Grand Ol' Party of hate

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from the Detroit Metro Times:




Grand Ol' Party of hate
In the 1960s, at least mainstream liberal Democrats did not egg on the violent left

By Jack Lessenberry


"Don't retreat, just reload."
— Sarah Palin, siren of the half-wits


They filled up voice mail systems with hate-filled messages. One spat on Congressman Emanuel Cleaver of Missouri. Another called Georgia Congressman John Lewis a "nigger" — Lewis, a 1960s hero who had his skull fractured for daring to think he should be able to vote.

They waved a sign that was arguably an illegal call to violence, saying, "If Brown can't do it, a Browning can."

Their goddess, the leering, defiantly ignorant Sarah Palin, stopped scribbling on her hands long enough to lend her name to a campaign commercial showing rifle cross-hairs targeting a number of Democratic congressional districts. Her slogan: "Don't retreat, just reload."

Yes, I know. Why, silly liberals, that's just symbolic rhetoric. Naturally, the former governor of Alaska is being defended by the sort of people who flew into a rage when the former H. Rap Brown made the sadly true observation that "Violence is as American as cherry pie." .........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.metrotimes.com/news/story.asp?id=14924

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1. And if a progressive did that to a rethug

you can be sure there would be all sorts of hell, and they wouldn't see it as funny at all.

Because: IOKIYAR

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2. The comments from the wingnuts are vomit inducing.

Not one smidgen of human decency within any of them. :puke: