“Summer of rage”: Obama Derangement Syndrome grips conservative media once again

Media Matters

Conservative media ratchet up anti-government speech

On the June 10 edition of his Fox News show, Glenn Beck turned to his blackboard, on which he had outlined his theory that “the politicians [had] joined with the revolutionaries so they could gain power,” and said that now is the “time to break apart” that conspiracy. He then warned his viewers that the “summer of rage is about to begin.” Other conservative media figures, including Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, Jay Severin, and Pam Geller, have similarly elevated their anti-government rhetoric to new heights, not only spewing baseless facts and utter falsehoods, but alluding to violent revolution and civil war, all to attack and undermine the Obama administration and progressives.

Media Matters previously documented the violent, doomsday, and anti-intellectual rhetoric that had arisen in the conservative media just a few months after Obama was sworn in as president, in which conservative media figures appealed overtly, just as today, to feelings of anger and paranoia in their audience. At the time, David Horowitz dubbed this particular “hysteria” the “Obama Derangement Syndrome.”

Conservative media: Obama is “trying to create a civil war”

Conservative media figures have been warning of the coming “rivers of blood” and that Obama is pushing America toward civil war.

Geller: Obama “is itching for a civil war. And at the rate he is going, he is going to get one”

Beck still beating war drums: “I think we’re headed for a civil war”

Beck suggests Obama is “trying to destroy the country” and is pushing America toward civil war

Limbaugh on LA’s Arizona boycott: “This is the kind of stuff that starts civil wars folks; this is not coincidental”

Savage: “I almost feel as though Obama’s trying to create a civil war in America for his own reasons”

“You need to riot”: Right-wing uses violent rhetoric

Conservative media: Obama is undermining U.S., wants to cut it “down to size” and destroy it

Conservative media figures have accused Obama of trying to destabilize and destroy the United States, as well as its economy and social systems.

Limbaugh distorts Obama’s remarks to accuse him of wanting to cut U.S. “down to size”

Limbaugh: Obama “thinks the problem with this country has been too much liberty”

Pushing falsehoods about oil spill, Quinn declares: “Barack Obama was sent here to destroy America”

Quinn: “Yes,” Obama is “trying to destroy the country”

Limbaugh: Freedom evaporating “right in front of our eyes,” Obama “loves punishing this country”

Savage sub Kuhner: Obama “is a dictator,” wants to “destroy corporate America and create a green socialist utopia”

Continue reading … about the crazy conservative media’s Obama Derangement Syndrome conspiracies…UN-FRIGGIN-BELIEVABLE!