Right-Wing Census Paranoia

Right Wing Watch | Sep. 25, 2009 (Editorial)

(Video) There are many unanswered questions about the tragic hanging death of Bill Sparkman, a US Census Bureau employee, in rural Kentucky. But one thing is clear. Right-Wing leaders like Congresswoman Michele Bachmann and media outlets like Fox News have whipped up hysteria and paranoia over the 2010 Census. Mr. Sparkman's untimely demise may or may not have been the doing of an anti-government fanatic, but it’s clear that the Right is creating an environment ... Full Story »

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Walter Cox
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 by Walter Cox - Sep. 26, 2009

This piece is flawed in many ways. It provides little context, specifically ignoring the anti-government propoganda generated by the left during the Bush years. And it cherry-picks from Fox news broadcasts in an attempt to demonstrate a pattern of incitement to violence. I'm not sure about the genesis of the last YouTube clip--what was that? This piece utilizes the very tactics it attempts to criticize--rather than a reasoned analysis of events, it attempts to brand critics of the Obama administration as fear-mongering, right wing extremists.

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