2004-12-01 Kerry's Ilk Threw Eggs,Tomatoes at Wounded Vets

2004-12-01 Salon \abuse of returning soldiers\right-wing lies\John Kerry http://blogs.salon.com/0002874/2004/12/01.html Kerry's Ilk Threw Eggs,Tomatoes at Wounded Vets &ldquo;Unfortunately, it seems that things in the USA have degenerated to the point where the "voices in the air" echoed by many of our countrymen--- people like Cousin Mary, a lawyer, university graduate and presumably an intelligent person--- originated not with arcane rightwing academics, but with out and out liars who are paid to whip up the rubes with "boogeyman" stories...("Bill Clinton is a cocaine dealer and murderer! Hillary Clinton is a lesbian! Liberals are all traitors!") .. From my reading of history, similar hysterical delusions swept over Germany in the twenties and thirties, with results which didn't take long to become terrible.&rdquo;   