Posted on 05/12/2015 10:56:11 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross
In a stunning slap at her team, liberal pundit Kirsten Powers is charging in a new book that the left is so intolerant of alternative views that it will use sexist and even racist language to shout down women and blacks who don't champion Democratic causes.
Kirsten Powers, a USA Today and Daily Beast columnist and designated "liberal" on Fox, confessed in her new book that the left aggressively tries to "silence people" who don't fall into the liberal line.
In The Silencing: How the Left is Killing Free Speech, she calls out the lefty tactics, especially how they belittle conservative women and African-Americans. She said the goal is to silence the right and its outlets.
"Conservative women are treated as dimwitted, self loathing puppets of the patriarchy, or nefarious gender traitors," she writes in the book from Regnery Publishing provided to Secrets.
Ditto for blacks. "Raffi Williams, a young black conservative who works as the deputy press secretary for the Republican National Committee, told me he regularly gets Facebook comments or tweets from supposed liberals calling him an 'Uncle Tom,' 'house n-word,' race traitor, and sellout," she added.
Powers is sure to get slapped herself as a sellout for hitting what she views as hypocrisy by liberals, as former CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson did before her.
Powers grew up in a liberal family but said that interacting with conservatives, and finding God, has given her a new perspective.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Is she on her death bed?
Politically speaking, Kirsten drifts in and out of consciousness. This is one of her more lucid moments.
I hope her faith in God is solid, though.
I believe she was also mugged by Obamacare.
They’ll be coming after her now, with a vengeance. ‘Hope she’s ready.
As usual with totalitarians, dissension is not allowed.
And the GOP keeps letting them get away with it.
Maybe it will help her to see evil for what it is.
Well put.
Bump
That's a great line.
But it's hard to imagine someone of her stripe putting in all the long hours of book-writing in condemnation of those she identifies with.
I see her a lot and follow her pretty closely. I have often wondered how it is that she doesn't talk herself into conservatism.
The hate coming her way from the left for this book may just convince her completely.
Kirsten Powers = A Useful Idiot... of the progressives..
They’ll Liquidate HER soon enough...
Progressive politics.. AIN’T IT FUN?......
WHY?... leftist teachers STOPPED teaching American and World History LONG AGO.. to America’s children..
So when we REPEAT IT.... few will even KNOW..
“And yet there she is on Fox, dutifully promoting the left’s agenda, which requires that the opposition be silenced. “
She was on Fox discussing her book.
I’m not sure how this is relevant.
Intimidate us????!!!! NOT BLOODY LIKELY!!!
In other news, water has been discovered to be wet.
More than 20 years ago, Lawrence Tribe, the prominent liberal lawyer, wrote “A clash of Absolutes.” about the abortion controversy.In it he admits that the cultural war is largely about different social classes. Between liberal single women and married conservative ones. Between the upper middle class and the middle class. Between graduates of high prestige schools and ordinary public colleges. Between professional women and housewives. Between irreligious and religious women. It was no accident that the “star”of the “choice” crowd was no t Norma McCorvey (jane Roe) but Sarah Weddington, her lawyer.
She’s not going to get “slapped” for this. She’s going to get excoriated, called every name in the book and kicked out of the Democrat party. She’ll be lucky if they don’t begin to protest anywhere she speaks. Commencement address at her alma mater? Forget it. Paid speech at a local college? Nope.
The Left brooks no deviation from the orthodoxy. Look at how they reacted to Dolce and Gabana made one statement that went against The Plan. Powers multiplied that by 1000.
She’s dead to them.
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