{"id":9401,"date":"2006-12-20T16:28:45","date_gmt":"2006-12-20T21:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/9401.html"},"modified":"2006-12-20T16:28:45","modified_gmt":"2006-12-20T21:28:45","slug":"bush-ally-wants-left-leaning-voices-in-detention-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/bush-ally-wants-left-leaning-voices-in-detention-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush ally wants left-leaning voices in ‘detention camp’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stuff like this<\/a> really irks me.<\/p>\n

Yesterday on Fox News, talk radio host Mike Gallagher said the U.S. government should “round up” actor Matt Damon, “The View” host Joy Behar, and MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann and “put them in a detention camp until this war is over because they’re a bunch of traitors.”<\/p>\n

Gallagher was upset over Behar’s comment that Time magazine should have chosen a controversial “Hitler-type” like Donald Rumsfeld as its Person of the Year. Gallagher said Damon should also be incarcerated because he “attacked George Bush and Dick Cheney”; he didn’t explain why he wanted to imprison Olbermann.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(Gallagher apparently forgot about his own<\/a> recent Gore-Hilter comparison.)<\/p>\n

And who is this insightful conservative contributing wisdom to our public discourse? That would be him, in the circle, about eight feet from the president during a recent Oval Office visit.
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I know I’ve mentioned stuff like this many, many times before, and I don’t mean to complain without some kind of constructive ideas, but I just know<\/i> that in 2009, President Clinton\/Obama\/Edwards\/Clark\/Richardson is going to have a chat with some liberal who once said something intemperate about Republicans and the right will be apoplectic about how it’s demonstrable proof that the Dems are radical extremists.<\/p>\n

And yet, a Bush buddy not only labels left-leaning voices “traitors,” he wants to see them in “detention camps.”
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\nAs regular readers know, this isn’t an isolated phenomenon.<\/p>\n

When radicals like Jerry Falwell and Ann Coulter get together for a right-wing event in Washington, Republican presidential aspirants and White House officials think nothing of<\/a> standing by them, side by side. John McCain cozies up to Falwell, even after Falwell said Americans “deserved” 9\/11, and fears no negative consequences.<\/p>\n

A fringe theocratic group recently held an event at which the event’s sponsor unveiled his new book, “Liberalism Kills Kids.” Clearly, the Republican establishment would want to keep their distance from such radical activists, right? Wrong<\/a>. The GOP sent three leading House Republicans (Tom DeLay, Todd Akin, and Louis Gohmert) and two leading Senate Republicans (John Cornyn and Sam Brownback).<\/p>\n

There are two sets of rules. If Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) benefits from an email solicitation sent by MoveOn.org, the right goes berserk. If Sen.-elect Jim Webb (D-Va.) takes out an ad on Daily Kos, the Republican machine is all over it. And yet, no one<\/i> is too extreme on the right for GOP leaders, and no rhetoric is too overheated.<\/p>\n

It’s annoying and I wish I knew what the left could do about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stuff like this really irks me. Yesterday on Fox News, talk radio host Mike Gallagher said the U.S. government should “round up” actor Matt Damon, “The View” host Joy Behar, and MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann and “put them in a detention camp until this war is over because they’re a bunch of traitors.” Gallagher was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}