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1. Appeal to the most fearful, intellectually challenged portion of a listening audience
2. Demonize, dehumanize, objectify the hate-talkers targets.
3. The hate talker can then more easily characterize his target as a traitor, a criminal, and an opponent to everything that is righteous and decent.
Since 9/11, the right wing hate talkers have stepped up their vitriolic attacks against anyone who doesn't agree with them or doesn't look like them. Through their demonization of liberals, Muslims, Hispanics, and gays, they've opened the door to a new era of intolerance and hate in this country. And with that hate has come an increasing number of politically-based murders - murders which are becoming so frequent this year, that we haven't gone a solid month without some right wing nutjob pulling out a gun and killing people who didn't agree with their beliefs. Mike Papantonio discusses the mental breakdown in this week's Pap Attack.
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