not only does it NOT state what you claim but the law contains a clause explicitly outlawing what you claim it makes legal!
2 Extremely stupid ... because the law is very easy to understand. It basically allows AZ officials to enforce the federal law ... when someone is stopped for another reason ... NEVER simply to check immigration status.
3 A professional liar. If you read the law ... and understood it then only one possibility remains ... you chose to deliberately misrepresent it.
4 Some combination of 1-2-3.

BTW: I happen to look Hispanic (perhaps because my mother is Hispanic) and live in AZ. I assure you I am much more concerned about self-righteous liars such as yourself than being stopped by AZ police.

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