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AMERICAblog: THIS JUST IN: Newsmax pulls article suggesting military coup against Obama

  • NotTimothyGeithner · 2 months ago
    Will we get at least a House resolution condemning Newsmax? Probably not, it would upset Republicans, and we can't have that.
  • Butch1 · 2 months ago
    After throwing this stink bomb, the right backtracks and scatters like cockroaches when a light is turned on.

    Republicans, you made these guys and you own them.
  • vkobaya · 2 months ago
    I expect silent and an olive branch.

    I expect Obama to put a bullseye on his chest to prove how bipartisan he is while again condemning the "Left of the Left."
  • osage · 2 months ago
    TODAY’S REPUBLICANS ARE AMERICA'S ENEMY WITHIN

    Republicans ARE practicing seditious DEMAGOGUERY and anti-democracy OBSTRUCTIONISM intended to destabilize our economy for purposes of political exploitation.

    Republicans AREN'T making a sincere effort to STOP the bleeding THEIR incompetent leadership and failed policies created. Instead, they're using inflammatory lies and accusations as a smokescreen to conceal their subversive agenda, which is to cause President Obama and America to fail so they can blame Democrats for the consequences of THEIR calamitous mismanagement.

    Republicans ARE preposterously professing that THEIR disgraceful political WHORING had nothing to do with the banking, real estate, stock market and employment catastrophes that resulted.

    Republicans ARE trying to hamstring Democrats to prevent them from repairing the damage caused during a Republican presidency that was irresponsibly enabled by Republican Senators and Representatives.

    Republicans ARE offering ridiculous arguments meant solely to disrupt and prevent progressive change. They'd rather divide America and create political gridlock than endure the political consequences of effective Democratic governance.

    Republicans AREN'T the LOYAL OPPOSITION; they ARE the ENEMY WITHIN whose mercenary personal priorities have eroded their moral and ethical standards to the point that duplicity and betrayal are their preferred modus operandi.

    It's one thing to advocate their conservative beliefs; it's another thing entirely to willfully sabotage America's government because a successful Democratic presidency would not be vulnerable to the greed, fears and hatreds that have produced and sustained the radical Republican anti-government corporatism and anti-Christian faux theocracies that are poisoning and crippling American society.
  • GrooveBoy · 2 months ago
    Obama will make a pretty speech about how we all need to just get along and work together. What a wimp.
  • Griffon · 2 months ago
    When "hopefully" is used twice in the same paragraph referring to what should be an instinctual response, the odds are prohibitive that a positive outcome is expected.

    With good reason.
  • UncleBucky · 2 months ago
    The GOP has let the rats eat up any political legitimacy they had left. It is a deserted warehouse of empty boxes and sacks. It is a burnt-out shell of crumbling bricks.

    The crazies rule the GOP and, yes, they are looking to detach themselves from the USA. Once they connect with their sleepers in the US military, the mercenaries in Iraq, Afghanistan and many embassies, and finally those Family cells located all over DC and major cities, the Ft. Sumter attackers' descendants will have traction.

    Ugh.
  • xxxevilgrinxxx · 2 months ago
    ugh indeed

    Will Obama do anything? Doubtful. But I do have hope that the next time some GOP clown is running for office, every drop of this crap comes up to remind people exactly what sort of people they're dealing with
  • jurassicpork · 2 months ago
    I'm proud to say that I'm the one who alerted Logan Murphy on Crooks and Liars about that little act of whitewashing this morning. He assures me he's on the case. Problem is, there's no cached version of it anywhere. Hopefully, someone saved the entire text.

    So, right about now we ought to be asking ourselves "Where will the next Fort Sumter Be?"
  • texasshiva · 2 months ago
    The archived copy is on Media Matters:

    http://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/static/pdf/newsmax-20090929-perry_coup.pdf

    (Edited to include link to the pdf)
  • jurassicpork · 2 months ago
    Kewlness. Thanks, Tex.
  • ckg1 · 2 months ago
    ConWebWatch managed to archive a copy of it too...

    http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/graphics/nmperryc...
  • VincentSF · 2 months ago
    you'll get silence and an olive branch. just watch. Nobody will even comment on it. They are too busy caving to the GOP to even notice.
  • unrepentant_expat · 2 months ago
    You'd think that today the right would be gleefully dancing on the grave of socialized medicine, but to them it's just more blood in the water. More than two centuries without a coup d'etat might be one of America's greatest achievement but then again Blackwater hasn't been around for that long.
  • ninjakiller · 2 months ago
    Expect Obama to give a speech asking forgiveness from the author for offending him so and then appointing a blue ribbon panel to look at the merits of a military coup overthrowing him in the name of bipartisanship.
  • Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas · 2 months ago
    Wow! A military coup! Well we've been a Banana Republic since 2000 anyway. Is Caribou Barbie the new Evita????

    "Don't cry for me Argentina"
  • benb · 2 months ago
    You're not just a Liberal if you voted for Obama, you're worse:

    'In the 2008 election, that ["We can always worry about that later."] was the wistful, self-indulgent, indifferent reliance on abnegation of personal responsibility that has sunk the nation into this morass.'

    from: http://mediamatters.org/blog/200909290042
  • RSR · 2 months ago
    remember, simply talking about something is not advocating; they said so themselves: "Describing what may be afoot is not to advocate."


    What really needs 'afoot' is John L. Perry's ass with one up it!
  • ArizonaWill · 2 months ago
    Seems to me that the response has been given. The White House released new pictures of the President playing with his 2 daughters on the lawn. When I saw them, I rejoiced, put my fist in the air and yelled "Yes! Take that, right wing military coup supporters!"
  • NotTimothyGeithner · 2 months ago
    That was to distract people from his failure of leadership concerning healthcare.
  • Indigo · 2 months ago
    A military coup. Golly, we'd be just like Honduras. That could be interesting . . . NOT!
  • Apphouse50 · 2 months ago
    Now watch as Obama & Co. move the line in the sand back yet again: "OH YEAH!? Well now step over THIS! (But why can't we all just get along?)" as he shakes their hand and slaps 'em on the arm.
  • PresPlatitudes · 2 months ago
    obama: it's important to remember that there have been coup discussions before i became president.

    lesson: you can't unlearn being a WUSS
  • munjoyfan · 2 months ago
    This is a call for overthrow of the US Govt. It's called treason. Where is the Senate on this? How about our invisible attorney general?
  • synical · 2 months ago
    They'd rather be passing legislation condemning Move On for Patreus/Betray Us ads. That way they can be all bipartisan about it. Wouldn't want to make the thugs feel uncomfortable for going after their own kind.

    I'm beginning to really despise this sad party.
  • SoLeftImRight · 2 months ago
    Just invite the coup plotters over for beer. Problem solved!
  • Danton · 2 months ago
    Perry insinuates that an increasing number of people, presumably people in the military, are discussing a coup to remove a legally elected president. At the very least, such words should lead the Secret Service to visit Perry and determine from whom he has heard this.
  • mykelb · 2 months ago
    I would hope that the FBI is involved in the investigation and see where it leads in the military and then turn it over to JAG.
  • Jody · 2 months ago
    Don't worry. In the name of balance Obama will be apologizing for those rude people that raised a stink about the article in the first place.
  • ArizonaWill · 2 months ago
    Seems to me, the President needs to go on Letterman again and tell the nation that he understands the military coup mentality, and applauds their interest in defending the US Constitution.
  • sparrow · 2 months ago
    Newsmax says, "Newsmax strongly believes in the principles of Constitutional government and would never advocate or insinuate any suggestion of an activity that would undermine our democracy or democratic institutions."

    Oh really? If that's the case, why did the editors ever allow it to be published in the first place? Now they pulled it from their site because people complained. How responsible and upstanding they are. If they hadn't complained it would be fine? With Newsmax, probably. Once the story is out there it's a little late to pull it back, a little like the impossibility of being just a little bit pregnant.

    Does anyone know anything about the jerk that wrote it?