There is an overwhelming trend in the media and among liberal activist groups today to accuse all conservatives, no matter the issue, of “hate-speech,” “inciteful rhetoric,” and “racial insensitivity.” It has become the knee-jerk, go-to response to any position conservatives take on an issue when the opposition is devoid of a legitimate response. It is the modern day version of angst-ridden liberal name calling that was popular in the previous two decades. And it still rings hollow with most Americans who have recently shown significant political disapproval of the intellectually dishonest liberal elitists.
In the 1980’s, popular liberal derogatory grandiloquence regarding the Reagan tax cuts dubbed the president’s economic policy as “Reaganomics.” Clearly, the term was not used in an endearing manner. During George W. Bush’s presidency, terms like “Bush-Hitler” meant “his thugs and their brown-shirt tactics are the real terrorists” and “MIHOP” referring to the attacks on New York City and Washington DC on September 11, 2001 as he [President Bush] “Made It Happen On Purpose.” None of these criticisms of or responses to Republican policies or actions was ever met with opposition or accusations of disparaging racial, social, or economic epithets from the liberal media. In fact, they were largely promoted.
Since the tragic events surrounding the attempted assassination of US Representative Gabriella Giffords, the mass media in the US has been awash with accusations of conservative inciteful speechifying as a direct cause of the shooting. Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik was at the forefront of the accusations, holding press conferences early and often condemning conservative policies and actions, especially in his native Arizona and obviously directed at Governor Jan Brewer and immigration law SB 1070:
“When you look at unbalanced people, how they respond to the vitriol that comes out of certain mouths about tearing down the government. The anger, the hatred, the bigotry that goes on in this country is getting to be outrageous. And unfortunately, Arizona I think has become the capital. We have become the mecca for prejudice and bigotry.” (January 8, 2011)
The Sheriff’s words did not fall on deaf ears. They fell equally on ears belonging to the morally and intellectually dishonest members of the liberal media entourage, but also on conservatives who discerned the true implications, soundly rejected the accusations levied by the progressive’s latest rock star media darling and returned fire [oops, bad allusion, sorry] with calls for the Sheriff’s immediate resignation. The liberals applauded the Sheriff’s courage and animosity toward the Arizona law, conservative talk radio and other typical liberal media talking points. Conservatives, including local talk radio host Jon Justice, shed light on Dupnik’s comments, which were ludicrous and irresponsible, at best:
“We have no idea at this point the motivation of this murderer’s act. Yet Dupnik took his moment in the spotlight to drive a political wedge into the event. They were reckless and dangerous statements made by someone who should have known better. He should have been using his time to help bring the community together. Instead his statements made Tucson appear to be a city full hate, bigotry and vitriol.” (email, January 8, 2011)
Chris Matthews, another liberal talking head who regularly espouses contempt language fanatically critical of conservative political writers, bloggers and many other conservatives, had this comparison of the Republican party and the Communist Cambodian government called the Khmer Rouge in the late 70’s, who single handedly murdered over 1.5 million Cambodians over a period of just four years:
"What’s going on out there in the Republican Party is kind of a frightening, almost Cambodia re-education camp going on in that party, where they’re going around to people, sort of switching their minds around saying, if you’re not far right, you’re not right enough.” (February 3, 2011)
We have yet to find any legitimate hateful rhetoric from credible conservative authors, bloggers, politicians, and/or talk radio personalities. We have found scores of completely dishonest accusations from politicians like Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi and left-wing illegitimate critics like movie director Michael Moore. Racism, bigotry, hate-speech, violence-inspiring, war mongering, genocidal… all the above have been attributed to just about every well-known conservative media type from Rush Limbaugh to Michelle Malkin.
The progressive liberal mantra is distinct. The playbook only has one play. Lie, lie, and lie. It really doesn’t matter if you falsely propagandize, because those that listen don’t often care that you are lying and most will nearly automatically chalk you up as a leftist loony or completely dismiss your rhetoric as nothing but preposterous gobbledygook. And in today's media, once you say it long enought without a challenge, it is accepted. Liberal treachery-mongers will almost never have to answer to their statements, no matter the depth of the dishonesty or lack of credible sources. It is extreme irresponsibility and thoughtless deceit with little to no legitimate consequence. Unless you are Keith Olbermann, who began spiraling out of control with this statement on August 25, 2009, which eventually lead to his dismissal last month:
“I hate to intrude with the facts but ours is the highest rated cable news program viewers 35 and younger and the highest rated cable news program for all viewers not on Fixed News. And since Fixed News has since now migrated completely over to serving propaganda to tin foil hatters, conspiracy theorists, paranoids and racists it is not a news organization making this show the highest rated cable news program, period.” (“Fixed News” is a derogatory reference to Fox News)
So the “facts” are, as Mr. Olbermann puts it, in his opinion (now fact, not opinion) since (1) MSNBC’s Countdown (Olbermann’s former show on his former network) is the highest rated cable news program by viewers not watching Fox News, (2) Fox News caters to racists and conspiracy theorists, (3) Fox News is no longer a credible news source, (4) Nielsen should not consider Fox News a cable news outlet, therefore, Countdown is the highest rated cable news program in the US, period. If someone can follow that logic, please email the author of this blog and explain, because we are lost.
Obviously, the progressive liberals will be the first to call the conservatives a group of neophytes that would oppress the people of America through gigantic socialist health care systems, crumble our society’s morality by supporting the murder of unborn babies, insisting upon massive tax increases at a time where the economy needs real tax breaks for stimuli, printing money and buying our debt back from foreign nations further weakening the dollar and lastly, creating a giant political and socially acceptable industry, corrupted by debauchery science and malfeasant government regulation, specious penalties and fees with utterly morose outcomes for thousands of core industries who employ millions of Americans, at the same time repaying hundreds of millions of special interest dollars in the process. It’s too bad we are way too busy forging headwear out of tin foil, plotting genocidal schemes and forming massive brown-shirt militias.
The current liberal dogma leads to one fantastic conclusion: the extent of liberal hypocrisy in endless. They continue with their deceptive accusations, lies, dishonest overtones and fabricated twaddle all the while accusing the conservatives of the same. The beat of the liberal rhetoric drum is loud and inestimable. However, it is also clear that the beating of this pomposity drum is much like a tree falling in the forest. The vast majority of the public just aren’t in the forest when the tree falls. Those that are present in the forest most certainly have their arms firmly wrapped around similar woody plants of apical dominance and are likely to be contemplating the nature and effect of greenhouse gasses on the world production of patchouli oils.
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