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The Right's Hate Site Hypocrisy

Posted by Guest Blogger at 4:39 AM on August 2, 2007.


Phoenix Woman: Conservatives' attacks on progressive blogs are part of a larger pattern of moral hypocrisy that the Republican Party has been wallowing in for over a decade.
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This post, written by Phoenix Woman, originally appeared on FireDogLake

The nameless fellow(s?) and good friend of Michelle Malkin's behind the right-wing blog aggregator Volunteer Opinion Journal thinks he's caught us all being naughty. Pretty mild stuff, compared to what his comrades were and are saying about Scott Thomas Beauchamp (for more, go here and here), but hey, you work with the "hate speech" you have, not the hate speech you wish you had -- such as what regularly issues from the posts and comments over at Michelle Malkin's shop.

These people are the Republican base, and as TRex points out, this is precisely why the Republicans don't dare do a YouTube debate in which their base has any sort of say: It would hand the presidential election to the Democrats the same way that Pat Buchanan's Republican-pleasing froth-at-the-mouth speech at the 1992 Republican National Convention guaranteed that Bill Clinton would be our next president.

Of course, what our nameless commentator doesn't mention is that the vast majority of non-righty bloggers and commenters talking about Roberts' seizure, such as Digby and our own Pachacutec in my respectful post on the subject, urged our readers to play nice with regard to Roberts. I've gone poking about the VOJ looking for his thoughts on Scott Thomas Beauchamp, and I've yet to see him -- or any other right-wing blogger or radio host, with the sole honorable exception of John Cole (for which he got flamed, repeatedly, by other righty bloggers and their readers) -- tell his fan base and other conservative personalities to play nice where Beauchamp is concerned. (I've also yet to see Mister VOJ, or any other conservative commentator of any sort, condemn Michael Savage for trying to blame John Roberts' health problems on a Democratic conspiracy.)

Once again, the wingnutosphere's accusing non-wingers of bad behavior is like Hitler accusing Churchill of war crimes. Or Hot Tub Tom DeLay condemning Bill Clinton's morality. Or Republican Newt Gingrich hounding his Democratic predecessor out of the Speaker's job and the House over a $50,000 book deal even as he himself was making a $4 million book deal with Rupert Murdoch in exchange for the legislation that made FOX News possible. Posted in

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The most amusing thing i read is ann coulters crap and reader comments . . .
Posted by: KaptainSpiffy on Aug 2, 2007 6:53 AM   
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. . . a regular green-apple-splatter bunch of republican butt polyps dead set against anything that isn't hateful, small-minded or congratulatory.

*where all think alike, none think much* . . . .

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far right anger
Posted by: PaulMauriceMartin on Aug 2, 2007 7:03 AM   
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It is an interesting phenomenon, and one I've noticed over the last few years of blogging in the religion/spirituality area. I think it's fair to say that there's a conspicuous streak of anger running through far right religion. Seems like it would be worth looking at what the source of that is, but my impression is that this isn't something that those who are characteristically angry tend to do.

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Kos (DailyKos) Essay Opposes Gays in Military
Posted by: francislholland on Aug 2, 2007 7:04 AM   
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Markos Moulitsas (DailyKos) Opposed Gays in the Military

In the run-up to the YearlyKos annual gathering at which the Democratic candidates will be speaking, they're having a furious debate at DailyKos over a 1993 essay in which Markos Moulitsas said, "the demands and pressures of military life are incompatible with allowing integration with homosexuals."

I wonder how "progressive" Markos Moulitsas is going to explain this 1993 essay?

The Truth About Kos Blog

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Why would anyone want a YouTube debate
Posted by: bestofthebest on Aug 2, 2007 7:09 AM   
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After watching the YouTube debate I was reminded of a line of circus seals performing for the audience. How could candidates for the office of President of the United States, stand there and be a part of talking socks made to look like a snowman and a cute little ditty performed by a guy who wants a parking ticket pardoned.

What a joke.

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I seem to remember...
Posted by: indradawn on Aug 2, 2007 9:08 AM   
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...after reading a few articles pointing to fascism here in the U.S., the right suddenly coined the term "Islamofascist." What a great way for them to confuse those who don't understand what fascism truly is, deflecting the term away from themselves. They know what they are.

The irony, as well as the hypocrisy, is staggering.

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Michelle Malkin
Posted by: bettyn on Aug 2, 2007 9:18 AM   
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our own Imelda Marcos!

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The Right's Attack on the Blogoshpere...
Posted by: David V on Aug 2, 2007 1:45 PM   
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...is nothing but a thinly-veiled smear campaign which lashes out in a vain attempt to discredit and vilify normal, everyday Americans who happen to be organizing and communicating on behalf of the Democratic Party.

Their rationale? Simple. Painting each and every left-of-center organization as "extremist" and "hate-filled" makes it less likely for Americans to want to participate in these organizations out of fear of being thought of as "different".

Folks, this is the SAME TACTIC used by the right to turn the word "liberal" into a pejorative back in the 1990's. It is a simple, yet effective, propaganda technique called negative association.

It doesn't matter if the heart of the group is your local church or even a nursing home - if mainstream Americans are meeting and organizing on behalf of ANY party other than the GOP, they WILL be attacked and vilified by the GOP-controlled mainstream media.

Fight back. Never stop fighting back.

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