Conservative logic: Threatening Americans with obliteration unless they support Republican authoritarianism

Charlie Black, chief strategist to Republican Party nominee for President John McCain Election 2008 (updated)
Manipulative fear-mongering

"Certainly it would be a big advantage to him."

Charlie Black
Chief strategist to Republican Party nominee for President John McCain

•Black speculating on the political repercussions of a second deadly terrorist attack on U.S. soil (David Whitford [07-Jul-08], The evolution of John McCain, Fortune, online at money.cnn.com/2008/06/20/magazines/fortune [accessed 23-Jun-08]); a speculation immediately disavowed by John McCain but of a piece with standard-issue Republican rhetoric (e.g., see Glenn Greenwald [16-Jun-08], Newt Gingrich, supreme fear-monger, Salon, online at salon.com [accessed 23-Jun-08])


Hugh Hewitt (born 1956), neoconservative and Christianist radio talk show host, author, blogger, law professor at Chapman University School of Law and Executive Editor of Townhall.com)UPDATE, Thursday, June 26, 2008: Variation on a Republican theme:

"[I]t's probably the last football game we'll ever get to see before the United States gets blown up by the Islamists under Obama."

Hugh Hewitt
Neoconservative and Christianist radio talk show host, author, blogger, law professor at Chapman University School of Law and Executive Editor of Townhall.com

•Hewitt commenting on the OSU-USC football game (Nathan Tabak [26-Jun-08], Media Matters, online at mediamatters.org [accessed 26-Jun-08])

Posted by 3Dsound at Monday, June 23, 2008 5:58 PM
Categories: Charlie Black, Republican politics, right wing politics, war on terror, election 2008, Newt Gingrich, conservative logic, John McCain, manipulative fear mongering, Hugh Hewitt, Republican authoritarianism
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