Posted on 09/18/2012 10:33:44 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
Have you noticed that the left regularly condemns alleged conservative "hate speech" but is almost completely silent on the most pervasive hate speech in the world?
Take New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, for example.
On Jan 8, 2011, in Tucson, Ariz., Jared Loughner murdered six people and gravely wounded Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. That very day (published the next day), based on nothing, Paul Krugman wrote that the murders were a result of hate-filled rhetoric that saturates conservative and Republican life.
"When you heard the terrible news from Arizona, were you completely surprised? Or were you, at some level, expecting something like this atrocity to happen?
"Put me in the latter category.
"It's true that the shooter in Arizona appears to have been mentally troubled. But that doesn't mean that his act can or should be treated as an isolated event ...
"There isn't any place for eliminationist rhetoric, for suggestions that those on the other side of a debate must be removed from that debate by whatever means necessary.
"And it's the saturation of our political discourse -- and especially our airwaves -- with eliminationist rhetoric that lies behind the rising tide of violence.
"Where's that toxic rhetoric coming from? Let's not make a false pretense of balance: it's coming, overwhelmingly, from the right ...
"So will the Arizona massacre make our discourse less toxic? It's really up to G.O.P. leaders. Will they accept the reality of what's happening to America and take a stand against eliminationist rhetoric? Or will they try to dismiss the massacre as the mere act of a deranged individual and go on as before?"
Most of the American left echoed Krugman's libel.
So, then, here's the question: With an American ambassador and three other Americans murdered by Muslim mobs in Libya, and with tens of thousands of Muslims violently demonstrating around the world against a video on the Internet that virtually no one on Earth saw or even heard of, will anyone on the left write the truth about the greatest hate-filled rhetoric in the world -- Islamic rhetoric?
Or, as I suggest, does the left engage in as much deception regarding the Islamic world as it does about conservatives?
The answer can be readily ascertained by taking the Krugman column and simply substituting some of his words with those placed in parentheses. Then the morally upside-down world of Krugman and the left becomes immediately apparent.
"When you heard the terrible news from (Libya, Egypt, and elsewhere in Muslim world), were you completely surprised? Or were you, at some level, expecting something like this atrocity to happen?
I am older than Prager but I think he is at least old enough to remember the 1960s.
. . . Frank Rich and the Paranoid Style
"Frank Rich has published a delusional article in New York Magazine under the title, "What Killed JFK: The Hate That Ended His Presidency is Eerily Familiar" in which he draws a straight line from Kennedy's assassination to imagined threats against President Obama arising from conservatives and the tea party movement."
I remember the liberals screaming that the conservatives' "climate of hate" and violence caused Oswald to assassinate JFK.. chief among the screaming nuts was NY Times employee James "Scotty" Reston.
IIRC one Times front page had Reston screaming about the conservative's "climate of hate" and next to it above the fold was a news article about Oswald's connection to "Fair Play for Cuba" which may have included a reminder that Oswald attempted to assassinate former U.S. Army Major General Edwin Walker, a man very active in the emerging modern conservative movement and a man very much hated by the likes of Reston.
A better subject is.. why do liberals do this?
Liberals seem to be always making excuses for and "understanding" the enemies of America.. is the cause of their malady the same as the mentally deranged Islamists, the centuries old practice of consanguineous marriages?
Mr. Prager might be interested in what Abe told me about today's Republic.
You initiated a policy to tolerate the Marxist-Alinsky radicals and let them rant; not only has it not ceased but was constantly augmented by decades of infiltration and indoctrination. You now have two Americas. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half statist and half free; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.
Which reminded me..
". . . some key [events] exacerbated the national debate, fraying trust, and national cohesion just a little more each time . . . The two-party system that had governed America . . . begin to fall apart . . . interest in politics took the place of all other forms of news-related entertainment . . . politicians were the celebrities . . . [Politics/ideology] was becoming such a habit, the reactions so automatic, that [journalists] taking sides on every news story became inevitable."
.. I just can't avoid thinking about this from for Love & Liberty by Robin Young and it's about 1857 America.
I’m still trying to count how many muslims in Libya got on TV and spoke out forcefully against the mob.
You know, instead of standing by and watching it happen.
Doing nothing, which is tacit approval.
But I can’t find a single video with a single Libyan citizen who clearly condemns the attack on the embassy.
Tons of Libyans condemned the false flag operation’s “video”. That’s all I see, though, I can’t count one single Libyan who actually opposes the embassy attack, who says the video was not a valid reason for the attack.
The Libyan “President” that the administration/state dept/etc. installed - he of course came right out and said the attack was not a result of the video, was pre-planned. He’s smart enough, I guess, to know that he might be dealing with a GOP administration soon. So he jumped on the let’s blame muslim “extremists” bandwagon. Eeeevvvveryone can unite against “extremists”.
But the general population of Libya - not one will come out and condemn the attack.
Some may be scared of the new world order/islamo/commie people just like liberals all over Western civilization are. But how many agree with the attack, sat home watching on TV saying, good, kill them all ?
There hasn’t been that much national unity since WWII.
All across the mideast all the citizenry agrees on one thing, in complete unity: they like it when Americans get killed.
Oh, and I’m still waiting for the tv snewsmedia to Report the destruction of a few hundred million worth of marine airplanes in Afgstan, let alone report the squadron leader that was killed along with a few marines.
We are seeing the treason / subversion on the grandest scale in our history. Millions of American citizens all bankrupting our government.
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