Roberts column letters run from hot to hotter (LIBERAL COLUMNIST SLAMMED BY 'RIGHT-WING WEB SITE')

Chicago Sun-Times ^ | August 3, 2005 | S. JENNIFER HUNTER

[Chi-townChief]

Somewhere, out there in blogsland, there is a right-wing Web site that has posted my article and so, in addition to comments from thoughtful readers, I have drawn even more e-mail from rabid writers -- we used to call them rednecks -- across the land.

This lady has absolutely no idea how without a clue she is.

[Chi-townChief]

Original thread:

Bush brings us 1958 with nomination of Roberts (LAUGH ALERT)

[Chi-townChief]

CHICAGOLAND PING

[xcamel]

Another lib born with a silver hoof in her mouth - connected directly to her typing fingers.

[Mike Bates]

Poor Jenny. Fortunately for her, she can withstand any criticism. As long as her husband remains the publisher of the newspaper for which she writes, that is.

Michael M. Bates: My Side of the Swamp

[kevkrom]

Once again, the columnist is disingenuous. What better way to reinforce your own position than to take a sampling of the more... um... "colorful" responses and present them as indicative of the arguments of the other side. Therefore, by inferred extension, anyone who does disagree, even if they are perfectly reasonable, are lumped in with the "kooks".

It's much easier than defending an indefensible position.

[saveliberty]

??? I am looking for the rabid, red-neck hate speech and didn't see it?

Maybe she is afraid of dissent and that is why she has to couch her thin-skinned "moral outrage" that she shot herself in the proverbial foot? She thinks that her non-bigotry is a given, when in fact she herself gave rise to the charge by her statements.

[BibChr]

I'll give her this, though. She printed some solid criticisms, without mockery.

I'd be surprised, though, if she ONLY got letters from white males. Unless the women were too busy caring for their unaborted fetuses to preach to a stone wall.

Dan

[saveliberty]

Reason went on vacation chez Jennifer

[saveliberty]

Good observation. Women have lesser rights thanks to Jennifer as their dissent must be hidden.

[Chi-townChief]

For a lefty, any disagreement is "venomous hate mail."

[Socratic]

But the gist of my commentary was not about abortion rights, it was about the ill-advised nomination of another white man to the Supreme Court.

Another liberal RACIST!!

[saveliberty]

On the other hand, non liberal women believe in personal rights and responsibilities and understand that it's not our problem to fix her. :-)

[saveliberty]

It would seem so, these days.

[FreedomPoster]

Exactly. Just as "hate speech", is any speech lefties hate.

[sauropod]

Correct. UF clueless.

[Lord Basil]

I was called a racist, and one man, Royce Stanton of Charleston, S.C., (I am naming names) even sent me a ghoulish photo of an aborted fetus to "illustrate" how wrong-headed my pro-choice stance is. (Sorry Mr. Stanton, it didn't change my mind. It just made me think you are a right-wing wacko.)

How does one respond to such irrationality? Send her a picture of reality and her response is to call him a wacko?

[randita]

I wonder how much mail Ann Coulter gets from ranting men of liberal persuasion? Probably not enough.

Ann Coulter probably wishes she JUST got hate mail, but she has been physically attacked on more than one occasion. Until like Ann, this author gets a pie in the face, or shoved around, or booed off a stage, her complaints ring hollow.

[Arkie2]

She complained about hate speech coming her way but if the letters she chose to publish are supposed to illustrate that, she's clueless. All those letters, except for the first which was a little snide, were polite and civil.

[NRA1995]

Well, Little-Miss-Can't-Be-Wrong-Columnist, if the shoe fits, wear it!