Messaging: One House

Eugene Robinson – Stoking irrational fears about Islam. For more than a century, the most remorseless and violent terrorist organization in the nation was the Ku Klux Klan. Watchdogs such as the Southern Poverty Law Center would be happy to share with King voluminous information about heavily armed militia groups out in the backwoods, training for some imagined Armageddon.

Newsverse: The Final Solution to the Muslim Problem – Newsweek. Attention Muslims! There’s a meeting At City Hall on Thursday night. After Pat Buchanan’s greeting We’ll show a film on civil rights. Afterwards we’ll have inspection. Take a moment to attach To your shirt, for your protection This yellow star-and-crescent patch.

Chris Hayes, on the tax cut deal: “It’s the standard bribery model of legislating that has come to characterize Washington in the era of oligarchy: if you want to put food on the table of the unemployed, you must lavishly wine and dine the CEOs and bankers who laid them off.” [From The Era Of Oligarchy]