refund is with us a reporter in water with the center for american progress
think progress dot org the website where he
publishes most of his work
we welcome back to the program
and a commentary
and thanks for joining us needed for shooting sarah pack
the whole thing
i unc areas what you've learned what your take is on this and well i got good
a few more questions for you to delicious start there
what's the latest white
well you know that they don't want to digest autumn
but some of the more interesting pieces
they're coming out this morning off course it's been a log reporting
throughout the weekend all came from mother jones on mc bombing reported that
a close friend
of uh... audition
basically
odd received a phone call the night before the shooting
and warning him that he was going to do this
and cut what interest of the psychology omg he actually
but you mentioned that he had was angry
at giffords
offer passing some kind of legislation although he did it specifier which which
con
for which bill on that but you don't have this kind of obsession a what
they're so that it's really interesting and still panning out and it's just so
much bad today jeff and the story
wish
focuses on the confluence of mental illness in politics
you know you noticing that are
uh... republicans are postponing to health reform repeal at the moment
became international that health reform of course is a very large complicated
bill or one of the it actually include for the largest expansions of mental
health services
often and thirty years or so
tell undoing the undoing the damage the real intent or mental health services in
this country
europe rightward saturating our products
or dot paper started to scream for mental health or just two good night
all-out interest come is the ability to
all use metal health problems of the pre-existing condition helper part of a
lot using i find interesting is that the republicans
the bill that their
that they have put forward to
deal way with the mental health bill
refers to the rental or exited to the uh... tutors obama carotid too
that the
deformable care act
refers to it not as the affordable care act but as the jobs killing her
and it's got the word killing
right that's why the republicans put the word killing in the title of their bill
listed back to you
fair parent and an entire health reform debate because
there's a structural ripping there so much paranoia and religious craziness in
american politics you can't
uh... when a legislative day
if you're on
appear with defending big industry that has an inherently cora
i'll bite but you can fax you have to use paranoia you have to make a bet
panels you have to think so i think what job killing whatever legislation on
because it's more compelling get people excited
and unfortunately
when you have
tens of millions of dollars
of people running ads smearing our reforms with just
based with accusations and fear propaganda all you're going to inspire
about what we see in the last two years and the guitar playing a terrific but
it's not by placate there's been no huge uptick in right wing terrace in the past
two or three years
and
as there has been a huge upright taken right wing rhetoric
over the last couple ear olson since since president obama began running for
congress in a
carper present credit for the white house is ever since you know it was
either a black man or a woman and you have rush limbaugh come out with his
rock the magic negro and his ad for the uh... for the hillary clinton dot
cracker
him testicle lockbox excuse me
was the official ad
i'm curiously
here at my there over the weekend my hope was that this that this would be an
opportunity for a stall tamp down the rhetoric and and be less partisan about
this
and in fact i add that a couple of conversations with louise about how we
might do that
bringing on for example the conservatives that i really debate on
this program
and and trying to model rational discussion
and but i'm gone looking at the drudge report
and to the number two headline is described by classmate as left-wing pot
head
by the big headline scary freak occurs free comply nudity
under will bomb a flashback of labor have knife to fight we bring a gun
uh british paper blames right wing as if americans would never think of such a
thing
that you know ca
left this blog scrubs cross hairs from them you know this is drives that look
at worldnet daily and i see near the top headline
literally these are the top analyze our re-entry in order
did gifford subscribe to assassins youtube
bilayers communist provided arizona shooters curriculum high school part of
learning community funded jointly by obama and the domestic terrorist
i number three corporate look else it look who else portables iam gifford
leftist blog points finger appealing all scrubbing dead to me rant number four
assassins politics link well quite left quite liberal end quote communist
manifesto mine com forward a list is alleged gunman favor reason number five
media covering up allege shooters liberal politics reporters point
apparently gunman's leftist leanings alone as the top five headlines a
worldwide delic i mean you know of one of the top right wing websites
what how is this
ngo but if there is if there was all this conversation in the press
everything else vital as calm as downloads back the soft it seems like
the exact opposite is happening
serial ordered area winter copper two years ago
and trent franks another republican member of congress from arizona with the
headline speaker that that instead of obama's
is the uh... enemy of humanity in a panel that
receded
speech
basically told everyone that obama
is like hitler
and that the attendees should get extra done for quote bloody battle
i would progressives
still you know if you think you would you know we believe that progress is
that president obama are
you know dictate dictators
fashion
of authoritarian than you reasonably should
to take up arms and rebellion for government have some type of
violent revolution
against the reality is just so far
pup
from power hour polytechnic apex
true leadership from the right to come up
and and
and down almost was redeker you know i'll buckley moment
from the fiftieth that at least decrying the craziness in the john birch society
but you don't think that you don't see that type of leadership in you know the
only republican senator with that we need to tone down the writer pc on fox
news in talk radio
detail and honestly to political devoting one statement
anne wasn't up
you know he he didn't have enough courage to even give his name in that
article too
the advantage of it but i'm not a co-defendant
decried
uh... the level of of right wing rhetoric in this country
but he wouldn't give it maximum when you know
with will recommend honest republican senator
this and
is still
is there
in alaska
is there evidence any kind of clear evidence that connects
this guy's
actions to
inflammatory right wing hate speech
aren't yard actor
the jury
still out there but if you will get hit
videos and you retirement articles about people who know him
on their interesting
pibic that that that leads you an example lead you to believe that uh...
you know historically antigovernment people leave the government was put out
to get him
but they're going to take control of the country a government with illegitimate
the government was acting in unconstitutional a people into the own
community college with unconstitutional because it received our government
funding
omitting the common thread
on if you look at how she owns or watch
are going back on any action in your view of freebies
if typeof motifs who's also obsessed with the gold standard on and on it
that kind of french right wing belief
that the entire currency it's really worthless
uh... and a different type of conspiracy permit
the federal reserve
uh... i had to
overthrow the american government
diffusing ha
currency so how can you know it's just like any other prices cancer also
inclusions
problem reaction were corrected it and impulsive we find think progress dot org
about the your blog over there doing a great job of keeping track of what's
going on in this and what and uh...
the by the way you might find out what we recommend obama london dot lights but
that promise me interesting stuff over there
lee thanks for being with us