{"id":18657,"date":"2010-04-19T10:10:10","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T15:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=18657"},"modified":"2010-04-19T10:10:10","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T15:10:10","slug":"zombie-mcveigh-to-appear-on-msnbc-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=18657","title":{"rendered":"Zombie McVeigh to appear on MSNBC tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rachel Maddow has succeeded in re-animating the rotting corpse of Timothy McVeigh and she’ll present an hour-long special of interviews from 45 hours of jail house interviews. To what purpose<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Rachel Maddow, who has been having 1990s flashbacks with the anti-government vitriol that most recently accompanied the health-care reform debate.<\/p>\n

“Nine years after his execution, we are left worrying that Timothy McVeigh’s voice from the grave echoes in the new rising tide of American anti-government extremism,” Maddow says at the outset of her MSNBC special Monday night called “The McVeigh Tapes: Confessions of an American Terrorist.”<\/p>\n

She’s talking, of course, about the latest news about militias, weapons stockpiling, “tea party” anger and the perception of rising unrest in those who seek to reclaim an America supposedly lost to federal control: “On this date, which holds great meaning for the anti-government movement,” Maddow says, “the McVeigh tapes are a can’t-turn-away, riveting reminder.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes, it’s to scare the straights into thinking that millions of self-identified Tea Party activists are on a hair-trigger. That any moment, one of us could go off the deep end and bomb some building with a fertilizer bomb. How easy is it to create another McVeigh? Simple;<\/p>\n

“The McVeigh Tapes” is especially interested in McVeigh’s victimization by bullies in school; his love of firearms (without calling him a gun nut); and his disillusionment with the government after his Army service in the Persian Gulf War. Things really fell apart on April 19, 1993, when McVeigh watched on television as the David Koresh compound in Waco, Tex., burned to the ground after a long standoff with feds. “I’m watching flames lick out windows, and I’m watching tanks ram walls. My eyes just welled up in tears,” McVeigh said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Actually, McVeigh, a Bradley gunner in the Persian Gulf War, saw Bradley Fighting Vehicles ramming walls – not tanks. Funny how he’d forget that small point, isn’t it? Unless of course, he never saw the videos and he was just making excuses for his sociopathic behavior, garnering sympathy from the interviewer.<\/p>\n

Funny, how in the decade since MSNBC made these tapes that they’d wait until now to broadcast them, isn’t it? Luckily, even on a good night, the only people watching Maddow are her immediate family. And Jon Soltz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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