The Rising Tide of Democratic Hate Speech
While some conservatives have engaged (and indeed continue to engage) in some overheated rhetoric when taking issue with Democrats and their allies in the media and blogosphere, I wonder if anyone at the Republican National Committee (RNC) has ever denounced Republicans in the hysterical rhetoric of Democratic National Committee (DNC) communications director Brad Woodhouse, who yesterday told POLITICO
The Republican Party has thrown in its lot with the terrorists – the Taliban and Hamas this morning – in criticizing the President for receiving the Nobel Peace prize. . . . Republicans cheered when America failed to land the Olympics and now they are criticizing the President of the United States for receiving the Nobel Peace prize – an award he did not seek but that is nonetheless an honor in which every American can take great pride – unless of course you are the Republican Party.The 2009 version of the Republican Party has no boundaries, has no shame and has proved that they will put politics above patriotism at every turn. It’s no wonder only 20 percent of Americans admit to being Republicans anymore – it’s an embarrassing label to claim.
Gosh, sound like he’s talking about his own party. And seems he, like many on the left, is living in the past. That 20% number is from the early days of the Obama Administration and before the Democratic incumbent made clear he had no intention to fulfill his campaign commitment of a “net spending cut.” Serious polls now show a narrowing of the party gap.
Contending “the DNC needs a smarter class of public-relations flacks,” Ed Morrissey takes Woodhouse to the woodshed:
Woodhouse argues (almost assuredly uncomprehendingly) for a fuehrerprinzip where the head of state must never be questioned or criticized, lest one become a traitor to the fatherhomeland. Will Woodhouse also start labeling late-night comedians like Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien terrorist sympathizers for their (very) occasional ridicule of His Reverence?
I don’t think any official of the RNC ever made a comparison as nasty as Woodhouse’s when taking issue with then-President George W. Bush’s critics who offered barbs far more mean-spirited and ad hominem than the GOP’s rather restrained critiques of the incumbent’s recent honor (most in the same vein as criticism offered on the left and in the MSM). To be sure, a few bloggers did so, but none has directly say that the party has really thrown its lot with the terrorists. As Morrissey puts it, that really “takes the cake.”
RELATED: Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL): “Republicans Probably Wish There Was a Nobel Prize For Fear, Hatred & Racism”
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Aye, and if the committee were honest, liberals would win it every single time.
This Grayson assclown is a nobody who seems to be gunning for a committeeship or something.
Comment by ThatGayConservative — October 10, 2009 @ 7:20 pm - October 10, 2009
I’m beginning to realize all you do here is whine. I don’t know what’s worse – your dimwitted Republican persecution complex or your deranged hatred of all things Obama. How sad for you that more people are at last speaking the truth about the moral cesspool that has become your party. And for the record, Woodhouse isn’t the only one that’s comparing Republicans to the Taliban. Here’s YOUR Supreme Leader, Rush Limbaugh: “Folks, do you realize something has happened here that we all agree with the Taliban and Iran about — and that is he doesn’t deserve the award? Now that’s hilarious, that I’m on the same side of something with the Taliban.” Yeah, hilarious.
Comment by william — October 10, 2009 @ 8:30 pm - October 10, 2009
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And william, in a rant reminiscent of the tantrums of our collective early childhoods, continues to typify the unabashed truculence of the American left. William’s failure (and that of the liberal vox populi) is in large part due to his paralyzing sanctimony, as well as his complacent, albeit misplaced superiority complex. He, and many other (but not all, mind you) liberal commenters to predominantly conservative websites like to snap and snip and chortle snidely, but only succeed in revealing their seething rage that anyone may harbor a dissenting worldview. They mistake irony for wit, and sophomoric snark for substantive debate.
Comment by Eric Olsen — October 10, 2009 @ 10:18 pm - October 10, 2009
#3: “…but only succeed in revealing their seething rage that anyone may harbor a dissenting worldview.”
Absolutely right, Eric Olsen. It’s no coincidence that williams’ rant barks with equal volume about the alleged “moral cesspool” of the GOP and conservatives’ purported “deranged hatred of all things Obama.” For william, opposition to anything Obama says or does IS immoral. william, like Grayson, is incapable of engaging in rational debate about healthcare “reform” that does not involve complete and utter capitulation to whatever Obama or his minions propose–it’s easier and less intellectually taxing just to make cue cards stating that Republicans want people to die quickly and support a “holocaust” against poor people and minorities for profit. williams’ comments are just the cue cards of an obedient sheep being led to slaughter by his own oppressors. He doesn’t have the intellectual honesty or capacity to debate the negative and/or positive implications of Obamacare or Obama receiving the Nobel Prize. His brain can handle only one simple calculation: circumstance related to Obama + criticism = immoral terrorist act.
Comment by Sean A — October 10, 2009 @ 11:36 pm - October 10, 2009
I don’t agree with this sort of overheated rhetoric. I was disgusted by it from the GOP in when they used it continuously from 2002-2006, and I am here too. Obviously though those on the right who loved calling the Democrats terrorist sympathizers or Bin Laden lovers should keep their traps shut now that its being flung at them otherwise they be called hypocrites. I guess the term hypocritical politician is redundant though.
Comment by Mr. Moderate — October 10, 2009 @ 11:48 pm - October 10, 2009
William,
Unfortunately, there is very little to do BUT whine! America is worse off and weaker by EVERY measure since Obama became president. Real unemployment is approaching 20% and climbing, he and Democrats have spent more than every congress and president before them combined, the world is looking to abandon the dollar, we and our allies are weaker and our enemies are stronger.
Venture outside of your echo chamber, the whole country is whining! People are suffering! People have no jobs! And people have no prospect for getting jobs! Democrats have destroyed the economy and are doing absolutely nothing to improve things. Indeed, everything they have done has made things worse!
What planet are you living on?…oh, wait, I know….you live on the planet where Democrats dont get held accountable for anything despite having been in charge of both houses of congress for three years and winning the white house!
You want Americans to stop whining? Stop giving them so many reasons to whine! Stop spending their money and their children’s money on your corrupt union contributors. Stop seizing their money! Stop seizing their power! Stop seizing industry! Stop claiming that the principles that made America the greatest nation on Earth for 230 years suddenly dont work anymore, and the answer is seizing more business, more money and more power from the people and giving it to government and the democrat party.
You want people to stop whining? Stop pretending that fascism is the answer to our problems!
Comment by American Elephant — October 11, 2009 @ 12:28 am - October 11, 2009
#5: Mr. Moderate, your analysis of statements from both the Left and the Right accusing the other side of being in league with terrorists is precisely the kind of “moderate” judgment that has helped to lead to a politically powerless GOP, and a perspective that should be unceremoniously rejected if the GOP ever expects to regain any political power in the future. There IS a difference between the rhetoric on the Right and the Left on this issue when placed in context, and ignoring the difference is neither “moderate,” nor reasonably calculated to improve the GOP’s political influence down the road.
The difference is that when conservatives and Republicans criticized the Left for being in league with terrorists, it was because the reasons for both groups’ opposition to US policies was the SAME. (Who are we to “police” the world? One man’s terrorist, is another man’s freedom-fighter. The US is attacking the Arab world because of American hatred of Muslims and to control the World’s oil supply. Etc…) It wasn’t “overheated rhetoric” to point out the similarity of the beliefs between the Left and terrorist groups that motivated their mutual opposition to US policy.
In contrast, Woodhouse is trying to align the GOP with terrorist groups even though he knows that the reasons the GOP, Hamas, and the Taliban have for criticizing Obama’s receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize are DIFFERENT.
Hamas has denigrated Obama’s receipt of the Prize because of America’s legitimate support for Israel (historically, anyway).
The Taliban denigrated Obama’s receipt of the Prize because the US is currently engaged in legitimate efforts to destroy them.
In contrast, the GOP has denigrated Obama’s receipt of the Prize for a number of reasons, notably the fact that he is presently wavering on: (1) America’s legitimate support for Israel; and (2) America’s legitimate efforts to eradicate the Taliban.
Glossing over these differences and nuances for the sake of “getting along” or improving the GOP’s PR image is a fool’s errand—one that the liberal media has cultivated by promoting and praising RINO media whor*s like Colin Powell and Meghan McCain to further blunt the political prospects of the GOP. I categorically reject it, and unless Republicans man-up and crank up the volume on legitimate criticisms of the Left, the party deserves to be out of power.
Comment by Sean A — October 11, 2009 @ 12:42 am - October 11, 2009
I thought William pissed himself and ran away crying the other day.
Anyhoo. The reality is that whenever some liberal POS, like Woodhouse, pops off with bullshit like that, it’s a safe bet that liberals have already done it.
The liberals have “thrown in” with the terrorists. WHOOPS! Better blame the GOP.
The liberals the very textbook definition of “moral cesspool”. WHOOPS! Better blame the GOP.
The liberals are racist, sexist, anti-Semite, bigot homophobes. WHOOPS! Better blame the GOP.
The liberals keep their corrupt members employed. WHOOPS! Better blame the GOP.
The liberals keep their pedophiles and other sexual deviants employed and promote them. WHOOPS! Better blame the GOP.
I can go on and on, if you like. Suffice it to say that the liberals are walking pieces of human debris. Worse than that, they think that the Proles like William, ghillie, Tano, Toilet Paper are so damn stupid that they’ll fall for it when they blame Republicans for what they’ve already done. And even worse than that, drooling retarded oxygen thieves like William will swallow it and run with it.
Talk about Useful Idiots. William et. al PERSONIFY it.
Comment by ThatGayConservative — October 11, 2009 @ 5:47 am - October 11, 2009
#9: TGC, Ann Coulter identified this particular move from the liberal playbook some time ago: “You can always tell what liberals are up to by what they accuse you of doing.”
Comment by Sean A — October 11, 2009 @ 7:20 am - October 11, 2009
william has affected me profoundly and deeply and I swear I will work extra hard to see the magic in Obama and to walk with him and talk with him and to call him my very own Messiah. How can a humble man bent on hope and change not be crowned, anointed and deified by the Nobel committee, the UN and the meek?
When I think of all the pikers in the past who achieved fame beyond their worth, it makes my blood boil. How can anyone consider Ghandi or Martin Luther King in the same breath with Barack Hussein Obama, mmm-mmm-mmm?
Barack Hussein Obama, mmm-mmm-mmm, is the Zeus, the Jesus, the Mohammed, the Buddha, the Very God of Very God come down from above to show us how a perfect human does life.
I just wish Barack Hussein Obama, mmm-mmm-mmm, didn’t have to deal with the nasty Republicans. Otherwise, the purity, sanctity and saintliness of the Democratic Party and its league of apostles dedicated to clean living and unambiguous love for the common man and religious fervor for selflessly promoting harmony and equality would be unleashed in a hurricane of hope, change, eternal peace and life without end.
Comment by heliotrope — October 11, 2009 @ 8:03 am - October 11, 2009
Sean, are you trying to show by example that the difference is the DNC is just using BS when describing people on the right but when the GOP does it to the left it’s because they actually believe the BS they are dishing out? Sounds like it to me.
Comment by Mr. Moderate — October 11, 2009 @ 8:58 am - October 11, 2009
#12: “Sounds like it to me.”
Really, Mr. Moderate? I would have thought with your hands cupped over your ears like that, all you would be able to hear is your own muffled voice chanting, “Blah, blah, blah, ya, ya, ya, I can’t hear you!, I can’t hear you!, I can’t hear you! bah, bah, bah, ya, ya, ya,…!”
Comment by Sean A — October 11, 2009 @ 10:58 am - October 11, 2009
“Blah, blah, blah, ya, ya, ya, I can’t hear you!, I can’t hear you!, I can’t hear you! bah, bah, bah, ya, ya, ya,…!”
Sean, Mr. Moderate’s point is that both sides are doing the same thing. And that each side thinks that they are the ones that are listening and it’s the other side that has the ears cupped and saying blah, blah, blah, etc. Apparently, he has a point.
Comment by Pat — October 11, 2009 @ 1:18 pm - October 11, 2009
#14: “Sean, Mr. Moderate’s point is that both sides are doing the same thing.”
Yeah, I caught that, Pat. My point is that he’s wrong, which I explained in some detail. And no, he doesn’t have a point because he completely mischaracterized my argument for the sole purpose of dismissing it.
Comment by Sean A — October 11, 2009 @ 2:00 pm - October 11, 2009
My recollection of the 2003-2006 period was one of puzzling reserve toward the Int’l ANSWER and Code Pink crowds. I could be completely projecting here, though. What did the WH say at the time that was so bloodcurdling?
(This will be imporant to remember it when we retake both chambers nerxt year and the hearings begin…)
Best wishes,
-MFS
Comment by MFS — October 11, 2009 @ 9:00 pm - October 11, 2009
Actually of course the Left has been not merely saying we are on the same side as the terrorists since the Clinton administration but that 911 itself was an RNC dirty trick. The sort of thing the Dems whine and cry about is exemplified by Georgia’s own Max Cleland. He objects that commercials regarding the civil service status of the newly formed TSA that had graphics of Osama in them. The fact that he was on Osama’s side wishing for a weaker management at TSA is of no moment. Rather we hear that this supposed statesman cried for two and a half years in the pits of a black funk only ameliorated by his new memoir coming out. Personally, I don’t really object to any of this sort of thing. All I would ask is that it be sincerely held rather than cynical and I think the DNC passes that test. However it is instructive to note that the administration has BANNED the very mention of “terrorist” and “terrorism” so famously. We have partners who have not detonated yet and man-caused disasters instead. Obviously the memo did not reach all offices. Really though, some of the detractors are right. These gripe sessions about competing hurt feelings are of no use and no dignity. As any competent community organizer would tell you, the solution is to get in their face and hit back twice as hard. Just keep it fact-based, which won’t be hard, and of course sincere. Of course Pelosi, Obama, Reid, Kerry, Clinton… almost any Dem figure you could name has greater respect for the Taliban and al Queda than they do those American citizens they dismiss as a finge mob. Look at the deference Barack showed in Saudi Arabia. Look at the aid he gives the Iranian mullahs in their project of beating down any dissent, EVEN IN HIS NOBEL SPEACH!
Comment by megapotamus — October 12, 2009 @ 7:08 am - October 12, 2009
I speak as an outsider, a non-USA citizen. From what I am observing, it is the left who exhibit all of the characteristics of being mentally deranged. During the Bush years they were so deranged that they had to blame GWB for the not so unexpected attack on the twin towers by Islamic terrorists (there, I said it: a terror attack was to be expected).
The reasons given by Bin Laden for the attacks were:
1. the USA participation in the peace keeping force in Bosnia. In the minds of the mentally deranged Islamist Bin Laden any dhimmi country who would dare trying to defend against Muslims deserves to be attacked. The participation in Bosnia happened under Clinton’s watch. Whilst I am not blaming Clinton for the attack on the twin towers, I am just pointing out one of the factors that was considered by someone who is in my view mentally deranged.
2. the first attack on the WTC was unsuccessful. In fact the person responsible is in prison. Now that lack of success meant that in the future there was bound to be another attack. Again, I do not blame Clinton for the second attack on the WTC, but am pointing out the vulnerability that was not addressed by the Clinton administration.
However, I do blame Clinton for not giving the go ahead to kill Osama Bin Laden when there was a perfect opportunity. The usual thing happened, that Bin Laden was hiding behind women and children, and Clinton refused to give the go ahead for an attack that would have taken out this scum bag. I do not consider those women as civilians for an obvious reason.
Obama does not have the cajones of Bill Clinton, let alone the intelligence or the depth of experience that Clinton brought to the Presidency (wow and I did not like Clinton, did I really say this?). The fact is that on the international scene Obama is out of his depth. He has made concessions that make him the laughing stock of the world. How stupid could the Obama administration be in their approach with Russia, to make an unilateral concession like that.
To criticize Obama the clown is not to show hate. In fact those who claim that anyone who does criticize this clown hates him, is the one who is projecting some inner feeling. I read a lot of blogs and comments. I do not see any hate, but I do see concern for one’s own country from those who are conservative. What I do observe is a whole lot of hatred from those who voted for Obama the clown towards conservatives. Also, I find that the only ones who bring up race at all are those on the left, the same smug, self-satisfied elitist individuals who think that they know better than anyone else to the point that they think that a pat on the head should be sufficient for the opposition.
I am serious, the most hateful and vitriolic posts that I have read in the comments on most blogs are written by liberal leftards.
So, as far as whining is concerned, I think that William should stop with the projection and if he does not like that people who are conservative want to have a say, then he can go back to the DNC and ask them to assign him to a left wing blog instead.
Comment by straightAussie — October 15, 2009 @ 6:11 am - October 15, 2009