I don't remember a lot of liberal bias when the press hounded
Clinton or Conduit.
There was lots of liberal bias at that time even if the hounding itself wasn't an example of it. Also I think most Republican presidents would have gotten even worse. Besides I believe I said something in my last post about liberal hating Ashcroft, I wasn't claiming they where this biased about every Republican.
I don't think many people trust Reps. when it comes to human rights.
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When I
hear people like R. Limbaugh, or A. Coulter or P. Buchanan or Falwell rant, my immediate reaction is that these people don't have a clue as to what democracy means......
I think your wrong about them, also I don't think they are typical of Republicans. I can't think of too many things from any of those four that would be against human rights or against democracy. Falwell has said some crazy things but he is not exactly popular even among Republicans. Buchanan isn't a Republican any more. Coulter and Limbaugh are perhaps better examples but plenty of Democratic politicians say things as odd as some of the things they say. Liberal pundits and interest groups go further. I think your gut reaction is based more on not likeing certain outspoken conservatives and their ideas rather then an actual analysis of what they say and a comparison to the likes of Jesse Jackson, Ted Kennedy, Al Sharpton, Mary France Berry, even some of things that Al Gore has said or written. And since you where including conservative columnists or radio personalities I could easily point out quotes like
"I hope his wife feeds him lots of eggs and butter and he dies early...of heart disease...He is an absolutely reprehensible person."
-Julianne Malveaux, USA Today Columnist, on Justice Clarence Thomas
Julien Bond, chairman of the NAACP: Bush "selected nominees from the Taliban wing of American politics, appeased the wretched appetites of the extreme right wing, and chose cabinet officials whose devotion to the
confederacy is nearly canine in its uncritical affection."
"If there is...justice, he'll get AIDS, or one of his grandchildren will get it."
-NPR radio's Nina Totenberg, on Jesse Helms
"It's a symbol of terrorism and death and fear and destruction and repression."
-- Jennie Traschen University of Massachusetts physics professor.. regarding the
American flag
"We are literally in a war with energy companies."
-- Gray Davis
"So I think we need to be very suspicious of any kind of partnerships between
the Jews at that kind of level because we know that their interest primarily has to
do with money and these kind of things."
-- Mr. Lee Alcorn, President of the Dallas chapter of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of
Liberal Colored People), on AlGore's choice of Lieberman as his running mate, August 2000.
"Christianity is a religion for losers."
-- Ted Turner, CNN Founder and President, to the Dallas Morning News, 1989.
"I'll have those ni**ers voting Democratic for the next 200 years."
-- Lyndon B. Johnson, former Democratic president and congressman, according to "You Don't Say" by Fred Gielow, pg 33-34.
"I mean the only thing that could explain this love of tax cuts is a lowered IQ."
-- Margaret Carlson, of Time magazine, on CNN's "Capital Gang", 7/24/99
"We reject the idea of private property."
-- Peter Berle, President of the National Audubon Society
"Killing a disabled infant is not morally equivalent to killing a person. Very often it is not wrong at all."
-- Peter Singer
I listen to Rush occationally. He doesn't sound nearly as threatening as most of the people listed or quoted above. Ann Coulter has said some pretty extreme things recently but not as bad as many of the quotes in this post.
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