dollars to make americans scared of muslims the report titled fear corporate the roots of islamophobia network in america documents how huge amounts of money have been funneled into the so-called experts and scholars to infect the internet and cable news outlets with false anti muslim narratives you've probably heard that president obama is a secret muslim that mosques are being used around the nation as terrorist recruitment camps and that sharia law is diverting our legal system none of that is true but all of these myths have taken hold in the national debate especially on fox news for more on this report and the manufactured fear of muslims gripping this nation i'm joined by one of the authors passion care vice president of the center for american progress and editor in chief of think progress or as well. so that's in your opinion what's the roll call of this fear campaign i mean what's this all about well there's been a small network of experts who've been working for a decade to try to scare americans about the presence of this song in america

they've been at it with vigor and with a great deal of commitment and what we've now learned is they've got forty two million dollars behind them to conduct this campaign and forty two million dollars it's not a huge sum but it's enough to convince enough americans that muslims are scary and it's working i mean if you look at the public polling of muslims in america people are so more afraid of muslims than they were even after nine eleven and if you look at the park fifty one controversy you see that they have an ability to not work to drum up controversies and the entire nation's attention for things like forty two million dollars is enough to convince the likes of herman cain newt gingrich michele bachmann who are all part of the current republican field of candidates for president and how. i mean how dangerous is it that there are people who are who could have their fingers on the part you know are you know when the presidency when

the white house they have been brought into this that they believe in crazy things like a secret muslim caliphate yeah we'll take the example that you just cited document k. and they all this talking point to shari'a is taking over the nation that it's going to supplant the constitution that it's going to reverse american law where did that come from it came from a report issued by a conservative think tank called the center for security policy which is headed by frank gaffney one of the core members of the network they produced that were disseminated through a group of activists brigitte gabriel for america david berkowitz is freedom center runs a few conservative blogs. reproduce this information saying this really is taking over america soon it was on fox news michael savage rush limbaugh were repeating it on the radio and then you've got it coming out of the mouths of republican candidates for the republican g.o.p. presidential debate and so that's how you start these kinds of things and it just

shows you that if you want to end this law it actually isn't quite that hard because we know where it's coming from and if you can stop the early initiators of this nonsense you can actually do a lot of damage to the to the overall goal of the song for your network so you're kind of saying cut off the head and. that's about right i think if we're going to end it which is our goal with this report look at the money trail where does it start from the funders are being sincere about their views on this matter i think they're going to say they don't want their money to be funding hate i think that a lot of them are in the dark about what kinds of activities they're helping to fund i don't think many of them know what frank gaffney and stephen emmerson are doing with the money that they're giving up we're letting them know you're now on notice here's what you're funding do you stand for this or not but actually i think that there are going to. great point that a lot of people don't realize that various corporations that donate to foundations or you know kind of part of their philanthropic work they don't really do the due

diligence to see where the money's going and really know what it is they're doing kind of bringing this out to light but where are the other experts i mean where are the people calling them now i mean you know peter king had this this congressional hearing to talk about the radicalization of muslims in america you know when we when it gets to that point where we're having congressional hearings that we have these g.o.p. candidates you know why aren't more people or what can people do to kind of kind of cut the beast off and have it how do we get these this the first level you need to be accountability here if the media's going to continue to give a platform to frank gaffney to robert spencer the person i wouldn't call an expert on really anything but. experts for about a decade because they had some knowledge of. foreign policy or they worked in the reagan administration. and so they had to label experts in the media hasn't done a good enough job of questioning whether that label still sticks whether it's worth it and i think in reproducing

a lot of the. from the mouths this is also being that word they are part and parcel of the problem the media is they should take a close look in the mirror and say do we want to continue to give these guys a platform or is it worth it to start checking yourself and say these people just go deserve to be a guest on our network any longer you know i think one of the things that i did example that was during the nine eleven kind of attacks and they were taught in the mosque near the nine eleven site and we saw this controversy consistently and people were brought on to debate it as though it were an actual kind of an issue i guess that the last thing i really want to ask you is the more that we are allowed this kind of you know allow the false premise that this is actually a concern to be repeated you know are we radicalizing. you know other muslim terrorists are being radicalizing you know lay muslims to be fearful of america i don't know if you radicalized them but you're certainly ostracizing the american

muslim community you're saying that your contributions to american society aren't valued by that any efforts that you make to try to counter radicalization in your communities we don't we don't respect that when we say freedom of religion we actually built you and i think the other part here is that we do have global muslim terrorists people who are acting out because they think that is is that world with the west and what they see there is in the u.s. media the u.s. press people like frank gaffney say that we are at war with them that gives they have to recruit abroad and i think that that's a problem so both at home and abroad we're basically be counterproductive in the way we approach this problem thank you so much for coming on and thank you for working on this report this is really something that's been rather startling and hopefully we can thank you for giving it a tension thank you absolutely and beyond that rhetoric and the expanse of anti muslim fear machine hasn't ever stating a fact on americans across the nation recently tom had this take on how fear in

particular here of muslims is working this nation apart and what we need to stop that. last night a man in texas was executed his name was marcus stroman and he was given a lethal injection by the state of texas because he let himself get consumed with eight ten days after nine eleven straw men went on a shooting spree hell bent on killing as many muslims as he could on three separate nights he walked into dallas gas stations with a shotgun opening fire killing two muslim men and shooting another man in the face with third victim who. just barely survived the shooting will be on will be partially blind for the rest of his life because of his injuries he wasn't interested in i for an eye justice why because his muslim religion preaches. forgiveness all the way up until the day that strawman was executed and petitioned the state of texas to spare strawman's life launching a global petition to have

a sentence commuted to life without parole. but for your monster many years ago in fact i never hated him i never hated america for what happened to be i believe he was ignorant and not capable of distinguishing between right and wrong otherwise he would have done what he did knife forgiveness is the basis of the sea. doesn't allow for hate and killing. and strawman took notice he was struck by the compassion that was afforded to him by one of his victims and he changed his way in a message to raise him from jail stroman said in the free world i was free but i was locked in a prison inside myself because the hate i carried in my heart is due to rice's message of forgiveness that i'm more content now than i've ever been and last night stroman built on the message and used his last breath to issue these last words for

us all to hear eight is going on in this world and it has to stop hate causes a lifetime of pain as a result of what a group of faith and not what a religion did on nine eleven our nation just like stroman admitted to is often consumed with hate. we have a man running for president who's disqualified muslims from serving in his administration and argue that our nation has the right to deny muslims a place of worship. would you be comfortable appointing a muslim either in your cabinet or as a federal judge. if so you're saying any community if they want to ban a mosque yes they have the right to do that we have a prominent member of congress who is using his powers as chairman of the homeland security committee to whip up fear in our new. nation and investigate american muslims for radicalism i believe it's important to have this investigation on

radicalization of the most in community we see what happened in england we know that archaia is trying to recruit people over here such as they did with the subway bombing in new york with the attempted subway bombing times square bombing these are all people living legally in the united states we have the most popular cable news network saying that all terrorists are muslims and warning of warning americans about victory mosques in new york city in tennessee and heat fueled caliphate springing up to bring shari'a law to america. not all muslims are terrorists but all terrorists are muslim if you are an eighteen to twenty year old muslim and you should be strip searched and if we don't do that there's a very high probability we're going to lose an airline building that victory mosque what's in that since a burial site would be both destructive and cold hearted for the families of nine eleven victims the most dangerous scenario is that radical muslims seize power and put shari'a law into place same thing these are all components of

a hate machine filling us all with fear and driving some of us like strawman to lash out in violence but islam is not the real threat to america our own hatred our own fear is the biggest threat to this nation. as the southern poverty law center points out there are more than one thousand hate groups operating across america today their numbers have grown by fifty four percent since nine eleven they are neo nazis klansman white supremacists black separatists and border vigilantes they're all over there all over the country the various militia it's it's. filling america what they are not however are muslims. in fact according to f.b.i. data ninety four percent. all the terrorist acts committed on u.s. soil over the past decade were not from radical muslims but instead from these very

same hate groups that are popping up across america and while our news media will feast once every few years on a muslim attack that was thwarted they ignore the hate crimes that are carried out every single day in america. leaving families devastated and communities in distress. as mark strawman said just before the lethal cocktail was pumped into his arm. hate causes a lifetime of pain. so let's not let this story of forgiveness and frankly of enlightenment be forgotten. let's end this hateful so-called war on terror and focus on really in this nation of the far more discreet destructive force hate and fear. coming out breaks down the real threat of global warming and one thing only take. what drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions and to

prove it through the prudent way who can you trust no one who is your view with the global machinery see where we had a state controlled capitalism is called satchels when nobody dares to ask we do our t. question more. fun. for. this is. what drives the world the fear more great news by politicians who

makes decisions to treatment breakthrough that sort it made who can you trust the one who each of you who live at the oval should receive where are we heading state controlled capital city school sessions when nobody dares to ask we do our tea question more. the good the bad and the very very jus meant to sleep ugly good. marathon county central labor council run the mine with labor day just one week away i was in last wisconsin are planning their annual labor day parade and this here some people are not invited according to randy radke the president of the marathon county central labor council conservatives are not allowed to participate in this year's labor day parade cracky told the malaki journal sentinel. usually

they've been in this parade but it seems like the old they only want to stand with us one day a year and the other three hundred sixty five days they don't really care to come as no surprise that the organizers chose not to invite elected officials who openly attacked workers' rights or stood idly by while their political party fought to strip public workers of their right to collectively bargain i'll take it one step further and say those that don't recognize the rights of working people to organize shouldn't get the day off either. the bad. ron paul as a one thousand mile wide hurricane ripped through the eastern seaboard of the united states leaving at least seven billion dollars of damage in its wake and killing more than twenty people congressman rahm ron paul figured it be a good time to bash fema the federal emergency management agency the guys who helped out when. hurricanes hit but it's a system of bureaucratic central economic planning which is of a will see that is deeply flawed anybody who wants to be fair in this department in

this agency they have a tough argument to argue for brits like to hear that america under ron paul presidency whenever a natural disaster strikes you're on your own maybe it is a good thing that the media ignores ron paul every once in a while and now the very very very ugly republican porter says he will put puerto rican senator or endo. a senator who also serves as the vice chairman of president george w. bush's reelection campaign in puerto rico resigned the this weekend for you know the usual reasons posting new photos of himself on line. right here posted the lewd photos in an i phone app known as it caters to game bisexual men. but the real kicker is that are running as if pierce anti-gay advocate spearheading efforts against gay marriage rights in san juan i course he initially tried to defend the photos by claiming short term amnesia. whatever you are one hundred

billion we built a wonderful to say when you were on the he's a little humble it's almost full. and they're going to go to him with the most awful the world is going to have the most i go they're going to go to your well he did take out and i'm not sure which is ugly or is anti-gay hypocrisy or the photo itself we call them both very very very very very ugly. i. heard kate i read crisis along the east coast is now over though the storm this weekend considerably before skirting some of the most populated cities in. from washington d.c. to new york she still left a mark on the millions of people the reins of irene more than the winds caused

damage as heavy flooding swept through upstate new york and vermont as the rain passed over estimates put the total storm damage at about seven billion dollars with five million people losing power and more than twenty people were killed as a result of irene oh and don't expect any federal relief soon as both the speaker of the house john boehner and majority leader eric cantor said that any disaster relief must be accompanied by budget cuts like to schools and police departments. though this nation has helped crack a far more powerful storms in the past a massive one thousand mile i think storm like irene is is really rare and fortunately as global weirding continues storms like irene and these midwestern middle mile wide tornado may be the new normal. recently tom took on this new reality of climate change and the underhanded tactics climate change

deniers resort to and its daily take take a look right now as sea levels around the world are rising at a rate faster than any other time in the last two thousand years that's just the latest inconvenient truth coming from the world's leading environmental scientists and it's clear this is the result of manmade global warming is for much of the last two thousand years sea levels were stable arose at a fraction of a millimeter a year that was until the turn of the nineteenth century and we found a way to harness ancient sunlight like coal oil for energy and spew billions of tons of dirty greenhouse gases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere since then sea levels have been rising more than two millimeters every year and speeding up as this graph shows it is right here this is this is pretty remarkable zero millimeters a year changes two thousand year period two thousand years and then the green years

the actual observed numbers in the blue is what they were able to calculate from looking at things like you know ice chart you know ice things and tree trunks and however they do this so here we are in the last fifty years or so whom this conclusion comes on the heels of a new report by leading the ocean oceanic scientists who warn that thanks to global warming and pollution the oceans are actually turning more and more acidic and threatening to wipe out half of all across the world and extinction not seen on this planet in a. fifty five million years or so given all these dire warnings of a rapidly changing planet killer displaced billions of people why are our politicians not doing anything about it and more importantly why is our news media not holding them accountable for their inaction. al gore knows why in the most recent edition of rolling stone magazine who are penned an essay titled climate of denial or why it is that global warming is still

a question in america and not viewed here is a fact of life as in most other nations on the planet the analogy that gore uses. has to do with professional wrestling to someone just watching professional wrestling for the first time it seems real guys look like they're just beating the snot out of each other there's blood groans and agony kasia all serious injuries one of the tip offs but it's all fake it's all a show it's how the referee acts it's wrestling was real the referee would be on point and impartial fulfilling his duty like any other referee in professional sports baseball basketball football but wrestling the referee is just a character playing an important role in the scripted theatricals inside the ring ever notice that any time the bad guy is breaking the rules like smashing his opponent's skull with a metal chair the referee seems to be distracted. or

when the good guy finally pile drags the bad guy and lays on top of him for the pin the referee is nowhere to be found again distracted. was. it's simple the referee is there for the drama for the show it's a show and when it comes to the climate change debate here in the united states our referee is the news media and instead of acting like

a legitimate impartial and competent referee the al gore points out that our news media using this metaphor is acting like a referee from professional wrestling the media seems unsure if they're supposed to be reporting on the facts of climate change or if they're just part of the entertainment refereeing an absurd bait between actual climate scientists have devoted their lives to study the issue and on the other side pseudo scientists and pundits were just saying with their big oil corporate overlords pay them to say as al gore writes the referee appears not to notice that the polluters and ideologues are trampling all over the rules of democratic this course they are financing pseudo scientists whose job is to manufacture doubt about what is true and what is fellas by elected officials also bribes but the politicians themselves have made legal and can now be made in secret spending hundreds of millions of dollars each year and misleading advertisements in the mass media hiring for anti climate

lobbyists for every member of the us senate and house represents. another words climate change deniers are cheating hitting the legitimate scientific community in the head with a metal chairs and all the while our news media is looking the other way when the real story should be this blatant subversion of science in america. but when it comes to fox news the media isn't just distracted while climate scientists get me with fake science there and to the metal chairs directly to the bad guys as media matters noted late last year fox news managing editor bill sammon sent a directive to all of that network's journalists instructing them to doubt climate change science salman's e-mail read we should refrain from asserting that the planet has warmed or cooled any given period without immediately pointing out that such theories are based upon data that critics have called into question it is not

our place as journalists to assert such notions as facts especially as this debate and some. other words it's not their place as journalists to report on facts that's because their job is to be a crooked referee in a shy in a sideshow as long as the climate change so called the eight remains a sideshow in the corporate media and it will never be taken seriously anywhere else it water cooler debates across america are debates in congress and the bad guys the big oil polluters with their phony science chair shots are going to win match after match after match until the entire arena is under water the threat of mass extinction in our oceans is not entertainment the threat of american cities like new york los angeles miami drowning under rising sea levels is not entertainment and the threat of billions of people around the world being displaced is not entertainment it's real life it's what we're all facing right now. and we

need a legitimate referee a news media that knows how to do its job and can't be bought off by big oil corporate interests to make sure that americans are informed about the very real threats of climate change and that our political leaders are held accountable al gore is so right on this and told it so clearly in his rolling stone op it is time to disqualify pseudo science and give the world title belt of legitimacy to actual climate scientists and start listening to what they have to say. that's the big picture for more information on the stories we covered visit the web sites at thom hartmann dot com free speech dot org and r t dot com also check out the shows to you tube channels there are links to thom hartmann dot com the entire show is also available on free video podcast on i tunes and there's a free time hartman i phone and i pad app at the app store you can send us feedback

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