Sharyl Attkisson Entertains “End Times” Host’s Idea That U.S. Is Headed For “A Full-Blown Totalitarian Dictatorship”
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on October 30th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
Discredited former CBS News reporter Sharyl Attkisson appeared on an “endtimes newscast” and entertained the host’s suggestion that the United States may soon see “a trigger event” that “justifies a full-blown totalitarian dictatorship where no dissent, no questions are asked.” In response to whether such a dictatorship could happen, Attkisson replied: “Gosh, it’s hard to say. I just think right now the trend is bad.”
Attkisson, author of the upcoming book Stonewalled, was a recent guest on the radio program Trunews. The show describes itself as an “Endtimes Newscast” and “the only nightly newscast reporting the countdown to the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.”
Host Rick Wiles, as documented by Right Wing Watch, regularly peddles bizarre and outlandish conspiracies. Wiles has labeled Obama the “Antichrist” and a “stealth jihadist” and called on the military and God to save us from his “tyranny”; claimed “Ebola could solve America’s problems with atheism, homosexuality, sexual promiscuity, pornography and abortion”; warned that Christians in America could soon be “arrested or possibly killed”; and said “Satan launched a D-Day invasion of the United States of America in 2012.”
Attkisson herself is no stranger to conspiratorial and false rhetoric, including about Media Matters.
On his October 24 program, Wiles asked Attkisson to predict where things are headed in the United States and if the country might become a “full-blown totalitarian dictatorship”:
