Liberal Hate Speech: A Case Study

Powerlineblog.com ^ | 6/25/05 | Scott Johnson

[MplsSteve]

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.

I'm intrigued by the liberal furor over Karl Rove's remark about the difference in reactions to 9/11. As my old grandfather used to say, "You throw a stone into a pack of dogs and the one that barks the loudest is the one you hit."

Everything Rove said is absolutely true. I entertained at a 50th anniversary party for a well-known feminist leader about 10 days after 9/11. Much of the liberal elite of the Twin Cities was present. I was wearing a little flag pin that elicited considerable mockery. In a post-performance conversation with 3 prominent DFL activists, they all agreed that 1) America had it coming 2) much of the rest of the world cheered the attacks and that was not a bad thing; 3) the attack was purely a "criminal" matter that required the issuing of indictments, but surely not a war, and finally and most horrifically, a direct quote, "At least we got rid of Barbara Olson."

Like racists who feel free to use the "N" word among themselves, these people felt free to be so frank and unguarded because they absolutely assumed that I shared their worldview. I was so upset I couldn't even EAT, and anyone who knows me knows how serious THAT was. I told them I disagreed completely and left. That was the final straw launching me from my lifelong stint as a Democrat to the Republican party.

[MJY1288]

C_Span has the Johnson tapes, That's where I heard it. I'll see if I can find it..... Hang on a sec

[grey_whiskers]

a direct quote, "At least we got rid of Barbara Olson."

I find the use of the word "WE" in this context...telling.

They are living out their frustrated 1960's counterculture dreams vicariously, through the actions of people who are out to destroy THEM.

M.A.S.H. had it wrong. Suicide is NOT painless.

Full Disclosure: The theme song from the TV show was the music to "Suicide is Painless", which was sung in the original movie to a character who was planning/faking his own suicide in order to induce one of the nurses to go to bed with him.

No Cheers, given the original topic, unfortunately!

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

It's sure going to be a lot more complicated this time...who do we go after? Every loser who's still got a "Kerry/Edwards" bumpers sticker (ok, it's a start...)

It'll be easier when they start wearing the nazi armbands.

[Thumbellina]

Yeah, here is some more examples;

"America has done reprehensible things and is responsible in some way"
( 4/26/2005 ) Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal is standing by her statement that the U.S. "is responsible in some way" for the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. "Not to have the courage to ask these questions of ourselves is to betray the victims of 9-11," she said in a new statement issued by her publicist, according to New York Newsday. Gyllenhaal appears in the movie "The Great New Wonderful," which features five stories about people living in the aftermath of the Twin Towers attack. The piece is screening at the Tribeca Film Festival, an event Robert DeNiro helped launch in 2002 to benefit the recovery of Lower Manhattan.

Source: WorlNetDaily.com

"America, America. What did you do--either intentionally or unintentionally--in the world order, in Central America, in Africa where bombs are still blasting? America, what did you do in the global warming conference when you did not embrace the smaller nations? America, what did you do two weeks ago when I stood at the world conference on racism, when you wouldn't show up? Oh, America, what did you do?" -- Former San Francisco Supervisor Amos Brown on September 17.

"In a war on Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden will either be left alive, while thousands of impoverished, frightened people are bombed into oblivion around him, or he will be killed in a bombing attack for which he seems quite prepared. But what would happen to his cool armor if he could be reminded of all the good, nonviolent things he has done? Further, what would happen to him if he could be brought to understand the preciousness of the lives he has destroyed? I firmly believe the only punishment that works is love." -- Alice Walker, The Village Voice

"Melt their weapons, melt their hearts, melt their anger with love." -- Shirley MacLaine on her anti-terrorism policy

"In a situation like this, of course you identify with everyone who's suffering. [But we must also think about] the terrorists who are creating such horrible future lives for themselves because of the negativity of this karma. It's all of our jobs to keep our minds as expansive as possible. If you can see [the terrorists] as a relative who's dangerously sick and we have to give them medicine, and the medicine is love and compassion. There's nothing better." -- Richard Gere

1. "My daughter, who goes to Stuyvesant High School only blocks from the World Trade Center, thinks we should fly an American flag out our window. Definitely not, I say: The flag stands for jingoism and vengeance and war." -- Katha Pollitt, The Nation, October 8

"Many families have been devastated tonight. This just is not right. They did not deserve to die. If someone did this to get back at Bush, then they did so by killing thousands of people who DID NOT VOTE for him! Boston, New York, DC, and the planes' destination of California--these were places that voted AGAINST Bush!" --Michael Moore, Michaelmoore.com, September 1

[andie74]

Your story is why I homeschool.

[MJY1288]

I know it was about the Poverty bill he was pushing, I searched a few of the gazillion tapes C_Span has of Johnson's conversations and I couldn't find it. I heard it with my own two ears and that is what he said.

I'll search some more and get back to you!

[Thumbellina]

I think this will come back to bite Hillary.

( 2/27/2004 ) Sen. Hillary Clinton said this week that Iraqi women were better off under Saddam Hussein, arguing that when the brutal dictator ran the country women were at least assured the right to participate in Iraq's public life. In comments that went unreported by the mainstream press, the former first lady told the Brookings Institution on Wednesday that since Saddam's removal from power, Iraq's postwar governing councils had engaged in "pullbacks in the rights [women] were given under Saddam Hussein." Sen. Clinton noted that while Saddam had been "an equal opportunity oppressor," women were at least assured certain constitutional guarantees. While ignoring reports about the brutal dictator's rape rooms and other forms of persecution that were routine for women under his regime, Sen. Clinton insisted: "On paper, women had rights."

Source: NewsMax.com

[andie74]

Save that in the file. When it comes time, we'll pull that little gem out and go for it.

[Daaave]

"At least we got rid of Barbara Olson."

[Thumbellina]

Oh I have it in a document along with MANY MANY more (smirk). I'm saving them all, starting one on Biden and whoever says they even may run. This document is growing LOL.

[MJY1288]

In Hillary's view, Saddam is a victim of the Bush Administration, in her twisted Liberal mind, Saddam was a reformer who loved his people and wanted nothing but the best for his people. Then Bush came along and messed up everything. Saddam provided a paradise for his people while he lived in abject poverty "It was all about the Children" is Saddam's mind

WHAT A SICK PUPPY HILLARY IS :-)

[Thumbellina]

Treasury Chest full of quotes:-)

http://www.famousidiot.com/index.php?page=3&from=24

[Thumbellina]

Yeah, she should tell that to the mothers of daughters he raped and murdered.

[Thumbellina]

Here's another one that will come back to haunt her.

3/1/2005 ) In comments that may cause her trouble back home, New York Sen. Hillary Clinton told political and business leaders in India over the weekend that she supports outsourcing U.S. jobs to the populous South Asian country, while acknowledging that it hurts American workers back home. "Outsourcing will continue," Mrs. Clinton told an audience in New Delhi, one of several stops on her Indian tour last week. "There is no way to legislate against reality," she explained, according to quotes reported Monday by the Asia Times. "We are not in favor of putting up fences."

[John Lenin]

Lots of these people are mentally unstable to begin with and the RAT pols are feeding the frenzy to rile them up even more. We can only hope the public sends a big message in 2006 that we are not going to tolerate hate speech by the likes of Howard Dean anymore.

[MJY1288]

It's hard to fathom why Liberals defend the most hideous Tyrants that have ever walked the face of the Earth. My best guess is that they are envious of the absolute power these murderous thugs enjoyed before the free peoples of the world rose up, removed them from power and deposited them into the ash heap of history.

Liberalism is where every Godless coward finds quarter, and Liberalism is where Tyrants recruit supporters. USEFULL IDIOTS

[Thumbellina]

Yep, and they feed our enemy. People here need to keep putting out these quotes they make. Send them to everybody they know, keep posting them. Save them all for ammo for 06 and 08!

[trailboss800]

ping

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

Thanks for looking. I'd really appreciate if you can help me get the link to that speech.

[MJY1288]

I'm still looking, it was a taped phone conversation