Hate and fear on display in Ohio

Al Jazeera (yes, Al Jazeera) has taken the time to interview some of the Ohio voters who are driven by bigotry and ignorance. No doubt there are many others. Now it’s time for the mainstream corporate media to do the same, to shame these people into silence. Sunshine is a great disinfectant.

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Filed Under: Bigotry • Politics • Psychology Cognition

Tags: Bigotry • Obama • ohio • voters

About the Author: Erich Vieth is an iconoclastic attorney and writer living in the Shaw neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri. He and his wife have two daughters, aged 8 and 10.

2 Responses to “Hate and fear on display in Ohio”

Abdurahman says:

October 20, 2008 at 12:16 am

And Colin Powell picked on this and what it means for how America is viewed abroad. But he [Powell] pointed out, Muslims have had it rough since the beginning of the election, and he asked the question that everyone has been avoiding: “… what if he was Muslim?”
Niklaus Pfirsig says:

October 20, 2008 at 6:28 am

I consider Al-Jazeera to be one of the better quality news agencies in the world today. They give more balanced coverage of world events than any other.except possibly Deutsch Welles. Unlike the corporate controlled US media. Al-Jazeera provides new targeted at a broad variety of cultures, religions and nationalities in several different languages.

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