The Hollywood Liberal

No surprise that Harris poll finds Republicans believe GOP smears of Obama

A Harris poll released on March 24 found that a majority of Republican respondents believe that President Obama “is a socialist,” “wants to take away Americans’ right to own guns,” “is a Muslim,” “wants to turn over the sovereignty of the United States to a one world government,” and “has done many things that are unconstitutional.” The findings follow a year of such smears and attacks on Obama by conservatives.

Republicans have bought into right-wing smears of Obama

According to the Harris poll, conducted of 2,320 adults between March 1 and March 8, a majority of Republicans repeatedly) but that it “may have been the plan from the beginning” to get the “institutional infrastructure” set up to create a public option. [Glenn Beck, video promotion for his book, Catastrophe, Morris stated that “through the G20 summit process and then the elaboration and expansion of regulation of financial institutions” Obama “has put the regulation of the American financial sector under international control” and that as a result, the “Declaration of Independence has been repealed.” Morris added that the “loss of sovereignty” lies “at the core of Barack Obama’s agenda.”

Beck declares the American Community Survey unconstitutional. On his Fox News show, Beck asserted that the supplement to the Census called the American Community Survey “is unconstitutional,” adding “I don’t need to tell you all of this.” [Glenn Beck, 7/28/09]

Limbaugh: Obama is “the greatest example of a reverse racist.” Talking about the nomination process of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Limbaugh said: “Here you have a racist. You might want to soften that and say, a reverse racist. And the libs of course say that minorities cannot be racists because they don’t have the power to implement their racism. Well, those days are gone because reverse racists certainly do have the power to implement their power — Obama is the greatest living example of a reverse racist, and, now, he’s appointed one.” [The Rush Limbaugh Show, asserted that “Adolf Hitler, like Barack Obama, also ruled by dictate.” Limbaugh repeatedly “compared Obama’s health care policies to the Nazis’ ” [The Rush Limbaugh Show, reference to expanding the foreign service, AmeriCorps, and the Peace Corps — Beck said: “I’m finding this — this is the hardest part to connect to. Because this is — I mean, look, you know, David [Bellavia, former Army staff sergeant], what you just said is, you said, ‘I’m not comparing’ — but you are. I mean, this is what Hitler did with the SS. He had his own people. He had the brownshirts and then the SS. This is what Saddam Hussein — so — but you are comparing that. And I — I mean, I think America would have a really hard time getting their arms around that.” [Fox News’ Glenn Beck, 8/27/09]

Beck: “I read [Mein Kampf]” and “the Germans … were an awful lot like we are now.” After asking, “Did the Germans know?” Beck stated that “the scariest book I ever bought was Mein Kampf.” He continued, “I went and I bought it and I read it, ’cause I wanted to answer that question. The answer was — yes, they knew. I think the Germans, however, were an awful lot like we are now; we’re kind of living in a denial like — no, that can’t really be happening. No, that really — you don’t want to believe some things but you have to. You have to actually think about them.” [Glenn Beck, 6/10/09]