Thursday, April 16, 2009

Napolitano Talks Mexico and Rightwing Extremism Report

There is a lot of misinformation out there about this Homeland Security report on rightwing radicals and hate groups. If you haven't read it, I suggest you do because it's being spun.
This morning, its Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, a Democrat and chair of the Homeland Security committee (wouldn't he have known of the report's release?), who's disturbed by the report. He says the line was blurred between violent belief, which is okay in America, and violent action, which is not okay.
Here's his letter to Napolitano.
Napolitano issued a statement on the report here.
Apparently, there is a similar report on leftwing radicals. They should just release that one too. Both reports were initiated under Bush.
Napolitano talks about Mexico and says she's going to be talking to veteran groups. 


Of course Rush and his lot are having a field day. Talk show hosts live for moments like these. I wouldn't count Limbaugh as an extremist but he's got plenty of extremists in his audience: