A day after the shooting in Lafayette, Louisiana we now know a little about shooter John Russel Houser. Based on social media posts what’s clear is that he hated liberals and admired Hitler and the Westboro Baptist Church. John Iadarola (Think Tank), Jimmy Dore (The Jimmy Dore Show), Jayar Jackson, and Michael Shure (Al Jazeera America) break it down on tonight’s Power Panel. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
“An investigation by the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hatewatch found that the man whokilled two people and himself in a Louisiana movie theater Thursday night was an active member of online forums that praised white supremacist and anti-gay organizations and espoused right-wing, anti-government conspiracy theories.
The online trail of 59-year-old John Russell Houser, who police publicly identified in a press conference on Friday morning, included comments such as, “Decent people can retake the entire world, as Hitler proved,” and diatribes against “the Black” and “the Jew.” He also expressed admiration for Greece’s neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn as well as the Westboro Baptist Church, which the Southern Poverty Law Center identifies as an anti-gay hate group.”*
Read more here: http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015…
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I am flat-out disgusted by this bigoted diatribe. You think Fox News is responsible in any way, shape or form about what this guy did? Do you think Fox News supports Hitler, or his fascist ideology? People who think Hitler’s ideology in any way resembles American conservatism (or libertarianism) don’t understand Naziism, plain and simple.
I’m no huge fan of Kennedy, but does being a former VJ make her any less qualified than you are, or anyone else is? We’re all human beings who are capable of making informed decisions about politics, especially those of us who take a keen interest in it and are actually informed..
The fact that this site would even post garbage like this should make it abundantly clear to anyone with a brain that you all have zero credibility as pundits. If one is unable to make this distinction, then that person is simply ignorant or a damned fool blinded by hatred.
That is primarily what I see here: hatred. Fox News may be full of a bunch of self-righteous hypocrites, but they are no more guilty of this man’s crimes than liberals are of Stalin’s or Mao’s. Get off YOUR self-righteousness and get real.