Newsmax wants a Military Coup over Obama

Filed in National by on September 30, 2009

I mean wow. Just wow. But the right doesn’t insight violence…nahhhhhhh

From John L. Perry at Newsmax:

There is a remote, although gaining, possibility America’s military will intervene as a last resort to resolve the Obama problem. Don’t dismiss it as unrealistic.

America isn’t the Third World. If a military coup does occur here it will be civilized. That it has never happened doesn’t mean it wont. Describing what may be afoot is not to advocate it. So, view the following through military eyes:

Did you get that? Perry doesn’t advocate a military overthrow of the Obama administration, he’s…just sayin’. Does anyone doubt that we’ll see “military coup” signs at the next tea party? Mr. Perry believes he has the pulse of our military, but his assumptions go beyond the pale, straining the limits of credulity:

It looks like link is now dead b/c they pulled it.  Wow, though.

 

UPDATE:   TPM has the full article

UPDATE II:  Huffingtonpost links to some even better stuff from other right wing inciters of violence. 

Media Matters points out that the appeals to the military follow a wave of rhetoric from the right suggesting that civilian violence against the government might be justified. Chuck Norris has asked if people are ready for “a second American Revolution.” RedState’s Erick Erickson has asked, “At what point do the people … march down to their state legislator’s house, pull him outside, and beat him to a bloody pulp?” Radio host Michael Savage declared recently that “we’re going to have a revolution in this country.”

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/30/obama-coup-fantasized-abo_n_304231.html

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  1. anon says:

    America is divided over the military coup. Some say it is necessary. I think we should end the partisan bickering and reach for a bipartisan compromise on whether elements of the military should launch a coup. Maybe we need a “trigger option.” Say for example the Obama Administration passes government-funded health care, then the coup could begin.

  2. Aren’t we glad that the Washington Post and the New York Times assigned full time reporters to talk about what the right is hyperventilating about.

  3. I think this column is causing a big sh*tstorm for Newsmax. They’re now distancing themselves from Perry.

    Late Update: Newsmax is now distancing itself from Perry’s column and they’ve sent us a statement to that effect.

    Later Update: Let me just add a little more on this. As you can see, the angle Newsmax is taking on this is to suggest that Perry doesn’t really have anything to do with them, that he’s just an “unpaid blogger.” Now I think we all understand that there are many sites — Kos, Redstate, even TPM — where readers are allowed to set up their own blogs or diaries and write their own stuff. These are essentially discussion areas. And it’s a cheap shot when someone finds some nutty diary on Kos and says DailyKos published such and such. Newsmax is claiming that that’s what’s happening here. But we’ve taken a close look. And I think it’s clear that that is not true. Perry has written a weekly column for the site going back to at least 1999. And he’s prominently listed on the bio page of all Newsmax columnists, along with Dick Morris, Dr. Laura, Grover Norquist, Lanny Davis, Michael Reagan, Rep. Ernest Istook, etc. (You can see the page we’re referring to here; scroll down and look for the red arrow on the left.) We’ll have more for you on this shortly.

  4. Progressive Mom says:

    My big concern about this nut-job stuff is that it is DAILY. It’s not just comments on a message board. It’s coming daily from Republican legislators, both federal and state; from commentators being paid huge sums of money to run their mouths; from the chair of the RNC; from Republican governors; and on and on.

    Every damned day.

    They call it free speech, but it is actually a calculated — if not orchestrated — campaign to destroy the nation.

    Because if they can’t have it, no one can.

    Every damned day the rhetoric gets worse, because it’s not called out. Every day, it gets more hysterical and more violent, because it’s not called out. Every day, this insanity is allowed to fester as if it has a part in legitimate political discussion, because it’s not called out.

    We’re getting used to the craziness of it. When Sarah-the-cut-and-runner went abroad and bashed our government, the MSM was too busy fawning over her makeup and her book to notice. When Joe Wilson heckled the president in the people’s chamber, the MSM “questioned” whether or not it was okay, and gave him a pass. When Crazy Bachman told MSNBC that her fellow congressmen should be investigated to determine if they are “anti-American”, only Tweety wondered if she was sane. News-entertainers call the president a racist, a Marxist, a socialist and a communist (a pretty amazing trick!) and suggest violence against him and the government, and their fans applaud. Today, amid the Newsmax stuff, Red State is calling the entire executive branch “pedophiles.” And they are serious.

    The bar is being lowered every day. And real Americans, the ones who are patriotic, are being drowned by the voices of the completely insane right-wing whackos who only love their country when they are in charge.

    The sh@t storm, my friends, is not hardly big enough.

  5. X Stryker says:

    Red State is calling the entire executive branch “pedophiles.”

    They’d better cut that out ASAP before they make pedophilia popular. Calling Obama a liberal made liberalism popular – calling him a socialist made socialism popular. Of course, they also tried calling him a Nazi, and that didn’t work – people actually know what a Nazi is. So yeah, I guess this falls into the category of “stupid people making themselves look like idiots”.

  6. Von Cracker says:

    I love this shit. It’s like the conservatives never want to be credible again, like forever.

  7. It doesn’t sound like Newsmax wants a coup. Paranoia fits the left.

    In a blog posting to Newsmax, John Perry wrote about a coup scenario involving the U.S. military. He clearly stated that he was not advocating such a scenario but simply describing one.

    After several reader complaints, Newsmax wanted to ensure that this article was not misinterpreted. It was removed after a short period after being posted.

    Newsmax strongly believes in the principles of Constitutional government and would never advocate or insinuate any suggestion of an activity that would undermine our democracy or democratic institutions.

    Mr. Perry served as a political appointee in the Carter administration in HUD and FEMA. He has no official relationship with Newsmax other than as an unpaid blogger.

  8. Von Cracker says:

    i’m merely suggesting that obama hates white people, even his own mother. again, i’m merely suggesting that this is a possibility.

    or even better –

    to end the “conservative problem”, one example to rectify this “problem” is to eliminate all conservatives – or sent to re-education camps, if feeling benevolent. now i’m not saying this will happen, but it’s a possible solution, right?

    sheeeeeiittttt, you’ll defend pedophiles if it was politically beneficial. assholes.

    rethug dave seems to believe any bullshit thrown his way, as long as it makes him feel better about his fucked-up views….

    http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/09/coup-columnist-perrys-long-history-with-newsmax.php

  9. cassandra_m says:

    Speaking of paranoia — look who shows up pushing the spin. Perry is more than an unpaid blogger for Newsmax:

    That’s not quite the wording on his Newsmax biography. There, Perry is described as an “award-winning newspaper editor and writer” who “contributes a regular column to Newsmax.com.”

    He’s also a former senior editor for the site, working in that role from late 1999 until October 2001.

    Perry has written for the site regularly — nearly every single week — since November 1999. Newsmax was founded in 1998. (Check out the archives here and here.)

  10. kavips says:

    They’ve tried right wing violence before. It was called the Oklahoma City Bombing.

    It doesn’t work. Instead it does the opposite and increases the popularity of the liberal president’s agenda.

    After all. “America isn’t the Third World.”