On the May 9 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, discussing the
alleged conspiracy to attack Fort Dix, N.J., Rush Limbaugh baselessly speculated that
the 1998-1999 resettlement program for Kosovar refugees from the Balkans could have brought
several of the alleged conspirators to the United States: "The Clinton
administration may have brought these people -- we don't know if five of the six
were in part of this group, but oh, man!" In fact, only one of the six
individuals involved in the alleged Fort Dix plot was reportedly part of the Kosovo refugee
program. Limbaugh has yet to acknowledge that his speculation was wrong.
As the extremes move farther and farther to their extremes and grow more and more rabid, they are pushing the middle out of the field. This is not only because they are being pushed into the fringes themselves by political forces, but those who are not moving to the edges are simply dropping out of the electoral system all together. As that happens the extremes gain power, and become stronger - at the same time less and less people are taking an active role in the act of government.
The main vehicle for this attach machine is to look for links that exist between events and make something of those events regardless of any honest meaning. This is one reason I don't trust Michael Moore, he does the same thing in his movie when he talks about the Bin Ladens being taken out of the country after 9/11. I am sure that any Arab that had the money to fly would want to leave the country, the family of the attacker has reason to fear. Does that fear mean a connection - no. Now Rush is talking about how one of the planners of the Fort Dix attack came to the US under a program during the Clinton administration, the assumption being that these attacks can be blamed on the Clinton administration, which I find to be groundless. Lets talk about how the group organized, and the ideas that they believed in, those are key factors, how they got here is not.
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