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F6, SITB! Kevin Baker's is a GREAT history of the 'Stabbed in the Back' right-wing myth .. bit more and examples ..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_5CtFxxXfE

Kent State University .. Sunday, May 3 1970

During a press conference at the Kent firehouse, an emotional Governor Rhodes pounded on the desk and called the student protesters un-American, referring to them as revolutionaries set on destroying higher education in Ohio. "We've seen here at the city of Kent especially, probably the most vicious form of campus oriented violence yet perpetrated by dissident groups. They make definite plans of burning, destroying, and throwing rocks at police, and at the National Guard and the Highway Patrol. This is when we're going to use every part of the law enforcement agency of Ohio to drive them out of Kent. We are going to eradicate the problem. We're not going to treat the symptoms. And these people just move from one campus to the other and terrorize the community. They're worse than the brown shirts and the communist element and also the night riders and the vigilantes," Rhodes said. "They're the worst type of people that we harbor in America. Now I want to say this. They are not going to take over [the] campus. I think that we're up against the strongest, well-trained, militant, revolutionary group that has ever assembled in America." Rhodes can be heard in the recording of his speech yelling and pounding his fists on the desk. .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings

How they GOT Van Jones

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RuAFg0haCk

Glenn Beck's Crazy Lies About Van Jones .. Equal Justice Society / By Eva Paterson

Glenn Beck spent last week smearing Van Jones with misinformation and outright lies. Here's setting the record straight.
http://www.alternet.org/environment/142310/glenn_beck%27s_crazy_lies_about_van_jones/

.. excerpt from yours ..

"On domestic issues as well as ones of foreign policy, from Ronald Reagan's mythical “welfare queens” through George Wallace's “pointy-headed intellectuals”; from Lee Atwater's characterization of Democrats as anti-family, anti-life, anti-God, down through the open, deliberate attempts of Newt Gingrich and Karl Rove to constantly describe opponents in words that made them seem bizarre, deviant, and “out of the mainstream,” the entire vernacular of American politics has been altered since Vietnam.

Culture war has become the organizing principle of the right, unalterably convinced as it is that conservatives are an embattled majority, one that must stand ever vigilant against its unnatural enemies—from the “gay agenda,” to the advocates of Darwinism, to the “war against Christmas” last year.

This has become such an ingrained part of the right wing's belief system that the Bush Administration has now become the first government in our nation's history to fight a major war without seeking any sort of national solidarity. Far from it. The whole purpose of the war in Iraq—and the “war on terrorism”—seems to have been to foment division and to win elections by forcing Americans to choose between starkly different visions of what their country should be" .. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=13899092

The above, the first link here .. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=64534374 .. "even now our fascists, our Congressional Republican/Tea Party traitors, as always self-righteously spewing the same old fascist utter lies and bullshit, toy with seizing an opportunity to, by simply obstructing normal and necessary government function, quite literally and entirely gratuitously completely blow up our economy -- now there would be some grassroots anger to channel; just gotta win the blame game ("Stabbed in the Back!"-style [ http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=13899092 ], of course)