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The "Liberal" Hate Campaign
FrontPageMag.com ^ | October 13, 2004 | David Horowitz

Posted on 10/13/2004 1:57:52 AM PDT by GiovannaNicoletta

David Horowitz wrote the following editorial at the invitation of The Philadelphia Inquirer. The Inquirer is running 21 anti-Bush editorials between now and election day as part of its "21 Reasons to Elect Kerry" series. The Inquirer has invited conservative op-eds like this (the first) for the sake of balance. FrontPage Magazine believes in political balance and is happy to see a different viewpoint added to the liberal media. -- The Editors.

In 200 years of this nation’s political history, there has never been a hate campaign as massive, as nasty, and as personally vicious as the one directed against President George Bush. Part of this hate is a product of the generic politics of destruction practiced by Democratic Party leaders in every election cycle as a matter of course. In the 2000 campaign the Democrats placed ads in black communities across the country accusing the President of killing a black lynch victim “a second time.” They even got the daughter of the lynch victim to do the dirty work voice over for them.

This year the Democrat who would be President is touring the country telling black audiences that George Bush won the election in Florida by “stealing one million black votes” – an ugly, racially divisive and mendacious charge which, if Republicans were behind it would elicit howls of foul play from the nation’s (leftwing) press, instead of their present discreet silence on the subject. Not a single actual victim of such theft has been identified by civil rights organizations or the Kerry campaign because none exists. The Civil Rights Commission and the press investigated these charges at the time and found them baseless. As of course they would, since all the contested precincts in the Florida recount were in Democratic counties.

But it is the specifically personal attacks on Bush that reveal the ferocious insanity of liberal hate in this political season. For two years, George Bush has been derided as a “moron,” a “dummy,” and a Cheney “puppet” by liberal elites, even though his college test scores rank him in the top 10 percent of the nation, and even though newspapers such as The Philadelphia Inquirer give him full credit for orchestrating his own alleged vendettas. He has been accused of being a military “deserter” despite the failure of the media to prove this charge in four election campaigns, despite his logging 574 air hours in a plane dangerous enough to be referred to as “the widow-maker,” and despite his honorable discharge from the service.

As President, he has been denounced as a traitor who has “betrayed” Americans, a liar, a corrupt manipulator who misled America and sent its young and innocent to battle in full knowledge that their mission was fraudulent and their deaths needless. It has been charged that the sole reason he sent the young to die was to line the pockets of his corporate Texas cronies. He has been accused in advance of being responsible for any dirty nuclear bomb that terrorists detonate in the United States. And these are merely the attacks originating with Al Gore and Ted Kennedy to be spread then through the Democratic ranks. Not a single Democrat, by the way, has stood up to deplore the recklessness of these smears, or to speculate on how such attacks might affect the fortunes of the troops under the President’s command. Instead of fulfilling their role as neutral arbiters of the facts, the media have regularly given these destructive and despicable accusations a free pass.

The personal attacks on Bush began even before the war in Iraq started -- a war which was authorized and justified by Bill Clinton and Al Gore and ratified by the majority of congressional Democrats in the Iraqi Liberation Act of 1998; then ratified again in the congressional Authorization of Force Act of October 2002. John Kerry signed on to both resolutions before he turned his back on them because Howard Dean was passing him in the polls. These attacks on a President carrying out a bipartisan policy began with an unconscionable personal strike by Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle on the very eve of the war. Even as our troops moved into harm’s way to enforce United Nations Resolution 1441 – an ultimatum that called on Saddam to disarm or else -- Daschle claimed that Bush’s “failed diplomacy,” not Saddam’s intransigence, was responsible for the war.

I have been invited to respond to today’s Inquirer editorial, which takes aim not at the Democrat hate mongers, but at their target, describing him as a vindictive politician with an “enemies list.” How’s that for a fair-minded press! Inquirer editors have every right to be partisan, but what kind of judgment would make a man more sinned against than sinning, and responsible for the security of us all, the butt of an editorial like this?

The Inquirer editorial rehashes a discredited canard about Joseph Wilson and his wife who, it claims, were punished by Bush for revealing that he had lied about Saddam’s attempt to get nuclear materials from Niger. Yet a bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee investigated Wilson’s charges and rejected them, concluding that the President’s statement was “well-founded.” Wilson’s story was evidently a political dirty trick to undermine the rationale for the war, but the media are so consumed by their own anti-Bush passions that they can’t even play fair a year and a half later, when the accusation they endorsed turns out to be false.

If George Bush loses this election to a man who has been on all sides of the issue of war and peace, and has shifted his positions according to which way the political winds blow, Americans will surely suffer consequences in the coming months of the war on terror. But then they will have only themselves to blame, along with media that did not meet their most fundamental obligation to stay above the political fray and tell the American people the truth.


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1 posted on 10/13/2004 1:57:52 AM PDT by GiovannaNicoletta
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To: GiovannaNicoletta

Worth repeating:

"But then they will have only themselves to blame, along with media that did not meet their most fundamental obligation to stay above the political fray and tell the American people the truth."



2 posted on 10/13/2004 2:05:06 AM PDT by dawn53
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To: GiovannaNicoletta
...there has never been a hate campaign as massive...as the one directed against President George Bush

I definitely agree, and I set out to prove exactly this using the internet (it is, after all, an objective, searchable database of human emotions) on this thread:

Democrats or Republicans, Which is the Party of Fear, Hate and Hyperbole? An Internet Search
3 posted on 10/13/2004 2:13:39 AM PDT by zencycler
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To: GiovannaNicoletta
Profound.

"What am I, chopped liver?" -- Zell Miller

4 posted on 10/13/2004 2:16:05 AM PDT by Quilla
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To: GiovannaNicoletta

I foresee the advent of liberal socialism which our country will take years to recover if the people voted wrongly in Nov.


5 posted on 10/13/2004 2:25:32 AM PDT by Moderate right-winger
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To: GiovannaNicoletta

Five reasons NOT to elect Hanoi John.

1. Traitor to USA.
2. French blood.
3. Sucks up to UN.
4. Wife is a hag with NO manners.
5. Face looks like Mr ED on a bad day.


6 posted on 10/13/2004 2:39:16 AM PDT by gunnygail (Founding member of the VRWC. --Black Helo crewman. (I operate the Liberal tinfoil hat scanner.)
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To: gunnygail

I would agree with almost all of the charges against the Democrats except for 1 thing: Zell Miller DID stand up most publicly at the RNC and denounce his own party for all the lies they've told...He has been an outstanding spokesman for this President and should not go without being mentioned here!


7 posted on 10/13/2004 2:49:09 AM PDT by princess leah (\)
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To: dawn53

Horowitz nails it. The Democrats hate Bush more than they love their country. That is why they are truly unpratriotic. Whatever his faults (and yes there are many), Bush is at least trying to look out for the best interests of the American people. No reasonable, fair-minded person can truthfully make this claim about Kerry.


8 posted on 10/13/2004 2:58:40 AM PDT by Bogolyubski
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To: Timesink; martin_fierro; reformed_democrat; Loyalist; =Intervention=; PianoMan; GOPJ; ...
Media Schadenfreude and Media Shenanigans
9 posted on 10/13/2004 3:05:13 AM PDT by weegee (John Kerry: "I'm Oprah! EVERYONE gets a tax hike!")
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To: princess leah

TRUE! Zell is the man. Many Dems should follow his example but the majority are too busy kissing the butts of spec interest groups to stay in power vice doing the RIGHT THING.


10 posted on 10/13/2004 3:11:31 AM PDT by gunnygail (Founding member of the VRWC. --Black Helo crewman. (I operate the Liberal tinfoil hat scanner.)
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To: GiovannaNicoletta
The (old) media is America's most ruthless and destructive institution. They are killing the country from within, just like in the schools and the courts.

Most every member of the media should be shunned. I mean this.

11 posted on 10/13/2004 3:14:20 AM PDT by beyond the sea (ab9usa4uandme)
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To: gunnygail
Five reasons NOT to elect Hanoi John.

1. Provided aid and comfort to the enemy during the Vietnam War. He met with the enemy, he told lies to the media and Congress about "atrocities" committed and witnessed. Benedict Arnold was a hero to both sides of his war as well

2. A liberal who is unwilling to embrace his political positions. He is at odds with his Catholicism. Promotion of homosexuality and abortion are 2 clear examples.

3. He is a globalist who has advocated surrendering to the will of the United Nations since the early 1970s. This includes putting US troop deployment under the authority of the UN exclusively.

4. He believes that the War on Terror is exaggerated and that we can go back to living in a 9-10-2001 existence. Terrorism has been escalating. There was no response to the embassy bombing, the USS Cole, et al. John Kerry opposed the war against Saddam, even though he was funding homicide bombers' families and sheltering terrorists like Abu Nidal, because he wants to END the war on terror with the capture of OBL (who may be buried under a pile of rubble). We won the Cold War but did not win the ideological war against communism or socialism. We did win the war against Nazism and Imperial Shintoism. Let's not make any mistakes when it comes to eradicating radical Islam; we are NOT the first generation to have to fight this battle.

5. John Kerry WILL raise your taxes.

12 posted on 10/13/2004 3:14:47 AM PDT by weegee (John Kerry: "I'm Oprah! EVERYONE gets a tax hike!")
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To: GiovannaNicoletta
I read this yesterday. I could not believe the Philthy Inquirer allowed a rebuttal on their hollowed liberal toilet paper to be published by a conservative.

David knocked their teeth in. You should have seen the paranoid Enemies List! editorial the Philthy published next to it. It was one of the most pathetic things I had ever read.

To top it all off, on the next page were at least 4 letters to the paper canceling their subscriptions and telling the paper what a hotbed of lies and distortion it was.

13 posted on 10/13/2004 3:16:43 AM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: Moderate right-winger; bjcintennessee; Lancey Howard; MEG33; Prime Choice; PhilDragoo; ...
I foresee the advent of liberal socialism which our country will take years to recover if the people voted wrongly in Nov.

Too bad more people don't "foresee".

The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America -- Charlotte Iserbyte

"This is far more than a mere book. It is a massive encyclopedia of facts, names, dates, events, and quotes that prove beyond a doubt that the decline in U.S. educational standards is the result of a deliberate plan on the part of professional educators with access to government funding. The purpose of this plan is, not to educate children, but to psychologically condition them to become compliant members of society with neither desire nor ability to question the dictates of an all-powerful global government."

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Because our citizens have become so ignorant, incurious, and uninformed about our history, etc. there is a good chance that they have no clue about that "advent of liberal socialism" to which you refer.

There is big, big trouble ahead! The evil institutions are winning. The OLD MEDIA still rules and the people are too ignorant to see it.

14 posted on 10/13/2004 3:26:16 AM PDT by beyond the sea (ab9usa4uandme)
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To: GiovannaNicoletta; All
When Goons Attack-Bullies Storm Republican Office ( vandalism, shooting, more-)

15 posted on 10/13/2004 3:54:25 AM PDT by backhoe (Just a Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the Trackball into the Dawn of Information...)
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To: dawn53

That salient fact is what I am afraid of more than anything else.

The enemy will test Kerry to see what his reaction will be to any attack. If Kerry does not show immediate resolve, and words are not good enough in this case, we will be in dire trouble.

Kerry is incapable to taking any stand, exactly like Clinton, that doesn't meet some poll, or political test that involves every government in the world.

That, is terrifying.


16 posted on 10/13/2004 4:05:10 AM PDT by OpusatFR (Let me repeat this: the web means never having to swill leftist garbage again. Got it?)
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To: beyond the sea
Seems to me that Thomas Jefferson thought that there should be "revolutions" ever so often to keep the democracy. Perhaps if kerry is elected, this might just be one of those times. I am 78 years old and it truly makes me sick to see what is happening to the USA I fought for in WW II!
17 posted on 10/13/2004 4:59:30 AM PDT by sinbad17
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To: dawn53

"But then they will have only themselves to blame, along with media that did not meet their most fundamental obligation to stay above the political fray and tell the American people the truth."




If Kerry is elected president and we are attacked world wide and at home because he is so WEAK, then the liberal media may be made to pay a price.


18 posted on 10/13/2004 5:00:09 AM PDT by Cricket24
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To: Bogolyubski

Most dems HATE this country. They blame it for everything that happens around the world.


19 posted on 10/13/2004 5:01:36 AM PDT by Cricket24
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To: beyond the sea
Charlotte Iserbyte's book is very good; and I also recommend it. The "Gender Agenda" by Dale O'Leary is another; and another I got from my Canadian conservative Pals in the early 90s -- "The War Against the Family" is so extremely well source; the bibliography is sufficient to send one hunting more data for years and years.

Now then... why don't the left "see".

In the early 90s, I wrote that the liberal dogma was a "theology". And in later years, modified that to "cult" (after reading a superb analysis by Don Federer). The answer is quite simple, BTSea.

They don't see because they lack the self-courage to see. It's either a psychologic, biologic, or sociologic incurrence - which prevents many, otherwise decent, people to see.

This morning, my young teened son and I discussed "stem cell research". Particularly, embryonic stem cell research. I then listed off the news the MSM doesn't cover; but the events are indeed happening: SF Bay Area Moving to legal prostitution... "Not enough flu vaccines"... "genocide in Suddan"...

He got the picture in one fell swoop. Why? He doesn't uphold the view that he is better than the masses, he doesn't over-rely upon anyone doing the "right thing". He knows liberty is a personal stance. He could see a natural "corporate" big money result in the above "news items" coalescing into a big business and money earner for the adults who are championing "stem cell research'. There will be no accountability if at then end of 50 years research into "embryonic stem cell" nothing positive happens. It's just more marxism on parade. And a lot of dead people in its wake.

John Edwards claims that electing the New Christ, John Kerry, will ensure that the lame can walk, no? (/sarcasm).

But the cult ideology of the left posits that one *must* believe that man is the highest (and the lowest) of all possible good and evil in the world: Secular humanism. Liberals posit the big-bang theory of evolution; but refuse to question who or what put the heavens to motion for the big-bang. It's more than they can handle.

If a young teen-boy can add up these events, and these truths -- so can a lot of adults. And given my own watch these past 10 years, Beyond the Sea, a lot of adults are waking out of the delusion of liberal indoctrination. Will it be in time? Yes, I think so.

20 posted on 10/13/2004 6:17:22 AM PDT by Alia
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