Anti-Bush = Anti-America

[Berzerker]

Brian Kilmeade, a sports analyst on Fox News and one of the hosts on the morning show "Fox and Friends", has called for the NFL to cancel the Rolling Stones who are slated to open the season with a performance. Why? Because the Stones have a song out criticising the neo-cons and supposedly Bush. Kilmeade said the song was anti-American...

Is that fascistic? America is not a President or political party or faction within a political party. You are anti-American if you dont like a politician? Seems to me it is fascistic... and hypocritical... Plenty of people didn't like Clinton and I dont recall them being accused of anti-Americanism...

[Imran Siddiqui]

I wonder why people decide to take the opinions of sports talk analysts seriously.

Btw, you watch WAAAY too much Fox News .

[Berzerker]

I dont take the guy seriously, but many do and he was on O'Reilly's show which is political and reaches millions of people.

And yes, I do

But I see a trend among many Republicans to equate criticism of "dear leader" with being unpatriotic so its not just Kilmeade, he's merely part of the chorus.

[Imran Siddiqui]

I dont take the guy seriously, but many do and he was on O'Reilly's show which is political and reaches millions of people.

How does this in any way serve to answer my query of "why people decide to take the opinions of sports tak analysts seriously"?

[Pekka]

No it's not fascist.. but it is stupid. This is what you call doing something that has the opposite effect.

[Berzerker]

You'll have to ask those who take him seriously But he isn't a lone voice in the crowd, there is a definite drumbeat coming from Repubs equating opposition to them with anti-Americanism.

A couple nights ago O'Reilly said the following of Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a soldier killed in Iraq: some families believe she is guilty of borderline treason. Imagine how he'd react if a news analyst was citing un-named sources accusing him of borderline treason...

[Berzerker]

I thought fascism involved equating the leadership with the state/nation? Opposition to the leadership is opposition to the country...

[Ramo]

I wonder why people decide to take the opinions of sports talk analysts seriously.

HST

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by Berzerker
I thought fascism involved equating the leadership with the state/nation? Opposition to the leadership is opposition to the country...

In that case every President would be facist .

Even though you may dislike Bush supporters, they haven't proposed a totalitarian nationalist state (with an uber-emphasis on the state), so they don't end up being fascist.

[Dr Strangelove]

These folks just don't appreciate time honored American traditions. Most of the stuff being bantered around by the critics of this administration is nothing compared to what most Presidents of the first one hundred years had to put up with.

[Guynemer]

Apart from the fascism question, what about the man's simple appalling lack of taste? I mean, honestly, he doesn't like The Rolling Stones? Philistine.

[Tuberski]

The Stones aren't anti-American, they are non-American, jeez.

ACK!

[Max Webster]

This makes me want to go out and buy some Stones Cd's and maybe catch them on tour.

[chequita guevara]

Re: Anti-Bush = Anti-America

Originally posted by Berzerker
Kilmeade said the song was anti-American.

So, the Stones aren't American.

edit:
/me grumbles at Tubes.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Berzerker
You'll have to ask those who take him seriously But he isn't a lone voice in the crowd, there is a definite drumbeat coming from Repubs equating opposition to them with anti-Americanism.

This has been going on since, well, for a very long time. They said this about people who criticized Reagan and Nixon.