Coup Watch: Cheney, Malkin, Bachmann and Beck (and George Packer piece in the New Yorker)

George Packer has a great piece in the Talk of the Town this week in the New Yorker.

He raises the scary new line of 'reasoning' in right wing/ ultra right wing conspiracy theorist media world of Fox News' Glenn 'Cry Baby' Beck, Michelle Malkin, the website"Fire Andrea Mitchell" and Representative Michelle Bachmann.

Have you ever been to Malkin and 'Fire Andrea Mitchell' sites by the way? If not, you really need to check them out to be aware of what kind of scary crazy is going on out there. I seriously think the FBI should 'look into' these people Bush style. There is little to no doubt in my mind that Malkin, fireandreamitchell, Beck and Bachmann are stockpiling weapons as we speak in Dick Cheney's basement to overthrow the government; this is only because Cheney's first coup attempt during the inauguration did not work. (Please don't tell me I am the only one who thought that Cheney was hiding a gun in his wheelchair and was going to rise up angry-black-bear-in-the-woods style on inauguration day and lead America's first coup?? I know Seymour Hersh is with me here.

Packer includes the following about Beck:
"And Fox News’s Glenn Beck, who had earlier equated Obamaism with socialism and Communism, revised his analysis: “They’re marching us toward 1984. . . . Like it or not, fascism is on the rise.” Footage of goose-stepping Nazis played across the screen behind him.

OK I am going to tangent off on Bachmann for a second; I love every time this woman opens her mouth, because stuff like this comes out:

It’s under the guise of — quote — volunteerism. But it’s not volunteers at all. It’s paying people to do work on behalf of government. …
I believe that there is a very strong chance that we will see that young people will be put into mandatory service. And the real concerns is that there are provisions for what I would call re-education camps for young people, where young people have to go and get trained in a philosophy that the government puts forward and then they have to go to work in some of these politically correct forum.
watch video here

And this:
“Where freedom is tried, the people rejoice. But where tyranny is enforced upon the people, as Barack Obama is doing, the people suffer and mourn.”

She's particularly on point at committee hearings when she tries to dupe the likes of Geitner and Bernake.

If I didn't think she would end up in the looney bin before any of this (below) came true, and I didn't want to see her and 3 other Minnesotans try to 'take' the White House, I would say arrest her for treason now:
"I want people in Minnesota armed and dangerous on this issue of the energy tax because we need to fight back. Thomas Jefferson told us 'having a revolution every now and then is a good thing,' and the people -- we the people -- are going to have to fight back hard if we're not going to lose our country. And I think this has the potential of changing the dynamic of freedom forever in the United States."
This also makes me mad at Bachmann for giving revolution a bad name.

My life isn't long enough to cite all of Malkin and Fireandreamitchell's bigoted conspiracy theory posts.

Back to George Packer (who by the way is one of my top five favorite people, also on list: Steve Coll, Seymour Hersh, Crooks and Liars writers). His best point comes at the end of the piece:

"This [referring to Bachmann and Beck and all these yahoos' rants] is what the historian Richard Hofstadter has called “the paranoid style in American politics.” In the world of intelligence, it’s known as mirror-imaging: in this case, seeing in an enemy’s mental structure a reflection of one’s own feverish simplifications. Conservatives will not be able to understand the elusive nature of Obamaism and counter its formidable appeal until they remove the impediment of their own insular, rigid ideology."