[dawn53]

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."

[zencycler]

...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

[Quilla]

Profound.

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

[Moderate right-winger]

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

[gunnygail]

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.

[weegee]

Media Schadenfreude and Media Shenanigans

[beyond the sea]

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.

[SkyPilot]

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.

[backhoe]

When Goons Attack-Bullies Storm Republican Office ( vandalism, shooting, more-)

[Knitting A Conundrum]

I've been tracking stuff like this this morning for my blog, and I found more scary things. This is extracted from my latest post:

Reading Overtaking Events, where Matt is running an article about scary stuff coming from the Democrats, I ran across a link to this discussion thread at DU where someone is encouraging that anybdy to the right of McCain should be killed because they are a fundamentalist religious bigot threatening their freedom.

If I didn't know better, I would think I was reading a Bolshevik era discussion of how to deal with those who didn't agree with you.

It is comforting to know that I live in a country where people think I should die because of my political and religious beliefs, and that my very existance is a threat to their freedom (as if their freedom to hate outweighs my freedom not to behave that way).

It is comforting to know that I live in a country where taling likethat is not considered grounds for incarceration, torture or other wrongs.

But it is scary that some people are so far from reality that they pump themselves up to hate this much.

And can call themselves democratic with a straight face.

Are we looking into the face of the next totalitarian governement? What's the difference between such people and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi? Well, they haven't started the beheadings yet, but they have pumped enough hate into their bodies that we may very well see attacks of more than words.

___________ Don't know what we can do but keep the rhetoric up and pray...but that's what I intend to do. But the level of hate out there is irrational...and seems to be growing...or perhaps, my awareness of it has.

Scary Halloween indeed.