Friday, August 17, 2012
Leftist hate speech in high gear in lead-up to the election
As President Obama’s approval ratings sink, liberals—who claim to be for tolerance—have been ratcheting up their intolerance.
Almost daily, we hear a liberal politician or celebrity claiming that those who oppose Obama are racists and accusing Republicans of wanting to return to the days of Jim Crow laws that required separate facilities for blacks and whites.
Last month, Politico reporter Joe Williams said on MSNBC that Mitt Romney is “very, very comfortable” around “white folks who are very much relaxed in their own company.” He also tweeted a nasty remark with a sexual innuendo about Ann Romney.
Williams has said the Tea Party movement uses “racially tinged imagery and racially tinged sort of statements to get their point across.” He has said that opposition to Obama is a backlash against an African-American president, comparing that with support for the Ku Klux Klan.
Williams, who is black, not only covered the White House for Politico but previously was the Boston Globe’s deputy Washington bureau chief. After the remark about Romney, Politico suspended Williams, and he has left his job there, claiming he had been the target of right-wing bullying.
Not to be outdone, Salon editor-at-large Joan Walsh agreed with Williams. "It’s almost certainly a fact that Mitt Romney is more comfortable around white people,” she wrote on Salon.com.
“It’s just so inaccurate, and it’s just so amazing that people who don’t know us can sort of put these labels on us,” Ann Romney tells me. “I think some of our black friends would be a little amused by it.”
From Justice Clarence Thomas to Juan Williams and Bill Cosby, blacks who express conservative views are referred to by supposedly tolerant black Democrats as Uncle Toms and sellouts.
When GoProud, a gay conservative group, endorsed Romney for president, the supposedly tolerant Joy Behar said on Al Gore’s Current TV, “Could it be that the GoProud guys are just attracted to Mitt Romney's sons?”
Supposedly tolerant Obama supporter Bill Maher has compared Wisconsin’s Republican Governor Scott Walker to the mentally handicapped banjo player in the film “Deliverance.”
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5 comments:
If you don't want to hear these things, then don't watch the shows or read the articles. Plain and Simple.
12:41,
You're missing the entire point here. Those on the left espousing tolerance are anything but. They are demanding from everyone else what they do not offer themselves.
I, for one, do not watch or listen to these damnable hypocrites, but that doesn't mean they should be able to just spout such personal attacks with impunity.
Everyone is entitled to an opinion, and is guaranteed the freedom to express it without the government coming down on him for it. But God forbid that opinion should come from outside of their narrow little window of 'tolerance'.
You're quite right 12:41, but since the Left controls most of the media, it's not all that easy.
There is one positive thing coming out of this campaign, and that is, it's giving the people (assuming they're paying attention) the ability to see "the real Left" doing what it does best. Lie.
Demoncrats can't possibly stand on Obama's record for fear it would make the people rise up and burn DC to the ground, something that should have been done a long time ago.
What we also get to see are some of the Left's oldest and most effective tactics. Some of them are;
Saying and doing whatever they want, then simply blaming it on their opponents.
Turning lies into "facts". This of course, requires the help of "their" media.
Using blacks, gays, women, and children as political props.
And, taking advantage of the fact that most of the people are weak and mindless.
The end resault of all this is, getting a govt. that is totally incompetent, one that couldn't care less about the people, and one that has as it's foundation, corruption and lies.
Interestingly I am a Mitt supporter and have no problem with the idea that he might be more comfortable with white people than black - and I have no idea if it is even true.
Surely everyone is more comfortable with people who are more likely to share similar backgrounds, interests, language etc etc etc.
On the other hand, I actually think Obama is more comfortable (and certainly has more in common with) most white people than most black people.
Lastly, even though Bill Maher is almost certainly 'Left', I don't think anyone would call him tolerant. He is one of the least tolerant, most narrow-minded and outspokenly inflamatory people going around.
Free speech is a starnge concept to the left
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