Bigotry and hate aren't just for right-wingers anymore.
Ubiquitous
Wed, 03/24/2010 - 21:52 ET
There is a disturbing chill in the air according to the leftist media. Threats
of violence and rumor of murder are taking center stage instead of reporting
legitimate public outrage about the passage of Obamacare. You need not click
far online to hear another person refer to Glenn Beck as "dangerous", yet they
can never claim specifically why. Despite their rhetoric, the media refuses to
follow up with what makes a man, who has spent hours just this year begging
people to remain peaceful, so obscenely dangerous.
Glaringly obvious in this latest round of reports is that there are no
specific examples of alleged threats of violence cited. I can only find one
specific threat that caused the FBI to swoop in and ask a speaker to wear a
bullet-proof vest on the tip that the speaker would be gunned down by an
assassin. But that speaker was Glenn Beck.
Whether this is a shortcut to 2nd Amendment action, valid concern, or just a
bunch of crybaby progressive politicians over reacting to criticism, it's hard
to tell. But Obama's desire to continue ramming through the most divisive
legislation -- against his own creed -- isn't helping bring calm to even the
most peaceful conservatives. And while the evidence of a violent right is
scarce, there's no limit to liberals attempting to make conservatives look
evil.
Before letting the media continue to perpetuate a stereotype that may not
actually exist at all, let me give you the facts that U.S. journalists refuse
to cite. Let me show you where real violence comes from, and I don't even need
to mention the millions of babies killed every year by progressives or even
the tens of millions of people murdered by their communist heroes.
It was not the fear of conservative violence that caused Ann Coulter's speech
to be cancelled this week.
It was a liberal who bit the finger off a man who disagreed with him on
healthcare.
It was Obama-loving Amy Bishop who took a gun to work and murdered co-workers.
Joseph Stack flew his plane into the IRS building after writing an
anti-conservative manifesto.
It was liberals who destroyed AM radio towers outside of Seattle.
It's liberals who burn down Hummer dealerships.
It was progressive SEIU union thugs who beat a black conservative man who
spoke his mind.
It's doubtful that a conservative fired shots into a GOP campaign
headquarters.
In fact, Democrats have no monopoly on having their offices vandalized.
Don't forget it was Obama's friend Bill Ayers who used terrorism as a tool for
political change. SDS is still radical, with arrests in 2007 and the storming
of the CATO Institute in July 2008.
It was a liberal who was sentenced to two years for bringing bombs and riot
shields to the Republican National Convention in 2008.
It was a liberal who threatened to kill a government informant who infiltrated
her Austin-based group that planned to bomb the RNC.
It was liberals who assaulted police in Berkeley.
It was liberals who intimidated and threw rocks through the windows of
researchers.
The two Black Panthers who stood outside polls intimidating people with
nightsticks were probably not right-wingers.
Every time the G20 gets together, it's not conservatives who destroy property
and cause chaos.
I could literally go on and on, but let's try to have some perspective here.
Violence is a product of the fringe, on either side, and it's sickening to try
to use it for political advantage. Those who commit violence in the name of
politics deserve political change no more than they deserve leniency in
sentencing. Violence furthers no cause. The only call to action that violence
has ever motivated Americans to is the retaliation on attackers. Somehow I
think the liberals know that very well.
The media and politicians who are trying to construct a meme of conservative
violence as we run up to the 2010 elections should only face the weapon they
fear most; the ballot.
Read more:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mithridate-ombud/2010/03/24/medias-myth-right-win
g-violence#ixzz0jHWNNZjJ
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It's now time for healing, and for fixing the damage the Democrats did
to America.
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--headline, WBDJ-TV Web site (Roanoke, Va.), March 26
� "Brick Smashes Michigan GOP Office Window"
--headline, Associated Press, March 29
� "Norman Leboon, Accused of Threatening to Kill Rep. Eric Cantor, Donated to
Barack Obama's Presidential Campaign"
--headline, OpenSecrets.org, March 29
� "The danger of political violence in this country comes overwhelmingly from
one direction--the right, not the left."
--Eugene Robinson, Washington Post, March 30
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one direction--the right, not the left."
--Eugene Robinson, Washington Post, March 30
brick through a window at their headquarters downtown--with a message directed
at stopping conservatism. 'Stop the right wing,' was written in purple ink on
a piece of notebook paper."
--Marion (Ohio) Star, April 1
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Differences of opinion and ideology, passionately held, drive the
opposition against ObamaCare.
Yet to shut down the effort to overturn ObamaCare's unpopular assault on
freedom and prosperity, the left resorts to a frequently employed
tactic.
They and their media co-conspirators find whack jobs holding stupid
signs � or saying or doing stupid things � and say, "See! Right-wing
intolerance, hatred and racism fuel this movement."
Idiots, wing nuts and haters exist � on both sides of the political
spectrum � in a country of 300 million people. Those who threaten and
engage in violence should be arrested and prosecuted. Those who use
incendiary language should be denounced.
But which "hater" said the following, and where was the condemnation?
"The (George W.) Bush administration and the Nazi and communist regimes
all engaged in the politics of fear. ... Indeed, the Bush administration
has been able to improve on the techniques used by the Nazi and
communist propaganda machines."
Was it a) Miss Piggy, b) Lady Gaga, c) the Dog Whisperer or d) George
Soros, billionaire Democratic supporter?
Evil GOP
"(George W. Bush's) executive branch has made it a practice to try and
control and intimidate news organizations, from PBS to CBS to Newsweek.
... And every day, they unleash squadrons of digital brownshirts to
harass and hector any journalist who is critical of the president." A)
Dan Rather, b) Katie Couric, c) Helen Thomas, d) Al Gore, Nobel
laureate.
"(Republicans are) coming for our children. They're coming for the poor.
They're coming for the sick, the elderly and the disabled." A) Mother
Teresa, b) the Grim Reaper, c) Jack Bauer, d) Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga.
The contest between Democrats and Republicans is "a struggle of good and
evil. And we're the good." A) Wolverine, b) Spider-Man, c) RoboCop, d)
Howard Dean, then-Democratic national chairman.
When asked if the number and prominence of blacks in the Bush
administration suggested a lack of racism, he said, "Hitler had a lot of
Jews high up in the hierarchy of the Third Reich." A) Adolf Eichmann, b)
Joseph Goebbels, c) Heinrich Himmler, d) Harry Belafonte, entertainer
and liberal activist.
Emperor Bush
He called President Bush's perceived lack of help for Katrina victims
"ethnic cleansing by inaction" and called it a "calculated ... policy."
He added, "So by simply not doing anything to alleviate this ... crisis
that was so greatly exaggerated by Katrina, they let the hurricane do
the ethnic cleansing, and their hands are clean." A) David Duke, b) Jack
the Ripper, c) Jeffrey Dahmer, d) Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass.
"When you look at the way the (then-Republican-controlled) House of
Representatives has been run, it has been run like a plantation. And you
know what I'm talking about." A) Kunta Kinte, b) Harriet Tubman, c)
Booker T. Washington, d) then-Sen. Hillary Clinton, former first lady
and current secretary of state.
"George Bush let people die on rooftops in New Orleans because they were
poor and because they were black." A) Ming the Merciless, b) Ivan the
Terrible, c) Vlad the Impaler, d) Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo.
"It's not 's**c' or 'n****r' anymore. (Instead, Republicans) say, 'Let's
cut taxes.'" A) Bernie Madoff, b) Bonnie and Clyde, c) Bennie and the
Jets, d) Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y.
"You're damn right; Dick Cheney's heart's a political football. We ought
to rip it out and kick it around and stuff it back in him." A) Dr.
Seuss, b) Dr. Oz, c) Dr. J, d) Ed Schultz, MSNBC and radio host.
"We are in danger. The extreme right wing has seized the government.
Tonight (John) Ashcroft and the CIA and the FBI and Homeland Security
and the IRS can work together. So look out, because without a definition
of who is a terrorist, anyone can be. ... Martin Luther King could have
been. ... The right-wing media, the FBI � they are targeting our
leadership." A) Mr. T, b) Flavor Flav, c) Gary Coleman, d) the Rev.
Jesse Jackson.
"And what we are dealing with right now in this country is whether we
are having a kind of bloodless, silent coup or not. ... (George W. Bush)
is trying to bring to himself all the power to become an emperor � to
create Empire America." A) Darth Vader, b) Satan, c) the Rev. Pat
Robertson, d) Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash.
Lanny Davis, former special counsel to President Clinton, campaigned for
Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut.
Lieberman, despite his reliably left-wing voting record, infuriated the
left for supporting the Iraq War.
Vitriol From The Left
Davis found himself on the receiving end of "hate and vitriol of
bloggers on the liberal side of the aisle" and "their extremism, bigotry
and intolerance." A friend and fellow Lieberman supporter, said Davis,
became "fearful for his physical safety."
"I held on to the view," Davis admitted, "that the left was inherently
more tolerant and less hateful than the right. ... I have reluctantly
concluded that I was wrong. The far right does not have a monopoly on
bigotry and hatred and sanctimony."
Most Americans oppose ObamaCare. Their opposition is not racist, fascist
or intolerant. Let us work to prevail.
� Elder is a syndicated radio talk show host and best-selling author.
His latest book is "What's Race Got to Do With It?"
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"Ubiquitous" <web...@polaris.net> wrote in message
news:jsqdnco7sKrz_1_W...@giganews.com...
> By LARRY ELDER
>
> Differences of opinion and ideology, passionately held, drive the
> opposition against ObamaCare.
>
> Yet to shut down the effort to overturn ObamaCare's unpopular assault on
> freedom and prosperity, the left resorts to a frequently employed
> tactic.
>
> They and their media co-conspirators find whack jobs holding stupid
> intolerance, hatred and racism fuel this movement."
>
> spectrum � in a country of 300 million people. Those who threaten and
> leadership." A) Mr. T, b) Flavor Flav, c) Gary Coleman, d) the Rev.
> Jesse Jackson.
>
> "And what we are dealing with right now in this country is whether we
> are having a kind of bloodless, silent coup or not. ... (George W. Bush)
> create Empire America." A) Darth Vader, b) Satan, c) the Rev. Pat
> Robertson, d) Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash.
>
> Lanny Davis, former special counsel to President Clinton, campaigned for
> Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut.
>
> Lieberman, despite his reliably left-wing voting record, infuriated the
> left for supporting the Iraq War.
>
> Vitriol From The Left
>
> Davis found himself on the receiving end of "hate and vitriol of
> bloggers on the liberal side of the aisle" and "their extremism, bigotry
> and intolerance." A friend and fellow Lieberman supporter, said Davis,
> became "fearful for his physical safety."
>
> "I held on to the view," Davis admitted, "that the left was inherently
> more tolerant and less hateful than the right. ... I have reluctantly
> concluded that I was wrong. The far right does not have a monopoly on
> bigotry and hatred and sanctimony."
>
> Most Americans oppose ObamaCare. Their opposition is not racist, fascist
> or intolerant. Let us work to prevail.
>
> His latest book is "What's Race Got to Do With It?"
>
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A majority of the American people's representatives voted for the health
care bill.
The party of "NO", the party that was reject in our election opposes it.
So what?
See you in November when we elect a new congress.
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City Hall drew hundreds of counter-protesters, sparked brawls in which two
people were severely beaten and ended with crowds of demonstrators hurling
rocks and bottles at police and departing supremacists," the Los Angeles Times
reported Sunday. The violence came from those who had come to _counter_ the
hate:
A bare-chested middle-aged man with Nazi insignias tattooed on
his chest and back walked into a crowd of hundreds of
counter-protesters gathered near 1st and Spring streets.
Surrounded, the man mockingly bobbed his head to the rhythm of
demonstrators chanting "Nazi scum." About a dozen protesters
suddenly began pelting the man with punches and kicks. He fell
and was struck on the back with the wooden handle of a protester's
sign, which snapped in two. Police eventually reached the man
and pulled him from the melee, as blood poured from the back
of his neck.
Another man was rushed by a mob on Spring Street. He was punched in
the face and kicked for about 20 seconds before police made it
to the scene. After that beating was broken up, the man began
running south on Spring Street, only to be chased down by a
protester and slugged in the face. He collapsed and his face
slammed to the curb as protesters began pummeling him again.
The bloodied man was then escorted away by police. Both victims
were treated and released, police said.
His sign, unclear in its intended meaning, read
"Christianity=Paganism=Heathen$" with an arrow pointing at a
swastika.
"Gosh, I think he just didn't have a clear message. I don't even
think he was a Nazi," said one man, looking at the broken pieces
of the sign left behind.
If you haven't heard about this until now, you're not alone. Blogger William
Jacobson points out that the media hardly noticed:
Outside of the local media and a handful of blogs, the event
received scarce attention. None of the usual suspects bothered
to cover or comment on it. Firedoglake and Huffington Post [sic]
covered it, but we saw none of the hyperventilated commentary
and lecturing that is directed at Tea Parties.
How curious. Tea Party events which are not white supremacist
events are met with derision and abuse, while a real white
supremacist rally is met mostly with silence.
There is a lesson here. The attacks on the Tea Parties have
nothing to do with stamping out white supremacy and everything
to do with shaping the political dialogue to stamp out legitimate
opposition to Obama administration policies.
It must be said that the L.A. rally got little play in the media because it
was not, in fact, an important story. It was, rather, a civic routine, as we
described in an article about a Ku Klux Klan rally in New York 11 years ago:
The whole tale was a reassuringly familiar ritual of contemporary
American democracy. Each of the players made his didactic point:
The counterdemonstrators taught us that old-fashioned bigotry is
beyond the pale; the ACLU, that the Constitution applies not only
within the pale; the mayor, that free speech isn't absolute; the
courts, that rights and responsibilities can be balanced. And of
course the Spartacists [counterdemonstrating communists] proved
that America doesn't discriminate in its toleration of crackpots.
As for the Klansmen at the center of this civic circus, they taught
us by their inferior numbers that they are not a serious force in
1999. A perfect foil for everyone else, they put on a preposterous
show and subjected themselves to the city's ridicule. How could
anyone have persuaded them to endure such humiliation? Strangely
enough, it was their own idea.
The only major difference is that the New York police in 1999 did a better job
of maintaining order than the Los Angeles police in 2010. But Saturday's
tumult is a timely reminder that in 2010, as in 1999--and, for that matter, in
1977, when the U.S. Supreme Court held that neo-Nazis had a right to march in
Skokie, Ill.--white supremacy is a fringe ideology that appeals only to a
minuscule number of weirdos.
The people who claim to be alarmed by the "racism" of the tea-party movement
know this as well as we do--which is why they respond to a display of actual
racism as nonchalantly as we do. They desperately attack the tea-party
movement for the same reason we cheer it: because it is made up of ordinary
Americans anxious and unhappy about the ever-expanding power of government
over their lives.
A mass movement of Americans concerned about preserving their freedom is a
threat to the political agenda of the left. A gathering of a few dozen actual
white supremacists is a threat only to whatever shred of dignity the
supremacists may retain.
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it. The Associated Press reports on the latest attacks against Gov. Chris
Christie:
In Facebook messages visible to the world - not to mention their
students - the teachers have called Christie fat, compared him
to a genocidal dictator and wished he were dead.
"Never trust a fat fuck," read one profane post on the Facebook
page, "New Jersey Teachers United Against Governor Chris Christie's
Pay Freeze," which has some 69,000 fans, many of them teachers.
"How do you spell ASSHOLE? C-H-R-I-S C-H-R-I-S-T-I-E," read another.
The rhetoric has become ever more heated as residents of most of
the state's school districts vote today on property-tax levies
that support district budgets. . . .
One educator, a librarian with a master's degree, described the
cuts as "rediculous."
Another pointed out that Christie's late mother was a member of
the teachers union: "It's not right to bite the hand that feeds
you. Oh I forgot it's Chirs Christie, He's so large I bet he'd
bite anything that's put in front of his face!"
"Remember Pol Pot, dictator of Cambodia?" warned another. "He
reigned in terror, his target was teachers and intellectuals.
They were either killed or put into forced labor . . . King Kris
Kristy is headed in this direction."
The attacks on Christie for being fat especially caught our attention. We met
Christie last week, and it is not inaccurate to describe him as a bulky man.
But schoolteachers of all people should know better than to mock somebody for
his appearance. It also reminded us of an August 2008 item, in which we noted
that Slate's Timothy Noah had asserted that "Any discussion of [then-Sen.
Barack] Obama's 'skinniness' and its impact on the typical American voter
can't avoid being interpreted as a coded discussion of race."
If "skinny" is code for "black," as Noah claims, does that make "fat" code for
"white"? If so, we hope none of the anti-Obama crazies get wind of this. We
hate to imagine what they'd make of Michelle Obama's efforts against obesity.
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Pacific Grove police officers arrested a 20-year-old man who
they say assaulted a group of military students late Tuesday
night at Asilomar Beach.
Police said Tyler Tirado, of Monterey, had confronted the
group of Defense Language Institute students, called them
"baby killers" and struck a 20-year-old woman in the head
with a beer bottle. . . .
As the victim's group left, police said, Tirado threw a beer
bottle and struck the woman. She was taken to the Community
Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula where she required staples
to close the wound.
He must be one of those Tea Party extremists.
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"If Barack Obama isn't careful, he will become the Jimmy Carter of the
21st century."