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CNN, Esquire blame the 'right wing' for Boston Marathon bombing

Oldtimer

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Salty,

Create the stereotype by constant referral to the far end of the Bell Curve. Then use that stereotype as the way to identify EVERYONE who is right of the mid-point line where the majority are standing.

It's been played out over and over again. Heard it within 2 hours of the bombing. Right wing, without any qualifiers was mentioned as often, if not more so, than any other possibility. So much so, it was if those covering this horror were hoping it would be someone labeled domestic "right wing".

Licking their lips and wiping their hands at the thoughts of not letting another "good crisis go to waste".
 

Eric B

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Actually Mcveigh and Islamists are extreme right. And yes the Tea Party is on the right.

But how far to the right?

An analogy would be deciding to buy "Family Size" or "Giant Size" - which one is bigger?

Likewise, when someone talks about the far right - ask them to explain what it means.
According to this link the far right "is applied to fascists and neo-Nazis and major elements of fascism have been deemed clearly far right, such as its belief that supposedly superior people have the right to dominate society while purging allegedly inferior elements"
Could even a liberal say that Rush, Glenn Beck or the Tea Party really want purge inferior people? (Insisting everyone pull their weight is not purging)
It's implicating that certain people's problem is solely that they're not pulling their weight (apparently often generalized to the people as a whole), and also making this the main focus of economic debate (while ignoring many other factors, including those in power, assumed to “deserve” all they have simply because they're in that position, despite a lot of the corruption and cronyism that goes on), that gets them suspect, as it does end up becoming a matter of moral “inferiority”. Most don't talk about “purging”, but they just continuonsly complain about them, keeping the focus diverted away from the part of the power structure they support.

But yes, McVeigh is far right, and my point was that this was what was being speculated, not the entire Right (including the Tea Party), as these claims are implying.

"It is a state holiday in Massachusetts today called Patriots' Day and, uh, who knows if that had anything at all to do with these explosions." —Wolf Blitzer, CNN
(This video seems to only download: http://buzzfeed-video1.s3.amazonaws.com/video/2013/04/15/wolfpatriotsday-320x180.mp4)
 
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Revmitchell

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But yes, McVeigh is far right, and my point was that this was what was being speculated, not the entire Right (including the Tea Party), as these claims are implying.

You do not know what you are talking about. The Tea Party has been labeled consistently as the far right.
 

Eric B

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Some people may call the Tea Party the "far right" but they still don't seem to have been implicated in the statements in question.
Patriots day drew reference to McVeigh, but no one has said the Tea Party (or the rest of the Right, near or far) are connected with McVeigh. (McVeigh was before the Tea Party, even!) That's where the jumping of the gun was done in the claim.
 

Revmitchell

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Some people may call the Tea Party the "far right" but they still don't seem to have been implicated in the statements in question.
Patriots day drew reference to McVeigh, but no one has said the Tea Party (or the rest of the Right, near or far) are connected with McVeigh. (McVeigh was before the Tea Party, even!) That's where the jumping of the gun was done in the claim.

uh no. The far right means everyone who has been accused of being the far right in recent years. To include the Tea Party, Rush, Hannity and everyone who listens to them.
 

Eric B

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I don't think there's any "official" designation on this, but again, the point is, those figures you've listed weren't mentioned as responsible for the attack.
 
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