Liberal civility and other myths

[DoctorDoom]

Liberal Civility Part 1

First, snippets from various sound bites of the Contract with America era:

"Why do the Republicans want to take apples and milk away from six-year-olds... Starving children is not the solution to balancing our budget... The Republicans are taking food out of the mouths of needy and middle-class children... It's cruel to kids... It's really a contract against children... Stop declaring war on our kids... War on their children. War on their children... We're going to let the kids go hungry again... And our children are being left the crumbs of the Gingrich revolution."

"This legislation is mean... I'd also like to speak to (sic) a moment about the mean-spiritedness I'm hearing about out of the floor today... But how can they be so mean-spirited... These cuts are mean-spirited... The mean-spirited Republicans... It is mean-spirited. It is vicious... The contract is too extreme, too mean-spirited... The draconian, mean-spirited and immoral cuts in funding... We're seeing draconian cuts in all sorts of social-service programs... Once again, they're playing Robin Hood in reverse, taking from the poor to give to the rich."

"The Gingrich/Dole Congress has been the most anti-labor Congress and anti-working-people Congress in the history of the United States of America, and it's time to turn them OUT!"
-- Tree-hugger Gore

"This has been without a doubt the worst environmental Congress in the history of our country. Americans today, had they had their way, would be drinking dirtier water, breathing dirtier air, and facing public health risks they should not have to face."
-- Sen. Tom Daschle

"GOP - Get Old People"

"We view yesterday's action, taken by the Republican conference, as an assault on diversity in the Congress and an attempt to disempower communities through congressional ethnic and philosophical cleansing."
-- Kwese Nfume, re Republicans cutting funding for Congressional Black Caucus

"What's next? Castration? Sterilization?"

"They're coming for our children. They're coming for the poor. They're coming for the sick, the elderly and the disabled."
-- Rep. John Lewis, GA

"He can raise enough money from the extreme right wing, the extra-chromosome right wing (a shot at Down's Syndrome victims), to come in and buy enough advertising to just overwhelm the truth."
-- Compassionate Algore

"The reason they're trying to slow the rate of increase in the program, I suppose, is that eventually they'd like to see the program just die and go away. You know, that's probably what they'd like to see happen to some seniors, too, if you think about it."
-- Compassionate Mike McCurry.

"If this bill ever became law, our drinking water would be dirtier, would make more people sick, and would kill more people."
-- Tree-hugger Gore

"What's being done to our society, the torture and the maiming of our society, is incomprehensible."
-- Major Owens

"You're a bunch of dictators, that's all you are... I had to fight you guys fifty years ago."
-- Sam Gibbons (Republicans are Nazis)


And from the era of President G.W. Bush...

The United States "is on the slippery slope to theocratic fascism." "The Catholic Church has been secretly encouraging oral sex for years."

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld "ought to be tortured." President Bush should be taken out and shot.

[snip]

The queen of venom, Randi Rhodes, followed Franken in the host slot. Her imitation of a cracker military type telling a soldier to "insert this fluorescent light bulb into that man's buttocks" was revolting. She compared U.S. prisons in Iraq to the "Nazi gulag" and said, "The day I say thank you to Rumsfeld is the same day I'll say thank you to the 12 people who raped me."

Rock bottom came when she compared Bush and his family to the Corleones in the "Godfather" saga. "Like Fredo, somebody ought to take him out fishing and phuw," she said, imitating the sound of gunfire.
Liberal radio is airing bad jokes and worst taste (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/col/story/192671p-166266c.html)

After celebrities raised $7.5 million with a concert for Democratic candidates John Kerry and John Edwards last night (July 8) in New York, an angry Bush campaign challenged their opponents to release a videotape showing performers calling the president a "liar" and a "cheap thug" during the show.

Actor Chevy Chase drew laughs and cheers from the Radio City Music Hall audience when he described politicians and their hobbies: "Clinton plays the sax, John plays the guitar, and the president's a liar." John Mellencamp sang a song about a "Texas Bandito" that referred to Bush as a "cheap thug."

[snip]

Celebrities didn't hold back, bashing Bush at every opportunity. "This guy's as bright as an egg timer," said Chase, who ridiculed the president for his tendency to flub the English language. Actor John Leguizamo, who is Puerto Rican, quipped: "Latins for Republicans. It's like roaches for Raid."

Actor Paul Newman assailed Bush's tax cuts as "borderline criminal," saying, "There is serious and dangerous stuff out there and something's gotta change." Actress Jessica Lange asked the crowd, "Are we going to continue to follow a self-serving regime of deceit, hypocrisy and belligerence?"
Concert For Kerry/Edwards Raises $7.5M (http://www.billboard.com/bb/daily/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000574095)

When I read about people spitting on the Honor Guard at the New York State Democratic Convention May 16, I started to understand what has happened to my party over the last few years. I still can't get over the fact that Democrats attending a formal convention would so insult the American flag, but it happened. As an Honor Guard of Albany police officers entered the convention hall - with band playing and lights shining - they were spit on and called "Nazis" by a number of people on the delegate floor. On top of that, no Democrat nearby stopped the "spitters," or even reported them. And the Democratic leadership expressed no public outrage.

[snip]

On Sunday, June 18, the headline of the Washington Post read, "Political Dirty Tricks Alleged in Alabama Trial," but the story revealed something far more serious than "dirty tricks." A Democrat lawyer and a private investigator are now being tried for attempting to defeat a Republican candidate in 1998 by bribing a prostitute to accuse the Republican of raping her. The prostitute recanted and turned witness against the two "Democrats."

[snip]

About a week after the spitting incident at the New York Democratic Party Convention, there was another incident that shocked me profoundly. I still cannot believe this one actually happened, but it is on videotape. At the MCI Center fund-raiser in Washington, Robin Williams performed before a crowd of corporate and Democrat dignitaries, people who would that very night raise the party over 26 million dollars.

The fund-raiser, including Williams's performance, was broadcast live on C-SPAN. However, that didn't stop Robin Williams from doing some kind of seedy nightclub act. He used the F-word and other obscenities several times (C-SPAN later cut this out when the event was rebroadcast). Imagine. A grand room full of powerful Democrats, representatives of America's oldest political party, and the F-word is being said, over and over again with cameras recording!

As in the case of the harassment of the Honor Guard at the Albany Democratic Convention, the specific violation was bad enough, but the most egregious violation was the passive, cowardly acceptance of the audience. The hardest thing to believe - for those of us who remember America before 1992 - was that the president, vice president and Mrs. Clinton were at this fund-raiser. Did none of them think to stand up and leave? Didn't anyone in the audience consider booing the smutty language spoken before the assembled dignitaries? No, there was only laughter.

Even when Robin Williams noticed a child present and joked about the "new words" he was learning that night - even then - no one objected. Not one Democrat dared step forward and condemn the moment. Peer pressure is a powerful and coercive thing, for adults as well as children - one breaks rank at one's peril. And I'm sure it wouldn't have been good for "business" for the party leadership to create embarrassment at such a high-level Hollywood/corporate function. So everyone laughed.
Fascism, corruption and my 'Democratic' Party (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=16391)

I had noticed that when a prominent Republican or conservative said something offensive about liberals, it typically set off a storm of media condemnation, while an anti-conservative smear voiced by a liberal or a Democrat rarely drew any protest. There was no end of sour commentary, for example, when Newt Gingrich recommended (in a GOP strategy meeting) that Clinton Democrats be portrayed as "the enemy of normal Americans." It was an outrageous remark, particularly from an incoming speaker of the House, and Gingrich deserved the drubbing he received.

But when Jesse Jackson explicitly likened the proposals of the new majority to Nazism and apartheid -- "If this were Germany, we would call it fascism. If this were South Africa, we would call it racism" -- there wasn't even a ripple of disapproval. Julianne Malveaux, a radio host and USA Today columnist, caught no flak when she prayed aloud for the death of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. "I hope his wife feeds him lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease," she snarled on PBS. "Well, that's how I feel."

What was true in 1994 remains largely true today. MSNBC fired right-wing talk host Michael Savage in July, and rightly so, when he told a gay caller to "get AIDS and die, you pig." The liberal Nina Totenberg, on the other hand, suffered no ill effects for saying, during the flap over General Jerry Boykin's views of Islam and the war on terrorism, "I hope he's not long for this world." When the startled host asked if she were "putting a hit out on this guy," Totenberg backtracked and said she only wanted to see him expire "in his job."

But this isn't the first time the NPR diva has publicly wished death on a conservative. "I think he ought to be worried about what's going on in the Good Lord's mind," she said of Senator Jesse Helms in 1995, "because if there is retributive justice, he'll get AIDS from a transfusion, or one of his grandchildren will get it."

[snip]

"What you have now" -- this is left-wing activist and actress Janeane Garofalo, analyzing the Republican Party during an appearance at the 92d Street Y in New York earlier this year -- "is people that are closet racists, misogynists, homophobes, and people who love . . . the politics of exclusion identifying as conservative." That was apparently good enough to win her a guest-host slot on CNN's "Crossfire," where she offered this thoughtful critique of the Patriot Act: "It is in fact a conspiracy of the 43d Reich."

Ah, yes, the reductio ad Hitlerum. Why meet a conservative with facts or logic when you can simply tar him with the Nazi brush? Thus we had Nancy Giles on the "CBS Sunday Morning show" sourly tying Rush Limbaugh's "edgy" radio manner to you-know-who's. "Hitler would have killed in talk radio," Giles declared. "He was edgy, too." Ellen Gray of the Philadelphia Daily News struck a similar note in commenting on "The Reagans," the cancelled miniseries. "If Hitler had more friends," she told The Washington Post, "CBS wouldn't have aired [its Hitler mini-series] either."
Jacoby: Hate Speech from the Left (http://www.thebluesite.com/archives/000300.html)

In a speech yesterday denouncing U.S. policy in Iraq, he compared George W. Bush first to Richard Nixon, which is excessive. Then he compared Bush to Faust and said the president had lost his soul in pursuit of a policy of "domination."

He accused the United States of setting up an "American Gulag," thus comparing the incidents at Abu Ghraib to Josef Stalin's vast slave-prison archipelago that shackled nearly 30 million people in an Arctic wasteland and caused the deaths of many millions more.

He has, in essence, declared that the monstrous American creeps we've seen in the Abu Ghraib photographs are victims as much as those they humiliated: "On the list of those he let down are the young soldiers who are themselves apparently culpable, but who were clearly put into a moral cesspool. The perpetrators as well as the victims were both placed in their relationship to one another by the policies of George W. Bush."
GORE GOES GA-GA (http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/21671.htm) (Link no longer active)

A self-described liberal talk-show host known for his disdain of the Bush administration called for the death penalty for the president and Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld for "war crimes," according to an audiotape.

Mike Webb, who has a late-night show on KIRO radio in Seattle, denied a report last week by Talon News, but the Internet site said today it has a tape that proves the host make the statements on the air.

The prison abuse in Iraq "is a war crime, committed by the president of the United States," Webb declared on his show. "And do you know what the punishment for that is? Death!"
Talk host: Death penalty for Bush (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38671)

It's a cliché this is becoming the meanest year in politics yet. But it's true. Last week, Mike Lavigne, the spokesman for the Texas Democratic Party, admitted calling a state Supreme Court justice "a Nazi." When his boss, Democratic Party chairman Charles Soecthting, was asked if an apology was due, he said, "I don't have a problem that Mike said it."

Then there's Sen. Ted Kennedy, who told a startled Senate last week that "Saddam's torture chambers have been reopened under new management, United States management." Some conservative talk show hosts, such as Michael Savage, have railed against gays and immigrants while they question John Kerry's patriotism. On the left, Bush bashing has become a national sport.

[snip]

Certainly there are rhetorical excesses on the right too. High-octane conservative Web sites feature vitriolic personal attacks on Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Teresa Heinz Kerry and others. But some liberal activists go further. Michael Goodwin of New York's Daily News spent a day listening to Air America, the new liberal talk-radio network, and found he had to endure hours of "rancid venom." Host Randi Rhodes compared U.S. prisons in Iraq to the "Nazi gulag," a mixed ideological metaphor as well as an inflammatory one.

Nor are Nazi allusions limited to talk radio. Seymour Hersh, who broke the story of the Iraqi prisons in The New Yorker, appeared on CNN last week and said a picture of two guard dogs snarling at a prisoner was "a scene from we know what, you know, [the] Third Reich." When host Wolf Blitzer asked him to be more specific, Mr. Hersh changed the subject.

MoveOn.org is financed in part by billionaire George Soros, who last year also compared Mr. Bush to Hitler and said that Israel was "likely" a big but secret reason for the war in Iraq. Mr. Soros is also a major financial backer of the Media Fund, an anti-Bush group directed by Harold Ickes, who served as President Clinton's deputy chief of staff. When Mr. Ickes was asked what its supporters thought of Mr. Soros's penchant for Bush-Hitler comparisons, Mr. Ickes said "we have not taken heat because of it."
Anger Management (http://www.opinionjournal.com/forms/printThis.html?id=110005088)

What I saw on the Portland, Ore., branch of the Independent Media Center this week is something I never thought I would see in this country.

That's where the memory of American hero Pat Tillman – the professional football player who gave up a $3.6 million sports contract to volunteer for military service in Iraq and Afghanistan and who lost his life last week – was cruelly attacked.

The anti-globalist website posted a story on the ex-NFL player who became an Army Ranger, Pat Tillman, with the title, "Dumb Jock Killed in Afghanistan."

[snip]

The Portland Independent Media Center website was filled with comments affirming the "Dumb Jock" headline.

One suggested an alternative headline, " ... or, how about, 'privileged millionaire, blinded by nationalist mythology, p------ away the good life.'"

Another suggested headline was: "'Citizen of empire allows ignorance to cause him to die for imperialism' or maybe ... 'Capitalist chooses to kill innocents instead of cashing check.'"

One reader who was identified as "George W." wrote, "Thanks for the laugh."

Commenting on the article's reference to a "brave American," a reader replied: "'brave'???? for going over to Afghanistan completely uninvited and slaughtering brown-skinned people with advanced weaponry?"

Another said: "Tillman chose to go to Afghanistan. He's partially reponsible [sic] for the deaths of hundreds, maybe thousands of Afghan civilians. No need to feel sorry for him, other than feeling bad that he was brainwashed into serving as a grunt."
What country is this? (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38237)


Liberal civility is a wondrous thing to behold.

[DoctorDoom]

Liberal Civility, Part 2.

Such venom should be beyond the political and social pale. But too many liberals would still rather dismiss conservative ideas with a ugly slur than actually grapple with them on the merits. Debating the pros and cons of racial preferences or US foreign policy can be difficult; much easier to simply hiss "Racist!" or "Nazi!" or some equally poisonous insult.

"What you have now" -- this is left-wing activist and actress Janeane Garofalo, analyzing the Republican Party during an appearance at the 92d Street Y in New York earlier this year -- "is people that are closet racists, misogynists, homophobes, and people who love . . . the politics of exclusion identifying as conservative." That was apparently good enough to win her a guest-host slot on CNN's "Crossfire," where she offered this thoughtful critique of the Patriot Act: "It is in fact a conspiracy of the 43d Reich."

Ah, yes, the reductio ad Hitlerum. Why meet a conservative with facts or logic when you can simply tar him with the Nazi brush? Thus we had Nancy Giles on the "CBS Sunday Morning show" sourly tying Rush Limbaugh's "edgy" radio manner to you-know-who's. "Hitler would have killed in talk radio," Giles declared. "He was edgy, too." Ellen Gray of the Philadelphia Daily News struck a similar note in commenting on "The Reagans," the cancelled miniseries. "If Hitler had more friends," she told The Washington Post, "CBS wouldn't have aired [its Hitler mini-series] either."

But of course no one came in for more Hitler comparisons this year than George W. Bush. Third Reich references were practically a staple of antiwar rhetoric.

The president "is not the orator that Hitler was," acknowledged leftist commentator Dave Lindorff at Counterpunch.org. "But comparisons of the Bush administration's fearmongering tactics to those practiced so successfully and with such terrible results by Hitler and Goebbels . . . are not at all out of line."Hate Speech from the Left (http://www.thebluesite.com/archives/000300.html)

The racist label was mild next to some of the other ones liberals used in 1994. One popular technique: identifying conservatives with genocide.

"The most hideous schemes are being put forth now in the name of conservatism," railed Jesse Jackson, the man who added "Hymietown" to our lexicon. "If this were Germany, we would call it fascism. If this were South Africa, we would call it racism. Here we call it conservatism."

Religious conservatives, he said, are really latter-day SS troops, straight out of Nuremberg:

"The Christian Coalition was a strong force in Germany. It laid down a suitable, scientific, theological rationale for the tragedy in Germany. The Christian Coalition was very much in evidence there . . ."

Minnesota's liberal Republican Gov. Arne Carlson used the same calumny against his conservative GOP challenger, a devout Christian. History, he said, shows how "a narrow sliver has the ability to take over any entire system. That clearly is how Hitler started out."A year of character-assassination from the left (http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/1994/12/27/a_year_of_character_assassination_from_the_left/)

No slur is more popular in the hate lexicon of the left than "racist." Except possibly "Nazi." When characterizing conservatives and Republicans, liberals reach for both. Some illustrations:

- "Hitler had a minister of propaganda that said tell a lie, tell a big lie. . . . Republicans are telling the biggest lie in the world. . . . What's next, castration?" (US Rep. Bill Clay, attacking GOP welfare proposals.)

- "Just like under Hitler . . ." (US Rep. Charles Rangel, describing a House Ways and Means Committee vote that closed a tax loophole.)

- "Republican storm troopers." (Mario Cuomo.)How the right is demonized (http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/1995/12/21/how_the_right_is_demonized/)

Compare your political opponents to Nazis? No problem -- if you're a liberal. In 1997:

- Michael Greene, president of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, invoked Auschwitz in denouncing warning labels on violent or obscene records. They "would one day serve," he wrote, "as a tattooed number on the forearm of the artistic community."

- TV and movie director Michael Moore ("Roger and Me," "TV Nation") urged liberals to read The Wall Street Journal, a paper put out by "the enemy . . . every day to tell you what they are up to. That's incredible. Imagine the Nazis doing that every day, sending out a sheet that says, `Here's what we're up to.' "

- Christopher Edley, a law professor at Harvard and a Clinton adviser, pronounced Abigail and Stephan Thernstrom guilty of "a crime against humanity" -- like the Nuremberg defendants? -- for having published "American in Black and White," an important new book that is skeptical of racial quotas and preferences.

- Tim Fleck, a Houston Press columnist, warned readers that Gary Polland, the conservative Republican chairman of Harris County, Texas, had probably been "reading too much `Mein Kampf' for his own good." Why the Hitler comparison? Because Polland had rated candidates for local office based on their answers to a questionnaire. Fleck's piece was titled, "Look Out for the GOPstapo!"More hate speech from the left (http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/1997/12/30/more_hate_speech_from_the_left/)

Granted, it's not nice to use the A-word. But it's not nearly as vile as comparing your political opponents to acolytes of Adolf Hitler. Yet liberals routinely liken Republicans and conservatives to mass-murdering totalitarians, and no one objects.

The platform of the Texas Republican Party, Bill Clinton sneered in June, "was so bad that you could get rid of every fascist tract in your library if you just had a copy" of it. Joe Gellar, the Democratic Party chairman in Miami-Dade County, fumed that out-of-town Republicans protesting the ballot recounts were engaging in "brownshirt tactics."

And for those too dense to grasp the point - conservatives are the moral equals of the men who ran Auschwitz - filmmaker Michael Moore spelled it out.

"There are tens of thousands of people who lived through [the Holocaust], escaped the ovens, and are now living out their final years in South Florida," he wrote in demanding a new vote in Palm Beach County. "Sixty-two years ago tonight, the . . . German government sent goon squads throughout the country to trash and burn the homes, stores, and temples of its Jewish citizens. Seven years and six million slaughtered lives later, the Jewish people of Europe were virtually extinct. A few survived. I will not allow those who survived to . . . be abused again."Slander is just fine when the left does it (http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2000/12/28/slander_is_just_fine_when_the_left_does_it/)

When a conservative oversteps the bounds of decency in condemning a liberal, he typically gets scorched by criticism, much of it from the right. But there was no scorching of:

Chris Matthews, who likened Republicans quoting John F. Kennedy on taxes to "the Nazi Party quoting Kennedy saying, `Ich bin ein Berliner'?"

Al Sharpton, who said during the postelection ballot fight in Florida that conservatives want to "do the same thing to us" that "Hitler in his wickedness and evil" did to the Jews.Smears, slanders from the left (http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2001/12/30/smears_slanders_from_the_left/)

Olbermann, the MSNBC commentator, announced in August that Starr made him think of Heinrich Himmler, who ran the Gestapo for Hitler. In February, Larry King compared him to Nazis. In October, Vanessa Redgrave also compared him to Nazis.

Indeed, it sometimes seems as if liberals can't look at a conservative or a Republican without seeing the SS. The GOP decision to block a vote on censuring Clinton, US Representative Tom Lantos of California snarled, is something one would expect "in Hitler's parliament." When New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani displeased an artists' association, it publicly depicted him with a Hitler moustache.The liberal double standard in reacting to 'hate' speech (http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/1998/12/31/the_liberal_double_standard_in_reacting_to_hate_sp eech/)

"Bobby Ehrlich is a nazi. . . . he should be running in Germany in 1942, not Maryland in 2002. We'll define him as the nazi he is. Once we do that, i think people will vote for Kathleen Kennedy Townsend."

Thus spake Democratic political consultant Julius Henson about congressman Robert Ehrlich, the Republican candidate in Maryland's gubernatorial election this year. Henson had just signed on to work for Townsend, Ehrlich's Democratic opponent, and made his repugnant remarks in an interview with The Washington Post.

[snip]

And no prominent liberal blasted Gerardo Villacres, the head of the Hispanic American Chamber of Commerce, when he likened California businessman Ron Unz to a Nazi for financing ballot campaigns to end bilingual education.

Sliming conservatives as Nazis often seems to be the first refuge of liberal hate-talkers. Do they really not understand the terrible malignancy of that term?

Sandra Bernhard, the actress and alleged comedienne, was asked during an online Washington Post chat for her thoughts on terrorism. "The real terrorist threats," she replied, "are George W. Bush and his band of brown-shirted thugs." (The Nazi stormtroopers were known as brownshirts.) Miami minister and radio host Victor Curry castigated the Bush administration over the air for its "neo-Nazi, right wing mission against the American people." In a magazine interview, Sean Penn likened Bill O'Reilly, the popular Fox News personality, to Osama bin Laden, Senator Joseph McCarthy, and - of course - Adolf Hitler.The double standard on political hate speech (http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2002/12/29/the_double_standard_on_political_hate_speech/)

The Nazi Parallels

We have previously compared the "theories" coming out of the lawyers in this Administration, to those used to justify Adolf Hitler's war crimes during World War II. In the article "Bush and Hitler: What the 'Torture Memos' Reveal," and an accompanying editorial, both in the July 2, 2004 EIR, we identified the parallels between the arguments put forward in the Bush Administration "torture memos," and the notorious "Commissar Order" issued on the eve of Nazi German invasion of the Soviet Union. Based on the notion that Germany was fighting a new kind of enemy, requiring new methods, and that Russia had not participated in the Hague Convention, and therefore had no rights under it, the Commissar Order gave virtual immunity to German soldiers for war crimes committed against the "barbaric" Russian enemy. Hitler also demanded that his officers rid themselves of "obsolete ideologies."Alberto Gonzales: Bush's 'Nazi Lawyer' (http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2005/3201gonzales.html)

What is a "Bush NAZI"? Well, it a person who ridicules other people who don't like Bush and calls them "unpatriotic" or "disloyal".

Adolf Hitler strongly believed in patriotism and loyalty to ones country. They waved flags and chanted "Gott Speichern Deutschland!" (God Save Germany!), but now in the United States people wave American flags and shout "God Save America". There's even a song by that name.

So imagine it if you can, or remember it if its happened to you. You're talking to what you think is a perfectly nice american, when suddenly the topic of George W. Bush comes up. And the Bush NAZI starts making fun of people who are anti-Bush.

What did the NAZIs do to people who didn't support Hitler? Well, they made fun of them. Some of them even attacked people who were anti-Hitler. Eventually the anti-Hitler people became more quiet, out of fear, or simply left Germany, out of fear.The Rise of Bush NAZI-ism (http://www.lilithgallery.com/articles/bushitler.html)

A quick note, first, about what counts as a "Bush = Hitler" allusion for these purposes. Obviously, someone saying "that George Bush guy is just like Hitler" counts. So does the ever-so-creative addition of a little Hitler-style mustache onto photographs or cartoons. So too does someone starting out "George Bush isn't like Hitler..." and then continuing "...but given X and Y and Z you can understand why some people are saying he is". So too does someone starting out "George Bush isn't like Hitler..." and then continuing with flattery of Hitler "...because Hitler was elected / didn't drink / actually served his time in the army". Implying that the Nazis were behaving better than the US certainly counts, such as "Not even the Nazis treated their prisoners this badly". Oh, and comparisons between September 11th and the Reichstag fire count as well.

Put simply, it's my page and it goes in if I think it counts. Every effort will be made to provide a link to the source, along with quotes and context so you can make up your own mind.

Harold Pinter (British playright)

Quoted in the Guardian, June 2003: "The US is really beyond reason now. It is beyond our imagining to know what they are going to do next and what they are prepared to do. There is only one comparison: Nazi Germany"

Corin Redgrave

In the Mail, Corin Redgrave incorrectly asks "Even the Nazis allowed the Red Cross to visit their prisoners : why won't America?" Millions of Russian prisoners taken by the Nazis on the Eastern front might have been surprised to hear that.

Ted Rall (cartoonist and writer)

In January, 2004, asking "Is Bush a Nazi?" seems the conclude that Bush is worse because at least Hitler was elected:Lately we're being told that it's either (a) inappropriate or (b) untrue to refer to Bush's illegitimate junta as Nazi, neo-Nazi or neofascist. Because, you know, you're not necessarily a Nazi just because you seize power like one, take advantage of a national Reichstag Fire-like tragedy like one, build concentration and death camps like one, start unprovoked wars like one, Red-bait your liberal opponents like one or create a national security apparatus that behaves like something a Nazi would create and even has a Nazi-sounding name. All of those people who see a little Adolf in the not-so-bright eyes of America's homeland-grown despot are just imagining things.

Me, I'm catching it for this week's cartoon for daring to suggest that, well--you know.

Of course, there are differences. Hitler, for example, was legally elected. And he had a plan--not one that I like, but a plan--for the period after the war.

I'll be happy to stop comparing Bush to Hitler when he stops acting like him.The Gallery of "Bush = Hitler" Allusions (http://semiskimmed.net/bushhitler.html)

TPCN received this apparently un-titled article as part of a group e-mail. The only information provided by the person who sent it to the group was that it had been "posted on AOL" and they had "checked the references"---which leaves it unclear whether the references support the article or merely exist. As the article at least 'rings true', I haven't bothered to check them.

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William WilgusSimilarities Among Bush, Hitler, Stalin and the GOP (http://www.thepubliccause.net/Articles/BushHitlerStalinGOP.html)

In the September 1, 2003, issue of National Review, Byron York chronicles (read the piece here) some of the Bushphobia. He writes,A staple of Bush-hating is the portrayal of the president as a Nazi. That has, of course, been a prominent part of other attacks against other presidents, but today it seems to be deployed with particular aggressiveness against Bush. There are thousands of references, across the vastness of the Internet, linking Bush to Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich. Do you want to buy a T-shirt with a swastika replacing the "s" in Bush? No problem. Do you want to collect images of Bush in a German army uniform, with a Hitler mustache Photoshopped onto his face? That's easy. Do you want to find pictures of Dick Cheney and Tom Ridge and Ari Fleischer dressed as Bush's Nazi henchmen? That's easy, too.As York observes, It's not just the intellectual poltroons of the Internet who feign bravery by loudly saying what is patently stupid so that people a fraction dumber than them might mistake it for boldness and conviction. It's not just the masses of undifferentiated cattle who sport their Hitlerfied George Bush T-shirts and who chant slogans with a verve more truly reminiscent of Nuremberg than anything ever uttered by George Bush.

Indeed, "smart" people mouth this nonsense too. Scholars at Berkeley insist that George Bush shares a psychological profile with Hitler. An editorial writer for the Kansas City Star invokes Martin Niemoller's "First they came for the Jews…" mantra to decry the alleged excesses of the Patriot Act. Various Muslim activists are constantly suggesting that they are the Jews of the Nazified America. Almost everyday I get dozens of e-mails from seemingly intelligent liberals - and a few conservatives - who insist that I "can't deny it" anymore - it's 1933 Germany in America. Retired Princeton University professor Sheldon Wolin writes of the "inverted totalitarianism" of the Republican party - "a fervently doctrinal party, zealous, ruthless, antidemocratic, and boasting a near majority" - as a stand-in for a Nazi party which doesn't need to use "totalitarian thugs" to attain power. He writes:No doubt these remarks will be dismissed by some as alarmist, but I want to go further and name the emergent political system "inverted totalitarianism." By inverted I mean that while the current system and its operatives share with Nazism the aspiration toward unlimited power and aggressive expansionism, their methods and actions seem upside down. For example, in Weimar Germany, before the Nazis took power, the "streets" were dominated by totalitarian-oriented gangs of toughs, and whatever there was of democracy was confined to the government. In the United States, however, it is the streets where democracy is most alive - while the real danger lies with an increasingly unbridled government.You may think that's brilliant stuff and that Wolin is a savant. As for me, I'm simply reminded of Walter Bagehot's observation that "In the faculty of writing nonsense, stupidity is no match for genius.""Bush=Hitler" - The politics of dangerous stupidity. (http://www.nationalreview.com/script/printpage.p?ref=/goldberg/goldberg090403.asp)

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Liberal Civililty Part 3


"It's not 'spic' or 'nigger' anymore. They say, 'Let's cut taxes.' "
-- Charles Rangel

"A lot of people are afraid of you. . . . Worse, you're an intolerant bigot."
-- Sam Donaldson to Newt Gingrich

"The most hideous schemes are being put forth now in the name of conservatism. If this were Germany, we would call it fascism. If this were South Africa, we would call it racism. Here we call it conservatism... The Christian Coalition was a strong force in Germany. It laid down a suitable, scientific, theological rationale for the tragedy in Germany. The Christian Coalition was very much in evidence there..."
-- Jesse "Hymietown" Jackson

"I hope his wife feeds him lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do of heart disease.. . . He's an absolutely reprehensible person."
-- Julianne Malveaux, Pacifica Radio talk show host, on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas

"What's the difference between the Contract With America and the contract with the devil? Well, the devil's contract still provides for our seniors and our children."
-- Rep. Mike Ward (D-KY)

"Would it really be a bad idea if Rush Limbaugh got cancer of the mouth?"
-- Men's Fitness, May 1995, p20, article on cigar smoking

"I'll be watching, hoping someone shoots him. It would no doubt be a thrill."
-- Abraham Polonsky, blacklisted for his Communist sympathies in the 1950s, re Elia Kazan's Lifetime Achievement award

"Conservative legal interest groups, such as the Center for Individual Rights and the Southeastern Legal Foundation (which oppose racial preferences and quotas) are . . . a homogenized version of the Klan. They may have traded in their sheets for suits . . . but it's the same old racism."
-- Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell

"That herd of managers from the House, I mean, frankly all they were missing was white sheets. They're like night riders."
-- Eleanor Clift, Newsweek, re impeachment proceedings again BJ Billy

"Kenneth Starr is cunning, ruthless, and about as well-mannered as Heinrich Himmler."
-- LA Times editorial

"Whenever I hear Trent Lott speak, I immediately think of nooses decorating trees. Big trees, with black bodies swinging."
-- Los Angeles Times, Karen Grigsby Bates


Re Ann Coulter, Thor Hesla, Asshole Extraordinaire, launched a diatribe in Salon (http://archive.salon.com/media/feature/1999/06/25/coulter/print.html) in 1999 that was the quintessence of hatred. Among his "Ten modest proposals to help Ann Coulter get a date":

1) Quit injecting yourself with your own urine. I don't mean to be presumptuous, but the rumor is that George Balanchine used to put so much pressure on his corps d' ballet to remain razor-thin that some of them injected themselves with their own urine to keep the pounds off. You look like you're doing this also.

[snip]

5) Stop being a mean bitch.

One of the things you hate about Washington is that complete strangers on the Metro ask you for your sports page. Ann, I frequently have out-of-town guests visit me in D.C. Because, as you have already established, I have to watch a lot of TV to see what's going on in your neck of the woods, I often send these gentle strangers out onto the Metro alone. When I do, I pray, literally, that they won't run into pompous, intolerant, judgmental, high-strung, anorexic clothes-horses like yourself if they should happen to get lost, require assistance, or even, God forfend, reach out across the aching void that divides us all and inquire if you're finished with that section of the paper, ma'am?

[snip]

8) Buy a vibrator.

In addition to all your other problems, I think you need to rack up some quick orgasms. There's one called "the Rabbit" which I hear gets you going from several different angles at once, if you know what I mean. It was featured in a recent episode of "Sex in the City."

Once you've cleared your system of all the toxins that back up when you stop getting off, you should immediately ...

9) Get your head out of your ass.

Another of your complaints about D.C. is that the cabs don't have meters. Are you really simple? The zone system in D.C. is mandated by Congress (here's that white thing again) so that they can ride to and from Capitol Hill as inexpensively as possible.

Returning to the snippets...

"Rush Limbaugh is a Big, Fat Idiot and other Observations."
-- Al Franken book title

"A lot of the blood of America's race war victims will be on the hands and bloated bodies of Rush Limbaugh and Howard Stern."
-- Columnist Carl Rowan

"The evaporation of 4 million who believe in this crap would leave the world a better place."
-- Andre Codrescu, NPR, re Christian fundamentalists

But nobody drew more savage abuse in 1996 than black conservatives -- usually at the hands of black liberals. Ward Connerly, chairman of California's Proposition 209 campaign to abolish race and gender quotas in state government, was routinely called an "Uncle Tom" and a "traitor" by the defenders of quotas. "He's married to a white woman," hissed state Sen. Diane Watson of Los Angeles. "He wants to be white." The Oakland Tribune depicted him in a cartoon as the proprietor of "Connerly & Co./ Ethnic Cleansers" -- with a Klansman's robe hanging in the window.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas again found himself on the receiving end of sickening hate speech. On the cover of its November issue, Emerge, a liberal black magazine, portrayed "Uncle Thomas" as a "Lawn Jockey for the Far Right." Inside, a grinning Thomas crouched at Justice Antonin Scalia's feet, shining his shoes.

And then there was the six-page memo that US Rep. William Clay, a black Missouri Democrat, published about Rep. Gary Franks, a black Republican from Connecticut. Franks is "a Negro Dr. Kevorkian," Clay spewed, "who gleefully assists in suicidal conduct to destroy his own race." Clay bashed his colleague's "foot-shuffling, head-scratching 'Amos and Andy' brand of 'Uncle Tom-ism,' " calling him a "gun for hire willing to assassinate . . . blacks." Like all "barbarous" black conservatives, he snarled, Franks wants "to maim and kill other blacks for the gratification and entertainment of . . . white racists."Another year of hate speech from the left (http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/1996/12/31/another_year_of_hate_speech_from_the_left/)

"I think he ought to be worried about what's going on in the Good Lord's mind, because if there is retributive justice, he'll get AIDS from a transfusion, or one of his grandchildren will."
-- Nina Totenberg re Sen. Jesse Helms

"What you have now is people that are closet racists, misogynists, homophobes, and people who love . . . the politics of exclusion identifying as conservative."
-- Janeane Garofalo re GOP

"It is in fact a conspiracy of the 43d Reich."
-- Garofalo re the PATRIOT Act

The president "is not the orator that Hitler was. But comparisons of the Bush administration's fearmongering tactics to those practiced so successfully and with such terrible results by Hitler and Goebbels . . . are not at all out of line."
-- Dave Lindorff at Counterpunch.org

"Hitler had a minister of propaganda that said tell a lie, tell a big lie. . . . Republicans are telling the biggest lie in the world. . . . What's next, castration? Sterilization?"
-- Rep. Bill Clay, attacking GOP welfare proposals

"Republican storm troopers."
-- Mario Cuomo

" 'Apollo 13' . . . celebrates the paradisiacal America invoked by Ronald Reagan and Pat Buchanan -- an America where men were men, women were subservient and people of color kept out of the damn way."
-- John Powers, reviewing the movie "Apollo 13" in the Washington Post

Two months ago, as Houston voters were considering a proposal to end racial preferences, opponents of the measure aired a radio spot. It began with the familiar cadences of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech. Then a gunshot sounded. Sirens wailed. And the narrator spoke: "Just when our community starts to move ahead, some people try to turn back the clock. Sometimes they do it with bullets. Sometimes they do it with laws."

Clear enough? If you favor colorblind laws, you are no better than Dr. King's murderer.

If a conservative group aired a radio spot likening its liberal foes to Lee Harvey Oswald, it would be inundated, and rightly, by a wave of denunciation from sea to shining sea. But when liberals spew such venom on conservatives, comparing them to assassins, fascists, and mass murderers, there is barely a trickle of indignation.More hate speech from the left (http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/1997/12/30/more_hate_speech_from_the_left/)

You're watching "The O'Reilly Factor," FOX News Channel's popular interview show. The host is commenting acidly on the presidential campaign. To illustrate a point, he airs some video of Al Gore addressing the Democratic convention in Los Angeles. And as you watch, amazed, the words "snipers wanted" appear on the screen as Gore speaks.

It never happened, of course. But imagine the reaction if it had.

If O'Reilly ever pulled such a stunt, he would be pilloried from coast to coast. Editorials would sear him for joking about murder. Democrats would blast the "sick right-wing mentality" that thinks killing the vice president is humorous. Talk shows would seethe. The Federal Communications Commission would investigate. And Fox News, flooded with petitions demanding O'Reilly's head, would be forced to take him off the air.

That's the script, more or less, when well-known conservatives aim vicious insults and hateful slurs at liberals. But when the venom moves in the other direction - when it's a conservative getting smeared - the indignation meter barely flutters.

Which is why there was no explosion over "Snipers Wanted."

The truth is, it did happen - but not on Fox News and not with an image of Al Gore. It was Craig Kilborn, host of CBS's "Late Late Show," who put out the call for snipers while showing footage of George W. Bush at the GOP convention. Eventually, CBS apologized, mumbling something about the joke being "inappropriate and regrettable" - and that was the end of it. No seething, no petitions, nobody taken off the air.Slander is just fine when the left does it (http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2000/12/28/slander_is_just_fine_when_the_left_does_it/)

"But if you look closely at that map you see a more complex picture. You see the state where James Byrd was lynched-dragged behind a pickup truck until his body came apart - it's red. You see the state where Matthew Shepard was crucified . . . for the crime of being gay - it's red. You see the state where right-wing extremists blew up a federal office building and murdered scores of federal employees: red. The state where an Army private thought to be gay was bludgeoned to death with a baseball bat . . . and the state where Bob Jones University spews its anti-Catholic bigotry: they're all red, too."
-- Paul Begala, MSNBC.com, re the red-blue map of states for Bush and Gore

(Selecting Ashcroft resembled) "the way Ku Klux Klan members worked to improve race relations: They, too, reached out to blacks with nooses and burning crosses."
-- Rep. William Clay of Missouri re George W. Bush's talk of outreach to black Americans

Bush dredged John Ashcroft "from the Taliban wing of American politics."
-- Julian Bond

(While Afghanistan) "has been protecting Osama bin Laden, Italy has been harboring another omnipotent religious zealot, one who equally condemns us Western sinners and incites violence. . . . Meet John Paul II, Christian fundamentalist extraordinaire and a man who inspires thugs across the globe. . ."
-- Michelangelo Signorile, well-known queer author

The worst political slur of 1998, to judge by the media attention it drew, was uttered by Al D'Amato, New York's Republican senator. In a private meeting with supporters during his reelection campaign last fall, D'Amato called his Democratic opponent, Representative Charles Schumer, a "putzhead."

Now, it is not nice to call people "putzhead," and I wasn't sorry to see D'Amato spanked for his boorish language. But it is also not nice to call people white-sheeted racists, yet so far as I know, none of my media brethren spanked Illinois Senator Carol Moseley-Braun when she implied that George Will, the noted commentator, belonged to the Klan.

"I think because he could not say 'nigger,' he said the word 'corrupt,' " Moseley-Braun offered by way of rebutting Will's columns about her many ethical lapses. "George Will can just take his hood and go back to wherever he came from." (In fact, Will hadn't said the word "corrupt.")

Why did Moseley-Braun's vile slander get a pass while D'Amato's crudity became a national story? Because in one case, a liberal insulted a conservative, while in the other, a liberal was insulted by a conservative. I devote a column each December to illustrating the pervasive double standard by which liberals are permitted to say vicious things about conservatives -- things that would get a conservative beheaded by sundown if he said it about a liberal.The liberal double standard in reacting to 'hate' speech (http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/1998/12/31/the_liberal_double_standard_in_reacting_to_hate_sp eech/)

"Don't you believe that they don't want to dismantle the Social Security system. They are afraid to come out from under their hoods and attack us directly."
Charles Rangel re GOP


Conan O'Brien: "Before we leave, I gotta ask you. It's no secret that you are very political. You are a very political person. It's no secret that you have actually had some associations with the Clintons. That you're a liberal man and I thought you know today, this is a historic day and you're one of the most politically active actors out there. What do you think?"

Baldwin: "I was in Africa. I go to Africa. I mean ladies and gentlemen I am in Africa. For three months I am in the bush and I come back. I come back here and I come back to what? I mean what is happening right now as we speak? Right now the Judiciary Committee, the President has an approval rating of 68 percent. The President is very popular and things are going pretty good and they are voting to impeach the President. They voted on one article of impeachment already. And I come back from Africa to stained dresses and cigars and this and impeachment. I am thinking to myself in other countries they are laughing at us twenty four hours a day and I'm thinking to myself if we were in other countries, we would all right now, all of us together, [starts to shout] all of us together would go down to Washington and we would stone Henry Hyde to death! We would stone him to death! [crowd cheers] Wait! Shut up! Shut up! No shut up! I'm not finished. We would stone Henry Hyde to death and we would go to their homes and we'd kill their wives and their children. We would kill their families. [stands up screaming] What is happening in this country? What is happening? UGHHH UGHHH!!!!"
-- Alec Baldwin on Conan O'Brien show, 12/11/1998

"Bobby Ehrlich is a nazi. . . . he should be running in Germany in 1942, not Maryland in 2002. We'll define him as the nazi he is. Once we do that, i think people will vote for Kathleen Kennedy Townsend."
-- Political consultant Julius Henson about congressman Robert Ehrlich, 2002 Maryland gov race

"The real terrorist threats are George W. Bush and his band of brown-shirted thugs."
-- Sandra Bernhard, actress and "comedienne"


An on and on it goes. And the libeRATs have the balls to whine about Ann Coulter. Jeez!

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Liberal Civility Part 4

In no particular order, here's the next compilation of the civility, decorum and tolerance of liberals.

So, we pay the soldiers a decent wage, take care of their families, provide them with housing and medical care and vast social support systems and ship obscene amenities into the war zone for them, we support them in every possible way, and their attitude is that we should in addition roll over and play dead, defer to the military and the generals and let them fight their war, and give up our rights and responsibilities to speak up because they are above society?

I can imagine some post-9/11 moment, when the American people say enough already with the wars against terrorism and those in the national security establishment feel these same frustrations. In my little parable, those in leadership positions shake their heads that the people don't get it, that they don't understand that the threat from terrorism, while difficult to defeat, demands commitment and sacrifice and is very real because it is so shadowy, that the very survival of the United States is at stake. Those Hoovers and Nixons will use these kids in uniform as their soldiers. If it weren't about the United States, I'd say the story would end with a military coup where those in the know, and those with fire in their bellies, would save the nation from the people.

But it is the United States, and the recent NBC report is just an ugly reminder of the price we pay for a mercenary - oops sorry, volunteer - force that thinks it is doing the dirty work.

[snip]

I'll accept that the soldiers, in order to soldier on, have to believe that they are manning the parapet, and that's where their frustrations come in. I'll accept as well that they are young and naïve and are frustrated with their own lack of progress and the never changing situation in Iraq. Cut off from society and constantly told that everyone supports them, no wonder the debate back home confuses them.

America needs to ponder what it is we really owe those in uniform. The Troops Also Need to Support the American People (http://blog.washingtonpost.com/earlywarning/2007/01/the_troops_also_need_to_suppor.html)

What a cunning man Clarence Thomas is.

He knew that he could not make a powerful legal argument against racial preferences, given the fact that he got into Yale Law School and got picked for the Supreme Court thanks to his race.

So he made a powerful psychological argument against what the British call "positive discrimination," known here as affirmative action.

Justice Thomas's dissent in the 5-4 decision preserving affirmative action in university admissions has persuaded me that affirmative action is not the way to go.

The dissent is a clinical study of a man who has been driven barking mad by the beneficial treatment he has received.Could Thomas Be Right? (http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/25/opinion/25DOWD.html?ex=1371960000&en=f0e6d4c6d1ef9dbe&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND)

Newsweek Snob Sneers at Sexual Harassment Victim

Newsweek's Evan Thomas, who no doubt comes by his elitist Marxist views as a result of being the grandson of the granddaddy of all American socialists, Norman Thomas, a serial candidate for the presidency, had this to say about Paula Jones, one of the many women victimized by Bill Clinton: "some sleazy woman with big hair coming out of the trailer parks ..."

"Can you imagine him saying that about a not-too-sophisticated, not too-educated, young black or Hispanic woman, as someone 'with big hair coming out of the ghetto'?"

This is the same Evan Thomas quoted in an earlier chapter as remarking about Ronald Reagan that "he had a kind of an intuitive idiot genius."

NBC FemiNazi Attacks Linda Chavez; NOW Silent

Goldberg recalls former NBC Radio reporter Bonnie Erbe telling Linda Chavez that she had a greater chance of being struck by lightning than being raped "at her age."

He wonders what would have happened if Brit Hume has said anything "so incredibly insensitive and so downright stupid."

"NOW would have screamed that, like so many men, he just didn't get it, that rape is not about sex, but about 'power and control,' and then just to set an example, the president of NOW would have led a contingent to hang Hume in effigy."

But when a liberal such as Bonnie Erbe mouths such hate speech on PBS, Goldberg notes, "it's no big deal."Goldberg Exposes Fellow Liberals' Hate Speech (http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/1/2/155438.shtml)

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

BILL MAHER, COMEDIAN: We're defending him. We're saying, well, he's just inarticulate. But inarticulate doesn't explain foreign policy. I mean, it's not that complicated. The man is a rube. He is a dope. He is a yokel on the world stage. He's a Gilligan who cannot find his (expletive deleted) with two hands.

He is a vain half-wit who interrupts one incoherent sentence with another incoherent sentence. And I hope I'm not piling on.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

[snip]

O'REILLY: OK. So Hollywood is very secular.

Bush comes in with a, quote/unquote, "faith based" approach, and right off the bat they hate him.

Look, I've got -- look, let me just read you. Jennifer Aniston, "Bush is an F-ing idiot." Martin sheen, "Bush is a moron." Cher, "Bush is stupid."

BRUCE: A little projection with Cher, right?

O'REILLY: I don't know if Cher has a Ph.D. or not. George Clooney, "Bush is dim." Julia Roberts, "Bush is embarrassing." Jessica Lange, "I hate Bush."Bill O'Reilly and Tammy Bruce Analyze Hollywood's Hatred For President Bush (http://newsbusters.org/node/10998)

On Friday, the New York Times took Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid to task for comments he made last Sunday about future Supreme Court nominations on NBC-TV's "Meet the Press." Trouble is, the NYT gave Mr. Reid a pass over his patronizing treatment of Justice Clarence Thomas. The Nevada Democrat belittled Justice Thomas' record on the court as an "embarrassment," without providing a single substantive example of his supposed malfeasance. Moderator Tim Russert uncharacteristically let him get away with it.

The NYT had nothing negative to say about Mr. Reid's demeaning treatment of Justice Thomas, so we presume that it doesn't bother their editorial-page staff very much. But the newspaper complained that he didn't try to caricature Justice Antonin Scalia as well.Liberal bigotry, NYT-style (http://www.washingtontimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20041211-101039-3938r)

Liberals constantly accuse Conservatives of using "hate speech." This charge is leveled so often and against so many different people and institutions it quickly becomes clear that Liberals label any opinion with which they disagree as hate speech. Ironically, they often do the very thing for which they criticize others.

Below are examples of Liberal hate speech and how they use Political Correctness (and the law) to silence anyone that dares disagree.

[snip]

Dowd, stewing throughout the program about the people's latest rejection of the Democrats and everything they stand for and don't stand for, gave a bizarre response at the end when Matthews asked his guests to tell him something he didn't know.

"The Rapture is coming," Dowd told her host and fellow Democrat, and "you and I are going up," but "all these hypocritical conservatives" who want to tell everyone what to do are not.

[snip]

SUPPORTING President Bush is not just socially suicidal in this town — it can endanger your career and cost you big bucks, as one cabby discovered the hard way.

Haitian-born Etzer Jerome was fined $500 and had his license suspended three weeks — a loss of some $5,000 — simply because, he says, he committed a new kind of infraction: Backing Bush While Black.

"I'm a Bush man," Jerome, 49, told me while recounting a story that couldn't happen anyplace else.Liberal Hate Speech (http://www.jmac.net/politics/hatespeech.htm)

My show-business friend writes this evening:

This irrational and virulent hatred radiates from elected officials to all those who elected them. I saw a T-shirt in a Palm Springs shop that said, "So many right-wing Christians, so few lions." Hilarious, n'est-ce pas? Nothing funnier than religious believers being ripped to shreds by wild animals in front of cheering pagans.Liberal hate speech: A case study (http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/010839.php)

The liberal Washington Post Newspaper, had to shut down the ombudsman’s blog today due to the hatred spewed by liberals.

[snip]

There were so many personal attacks that the newspaper’s staff could not “keep the board clean, there was some pretty filthy stuff,” and so the Post shut down comments on the blog, or Web log, said Jim Brady, executive editor of washingtonpost.com. Liberal Hatred (http://markljackson.wordpress.com/2006/01/19/liberal-hatred/)

WASHINGTON--My brief and unhappy experience with the hate and vitriol of bloggers on the liberal side of the aisle comes from the last several months I spent campaigning for a longtime friend, Joe Lieberman.

[snip]

• "Ned Lamont and his supporters need to [g]et real busy. Ned needs to beat Lieberman to a pulp in the debate and define what it means to be an AMerican who is NOT beholden to the Israeli Lobby" (by "rim," posted on Huffington Post, July 6, 2006).

• "Joe's on the Senate floor now and he's growing a beard. He has about a weeks growth on his face. . . . I hope he dyes his beard Blood red. It would be so appropriate" (by "ctkeith," posted on Daily Kos, July 11 and 12, 2005).

• On "Lieberman vs. Murtha": "as everybody knows, jews ONLY care about the welfare of other jews; thanks ever so much for reminding everyone of this most salient fact, so that we might better ignore all that jewish propaganda [by Lieberman] about participating in the civil rights movement of the 60s and so on" (by "tomjones," posted on Daily Kos, Dec. 7, 2005).

• "Good men, Daniel Webster and Faust would attest, sell their souls to the Devil. Is selling your soul to a god any worse? Leiberman cannot escape the religious bond he represents. Hell, his wife's name is Haggadah or Muffeletta or Diaspora or something you eat at Passover" (by "gerrylong," posted on the Huffington Post, July 8, 2006).

• "Joe Lieberman is a racist and a religious bigot" (by "greenskeeper," posted on Daily Kos, Dec. 7, 2005).

And these are some of the nicer examples.Liberal McCarthyism (http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110008763)

Public schools in action. Amazingly, they probably saw nothing wrong with this:

Senior Mon-yee Fung,17, voluntarily attended an assembly where co-founder of the United Farm Workers Union Dolores Huerta spoke, but could not leave after Huerta began saying “Republicans hate Latinos.”

[snip]

Fung also said she was asked to remove a poster recruiting young Republicans because it was “too inflammatory.”

The poster read “Be an American, join the Teenage Republican Club.”Liberal Twilight Zone Hate Speech (http://polipundit.com/wp-comments-popup.php?p=16068&c=1)

An arguably more subtle statement was made by CBS's Dan Rather in his recent commentary about Al Gore's selection of Sen. Joseph Lieberman as his running mate. "The prevailing logic in the Democratic camp has been, anyone who won't vote for a Gore-Lieberman ticket because Lieberman is Jewish wouldn't have voted for it in the first place." I don't know if Rather was speaking for himself there or other proud owners of "the prevailing logic," but his statement bears scrutiny. Please read it again, carefully.

I ask you: How does it logically follow that those who won't vote for Gore-Lieberman because Lieberman is Jewish wouldn't have voted for them in the first place? Let's break it down. Anyone who won't vote for Gore-Lieberman because Lieberman is Jewish is (obviously) anti-Semitic. They (the anti-Semites) wouldn't have voted for Gore-Lieberman in the first place. The only people who wouldn't have voted for them in the first place are Republicans. Therefore, Republicans are anti-Semitic. I see no other plausible explanation.

[snip]

Anti-Semitism isn't the only charge, as we all know. Democratic National Committee General Chairman Ed Rendell, referring to the Republican convention, said, "No four-day convention can overcome decades of Republican neglect of African-Americans."When hate speech is OK (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=19012)

Did you hear about the Democrats' strategy to use the war on terrorism to their political advantage in upcoming congressional elections? We've got it on no less an authority than Newsweek's Howard Fineman.

Fineman, certainly no enemy of the Democrats, reports that they are planning to demonize the Republicans by comparing their "Christian right" to the Taliban in terms of religious extremism and intolerance. In this way, they hope to enrage President Bush and lure him into a "firefight at home."

Let's put aside the outrageousness of their plan to embroil a wartime president in a distracting domestic battle for purely partisan reasons. Instead, let's focus on the outrageousness of the premise underlying their strategy. That premise – which is nothing new for liberals – is that the religious right is intolerably intolerant and bigoted. The only thing new is that they now have an inflammatory way of packaging it – by exploiting the events of Sept. 11.

Fundamentalists of any religion (read: Christians) are dangerous. And who are the Christian fundamentalists? Essentially, those who believe the Bible is the Word of God. The term connotes a backwardness and absence of sophistication and enlightenment.Democratic hate speech (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=25927)

Have you read about the university study that purports to show psychological links among Ronald Reagan, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Rush Limbaugh and other "political conservatives"? There's so much here, where should I begin?

The study was conducted by four American university researchers, and its findings were reported in an article in the American Psychological Association's Psychological Bulletin, titled "Political Conservatism as Motivated by Social Cognition." The enlightened professors concluded that certain psychological motivations characterize conservatives, including "fear and aggression, dogmatism and intolerance of ambiguity; uncertainty avoidance; need for cognitive closure; and terror management."

"From our perspective," wrote the professors in a press release, "these psychological factors are capable of contributing to the adoption of conservative ideological contents, either independently or in combination."

Liberals have often hinted there was something deeply wrong with conservatives, but now they have "academic" support for their position. Conservatism is symptomatic of deep-rooted negative psychological character traits.Liberal bunkum (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=33772)

The condescension of The New York Times toward minority conservatives is so thick, you need a Cuisinart electric carving knife to slice it.

On Oct. 12, Times editorial writer Adam Cohen penned a hit piece masquerading as a profile of Bobby Jindal, the remarkable Republican gubernatorial candidate in Louisiana. Cohen began by noting that while Jindal's primary night victory celebration the previous weekend was attended by a diverse mix of whites and Indian-Americans, "there was scarcely a black reveler there."

How many "black revelers" were in attendance at Democratic rival Kathleen Blanco's election night gathering, Cohen did not see fit to print.

[snip]

None of Jindal's policy accomplishments matters more to Cohen, however, than this: He is "the dark-skinned son of immigrants from India."

Dark-skinned.The Remarkable Bobby Jindal vs. the Liberal Bigotry of the New York Times (http://www.capmag.com/articlePrint.asp?ID=3173)

Kevin Drum recently chided top conservative blogs, including this one, for not allowing comments. I initially enabled comments on a regular basis, but have severely limited them for reasons explained here. Lest you think I'm exaggerating the problem of out-of-control trolls/haters (which I touched on in a related post here), check out the gutter-level quality of comments about my recent Emory debate (now available on video here thanks to the Emory College Republicans) at Atrios, one of the blogosphere's top liberal sites last week.

Please excuse the extreme vulgarity of these excerpts, but they demonstrate a point about unhinged liberal hatred that I will continue to expose:What I want to really know is whether Malkin has the ability to suck the chrome off of a trailer hitch.

I mean, she's gotta have SOME kind of purposeful earthly use walking around on this planet, because she certainly doesn't have one that has anything to do with her intellect or her political views.
Jeremiah Elias | Email | Homepage | 02.04.05 - 2:26 am | #
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Why exactly does this large toothed educated female wog believe that she will be treated as white when God chose to make her yellow?

Even her political allies see her as nothing more than a trained monkey coached into saying a few simple racial truths that would be politically damaging if put into the mouths of a white man?

Her hatred for her fellow wogs comes from an inability to accept that God did not make her a European and that God chose to make her a woman.

Please, beat her severely and set her to work in a brothel somewhere in Malaysia that services Islamic terrorists.
King Leopold | Email | Homepage | 02.04.05 - 12:39 am | #COMMENTS, TROLLS, AND THE LEFT'S CONTINUED WHORE FIXATION (http://www.michellemalkin.com/archives/001417.htm)

The spirit of George Wallace is alive and well—among left-wing zealots in some of American’s most “progressive” taxpayer-funded schools.

In Oberlin, Ohio, local school board president Tony Marshall argues that only black high school teachers should teach “black history.” Non-black educators may be able to teach black students to write well, conduct research, and digest accurate facts and information. But arming black students with the same fundamentals that every other student needs to succeed is apparently not what Marshall wants for his kids: “A black teacher brings an experience and understanding of being black that no else can bring.”

If Marshall had to choose between hiring white historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. and black rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg, in other words, he’d rather have the pot-smoking, profanity-spewing, gang-banging convicted felon in the classroom because of Snoop’s skin-deep “experience and understanding.”

Phyllis Yarber Hogan, a member of something called the Oberlin Black Alliance for Progress, agrees: "When you talk about slavery,” she told the Cleveland Plain Dealer last week, “students need to understand it is not our fault. Our ancestors did nothing wrong to be enslaved. How do you work through that when the person teaching it is the same type of person who did the enslaving?"Liberal Bigotry And The New School Segregation (http://www.vdare.com/asp/printPage.asp?url=http://www.vdare.com/malkin/libs.htm)

Ted "Bottom-feeder" Rall is at it again. His latest crude-toon includes a frame depicting Condoleezza Rice proclaiming herself Bush's "HOUSE NIGGA." A black man demands that Rice "HAND OVER HER HAIR STRAIGHTENER." His t-shirt reads "YOU'RE NOT WHITE, STUPID." The caption below the frame reads "SENT TO INNER-CITY RACIAL RE-EDUCATION CAMP."

I am not going to call for a boycott of Rall's work. No. I want Universal Press Syndicate and the Washington Post and all his other "mainstream" media outlets to keep publishing his pathetic scrawls and scribbles.

Ted Rall, you see, is a very useful idiot. Whereas most on the Left attempt to conceal their liberal racism in the drapery of "diversity" and "multiculturalism," Ted Rall is an ideological streaker. His impulsive naked bigotry is so butt-ugly, you can't help but gawk. It is raw and it is real and it is, quite helpfully, all hanging out there for the world to see.THE BUCK-NAKED BIGOTRY OF TED RALL (http://www.michellemalkin.com/archives/000160.htm)


And they attack Ann. Jeez!

[DoctorDoom]

Liberal Civility Part 5

The liberal lunacy continues, and the scope broadens.

The anti-troops brigade at UC Santa Cruz has now called in the left-wing blogosphere's kings of hate to attack me. For what? For linking to a Students Against War press release bragging about booting military recruiters off campus and for re-posting publicly available contact info for the SAW press machine.

[snip]From: Joe Smith joejoe90211@yahoo.com
Date: Apr 17, 2006 7:48 PM
Subject: You belong in prison.You are a disgusting waste of oxygen.

You WILL burn in hell you disgusting c-nt.

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From: NorthCentralGuy@aol.com NorthCentralGuy@aol.com
Mailed-By: aol.com
Date: Apr 17, 2006 7:47 PM
Subject: TIP

Someone ought to sew your c-nt up with barbed wire. Not that it gets any use, you facist, hate spewing, disgraceful piece of shit.

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Michael McPherson michaelmc123@comcast.net
6:42 pm (1 hour ago)

You are a f-cking slanty-eyed c-nt.

Have a nice dayTHE MOONBATS STRIKE BACK (http://michellemalkin.com/archives/005008.htm?print=1)

A final thought for this week is a personal one.

I've been the target, as have a number of other conservative talk-radio hosts, of an effort by liberal bloggers to get me fired for engaging in what these far-left activists are calling "hate speech."

The move by liberal activists to silence conservative radio hosts comes after the failure of the left-wing Air America radio network. Given that liberalism couldn't compete and win in the marketplace of ideas, liberals now want to silence conservative radio hosts.

One anonymous online blogger compiled audio clips edited to make it look like I was calling for the murder of Nancy Pelosi, when I did no such thing. (You can listen for yourself and understand how they are now trying to impugn my credibility by misrepresenting my words).

One blogger called for fining me and my station $325,000 for each "offense" so as to shut down our station. Another liberal blogger is lining up activists to do a drill to get Congress to pass a new Fairness Doctrine. Another blogger said they were going to work until they got me "off the air."Liberals' attempts to silence me (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53738)

Civil rights activist and NAACP Chairman Julian Bond delivered a blistering partisan speech at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina last night, equating the Republican Party with the Nazi Party and characterizing Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her predecessor, Colin Powell, as tokens.

"The Republican Party would have the American flag and the swastika flying side by side," he charged.

Calling President Bush a liar, Bond told the audience at the historically black institution that this White House's lies are more serious than the lies of his predecessor's because Clinton's lies didn't kill people.NAACP chairman compares GOP to Nazis (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48635)

Alexandria, VA–On MSNBC’s Countdown Wednesday, host Keith Olbermann, in a derisive 12-minute rant, claimed that President Bush was responsible for inspiring “domestic terrorism” against his critics and further suggested that Bush’s supporters are like the pro-slavery congressman who used a cane to attack anti-slavery Senator Charles Sumner in the 19th century. Yet the liberal media, who constantly remind the American public about alleged hate speech on the political right, are not talking about Mr. Olbermann’s remarks.MSNBC’s KEITH OLBERMANN PREACHES HATE SPEECH AND LIBERAL MEDIA ARE SILENT (http://www.mrc.org/press/2006/press20061102.asp)

Nearly four decades of leftist pedagogy has educated despotic, appetitive and spoiled elites who irrationally condemn American incivility while idealistically ignoring barbaric Third World cruelties. These include clitoridectomy, slavery, bride pricing, trial by torture, infanticide, forced abortion, government lynching, racism and general lawlessness, all sanitized as "multicultural" appreciation.

Leftist "Hate America" jingoism has so mutated that socialist Michael Walzer asked, "Can There Be a Decent Left?" In his publication, Dissent, Walzer bemoaned the left's "barely concealed glee that the imperial state had finally gotten what it deserved," as they rejected "any hint of patriotic feeling."

Flynn's publication, Accuracy in Academia, is a monthly watchdog newsletter that keeps tabs on pedagogical atrocities. In this book he provides a laundry list of gleeful anti-American statements by said "elites" following the cowardly murders of thousands of noncombatants by the Sept. 11 terrorists.

University of Massachusetts-Amherst journalism professor Bill Israel claims Sept. 11 was "the predicable result of American policy." In his lecture to Yale students, historian Chalmer Johnson excused the carnage of innocent citizens saying the terrorists "rightly identify us as … trying to keep them down."

Proving that mastery of chess does not reflect wisdom or knowledge, Flynn quotes Bobby Fischer's conclusion, "It is time to finish off the U.S. once and for all. …"Liberal hate speech (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=29414)

Dr. Condoleezza Rice, President Bush's national security adviser and now his secretary of state nominee, has been the subject of nasty, demeaning and disrespectful cartoons and commentary. Some of the worst has come from people like Julian Bond, chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, who said on TV's "America's Black Forum" that he agreed with "The Boondocks" cartoonist Aaron McGruder's characterization of Dr. Rice as "a murderer." A lead article in Black Commentator said, "Condoleezza Rice is the purest expression of the race traitor. No polite description is possible." Those kinds of attacks by blacks have emboldened guilt-ridden white liberals to join in as seen by the recent cartoons of Pat Oliphant and Garry Trudeau ("Doonesbury").

First, let's look at a few of Dr. Rice's credentials. She holds a doctorate from the University of Denver. While senior fellow at the prestigious Hoover Institution, she taught courses in Stanford University's political science department. Later, she served as the university's provost. Dr. Rice is a recognized expert in Soviet and Eastern European countries, and she's fluent in Russian. She landed her job as national security adviser not because President Bush was trying to pay off a black constituency and not because Bush had an affirmative-action policy; her qualifications got her the job.Attacking Condi (http://www.capmag.com/articlePrint.asp?ID=4039)

When President Bush decided to invade Iraq, his spokesmen began comparing Saddam Hussein to Adolph Hitler, the most monstrous figure in modern history. Everybody was therefore shocked when a high German bureaucrat turned the tables by comparing Bush himself with Hitler. As to be expected, she (the bureaucrat) was forced to resign because of her extreme disrespect for an American president. However, the resemblance sticks--there are too many similarities to be ignored, some of which may be listed here.

• Like Hitler, President Bush was not elected by a majority, but was forced to engage in political maneuvering in order to gain office.

• Like Hitler, Bush began to curtail civil liberties in response to a well-publicized disaster, in Hitler’s case the Reichstag fire, in Bush’s case the 9-11 catastrophe.

• Like Hitler, Bush went on to pursue a reckless foreign policy without the mandate of the electorate and despite the opposition of most foreign nations.31 Similarities Between Hitler and President Bush (http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Articles3/Jayne_Hitler-Bush.htm)

Nazis murdered millions of unarmed people. They put them in ovens. They made soap out of them. They carted off children in boxcars to die and used some of the kids for medical experiments, including injecting dyes into their eyes to see if they could improve their looks. Lower on the list of charges, the Nazis enslaved millions and launched wars for territorial and egotistical gain (and sent many of the conquered populations to death camps as well). Lower still, they banned books and burned them too. They expropriated homes and businesses, banned religions, etc.

An intelligent person wouldn't normally assume these are the sorts of facts people forget. It's not quite the same thing as saying that the Mork and Mindy was a spin-off from Happy Days, is it?

I could, of course, get more graphic about what the Nazis did, but I don't much like writing about the Holocaust. It's not merely a depressing subject, its enormity is so depressing, so compacted down with evil and barbarity and cruelty that it folds in upon itself like a black hole. The gravitational pull of its tragedy has permanently bent the trajectory of mankind. Suffice it to say that the Nazis weren't simply generically bad, they were uniquely and monumentally evil, not just in their hearts but also in literally billions of intentional, well-planned, and bureaucratized decisions they made every day.

And yet, in polite and supposedly sophisticated circles in America today it is acceptable to say George Bush is akin to a Nazi and that America is becoming Nazi-like. Indeed, in certain corners of the globe to disagree with this assertion is the more outlandish position than to agree with it.“Bush=Hitler” - The politics of dangerous stupidity. (http://www.nationalreview.com/goldberg/goldberg090403.asp)

The post election debate will also determine congressional strategy. Because many Democrats believed that the 2000 election was essentially stolen from them and that Bush was therefore not a legitimate president, they felt justified in following a scorched earth policy. They blocked his judicial nominations, threw roadblocks in front of many of his initiatives, and resisted cooperation even on measures they basically supported, such as Medicare drug coverage.

Right now, Democrats seem to be leaning toward the idea that Bush’s victory is based primarily on turning out religious nuts to vote for him. These people are viewed in certain Democratic quarters as the American Taliban. It is thought that if they gain political power, not only will abortion and gay marriage be banned, but so will dancing, rock and roll, and any movie with an “R” rating.

This is nothing but nonsense, but is commonly believed in places like Hollywood and New York’s upper west side. They really believe that Bush is the Ayatollah and it’s only a matter of time before all women are walking around in burkas. No wonder they fought Bush so strenuously.

The truth is that the issue of values, which motivated many of Bush’s supporters according to exit polls, has much less to do with religion than Democrats believe. Ironically, the real problem is that liberals have imposed their beliefs on America in exactly the way they imagine that conservatives want to do. In many cases, the real frustration isn’t even with the liberal goal, but they way they achieved it.Cultural issues confuse the liberals (http://www.townhall.com/columnists/brucebartlett/printbb20041105.shtml)

In this election year of 2004 we are witnessing a rebirth of the same kind of political thuggery, this time acting in behalf of the National Socialist Democrat Abortion Party (the new NSDAP).

Consider: "Protesters ransack a Bush campaign headquarters in Orlando, Florida," wrote Wednesday on the Web columnist Kim Weissman. "Bush campaign workers are assaulted in Miami. Shots are fired into Bush campaign offices in Knoxville, Tennessee and Huntington, West Virginia. Republican headquarters in Bozeman, Montana are vandalized, for the second time in a week. The window of the Bush campaign headquarters in Bellevue, Washington is smashed, the office burglarized and computers containing campaign plans are stolen; cars with Bush bumper stickers are vandalized and campaign signs are painted with swastikas and burned."

This kind of unrestrained thuggery is going on all across the nation, and the thugs are all supporters of the new NSDAP - all of them acolytes of the Kerry/Edwards campaign, no matter how loudly the Democratic candidates disavow them.

Wrote Kim: "Scenes such as these used to be the stuff of evening news reports about elections in foreign nations struggling to achieve liberty and representative government; but thanks to the unending torrent of hatred spewed by Democrats and leftists and magnified by the media, these events are now taking place in our own neighborhoods."

Think about it - the mainstream media elite has not bothered to report on this widespread organized brutality. Imagine what their reaction would be if it was being carried out by supporters of George Bush and his Republican colleagues.

Kim Weissman put it this way:

"If such criminal violence had been directed against Kerry campaign offices and workers, the media would be in full-throated hysteria, Democrats would be screaming "hate crimes" and demanding investigations by the Justice Department, and they would also probably seek to involve the U.N. Civil Rights Commission, claiming this to be an organized civil rights violation designed to inhibit voter turnout (with more faith in non-democratic foreign organizations than in their own countrymen, Democrats have already succeeded in getting international monitors to supervise our upcoming election)."Brownshirts on the March (http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/10/12/162930.shtml)

It came just in time. With Cindy Sheehan beginning to sink from public notice along with the majority of the American people's flat-out refusal to consider an immediate withdrawal from Iraq, or to place the blame for rising gas prices on the President, the arrival of Hurricane Katrina and her devastation of much of the Gulf Coast gave the Bush-bashing dominant Democrat Party's left wing a new excuse to hurl their vicious invective at George W. Bush.

Let's face it, these people hate President Bush - and I use the word advisedly - they despise him with an almost satanic fury, and from their standpoint, for very good reason. He is their worst nightmare come true. Failure to stop him dead in his tracks before he finishes imposing his conservative stamp on the nation will mean that a century of liberal domination over all aspects of our culture, our courts and our polity will come to a complete and inglorious end.

Many of my fellow conservatives will disagree, but George Bush is fully dedicated to reversing the leftist course on which the nation has been embarked for a century and he has the guts and the wisdom to see it through. Because of that, from the viewpoint of the left which fully recognizes the threat he poses to their most cherished Marxist policies and programs, he must be destroyed.Burning Bush: They have nothing left to peddle (http://www.etherzone.com/2005/bren090705.shtml)

Osama bin Laden's military strategy is: If you make a war cost enough, Americans will give up and go home. Now, bin Laden isn't actually all that bright; his campaign to make us go home is in fact what brought us into Afghanistan and Iraq. But he's still telling his followers: Keep killing Americans and eventually, antigovernment factions within the United States will choose to give up the struggle.

It's what happened in Somalia, isn't it? And it's what happened in Vietnam, too.

Reuters recently ran a feature that trumpeted the "fact" that U.S. casualties in Iraq have now surpassed U.S. casualties in the first three years of the Vietnam War. Never mind that this is a specious distortion of the facts, which depends on the ignorance of American readers. The fact is that during the first three years of the war in Vietnam, dating from the official "beginning" of the war in 1961, American casualties were low because (a) we had fewer than 20,000 soldiers there, (b) most of them were advisers, deliberately trying to avoid a direct combat role, (c) our few combat troops were special forces, who generally get to pick and choose the time and place of their combat, and (d) because our presence was so much smaller, there were fewer American targets than in Iraq today.

Compare our casualties in Iraq with our casualties in Vietnam when we had a comparable number of troops, and by every rational measure--casualties per thousand troops, casualties per year, or absolute number of casualties--you'll find that the Iraq campaign is far, far less costly than Vietnam. But the media want Americans to think that Iraq is like Vietnam--or rather, that Iraq is like the story that the Left likes to tell about Vietnam.The Campaign of Hate and Fear (http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110004435)

What to do when you encounter someone who instinctively, pathologically hates President George W. Bush? Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean clearly spoke for many when he said, "I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for ..." Consider, for example, the following anti-Iraq war letter I received, and my attempt to engage the sender in dialogue.

<i>"Dear Mr. Elder: ... How you can support an illegal war waged specifically to line the pockets of rich American Republicans, a war that has killed at least a half a million innocent Iraqis and now well over 2,000 volunteer soldiers, and has made us the most hated people in the world, is beyond my comprehension. I travel the world extensively, and let me tell you that the U.S.A. is completely out of step with the rest of the planet Earth ...

"Sincerely,

"'Sarah,' retired public school administrator and university professor"</i>Bush hatred ... the real pandemic (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47798)

Why do Republicans drive leftists so crazy these days? Liberal democrats are beginning to sound like rowdy students on spring break, shrieking and exhibiting themselves on camera.

Consider some of the recent rabid outbursts by once sober, old-guard politicians. West Virginia Sen. Jay Rockefeller insists that the world would be better off if Saddam were still running Iraq. Crotchety Congressman John Murtha, of Pennsylvania, rushed to announce that our Marines were guilty of killing Iraqis in "cold blood" before they were tried. Illinois Sen. Richard Durbin has compared our interrogators at Guantanamo Bay to Nazis, while Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry said our soldiers have "terrorized" Iraqi women and children.

Then there is the constant anger from Democratic ex-presidents. It used to be that out-of-office chief executives kept relatively hush. Presidents Ford and Bush Sr. — both voted out of office — did not bray when President Clinton had his trials, personal and otherwise.

Not so now with Presidents Carter and Clinton. They repeatedly harp about the sins of the current administration. By now, everyone has seen clips of Clinton losing his temper (complete with finger-wagging) and lashing out at the "right-wingers" on TV. He lectures on political extremism, even as one of his wife's staff members slandered John McCain by saying he broke under torture while a POW in Hanoi. And even at 82, Jimmy Carter almost daily carps over Bush's foreign policy.Libs gone wild! (http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1006/hanson101906.php3?printer_friendly)

If you could save the victims of one of the following four events, which group would you save?

1. The victims of Fidel Castro's "revolution?"
2. The victims of Hezbollah's ambushes, rockets and missiles over the past three weeks?
3. The victims of the Seattle attack on the Jewish federation?
4. The victims of Mel Gibson's repulsive outburst of anti-Semitic venom?

If all human life is valued equally, you'd have to save Castro's millions of victims, the Hezbollah's thousands, then the one dead and many injured in Seattle, and then Gibson's offended.

As an extraordinary week draws to a close, though, you wouldn't have any sense of scale or importance if you had been watching American media or reading American commentary.

To MSM, Castro is the aging but charismatic leader of a defiant island-state, still bearded and wearing fatigues.

Hezbollah is the little terrorist organization that could hold out against the mighty IDF.

Naveed Haq, according to his lawyer, "had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and had been taking medication to help control its symptoms, which generally include drastic mood swings."

And Gibson is the anti-Semitic rant-maker and Oscar-winner in whose explosive wrath upon arrest Arianna Huffington found "a chance for reasonable people to stand up and be counted. For the sane among us to identify, separate, and condemn the extremists, the fanatics, the fundamentalists, the bigots, the hate-mongers and say 'no more.' "

We are, it seems, in danger of losing any sense of priority, of scale, of genuine importance.The Collapse of Judgment (http://www.townhall.com/Columnists/HughHewitt/2006/08/03/the_collapse_of_judgment)

SIX YEARS into the Bush administration, are there any new lows to which the Bush-haters can sink?

George W. Bush has been smeared by the left with every insult imaginable. He has been called a segregationist who yearns to revive Jim Crow and compared ad nauseam to Adolf Hitler. His detractors have accused him of being financially entwined with Osama bin Laden. Of presiding over an American gulag. Of being a latter-day Mussolini. Howard Dean has proffered the "interesting theory" that the Saudis tipped off Bush in advance about 9/11. One US senator (Ted Kennedy) has called the war in Iraq a "fraud" that Bush "cooked up in Texas" for political gain; another ( Vermont independent James Jeffords) has charged him with planning a war in Iran as a strategy to put his brother in the White House. Cindy Sheehan has called him a "lying bastard," a "filth spewer," an "evil maniac," a "fuehrer," and a "terrorist" guilty of "blatant genocide" -- and been rewarded for her invective with oceans of media attention.

What else can they say about Bush? That they want him killed?

They already say it.

On Air America, talk show host Randi Rhodes recommended doing to Bush what Michael Corleone, in "The Godfather, Part II," does to his brother. "Like Fredo," she said, "somebody ought to take him out fishing and phuw!" -- then imitated the sound of a gunshot. In the Guardian, a leading British daily, columnist Charlie Brooker issued a plea: "John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr. -- where are you now that we need you?"A new low in Bush-hatred (http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2006/09/10/a_new_low_in_bush_hatred?mode=PF)

My awakening

When I read about people spitting on the Honor Guard at the New York State Democratic Convention May 16, I started to understand what has happened to my party over the last few years. I still can't get over the fact that Democrats attending a formal convention would so insult the American flag, but it happened. As an Honor Guard of Albany police officers entered the convention hall - with band playing and lights shining - they were spit on and called "Nazis" by a number of people on the delegate floor. On top of that, no Democrat nearby stopped the "spitters," or even reported them. And the Democratic leadership expressed no public outrage.

[snip]

Now, 25 years later, I am ashamed to be a Democrat. More than that, I have come to fear my own party. Hatred and corruption - the roots of fascism - are on the march in America as they have never been before, and leading this march is the Democratic Party. Increasingly, mainstream Democrats are uncomfortable with what we see in our party. We may not have a real name for it, but we know it is dangerous.

[snip]

No longer a political party

What we are dealing with here has nothing to do with American politics. In fact, I worry that as the Democrats increasingly adopt fascist tactics they will cease being a genuine political party, focused on honest debate and decision by fair ballot. They could become one day something more related to the fascists of 1930s Germany. The SA "brown shirts" were not interested in debate and civil rule; they wanted power in order to force the democratic nation to accept their Nazi agenda. If I am right about the fanatical direction my party is taking, then America has never faced a danger like this, and real Democrats who stand by and watch will be as guilty before history as the actual leaders of this corruption movement.

When did the party start making its shift to this strange other form? Some Democrats would say the sexual revolution, abortion and other moral issues were the beginning. However, I am not talking here about party alignment over the social issues, although they have been a major contributing factor. There were many other issues in dispute among Democrats during the waning years of the Cold War, but, whether we agreed or not, all issues were seen as debatable opinions of the party's majority leadership. Reagan Democrats just voted Republican and hoped the liberal Democrats would come to their senses. There was still freedom of thought within the party, and in public debate. But something happened which changed all that.

Suddenly, the traditional restraint of civilized limits was gone. Gone was comity. Gone was loyal opposition. It was somewhere in the mid-nineties - perhaps around the time the Republicans seized control of Congress for the first time in 40 years. The panic among Democrats and the panic within the Clinton administration may have been the turning point. Whenever it was that the dam cracked, it had exploded by the end of 1998.Fascism, corruption and my 'Democratic' Party (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=16391) (long, but worth the read)

I´m not always in favor of assassinating people. In fact, if pressed I´m against killing humans. It can ruin the day for the victim, and add to an already poor societal attitude in the murderer. Still, I look at the nutty anti-nuclear demonstrators, most Democrats and the global warming environmentalists and realize non-thinkers weren´t suffered to live in past centuries. All I can figure is more primitive or less enlightened people in ancient times heard what they had to say then hurled them off the nearest cliff. These acts prevented the gene for brain rot from permeating future generations. It´s obvious with the impact of Christianity and Western Civilization becoming more and more enlightened by the end of the 1700´s, societies started frowning on eliminating these retreads. Since then, they´ve bred like rabbits and constantly confused society.

You´re probably asking yourself; "What the hell is Kaliher talking about now? He´s obviously ten times smarter than anyone in Washington, but he´s gone too far once again. Suggesting we eliminate liberals!

But, you can relax. I´ve not gone that far, yet. Removing impaired brains from the earth is only a back-up plan. I, too, have been afflicted with Christian morality and enlightened Western values, and couldn´t abide the wholesale destruction of progressives. However, if we don´t prevent them from voting and put all of them on birth control, the next generation will be forced to push them over cliffs or return to a troglodyte existence. We´ll review a few historical moments. Pretend the people of those times also suffered the abundant number of leftists we somehow tolerate.WERE THERE LIBERALS UNTIL NOW? I DON'T THINK SO! (http://www.etherzone.com/2006/kali012406.shtml)

The words tumble out, the hands gesture urgently, as Jonathan Chait explains why he hates George W. Bush.

It's Bush's radical policies, says the 31-year-old New Republic writer, and his unfair tax cuts, and his cowboy phoniness, and his favors for corporate cronies, and his heist in Florida, and his dishonesty about his silver-spoon upbringing, and, oh yes, the way he walks and talks.

For some of his friends, Chait says at a corner table in a downtown Starbucks, "just seeing his face or hearing his voice causes a physical reaction -- they have to get away from the TV. My sister-in-law describes Bush's existence as an oppressive force, a constant weight on her shoulder, just knowing that George Bush is president."

Has this unassuming man in a rumpled sports shirt lifted the lid on a boiling caldron of anti-Bush fury in liberal precincts across America? Or is he just an overcaffeinated, irrational liberal, venting to a minority of like-minded readers?

Ramesh Ponnuru, a soft-spoken conservative at National Review, pays Chait a backhanded compliment, writing that "not everyone would be brave enough to recount their harrowing descent into madness so vividly."A Dislike Unlike Any Other? (http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A46805-2003Oct18?language=printer)

Harper’s Magazine’s May cover stories about “The Christian Right’s War On America,” frightened me, although not the way Harper’s meant them to. I fear these stories could mark the beginning of a systematic campaign of hatred directed at traditional Christians. Whether this is what Harper’s intends, I cannot say. But regardless of the intention, the effect seems clear.

The phrase “campaign of hatred” is a strong one, and I worry about amplifying an already dangerous dynamic of recrimination on both sides of the culture wars. I don’t doubt that conservatives, Christian and otherwise, are sometimes guilty of rhetorical excess. Yet despite what we’ve been told, the most extreme political rhetoric of our day is being directed against traditional Christians by the left.

It’s been said that James Dobson overstepped legitimate bounds when he compared activist judges to the Ku Klux Klan. Yes, that was an ill-considered remark. I hope and expect it will not be repeated. But Dobson made that comparison extemporaneously and in passing. If that misstep was such a problem, what are we to make of a cover story in Harper’s that systematically identifies conservative Christianity with fascism? According to Harper’s, conservative Christians are making “war on America.” Can you imagine the reaction to a cover story about a “war on America” by blacks, gays, Hispanics, or Jews? Then there’s Frank Rich’s April 24 New York Times op-ed comparing conservative Christians to George Wallace, segregationists, and lynch mobs.

These comparisons are both inflammatory and mistaken. Made in the name of opposing hatred, they license hatred. It was disturbing enough during the election when even the most respectable spokesmen on the left proudly proclaimed their hatred of president Bush. Out of that hatred flowed pervasive, if low-level, violence. I fear that Bush hatred is now being channeled into hatred of Christian conservatives. The process began after the election and is steadily growing worse. This hatred of conservative Christians isn’t new, but it is being fanned to a fever pitch.Scary Stuff (http://www.nationalreview.com/script/printpage.asp?ref=/kurtz/kurtz200504280758.asp)

[DoctorDoom]

Liberal Civility Part 6

The material is inexhaustible. Here are some gems from (mostly) conservative columnists.

The liberal chattering class has literally gone off its collective rocker. Little negative has occurred since the election - cabinet shakeups are routine and traditional, and our guys routed the bad guys in Fallujah - but the way the Left is carrying on you'd think President Bush had issued a string of corrupt pardons, or something.

I wouldn't think Democrat angst could get much worse. Democrats have acted like victims of robbery the last four years, but now they're acting like women scorned, rejected by a dueling banjo-wielding electorate. I guess I suspected they'd take their losses badly, but I didn't realize they'd unshackle all gentlemanly restraints on their septic bitterness.

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It's not just the cartoonists with their demeaning sketches and degrading captions. The editorialists are morphing into Maureen Dowds, as if in a contest to see which one of them can describe the current scene with the least connection to reality, and even less to common decency, good cheer or the slightest hint of optimism.

The op-ed pages are even more pregnant with anti-Bush screeds than before the election. As just one example, Sydney Blumenthal, former Clinton senior advisor, had plenty of venom to spew in his latest Salon.com column. After detailing how the Bush administration exploited, deceived and cashiered Colin Powell, Blumenthal savaged Condoleezza Rice as an incompetent, opportunistic backstabber.

Blumenthal wrote, "As incompetent as she was at her actual job, she was as agile at bureaucratic positioning. Early on she figured out how to align with the neoconservatives and to damage Powell. Her usurpation is a lesson to him in blind ambition and loyalty."Anti-Bush Rhetoric Almost Deafening (http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/11/19/83508.shtml)

Before telling a reporter to "shove it" last week, Teresa Heinz Kerry complained that there were "creeping, un-Pennsylvanian and sometimes un-American traits" to the presidential campaign. Few people outside of Wilkes-Barre care much about the epithet "un-Pennsylvanian," but in dropping the "un-American" bomb she highlighted an important truth about today's politics: It is the Democrats who routinely question the GOP's patriotism, not the other way around.

This makes for a fascinating stew of cognitive dissonance, transference, and probably odd psychological maladies yet to be identified and labeled. It's not easy to question the patriotism of people you are denouncing for questioning people's patriotism — but Democrats manage it.

Wes Clark personifies the art form. He gets so angry at Republicans allegedly questioning his patriotism, his head nearly explodes. "This flag is ours! And nobody will take it away from us," he shouted at the Democratic Convention. What is it Nietzsche once said? "No one is such a liar as the indignant man." Or such a hypocrite.Questionable Strategy (http://www.nationalreview.com/lowry/lowry200408030838.asp)

You're walking down the street when you spot an antiwar protester wielding a peace sign on the corner. Quick, what do you do? Duck.

As we battle global jihad, perplexed and apoplectic pacifists show their true colors. Rainbow tie-dye has turned to raging-bull red.

Nobel Peace Laureate Betty Williams displayed what the Australian media called "her feisty Irish spirit" to hundreds of schoolchildren this week in a murder-minded diatribe against President Bush. "I have a very hard time with this word 'nonviolence,' because I don't believe that I am nonviolent," confessed Mrs. Williams. On the plus side, the rest of the sane world will no longer make the mistake of believing Peace Prize-winner Mrs. Williams is nonviolent, either (though the Nobel committee took the peace out of Peace Prize when it handed one to suicide bomber manufacturer Yasser Arafat in 1994).

While the kids cheered, Mrs. Williams, the world-renowned pacifist, fumed: "Right now, I would love to kill George Bush." In America, we don't call this irrational hatred "feisty Irish spirit." We call it "unhinged." Or, as Charles Krauthammer first diagnosed it, Bush Derangement Syndrome.Berserk 'peace' activism (http://www.washtimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20060728-085310-9596r)

Let me sum up in two words how the unhinged Left copes with the threat of global jihad: "Kill Bush!"

On the fifth anniversary week of the September 11 attacks, the anger of entertainment industry liberals and anti-war zealots is directed not at Islamic terrorists telling us to convert or die. Not at American al Qaeda operative Adam Gadahn smirking at our country's pain and praising the throat-slitting, children-incinerating hijackers as "strong-willed men."

No, their thoughts are not focused on killing jihadists. Their dreams lie with killing George W. Bush. The mainstreaming of presidential assassination chic is on.

In her new book, "Peace Mom," Cindy Sheehan confesses on page 29 that she has imagined going back in time and killing the infant George W. Bush in order to prevent the Iraq War. It's the moonbat version of pre-emption. Sheehan admits she has entertained this infanticidal fantasy "often." That ice-cream-and-coffee hunger strike is getting to her head.Kill Bush mania (http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichelleMalkin/2006/09/13/kill_bush_mania)

For the past two years, the old-line media has been more than willing to help broadcast the allegations made by the anti-war crowd that "Bush lied, soldiers died."

However, no matter how many times the likes of Michael Moore and Cindy Sheehan have made this allegation, they've never been able to make it stick.

The only thing they've proven thus far is that they hold a twisted hatred of this country and feel consumed with resentment toward America's economic, military and political superiority.

It turns out that it's not George Bush or Dick Cheney who has been lying to the American people, but the very anti-war/anti-military folks who have been pointing fingers at the administration all along.

The record of deception by the anti-war crowd reached a new low this week when we learned that MoveOn.org was broadcasting an anti-military ad that purported to show U.S. troops in Iraq who, the ad said, should be pulled out of Iraq straight away.The liars of the anti-war movement (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47685)

Here are three questions comparing liberals and conservatives:

<OL><LI>During the 2004 elections, which car was more likely to be "keyed," i.e., deliberately scratched - a car with a "John Kerry" bumper sticker in an overwhelmingly conservative area, or a car with a "George W. Bush" sticker in an overwhelmingly liberal area?

<LI>When speaking at colleges, do right-wing or left-wing speakers need and receive police protection?

<LI>In a debate between a right-wing and a left-wing speaker before an audience equally divided between left and right, which audience group is more likely to boo and hiss at the speaker with whom it disagrees - the liberal or the conservative?</OL>Who hates the other more ... liberals or conservatives? (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49588)

The radically leftist, femi-Nazi group Code Pink Women for Peace -- the same group that supports the inane shrieking of Cindy Sheehan -- has taken to sponsoring anti-war protests directly outside the front doors of the Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington, D.C.

Walter Reed is a primary destination for those who have been wounded in battle and home to many soldiers who have suffered life-altering injuries. It is a place for healing and transition. At least, it was before Code Pink decided to exploit wounded soldiers for political gain.

The anti-war activists of Code Pink assemble every week with their props and propaganda to literally harass those who have given of themselves to provide the very freedoms that those of Code Pink use to hate.

They assemble with signs that read "Maimed for Lies" and "Enlist Here and Die for Halliburton." They line up fake caskets draped with American flags just outside the doors to the medical center tormenting soldiers who have lost brothers in arms. They chant slogans like "George Bush kills American soldiers," while recuperating soldiers and their families enter and leave the facility.

One protester, too much of a coward to give his real name, said to a Cybercast News Service reporter: "We know most of the George Bush supporters have never spent a day in uniform, have never been closer to a battlefield than seeing it through the television screen."Anti-War Protesters Hateful and Ignorant (http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPrint.asp?Page=\Commentary\archive\200508\COM2 0050826b.html)

In such a world, it's good to know we still have the guts to finger the real bad guys. Thus, when Chariho Regional High School art teacher Lynn Norton set her pupils the task of expressing an idea three-dimensionally, Jeffrey Eden immediately thought of a diorama comparing Bush to Hitler. You might think that ought to be disqualified on the grounds that characterizing Bush as Hitler is about as two-dimensional as you can get, and it's less of a diorama than the diarrhea of leftist rhetoric, as poured forth by millions of moveon.org drones and nude Marin County feminist protesters and European activist puppeteers. But there's always room for one more, and Jeffrey's schoolmarm was thrilled at the way he did it so cutely, draping a swastika on one side and the Stars and Stripes on the other, and putting in little plastic soldiers -- Nazi and American, though who can tell the difference, right? -- and then adding his own penetrating observations on both Bush (''Saddam had no affiliation with the Taliban'') and his predecessor as Fuhrer (''Hitler's own justification was his own hatred.'' Hmm. What a testament to the quality of Rhode Island's ''Social Studies'' curriculum).

Well, Jeffrey's 17. One day, with a bit of luck, he'll realize Bush isn't Hitler. If he were, Jeffrey would be in the Bush Youth doing patriotic exercises in shorts every morning and singing the special Texan lyrics to the Horst Wessel song, and he wouldn't have time to do dioramas of dissent. But what are we to make of everyone else in this sorry story? The art teacher who gave him an A. The 15 judges in the Rhode Island Scholastic Art Awards who awarded him their ''silver key.'' The proprietor of Alperts Furniture Showroom in Seekonk where the winning ''art'' work is proudly on display. Are there no grown-ups left in Rhode Island?On culture front, we're losing war (http://www.suntimes.com/output/steyn/cst-edt-steyn13.html)

Liberals will sleep with anybody. No, this isn't just another off-color reference to our esteemed former President Clinton. Instead, I'm referring to political alliances. More specifically, I'm talking about those on the left who would trade in common sense for political opportunism, even at their own peril. In their determined effort to decry the Bush administration and take the offensive against all things conservative, they have ignored the advertised threat to their own lifestyle and safety.

How? Well, they work against the administration's efforts against terrorism; they disavow the benefits of a strong American military presence in the Middle East during a time of war and overt hostilities toward the U.S. and our allies; they publicize and, thereby, thwart defensive investigative techniques employed by the U.S. government to uncover threats to national security. And whom do these actions benefit? The U.S. public? Our allies? Well, besides themselves, these actions can only benefit Muslim extremists with the stated goal to destroy western values and civilization. Well done, lefties. Well done.

If pictures speak a thousand words, then this collage (http://www.vomsorb.com/images/extremism_sm.jpg) speaks volumes. Through pictures alone it illustrates the mindset of extremists bent on destroying all those who do not subscribe to their brand of religious fanaticism. The futility of the newly reborn 70's-era activism is clearly demonstrated when you juxtapose the useful idiot, otherwise known as Cindy Sheehan, against the backdrop of mentally- and culturally-stunted Muslim extremists. One group is fueled by naïveté, self-loathing, and partisanship; the other by blind hatred, intolerance, and violence.Strange Bedfellows (http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=5816)

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[MrSanity]

In case you're ever running short of material (which I doubt!) ...

http://www.rightnation.us/forums/index.php?showforum=18

This is one of my favorites:

"I don't agree, you see, I don't really view communism as a bad thing."

- Whoopi Goldberg