Don't choke: Republicans swallowing right-wing rhetoric

A Harris poll released March 24 finds a large majority of Republicans believe Obama is a socialist (61 percent), wants to take away Americans' right to own guns (61 percent), is Muslim (57 percent), wants to turn over the sovereignty of the United States to a one-world government (51 percent), and that he has done many things that are unconstitutional (51 percent).

Large minorities also believe Obama was not born in the United States and is therefore ineligible for the presidency (45 percent), is a racist (42 percent), and is doing many things Adolf Hitler did (38 percent).

A round-up of right-wing rhetoric from MediaMatters:

OBAMA IS A SOCIALIST

Limbaugh: "The facts are facts. The president is a socialist." (3/24/10)

Limbaugh: "We are fighting a fascist, social -- whatever you call it -- takeover and remaking of the United States." (9/17/09)

Morris: Obama is "going to adopt the entire socialist program by essentially circumventing the Constitution." (3/19/10)

Beck: Obama "is so clearly" a socialist. (3/9/09)

Hannity: Obama admin is pushing "the single biggest power grab and move towards socialism in the history of the country." (3/24/09)

Dobbs: "[S]ocialism has arrived in the first three months of this year." (5/5/09)


OBAMA WANTS TO TAKE AWAY THE RIGHT TO OWN GUNS

Beck: Obama "will slowly but surely take away your gun or take away your ability to shoot a gun, carry a gun."  (4/7/09)

Liddy advised listeners: "[N]o matter what law they pass, do not -- repeat, not -- ever register any of your firearms."  (11/13/08)


OBAMA IS A MUSLIM

Savage: Obama is "an unknown stealth candidate" who "in fact, was a Muslim."  (4/3/08)

KSFO's Rodgers: Obama "admits in one of his own books" that he would "stand with the Muslims" against "the Western world." (10/22/08)

Conservative radio hosts seize on Obama comment to revive false rumors about his faith during the 2008 campaign.

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OBAMA WANTS TO TURN OVER U.S. SOVEREIGNTY TO A ONE-WORLD GOVERNMENT

Hannity promises to "expose" Obama's "campaign" to "forfeit our national sovereignty" in new book, Conservative Victory.

Morris: "Those crazies in Montana who say, 'We're going to kill ATF agents because the UN's going to take over' -- well, they're beginning to have a case." In March 2009, Morris called Obama an "internationalist."

"The Declaration of Independence has been repealed," discussing Obama's signing of a new G-20 communiqué establishing a new Financial Stability Board, Morris claimed, "On April 2, 2009, the work of July 4, 1776 was nullified at the meeting of the G-20 in London."

In April 2009, radio host Monica Crowley claimed the G-20 communiqué Obama had signed is the "the first step to abrogating American sovereignty here.


OBAMA HAS DONE MANY THINGS THAT ARE UNCONSTITUTIONAL

Beck asks if it "may have been the plan from the beginning" to pass "unconstitutional reform."
(12/17/09)

Morris: Obama has put the regulation of the American financial sector under international control."

Beck declares the American Community Survey unconstitutional. (5/22/09)


OBAMA WAS NOT BORN IN THE UNITED STATES

Michael Savage: Obama's certificate of live birth is a "forgery." (10/8/08)

Jerome Corsi: The argument that Obama was born in Kenya has "some credibility to it." (9/17/08)


OBAMA IS A RACIST

Beck: Obama is a "racist" who has "a deep-seated hatred for white people." (7/28/09)

Limbaugh: Obama is "the greatest example of a reverse racist." (5/26/09)

Limbaugh: "I do believe" Obama is an "angry black guy." (7/27/09)

American Thinker: "Obama's racism against whites is upfront, in-your-face racism." (11/23/09)

Cunningham: "Barack Hussein Obama -- that's the racist, obviously." (8/24/09)


OBAMA IS DOING MANY OF THE THINGS THAT HITLER DID

Limbaugh: "Adolf Hitler, like Barack Obama, also ruled by dictate." (8/6/09)

Beck: "This is what Hitler did with the SS." Discussing Obama's call for a "civilian national security force"  (8/27/09)

Beck: "I read [Mein Kampf]" and "the Germans ... were an awful lot like we are now." (6/10/09)