We continue to watch the other side go into commotion over placards or criticisms of Pres BO.
We see hypocricy all over, specially from MSNBC.
How can a network with an "all-white prime time lineup" say anything about diversity in The Tea Parties?
Maybe this is why MSNBC is doing so poorly in the ratings!
Today, Professor VD Hanson posted: Five Lies We Live With
"I fear “civility” does not mean one should not write novels or produce movies contemplating murdering George Bush — that’s sort of an understandable agitprop art.
“Civility” does not mean the New York Times should not give discounts to run ads in wartime like “General Betray Us.”
That’s needed dissidence.
Civility does not suggest that a Sen. Durbin, or Sen. Kerry, or Sen. Kennedy not use inflammatory language that compares our own troops or personnel to terrorists, Nazis, Pol Pot, Stalinists, or Saddam Hussein’s torturers; that most certainly in not uncivil.
And it was certainly not impolite for Rep. Stark to call President Bush a “liar.”
“Civility” does not mean that we should not spew hate at anti-war protests; that’s grass-roots popular protest.
It doesn’t mean that we should not employ Nazi and fascistic labels to tar the President of the United States like John Glenn or Al Gore or Robert Byrd did.
“Civility” does not mean that a shrill Hillary Clinton should not scream that the Bush administration is trying to silence critics, or suggest that the commanding general of an entire theater was lying to Congress in ways that require a “suspension of disbelief.”
That’s needed pushback.
O Ye of Little Memory! Do we recall any American shock when the Guardian published Charles Brooker’s lament — “John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr. — where are you now that we need you?”
And I don’t recall anyone felt that language was getting too heated when Howard Dean, head of the Democratic Party, fumed, “I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for.”
And was it not The New Republic that highlighted Jonathan Chait’s infamous “Why I Hate George W. Bush” article?
Of course, there was that thoroughly civil New York play, “I’m Gonna Kill the President.”
So, please, spare us the sanctimonious rot about being shocked by conservative metaphors like “lock and load” or “targeting” vulnerable Democratic districts."Yes spare me the whining!
We were big enough during the Bush years to take every excess of Bush Derangement Syndrome.
The Dems should stop whining and take the criticism that comes from governing.
Speaking of Tea Parties and all of the selective indignation, check out our interview with Dan Riehl:
