Posted on 08/08/2006 10:01:51 AM PDT by Uncledave
Davis Doesn't Fly 08/08 12:00 PM I'm intrigued by the bizarre attention so many conservative websites and bloggers are paying to Lanny Davis's silly op-ed in today's Wall Street Journal. See here.
Here's an excerpt from the Davis piece:
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.
This kind of scary hatred, my dad used to tell me, comes only from the right wing—in his day from people such as the late Sen. Joseph McCarthy, with his tirades against "communists and their fellow travelers." The word "McCarthyism" became a red flag for liberals, signifying the far right's fascistic tactics of labeling anyone a "communist" or "socialist" who favored an active federal government to help the middle class and the poor, and to level the playing field.
I came to believe that we liberals couldn't possibly be so intolerant and hateful, because our ideology was famous for ACLU-type commitments to free speech, dissent and, especially, tolerance for those who differed with us. And in recent years—with the deadly combination of sanctimony and vitriol displayed by the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter and Michael Savage—I held on to the view that the left was inherently more tolerant and less hateful than the right.
Now, in the closing days of the Lieberman primary campaign, I have reluctantly concluded that I was wrong. The far right does not have a monopoly on bigotry and hatred and sanctimony.
Davis smears conservatives generally as intolerant and hateful, using his false characterization as a basis to compare loathsome attacks by liberal bloggers against his friend, Joe Lieberman. He slimes Rush and Ann (Savage, of course, is loathsome) with bloggers who write such things as this:
"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).
As an aside, no one has been more steadfast and thoughtful in his support of Israel than Rush (indeed, no one has been more intelligent in their exposition of conservatism than Rush). Moreover, George Bush — the Republican president Lanny Davis and his liberal ilk undermine on a daily basis — has been spectacular in his defense of Israel, unlike so many Davis’s fellow Democrats. And while Davis correctly condemns the poison flowing from his own side, this is a serious problem for the Left, not the Right. Our nuts are on the fringes; his nuts run the DNC, their PACs, and their think-tanks.
Davis was a mouthpiece for one of the most corrupt president’s in history. More to the point, Bill Clinton and his wife were specialists at using slurs and personal attacks against their opponents (including numerous women). Davis defended all of it.
We are nothing like the Left.
He makes a good point. I was noticing how Davis tries to show how bad Liberals are by saying they're as bad as Conservatives. It's a nice try, but I don't think people are going to fall for it.
>This kind of scary hatred, my dad used to tell me, comes only from the right wing -- in his day from people such as the late Senator Joseph McCarthy.<
Man! Lanny is one badly misinformed fella! Senator McCarthy was right on in the '50's and what he fought against then is tragically too alive today! God bless McCarthy's soul, God bless the right wing, and God save all the rest of us!
Davis spews a litany of conservative evils--some real, some imagined--and ends meekly but we have some too.
But the anti-Israel/anti-Semitic forces on the left are in charge, while those on the right are in exile.
Mr. Davis is an apologist for President Clinton. Beyond that, I have no idea why anyone could possibly have an interest in what Mr. Davis thinks about anything.
Being the defender of Bill Clinton is not much of a pedigree.
Here's an excerpt from the Davis piece: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.
This kind of scary hatred, my dad used to tell me, comes only from the right wing—in his day from people such as the late Sen. Joseph McCarthy, with his tirades against "communists and their fellow travelers." The word "McCarthyism" became a red flag for liberals, signifying the far right's fascistic tactics of labeling anyone a "communist" or "socialist" who favored an active federal government to help the middle class and the poor, and to level the playing field.
"From each according to ability, to each according to need" is Marxism. Denial ain't a river.
And NONE of the liberal blogs are a suprise to anyone. Who's he fooling? The left is a hateful breed. Why else did hardcore punk thrive in the era of Ronald Reagan?
Mark Levin rocks.
The House Committee On Un-American Activities stretches back to the 1930s. It wasn't all McCarthy.
And the Communists in America in the 1930s urged "peace" and no war with Hitler (until he double crossed Uncle Joe Stalin).
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1679760/posts
The Lanny Davis article
Bingo! So for those who say "they all do it", they are technically correct. However, that's like equating the Mid-West and the Inter-Mountain West states because they both have "hills."
So people can hear his name.
Because Lanny Davis will soon be selling a book. Note that it's mentioned in the "story":
Mr. Davis, former special counsel to President Clinton between 1996-98, is the author of "Scandal: How 'Gotcha' Politics Is Destroying America," forthcoming from Palgrave.
PR for Lanny, that' all this is.....
Funny that Clintanoid Davis is trying to shame Lamont supporters by "aligning" them with Rush and Ann.
In contrast I also say when someone is unashamedly lying to pull a con that they are running a "Lanny".
Distrust of Commies and their fellow travelers, is pretty prudent.
Just ask the millions killed by the Soviets and the Red Chinese.
And Davis' moronic claim that McCarthy was out to get liberals in favor of activist government is a bald faced lie, and what's more, he knows it. McCarthy found ACTUAL SOVIET AGENTS in government and the Kremlin's own de-classified archibes show the State Department, including a top FDR aide, we're KGB agents. McCarthy was right. To call his attempt to purge communists 5th columnists from the government "bigotry" or "hatred" comparable to that of the far left fringe cannibalizing Joe Lieberman is the height of intellectual dishonesty.
A test: which of the four Clintanoids smiles the least while telling lies (their favorite past-time):
Lanny Davis
Bruce Linsay (aka Mr. fix-it)
Richard Ben Venista
Ann Lewis
Answer:
Ann Lewis--she lies just as much as the rest but rarely smiles. She is perfecting the Helen Thomas range of expressions ----from sourpuss to if I am smiling you still can't bear to look--look.
Davis never stops smiling and almost never bumps into the truth. Ben Venista has a wonderful smirk punctuating glorious whoppers that must have taken all night to dream up. and Bruce Linsay is only virtually nocturnal always running from cameras so as not to ever be cornered-and when he is he always looks at the ground. So who knows about him.
>The House Committee On Un-American Activities stretches back to the l930s. It wasn't all MCarthy.<
I didn't say it was, but boy! He sure took the fall for them, didn't he?
Oh I agree that McCarthy took a fall. And the communists have been happy ever since. And they've continued about their work.
HCUAA continued to investigate into the 1960s but even with antiwar agitators like John Kerry meeting with Viet Cong in France, there was still little will to prosecute anymore.
BTW, just how did his son get that job with CBS Sports?
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