Hate speech from the left

[TexasLawyer]

From Townhall.com

These poor, ever-victimized souls have to put up with the Liberal elite's "grotesque slanders and slurs" day after day. My Lord, when will it end? I enjoyed this one.

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/jeffjacoby/jj20041231.shtml

Jeff Jacoby
December 31, 2004 | Print | Send

As it does every year, the empty folder I labeled "Liberal Hate Speech" in January had grown to a thick sheaf of clippings by December. 2004 wasn't even a week old when two videos explicitly comparing George W. Bush to Adolf Hitler appeared on the website of the liberal group MoveOn. They were entries in a contest soliciting "really creative ads" that would help voters "understand the truth about George Bush."

And so began another year in which liberals engaged in, and mostly got away with, grotesque slanders and slurs about conservatives -- the kind of poisonous rhetoric that should be unheard-of in a decent society. Once again, too many on the left -- not crackpots from the fringe, but mainstream players and pundits -- chose to demonize conservatives as monsters rather than debate their ideas on the merits.

As in years past, Republicans were almost routinely associated with Nazi Germany. Former Vice President Al Gore referred to GOP activists as "brown shirts." Newsday columnist Hugh Pearson likened the Republican National Convention to the "Nazi rallies held in Germany during the reign of Adolf Hitler." Linda Ronstadt said that the Republican victory on Election Day meant "we've got a new bunch of Hitlers." Chuck Turner, a Boston city councilor, smeared National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice as "a tool of white leaders," akin to "a Jewish person working for Hitler."

Even a federal judge, Guido Calabresi of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, couldn't resist a Third Reich comparison. Bush became president because of an "illegitimate" Supreme Court ruling, he told the American Constitution Society. "That is what happened when Hindenburg put Hitler in." (Calabresi later apologized.)

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Overwhelmingly, though, political hate speech today comes from the left. It has increasingly become a habit of leftist argumentation to simply dismiss conservative ideas as evil or noxious rather than rebut them with facts and evidence.*

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* oh brother!

[samwisefoxburr]

1. "Hate" speech towards ideologies and individuals is WAY different than...

...hate speech towards gays, Jews, African-Americans, Muslims, etc.

[JohnnyRingo]

2. Kinda funny.....But I pretty much agree with all those points

...Never saw it as "hate speech"

Just truth

[indepat]

10. The truth is hurtful when spoken of those who are nothing but one big lie

[Sandpiper]

3. Awfully funny considering

The thoughtful contributions to our national discourse of such conservative luminaries as Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage Weiner, and Bill O'Reilly, Jerry Falwell, Franklin Graham, Pat Robertson, etc.

[jdots]

4. Oh poor babys ,everyone give little Karl a hug

Now squeeze extra tight to show him love.

[arikara]

13. The only squeeze that repulsive creep merits

is from a great big giant boa constrictor.

[arikara]

14. But that's not to say

that I don't love him, he ain't heavy he's my brother...

[Bronco69]

5. Does he have another folder marked

"conservative" hate speech? If not, I'm sure we could send him one and my bet is that it would be twice as thick as the "liberal" one.

[TexasLawyer]

11. Exactly--

See post #7 in this thread. Jacoby doesn't pull his punches, most of which are below the belt.

[bpilgrim]

6. OMFG: There's an an Ann Coulter DVD ad at the bottom of the screed...

Coulter DVD has finally been released: Is It True What They Say About Ann?

Ann Coulter is the most controversial political commentator of our day, and finally, here’s a documentary that spotlights this fascinating woman. Go behind the scenes with Ann, and meet the woman behind the stinging barb and the quick wit. In this brand new documentary, you’ll see the “conservative movement’s diva” at her best!

did franken slip this in there somehow :evilgrin:

you'd think they'd be worried by so many NAZI references...

peace

[hfojvt]

7. I seem to find a little bit of hate speech by Jacoby

here:
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/jacoby.reasons.asp
True it was long ago and far away, but
he calls Gore a liar seven times, once for a promise, that: "The size of the federal government will go down in a Gore administration." Certainly, that cannot be called a lie before the fact.
He also intimates that Gore is lying about his farm work which I understand Gore's accuracy on that is pretty well documented.
He says: "He may just be the nastiest campaigner in national politics." Which is very funny coming from a person who supports the "McCain fathered an illegitimate baby" candidate.
He calls Al Sharpton a "loathsome race baiter".
He calls Gore "unhinged" (or insane) on the subject of global warming.
For a series of rebuttals to Jacoby, try here:
http://www.dailyhowler.com/h071900_1.shtml

[Debs]

8. What they are really snivelling about is

That the right expects to have the exclusive franchise on personal attacks and strident rhetoric. They can bite me

[ixion]

9. more attempts to frame the debate...

It never ceases to amaze me that these reptillian people with no sense of civility are always so quick to cry liberal hate speech on this or that, while always completely ignoring the fact that the most venemous speech consistently comes from the rethugs.

Whiners. Spoiled little brats. That's what republicans act like, IMO.

[Jade Fox]

12. Bush openly considers right-wing hate-speecher Limbaugh a friend..

When has any Democratic President openly embraced the so-called
Left-wing hate speechers?

More Republican "its okay when we do it" moral values at work here.