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Monday, October 29, 2012 1:18 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)




Think you can tell the Taliban from the Tea Party?

Step right up and test your knowledge!

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2012/10/richa
rd_mourdock_rape_scandal_spot_the_difference_between_the_christian.html



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Spot the difference between the Christian social conservatives and the Islamic fundamentalists.

This week, Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock became the latest in a string of Republicans to say really, really stupid things about women while campaigning for office in 2012. In a debate with Democratic opponent Joe Donnelly, Mourdock sought to explain his abortion stance by saying that “even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that is something that God intended to happen.” Prior to that, Pennsylvania Senate candidate Tom Smith compared rape to having a baby out of wedlock, saying if you “put yourself in a father’s situation” it’s a similar kind of thing. And we all remember Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin telling an interviewer “if it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.”
What do all these men have in common aside from the fact that they are GOP standard-bearers for the U.S. Senate? To one degree or another, they are Christian fundamentalists.
The sheer number of these types of quotes that we’ve seen in 2012 got us wondering: Who says more antiquated things about women and families, Christian fundamentalists or Islamic fundamentalists? Here are nine stupid, backward, and often misogynistic quotes from nine different Islamic fundamentalist and Christian social conservative leaders. See if you can spot which one is which.







"I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence [sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero

"I was wrong" - Hero, 2012

Mitt Romney, introducing his running mate: "Join me in welcoming the next President of the United States, Paul Ryan!"

Rappy's response? "You're lying, gullible ( believing in some BS you heard on msnbc ) or hard of hearing."


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Monday, October 29, 2012 4:45 AM

STORYMARK


Why, golly gee.... I just can't understand why people think the radical right have a problem with women....

I only got about half correct, myself.


Note to anyone - Please pity the poor, poor wittle Rappyboy. He's feeling put upon lately, what with all those facts disagreeing with what he believes.

"We will never have the elite, smart people on our side." -- Rick "Frothy" Santorum


"Goram it kid, let's frak this thing and go home! Engage!"

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Monday, October 29, 2012 5:02 AM

BYTEMITE


Missed one: did not realize Islam allowed for divorce.

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Monday, October 29, 2012 5:39 AM

SHINYGOODGUY


6 out of 9, not bad.........


SGG



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Monday, October 29, 2012 11:29 AM

MAGONSDAUGHTER


It seems that Christian Fundamentalists/Conservatives obviously feel a lot more confident in making statements that would not have been acceptable 10 or 15 years ago, and now appear to have mainstream support.

Some examples - the statements on rape
hard line attitudes to abortion
wifes should be subservient to husbands
the emphasis on virginity for girls as being desirable
comparing gay marriage to bestiality

Some of these are local examples, so I don't know about the US, but the fundies certainly seem emboldened.

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Monday, October 29, 2012 11:51 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


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Originally posted by Magonsdaughter:
It seems that Christian Fundamentalists/Conservatives obviously feel a lot more confident in making statements that would not have been acceptable 10 or 15 years ago, and now appear to have mainstream support.

Some examples - the statements on rape
hard line attitudes to abortion
wifes should be subservient to husbands
the emphasis on virginity for girls as being desirable
comparing gay marriage to bestiality

Some of these are local examples, so I don't know about the US, but the fundies certainly seem emboldened.




That's exactly the kind of emboldened attitude that led to the Taliban and 9/11.

That's who we're dealing with here. This is what Christo-fascism looks like. It looks remarkably like the Taliban in its attitudes towards those they view as "lesser" people - women, gays, children, non-believers, etc.



"I supported Bush in 2000 and 2004 and intellegence [sic] had very little to do with that decision." - Hero

"I was wrong" - Hero, 2012

Mitt Romney, introducing his running mate: "Join me in welcoming the next President of the United States, Paul Ryan!"

Rappy's response? "You're lying, gullible ( believing in some BS you heard on msnbc ) or hard of hearing."

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Monday, October 29, 2012 11:57 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


I only missed the "read a book" thing, and only because it had that "charity" thing in it, which sounded like FC. The wording is kind of a give-away on most of them. But yes, I think quite a number of us have been trying to point out the similarities between FCs and fundie Islamist beliefs. No surprise there--it's too bad our fundie righties would die rather than admit the similarities...they might actually think twice about it (if they think at all) if they did.

But of course there is no war on women. They're right, you know. It's not a war, it's simply a desire to return women to their "place"; not voting, letting men make all decisions, not thinking forceable sex by their husbands could be "rape", staying home and raising the kids. Like it was a hundred years ago, back when things were "better".

Tit for tat got us where we are today. If we want to be grownups, we need to resist the ugliness. If we each did, this would be a better reflection on Firefly and a more welcome place. I will try.

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