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Gabrielle Giffords: Casualty of the Second Civil War
by Bill Noxid

It's always astonishing to witness the pathological denial that substitutes for reality in this country, but the levels reached in the last two weeks set an entirely new clinical standard. The common and preposterous delusion that this country is 'past' slavery, racism, or hate has been obliterated in all but Biblical fashion, yet people still won't be honest about this country. The fact of the matter is the Confederacy never went anywhere, doesn't acknowledge that they lost the war, have not surrendered their beliefs for a single moment, and 'they want their country back.' While the Mainstream Media continues to embarrass itself debating superfluous levels of 'rhetoric,' they ignore the obvious motivations and the ongoing war right here at home.

I'll never forget my first year of high school in Smalltown, U.S.A. I spent my teen years in a town where most had never even seen a Black pair of shoes before my arrival, so as one might imagine — it was a lifetime of 'educational' experiences. One of the earliest and most instructive was on the first day of American History class in my freshman year. The text book was a large and heavy tome of better than 350 pages, and it didn't take five minutes to learn something immensely valuable. Out of all those pages and all the chapters, only one was on slavery (simply titled titled: Slavery), and it was just over 30 pages long.

I learned two very important things at that moment. 1) If I wanted to know any truth about American History, I was going to have to do my own research, and 2) no White person was ever going to know the truth about slavery — except perhaps for the fractional percentage that would choose to do the same.

Because of this, White people (in general) live in the falsified fairytale propagated by the American educational and propaganda systems that slavery was some brief lapse of judgment hundreds of years ago, instead of the foundation of American economy, industry, agriculture, and belief that it was. As unimaginably unfortunate and detrimental to the evolution of this society as it is, President Obama has demonstrated on numerous occasions that he too is a victim of American historical delusion.

This endeavor to erase Slavery from the American conscious hasn't waned even slightly in my lifetime and has, unsurprisingly, exponentially increased in the last three years. Since the election of a Black President, the efforts to revise history to glorify the Confederacy and erase what little reference to slavery there is from American History Texts in Texas, Tennessee, Virginia, etc., have left little doubt of the intent. Tennessee Tea Party groups have even 'demanded' that any negative portrayals of the wealthy White men who 'founded' this country and the truth of what they did to the indigenous Native American and African peoples be expunged.

Tea Party 'textbook demands':

Last year Gov. Robert F. McDonnell (reviving a controversy that had been somewhat dormant for eight years) declared April Confederate History Month in Virginia and omitted slavery entirely from his proclamation. However meaningless it was, he was ultimately forced to revise his statement but all who needed to had already heard the dog whistle.

There is a very good reason why the leaders of the Confederate Tea Party need to revise Slavery (and the fact that it was the reason for the Civil war) out of American History... so Americans won't see it happening again. For instance, if Americans got more than 30 pages on Slavery they would recognize the voluminous calls for secession in Florida, Texas, Tennessee, South Carolina, Vermont, and a number of other States, as history repeating itself on the path to Civil War.

Sons of the Confederate like Pat Buchanan won't admit the critical importance of slavery and the foundational principle of White superiority in an attempt to conceal their real beliefs, but the original Confederate secessionists weren't as timid about their motivations: Above all else, slavery was paramount in their belief system and was central to their renunciation of the Union. In 1861 after the secession of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and Texas (and less than three weeks after the inauguration of President Lincoln), Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens declared the following in his Cornerstone speech:

The new [Confederate] constitution has put at rest, forever, all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution—African slavery as it exists amongst us—the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution. Jefferson in his forecast, had anticipated this, as the "rock upon which the old Union would split." He was right. What was conjecture with him, is now a realized fact. But whether he fully comprehended the great truth upon which that rock stood and stands, may be doubted.
The prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old constitution, were that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically. It was an evil they knew not well how to deal with, but the general opinion of the men of that day was that, somehow or other in the order of Providence, the institution would be evanescent and pass away. This idea, though not incorporated in the constitution, was the prevailing idea at that time. The constitution, it is true, secured every essential guarantee to the institution [of slavery] while it should last, and hence no argument can be justly urged against the constitutional guarantees thus secured, because of the common sentiment of the day. Those ideas, however, were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the equality of races. This was an error. It was a sandy foundation, and the government built upon it fell when the "storm came and the wind blew."
Our new [Confederate] government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner- stone rests upon the great truth, that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery—subordination to the superior race—is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth. This truth has been slow in the process of its development, like all other truths in the various departments of science. It has been so even amongst us. Many who hear me, perhaps, can recollect well, that this truth was not generally admitted, even within their day. The errors of the past generation still clung to many as late as twenty years ago. Those at the North, who still cling to these errors, with a zeal above knowledge, we justly denominate fanatics. All fanaticism springs from an aberration of the mind—from a defect in reasoning. It is a species of insanity.
They assume that the negro is equal, and hence conclude that he is entitled to equal privileges and rights with the white man. If their premises were correct, their conclusions would be logical and just—but their premise being wrong, their whole argument fails. They were attempting to make things equal which the Creator had made unequal.
In the conflict thus far, success has been on our side, complete throughout the length and breadth of the Confederate States. It is upon this, as I have stated, our social fabric is firmly planted; and I cannot permit myself to doubt the ultimate success of a full recognition of this principle throughout the civilized and enlightened world.
[The Confederacy] is the first government ever instituted upon the principles in strict conformity to nature, and the ordination of Providence, in furnishing the materials of human society. Many governments have been founded upon the principle of the subordination and serfdom of certain classes of the same race; such were and are in violation of the laws of nature. Our system commits no such violation of nature's laws. With us, all of the white race, however high or low, rich or poor, are equal in the eye of the law. Not so with the negro. Subordination is his place. He, by nature, or by the curse against Canaan, is fitted for that condition which he occupies in our system.
The architect, in the construction of buildings, lays the foundation with the proper material-the granite; then comes the brick or the marble. The substratum of our society is made of the material fitted by nature for it, and by experience we know that it is best, not only for the superior, but for the inferior race, that it should be so. It is, indeed, in conformity with the ordinance of the Creator. It is not for us to inquire into the wisdom of his ordinances, or to question them. For his own purposes, he has made one race to differ from another, as he has made "one star to differ from another star in glory."
The great objects of humanity are best attained when there is conformity to his laws and decrees, in the formation of governments as well as in all things else. Our Confederacy is founded upon principles in strict conformity with these laws. This stone which was rejected by the first builders "is become the chief of the corner"—the real "corner-stone"—in our new edifice.

It doesn't get any clearer than that. While revisionists attempt to downplay the importance of slavery and the superiority of the White race to the Confederacy, here we see its existential significance. In no uncertain terms, the Confederacy is instituted on the principle that the Negro's natural place is subordination, and they view this as ordained by the Creator. In fact, the belief in equality is "fanaticism" to them. An "aberration of the mind—from a defect in reasoning." In the Confederacy's own words, slavery and the subordination of the 'inferior Negro' is the cornerstone of their civilization. The 'natural laws' and 'great truth' (that the Negro is not equal to the superior White race, and subordination is his place) in which they religiously believe are directly violated by the election of a Black President, and it conflicts with their entire belief system. Their very idea of civilization is threatened at its foundation by this and it is more than they can possibly endure. Behind the smoke screens, this is the honest explanation for this unalterable rage, and the employment of every conceivable (and inconceivable) strategy and tactic to delegitimize and erase the First Black Presidency from existence. As Michelle Bachmann made clear on the House floor — after Tea Party Republicans voted to repeal the Affordable Healthcare Act:

"This is not symbolic. This is why we were sent here, and we will not stop until we repeal a president and put a president in the position of the White House who will repeal this bill, until we repeal the current Senate, put in a Senate that will listen to the American people and repeal this bill." I'm quite sure that is the first time the phrase "Repeal a President" has ever been used in Congress, and the disdain speaks for itself.

This Confederacy-based fury was plainly evident at McCain / Palin rallies long before Obama was elected. Every imaginable defamation was rolled out in the hopes of preventing this Presidency from ever being, and time and again the White media punditry and their apologists ignored and dismissed the invariable racism and rage.

"Spread the word... God hates Barack Obama. God hates this doomed Nation." 1
"Bomb Obama! Blow him up! I've had a number of people tell me, when Obama gets in office, Bang! Strangers tell me this." 2
"You don't want my true answer. I'd never vote for a Black Man." 2
"I don't want to sound racist here, but I do not want a Black man running my country." 2
"Obama and his wife, I'm concerned that they could be anti-White. That he might hide that." 3
"I don't like the fact that he thinks us White people are trash, because we're not." 3
"I'm a bitter gun owner, and I vote." 2
"I'm a bitter American that clings to my religion and my guns." 2
"Obama's associations and his judgment are not American." 2
"Obama wasn't born in America. He was born in Kenya." 2
"If Obama is elected President, he's not my President." 2
"I'm afraid if he wins, the Blacks will take over. He's not a Christian! This is a Christian Nation! What is our country going to end up like?" 3
"Barack Obama is the second most highest paid person at ACORN, and he registers dead people to vote." 1
"He's related to a known terrorist, for one thing." 3
"He's friends with a terrorist." 3
"I think he's a one man terror cell." 1
"Frankly I think he's a Muslim." 1
"When we're at war with the A-rabs we do not need a damn A-rab President." 1
"He must support terrorists. If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck, and that to me is Obama." 3
"Just the whole Muslim thing and everything. A lot of people forgot about 9/11, but I don't know. It's just kind of unnerving." 3
"He seems like a wolf in sheep's clothing to be honest with you and I believe Palin is filled with the 'Holy Spirit' and I believe she's going to bring honesty and integrity to the White House." 3

The most obvious evidence of the racism and racism denial pathology in this country is that these things were not only allowed to be said about a Black Presidential Candidate, but that they were so easily dismissed and forgotten. Ever since Obama announced his candidacy, there has been a constant and undeniable stream of atrociously offensive lies that have formed the ignorant and hateful beliefs that half this country has about this President, and mainstream media excused it all.

In clear contrast, after a decade of crimes against humanity, Bush said his worst moment was when Kanye West said "George Bush doesn't care about Black people." Kanye West is still being belittled, chastised, and repeatedly forced to apologize for making an observation that anyone in the world watching the God awful first week of Katrina coverage would make, yet West is beset upon for the mere suggestion that Bush could lack concern for Blacks. Compare Bush's worst moment in eight years to the list of things said about Obama before he even became president, and see if you can deny reality.

These people did not spontaneously manifest these common racist & delusional talking points. The vicious lies and false vilifications that were generated on a weekly basis from McCain / Palin, Beck, Hannity, Savage, Levin, Limbaugh, etc., painted Obama as a Kenyan Manchurian Nazi Socialist Marxist Muslim Terrorist trying to steal White American's freedom, property, money, guns, children, and birthright, and the people who were already inclined (or more to the point, predetermined) to detest the possibility of a Black President had no problem gobbling up any disinformation they were fed.

"This is not a man who sees America as you see it and how I see America. We see America as the greatest force for good in this world. Our opponent though, is someone who sees America it seems as being so imperfect that he's palling around with terrorists who would target their own country." — Sarah Palin 4
"The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil." — Sarah Palin 5
"Go back to what our founders and our founding documents meant—they're quite clear—that we would create law based on the God of the bible and the Ten Commandments." — Sarah Palin 5
"We have a President, perhaps for the very first time since the founding of our republic, who doesn't appear to believe that America is the greatest earthly force for good the world has ever known." — Sarah Palin 5

Sarah Palin may be the Poster Girl for Racism and the Confederacy, but her sanitized made-for-primetime dog whistle statements pale in comparison to the steady diet of delusional hate and fear Glenn Beck feeds his followers on a daily basis, and it is not only reminiscent of the language and beliefs of the Confederacy, it's repetitive.

"This nation is being fundamentally transformed; the president promised us in his own words he would transform it. What we didn't know was how and just how much. One way this administration and its helpers are doing it is by systematically stripping away our right to free speech. Yes, the president and other progressives profess to be the saviors of our First Amendment rights. But when you pull back the curtain, you will see that free speech is being eradicated for controlled speech: Control over the media; control over the Internet; control over you. Senator Barack Obama's presidential campaign is asking Missouri law enforcement to target anyone who lies or runs a misleading television ad." 6
"I have been telling you for months now that illegal immigration is creating a new civil war in this country. It's pitting neighbor against neighbor and city against city." 7
"This president, I think, has exposed himself as a guy, over and over and over again, who has a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture, I don't know what it is. I'm not saying he doesn't like white people, I'm saying he has a problem. This guy is, I believe, a racist." 8
"I'm thinking about killing Michael Moore, and I'm wondering if I could kill him myself, or if I would need to hire somebody to do it. ... No, I think I could. I think he could be looking me in the eye, you know, and I could just be choking the life out. Is this wrong? I stopped wearing my What Would Jesus—band—Do, and I've lost all sense of right and wrong now. I used to be able to say, 'Yeah, I'd kill Michael Moore,' and then I'd see the little band: What Would Jesus Do? And then I'd realize, 'Oh, you wouldn't kill Michael Moore. Or at least you wouldn't choke him to death.' And you know, well, I'm not sure." 9
"So here you have Barack Obama going in and spending the money on embryonic stem cell research. Remember, those great progressive doctors are the ones who brought us Eugenics. It was the progressive movement and it science. And it was from America. Progressive movement in America. Eugenics. In case you don't know what Eugenics led us to: the Final Solution. A master race! A perfect person. .... The stuff that we are facing is absolutely frightening." 10
"Progressives, like a lurking virus, were waiting for their chance—for an opening—to infect the system. And once they are inside the system, I warned it will be a battle to the end to get them out." 11
"What everyone has missed is that we are not talking about the regular run-of-the-mill Republicans and Democrats who are putting this country at risk, it's an ideological movement that has set its sights on the destruction of the Constitution and the fundamental transformation of the republic. It is the progressive movement and it has been using both parties, but mainly the Democratic Party as its host to feed on." 12
"On an earlier episode of this show I described progressives as vampires. I stand by it. The progressive movement is sucking the blood out of each of the parties. This is their opportunity to finally win and progressives will, admittedly, do anything to win. They'll lie, cheat, steal. Do you really think you can pull them off your neck with a ballot box? You must drive a stake through the heart of this movement. One election won't do it. This is a long, drawn-out battle." 11
"Remember; both partied are infected with this virus. How in the world can you find a Republican in favor of universal health care? Because they aren't Republicans: John McCain and Lindsey Graham are progressives. America has been fighting our battle through the tea parties. Americans are on to the Republicans who are really progressives. We know not to trust someone because they have the "R" next to their name." 11
"Let me give you a quick history lesson on how progressives operated in the past. When they first surfaced in the beginning of the 20th Century, they were very popular. Then, Americans began to see who they really were: the Federal Reserve, progressive income tax, entry into World War I, Prohibition and the League of Nations." 11
"Let me leave you with this thought, America. If these are only politicians, they'll do what they did in 1994 and migrate to the center. But if we're right that these are Marxist revolutionaries who follow Mao and Marx, the foot will go on the gas and they will first eat their own: the Democrats." 11
"Tonight, America, I want you to sit down and talk to your kids and hold your kids close to you. I know this sounds kind of like I'm coming off hard on the next generation, and I'm not. They're being sold a line of goods here. There is an effort to indoctrinate them. And here we are, going through what has been happening in our public schools, what Al Gore has been up to. Even President Obama, in his own Web site, targeting our children." 12
"Most of us are so busy or we're so trusting that we don't even notice—we don't even notice these things. We must get involved with the children's lives and our children's school. And you know what? If it's happening, sell a car if you have to. Get the kids out of this indoctrination or our republic will be lost." 12
"They don't just sound socialist and communist. They are, as indicated by the artwork. And here, the SDS symbol—Students for a Democratic Society. It's a revival of the radical socialist '60s group. They're not just targeting those in college. They're going after your kids in high school and elementary school. Not only is this effort an overall effort to infect kids with progressivism—we have been showing it to you. It's pitting child against parent." 12
"But let me give you the words of George Washington, "It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." You know what? There was one thing the kids in this video had right. Our educational system is failing them. And if you as a parent do not fill that void, fill that void with knowledge and information—nature abhors a vacuum. Barack Obama - his progressive propaganda fringe—they will fill it. They will fill it. Grab your children. Fill it with the right principles and let them rule themselves when they come of age." 12

Notice Beck's first concern was that President Obama intended to have the lies generated by these people investigated. If these people were actually held to account for disseminating vicious lies designed to incite White fear and hate, they would have been out of business before Obama was elected.

Unfortunately, President Obama has failed to acknowledge and seize virtually every opportunity to halt the hateful disinformation campaign, and this was no different. Just as Obama capitulated to racist rage over Reverend Wright, just as Obama capitulated to racist rage over the false arrest of Professor Henry Louis Gates, he once again capitulated to racist rage and backed off pressuring these people to stop their vitriolic fabrications. This capitulation proved Obama wasn't going to fight the disinformation, opened the flood gates, and gave them license to make up whatever detestable alternate reality they wished while claiming their lies are protected 'free speech.'

As we continue down the food chain, the language become even less 'coded' and more blatantly honest about the real underlying belief system these people cling to. A belief system born of five hundred years slavery, racism, and hatred toward the Black man. Underneath the fabricated fears of 'death panels' and 'big government' lies the 'great truth' that the Confederacy is founded on.

Michael Savage:

"There are some other stories. "President Obama's czar system concerns some." That's from the LA Times, up on my website. "Super aides for health, the economy, energy, and urban issues, with more to come, prompt lawmakers and groups to worry he may be concentrating power and bypassing Congress." Of course he is. He's a fascist. I know that you don't want to hear this, but the man is a neo-Marxist fascist dictator in the making. He is not using his fascism yet, because he doesn't have enough power to wield the fascist instruments of power, but he is aggrandizing enough power to become a very dangerous president, and you must understand this is an important story." 13
"Basically, if you're talking about a day like today, Martin Luther King Junior Day, and you're gonna understand what civil rights has become, the con it's become in this country. It's a whole industry; it's a racket. It's a racket that is used to exploit primarily heterosexual, Christian, white males' birthright and steal from them what is their birthright and give it to people who didn't qualify for it.
Take a guess out of whose hide all of these rights are coming. They're not coming out of women's hides. Are they? No, there's only one group that's targeted, and that group are white, heterosexual males. They are the new witches being hunted by the illiberal left using the guise of civil rights and fairness to women and whatnot." 14

Mark Levin:

"The tea party activists are acting out of history and patriotism. I said many months ago that we have been tormented and abused far more than the colonists were by the King of England. Far more, far oftener, and far more aggressively." 15
"You see, the left tries to write the history for this nation. And the left does that because it wants to encourage people, incentivize people to move left. To support some kind of a statist agenda. Not the Klan's agenda, but the radical left's agenda, which in the end are pretty similar, frankly. In the end it's all one big circle that meets at a point. Tyranny is tyranny, however it's dressed up. You've tyrants who wear suit and ties, and you have tyrants who wear goofy white uniforms." 16
"This is a disaster. And so what is Obama going to do about it? Keep building and building and building his empire. Keep seizing more assets. This is what's going on. This is what the quote,-unquote bailout is all about. They're seizing private-sector assets, transferring them from private parties and turning them over to politicians and government. No aspect of the private sector feels safe from this president and his administration and this Congress. No aspect. That's why people aren't spending and investing in R&D. We're not even standing still. We're regressing. Because we have a man in office who is a destroyer. He's destroying all the magnificence that was created before him. Because he's petulant, because he is inexperienced, because he's immature, and most of all because he's a Marxist." 17
"Obama's surrounded by these people. He's surrounded by these people because he's appointed these people. He wants to be surrounded by these people. We have an attorney general who embraces the New Black Panthers, the head of which has talked about killing—murdering—white babies." 18
"Health care, air itself, our finances, controlled by left-wing bureaucrats and left-wing committees. People who aren't even, in the case of Berwick, confirmed by the Senate. Not even a hearing? Somebody who's going to run a quote-unquote consumer agency that's going to oversee your wants and desires who'll have a budget that Congress doesn't even approve. The Environmental Protection Agency, which has taken for itself, thanks to the Supreme Court, the power to determine how much power we get, in terms of energy. No, no, it's not a constitutional republic anymore. It's not a representative republic anymore. It is a soft tyranny. As Alexis de Tocqueville predicted, the genius that he was. It's a soft tyranny. And it's very scary." 19
"When you are debating a liberal or when you are listening to a demagogue like Obama, do not accept their characterization of events. This $26 billion is not about our children. Obama has abused more children as president than any other president in American history. Now, Mark, what do you mean by that? I'll tell you exactly what I mean by that. He is destroying their future. He is creating massive debt they can't possibly carry on their little shoulders. And it's not just the next generation, it's the next generation after that. These kids, yet born, are going to have to figure out how to unravel all of this, how to undo all of this, if it's even possible. This is what Obama has done, and Pelosi, and Reid. They will be long gone when the real consequences of the disaster that they have planted takes root. We spent 26 billion for the kids and schools." 20
"Let me tell you, this guy does not sound like a president to me. He sounds like a radical revolutionary, the leader of a counter-revolution to the American revolution in his policies, in his plans, in his rhetoric, which is loaded with propaganda. The effort to build a cult of personality around him. No. He doesn't sound like a president to me. He sounds like exactly what I said: a counter revolutionary." 21
"Just because Obama can't stand us, just because Obama doesn't like the Constitution, just because Obama doesn't like what our ancestors did, doesn't mean we agree with him. As a matter of fact, we reject him in this regard. And what's going on in the United States Senate today, 24-hour meetings and, you know, violating their own rules and not making laws available for people to read. We're going to have to follow them under penalty of fines and, if not, imprisonment? That's not democracy in action. " 22
"I've been saying for months, they keep creating new enemies. This is how the statist operates. I write about it at length in Liberty and Tyranny. This is how they operate. The enemy today is the insurance companies. The enemy actually this evening now is the doctors, because Harry Reid has now turned on the American Medical Association—yes, because they won't go along. The enemy yesterday was Fox. The enemy before that was talk radio. The enemy before that was the oil companies. Lots and lots of enemies. You see, we're enemies of the state. We individuals or organizations who resist this are enemies of the state. So, we, as conservatives, by definition are enemies of the state. Well, so be it. It's us against them." 23

As you can plainly see, none of the circa 1800's Confederate madness that has suddenly gripped half the country after the election of a Black President is isolated, coincidental, or 'grass roots.' I'm quite certain if you spend enough time digging (as I obviously have) you will find every single ignorant, racist, lie that has been regurgitated at any Tea Party rally, Confederate / White Supremacist website, or come out of a Republican's mouth — at some point — came out of the disinformation network of Palin, Hannity, Beck, Savage, Levin, Limbaugh, etc. first. As you can plainly see, these people have been given plenty of reasons to believe the only way out of their fabricated oppression is violent overthrow of the Government.



References:

1 McCain Palin rallies: "God hates Barack Obama."

2 Racist McCain Supporters in Pottsville, Pennsylvania

3 Misconceptions of Obama fuel Republican campaign

4 Palin: Obama Is 'Palling Around With Terrorists'

5 Palinisms

6 Glenn Beck: Is Free Speech Being Muzzled in America?

7 Glenn Beck: The Real Story–The Republic of San Francisco

8 Glenn Beck: Obama is 'a racist'

9 Glenn Beck "I'm thinking about killing Michael Moore"

10 Glenn Beck: Stem-cell research will lead to a new 'master race.'

11 Glenn Beck: Battle for Soul of Democratic Party

12 Glenn Beck: Indoctrination in America

13 Michael Savage: Obama "is a neo-marxist fascist dictator in the making"

14 Michael Savage: Civil rights is a "racket" to steal "white males' birthright"

15 Mark Levin: Tea Party had been "tormented more than the colonists"

16 Mark Levin: "the Klan's agenda" and "the radical left's are pretty similar"

17 Mark Levin: "Obama has taken a recession and turned it into a disaster"

18 Mark Levin: Obama Links To "The New Black Panthers"

19 Mark Levin: America Is "Not A Representative Republic Anymore."

20 Mark Levin: "Obama Has Abused More Children Than Any Other President."

21 Mark Levin: Obama Sounds Like "The Leader Of A Counter-Revolution."

22 Mark Levin: "Obama Doesn't Like What Our Ancestors Did."

23 Mark Levin: "Conservatives Are Enemies Of The State. It's Us Against Them."


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