Tuesday, October 09, 2012



Censoring of Conservatives Proves Liberals' Intolerance

By Bill Donohue

In the course of just one week, I had my speech squashed on three different occasions by the cultural elites. Though I’ve been slapped by the censorial hand of liberals many times before, never have I experienced it so forcefully within such a short period of time.

On September 27, I held a press conference outside the Edward Tyler Nahem gallery in midtown Manhattan to protest an exhibit by Andres Serrano featuring “Piss Christ,” the infamous photo of a crucifix submerged in a jar of the artist’s urine. After addressing the media, I sought to see the exhibit but was stopped in the building’s lobby by gallery officials. I was the only person denied. My offense? They objected to the content of my remarks to the media.

Last month we learned that beginning on October 17, FX will air “American Horror Story: Asylum.” The entire series depicts a habit-wearing promiscuous nun who beats inmates in a home for the criminally insane; for good measure, a doctor tortures his patients in this evil Catholic institution.

I decided to write a full-page ad critical of the series, seeking to place it in The Hollywood Reporter. We were led to believe that everything was fine, including our credit card info, but then we learned via an email on October 1 that the ad had been rejected. Lynne Segall, the publisher, nixed it saying the ad’s message “was not appropriate.”

None of this would matter so much if it were not for the myth that liberals are tolerant, and conservatives are intolerant. Wherever liberals dominate — in the artistic community, Hollywood, the media, education, publishing — there is no shortage of attempts to muzzle the speech of conservatives. They are the masters of intolerance.

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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

I mean, really. Does anyone, other than an Obamunist worshiper or other Kool-Aid gulping lefitst, need more proof of the Left's intolerance? Really? If you do, please let us know what planet you've been on, and what the hotel rates, food, weather, etc. are like.

Anonymous said...

If your rights were truly violated, then stop whining, find a good lawyer, and fight for your rights. If you give up, they have won.

Anonymous said...

This contest between the intolerance of the left versus intolerance of the right always amazes me especially by their blindness to their own intolerance!

Kee Bird said...

Those collages that block conservative speakers need to be taken to court and sued for everything they have

Anonymous said...

I think that the 'myth' of tolerance by the 'left' has been well and truly exploded. I also think it is widely known.
However, a private gallery is entitled to deny you entry. Just as two privately owned newspapers are entitled to refuse to carry your ad.
The hypocrisy I sympathise with, but you have not had your speech censored - you just can't use someone else's property to air it.

Flu-Bird said...

Liberals can yammer all they want about tollrence but they never practice it ever