Glenn Greenwald has responded via his regular Salon feature (8/6/09, ad-viewing required) to Rush Limbaugh, “speaking to his audience of 15 million, compar[ing] Barack Obama to Adolph Hitler and Nancy Pelosi to Nazi leaders,” by asking you to instead
compare (a) the way that a single anonymous person’s comparison of Bush and Hitler swamped our political discourse and forever altered the image of MoveOn with (b) what the (non)-reaction will be to the identical comparison coming from the leader of the Republican Party who spouts his hate-mongering to an audience of 15 million people. Within that comparison one finds many central truths about how our political debates and media discussions function.
Looking beyond how corporate media pilloried Democratic activist group MoveOn over user-submitted (and never-published) video, Greenwald gives a maddeningly extensive history of corporate media compliance with right-wingers’ Nazi smears, and simultaneous reprobation of even spurious such instances from the left.
See the FAIR Action Alert: “When Are Nazi Comparisons Deplorable?: For Fox News, Only When Republicans Are the Target” (1/16/04).
It never ceases to amaze me how hateful and angry the liberals always seem to be. I would have thought they would have gotten happier after getting one of their own elected, but they seen to be even more ticked off now. If you say somthing about Obama’s birth certificate, they get angry and call you an idiot. No discussion, just straight to the nasty labels. If you mention Limbaugh, they get mad and yell “he’s fat, really fat!!!” Then they say that everyone who listens to him is an inbred hillbilly with downs syndrome or somthing. If you really want to piss off a liberal, just mention Sarah Palin. All you have to do is say the name and they clench their jaws and fists, stiffen up and begin breathing heavily through their nose.
This level of hatred and anger must be indicitive of somthing. Is the left privatly aware of some flaws in the liberal ideology and try to cover it with vitriole? Does the liberal side just attract a–holes? What is the deal? Inquiring minds want to know.
Dear Inquiring minds want to know ;
From my perspective it’s not liberals that are angry , but Conservatives. If liberals do appear angry to you , it might be that many of them are not too happy with Obama because he is not a liberal or a progressive. Hence , he is not really one of their own. He is , at best , a center-right Democrat. He’s basically done everything Bush did in terms of foreign policy : he’s prolonged the war in Afghanistan , now the U.S. is back in Iraq ; he’s carried on the Bush legacy of NSA spying on the American people ; he’s carried out more drone strikes than the Bush administration. He’s far more aggressive in his foreign policy , and Conservatives still complain that he’s too weak in that area , and is too soft on terrorism. Go figure.
Those who give validity to the notion that his BC was forged , that he is not qualified to be president , are indeed idiots. There is no other way to respond to that. He was a state Senator , he taught Constitutional law. If these don’t qualify him , what does?
Speaking of Limbaugh , he too is an idiot. I couldn’t care less how fat he is. What I care about , is that he’s a partisan hack for the Republican Party , and seldom tells the truth. in his mind , Republicans and Conservatives are always right , and liberals and Democrats are always wrong.
Mentioning Sarah Palin doesn’t bother me in the least. She’s not bright enough to anger a liberal.
There are no flaws when it comes to Liberalism. Look up the word liberal. It’s not what you’ve been led to believe it means.
If you believe all the anger and hatred is coming from liberals , go back to the previous two elections. Visit any Conservative blog and read the comment sections. The hate and anger and outright racism directed toward the current president is so much more worse than anything the last president had to put up with. This is where most of the a**holes can be found.