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| 2003-12-28 |
| EFL 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." Well, Nina, I hope you live to be a ripe old age, girl, and I hope you keeping shooting your mouth off because 1) We know where you are and 2) We can use you as an example to pull the rest of the country to the right. 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." She probably yells at herself at home for not being old enough to have attended the 1942 Wansee Conference. Oopsies! Did I say Totenberg is a Nazi? I didn’t mean it... Honest. Such venom should be beyond the pale. But too many liberals would still rather dismiss conservative ideas with an 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 this year — "is people that are closet racists, misogynists, homophobes, and people who love . . . the politics of exclusion identifying as conservative." That was apparently 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." I have another name for Miss Garafalo: Miss Anthrope. Queen of the misanthropes, heterophobes and, to use her quote: the politics of exclusion identifying ’as liberal’ 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 canceled miniseries. "If Hitler had more friends," she told The Washington Post, "CBS wouldn’t have aired [its Hitler miniseries] either." It is truly incredible the abject ignorance people who pose as professional journalists display in public. This broad has no convincing argument against CBS’ decision to pull this Reagan fiction series from commercially supported TV, except Hitler would have had another series pulled. Hitler would have had your throat, Miss Gray, slashed without so much as flinching. I wonder where she says she was educated, because the facts HAD to have come out of her ass. Read the whole thing. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #13 Are there any liberal Democrats who actually feel offended at being called a Socialist? |
| Posted by: Les Nessman 2003-12-28 11:34:42 PM |
| #12 No NMM, it's not that all liberal Democrats are Socialists/Communists/Marxists. It's all Socialists/Communists/Marxists are liberal Democrats. |
| Posted by: Glenn (not Reynolds) 2003-12-28 10:12:51 PM |
| #11 It's REAL amusing that you take exception to conservatives being described as Nazis, then in the next breath call all liberal Democrats Socialists/Communists/Marxists. Irony is truly dead.... |
| Posted by: NotMikeMoore 2003-12-28 8:25:10 PM |
| #10 LOL Raj. But don't argue with people that buy ink buy the barrel.... and put it on their hair. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2003-12-28 7:00:38 PM |
| #9 Then she must look like someone whose face was set on fire and put out with a brick. |
| Posted by: Raj 2003-12-28 5:37:19 PM |
| #8 Nina Totenburg - the Helen Thomas of this century |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-12-28 2:09:06 PM |
| #7 Gotta agree with 4thInVet, although I think that the Lib Left's agitprop war on TV is more about their love for Communism/Socialism/Marxism than it is a war against fascism. Strangely, for these folks, the "3rd way" of Democracy instead of Fascism or Communism is never considered or even mentioned. In their Leftist minds, they had almost reached the perfect Soviet state with Clinton or were well on the way with BillyJeff. Given the fact that George W. Bush and a Conservative Congress has dealt their Marxist revolution a considerable setback (Thank God and we pray an irreversible one), they must rail against he and his American principles 24/7 which is what we get in the media. Lenin, of course, stated that it was vital to the "revolution" to control the means of propaganda which they do. Now, using market forces, we're blasting them out of there. Again, thank God! (And you forgot one of my "favorite" howling Libs: Katrina van den Whore-vel.) |
| Posted by: Jennie Taliaferro 2003-12-28 1:40:18 PM |
| #6 Among the 'Travellers', they really think that what they believe, what they say, what they do is entirely justified because it's a war against fascism. We think nuts like totenberg, dowd, gorillafalo, chomsky say the kind of whacked out things they say because they're liars or stupid. While either may be true, one moreso than the other, the real truth is that they are True Believers in international communism. Which is probably worse than if they were just stupid; it's a matter of faith which is completely resistant to logic (just like the taliban). Commie fundamentalists, IOW, and fundies are usually dangerous fools. |
| Posted by: 4thInfVet 2003-12-28 1:12:46 PM |
| #5 badanov #3 Links to what? Links to the the posts I ref'd right-click embedded in my comment. Dunno what else I could give you links to. Anon #4 you can do as moi, $end to www.xlnc1.org instead. They don't do politics. All they do is play classical music. They have a flea-powered xmtr in Tijuana and streaming audio to Winamp or RealPlay |
| Posted by: Glenn (not Reynolds) 2003-12-28 12:41:43 PM |
| #4 Someone please remind me why I have to pay for NPR? Cut off the funding NOW and use that money to provide health coverage for the very poor. That would sent the liberals into a full fledge frenzy. If Hollywood loves this show so much let them put up the money, are there enough deep pockets out there? |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-12-28 11:57:07 AM |
| #3 Personally I found the photochop of Marines raising an Arabic McDonald's standard on Suribachi offensive. What say, gang? Am I too sensitive? Frankly I thank God for the DU, coz in 2004 when all this crap they have posted over the last 2 years gets reposted, and folks learn what a buncha communistically inclined pussies the left is, we can continue pushing the nation's agenda to the right with far greater ease than before. Glenn, if you send me a link to my stavka address I will post it on my website and prepare it for the day when it can be used against the f*ckers who did post it. No, you are not too sensitive. I think in time of war pointing out all this traitorous crap which gets posted by our political opponents needs to be brought out for all to see. |
| Posted by: badanov 2003-12-28 11:36:43 AM |
| #2 This will fill Jacoby's inbox in a hurry. Speaking of Hate, I almost (but not quite) miss Maureen Dowd. Where is she vacationing, anyway? Did NYT in fact send her to St. Helena on assignment or something? I can dream. Instapundit (not me) notes a post on the Howard Dean campaign site forum blaming GWB for the Mad Cow scare and one on DemocraticUnderground forum blaming him for the Bam shaker. DU has been known to extirpate particularly egregious posts so apparently this isn't one of them. Personally I found the photochop of Marines raising an Arabic McDonald's standard on Suribachi offensive. What say, gang? Am I too sensitive? |
| Posted by: Glenn (not Reynolds) 2003-12-28 10:52:40 AM |
| #1 "It is truly incredible the abject ignorance people who pose as professional journalists display in public." I've been wrestling with this a long time, badanov: is it ignorance, or is it dishonesty? I can't make up my mind on it. The best I've been able to do, is a vague hunch that for the liberal "little people", lazy lardasses who plunk themselves down in front of the tube and watch 30 minutes of CNN a day and call themselves "informed", it's simple ignorance; but for those in front of the camera, and those actually writing the editorial pages, it's rank dishonesty. I just don't know... |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2003-12-28 10:45:15 AM |