HATEMONGER, can it really be called pandering when 98% of the Democrat party has the same juvenile attitude?
Democrats Pander to Left-wing hatemongers: Will it backfire?
cuttyscorner.com
July 26, 2007
Elizabeth Edwards blogs on their websites. Harry Reid holds teleconferences with them regularly. All the major Democrats running for president are slated to attend a major left-wing gathering, and now Hillary Clinton is defending them against big, bad Bill O’Reilly.
I’m referring to the left wing hate-mongers who make up the so-called “nut roots.” They post diaries and vile comments at the Daily Kos, Democratic Underground, the Huffington Post, Moveon.org, etc. These tolerant good people (yes I’m being sarcastic) routinely call President Bush “Hitler” or “even worse than Hitler,” openly wish that terrorists had killed Vice President Cheney, and express joy that Tony Snow has cancer.
Though they deny it, they are blatantly anti-American. Many of them believe that the U.S. deserved to be attacked by the 911 terrorists, contend we had no reason to invade Iraq and topple Saddam Hussein, and even sympathize with the terrorists, who kill women and children and behead hostages. In their opinion, Islamic jihadists are nothing more than poor, persecuted and downtrodden people who are fighting for what they believe, and who will stop attacking us if we just leave Iraq. Never mind that their leaders openly say they want to impose Islamic fundamentalism on the rest of the world and kill those who won’t convert.
For the past several days, Fox News Channel’s Bill O’Reilly has reported about Jet Blue's sponsorship of the upcoming YearlyKos convention. He questioned the propriety of a major corporation virtually endorsing an organization that is strongly partisan and regularly publishes obscenities and hate speech. Jet Blue withdrew its sponsorship, and the lefties howled, especially when he compared them to neo-Nazis and the KKK in their use of hate speech. To O’Reilly, Democrat presidential hopefuls attending the YearlyKos would be comparable to Republicans going to a David Duke gathering.
That prompted Hillary Clinton’s campaign website to run an online petition urging O’Reilly to “stop smearing grassroots progressives." Now that's a warm and fuzzy way to refer to people who routinely spew obscenties and death wishes to their political enemies. O'Reilly recently interviewed Hillary's Campaign Communications Director Harold Wolfson and confronted him with a number of DailyKos posts blasting Hillary. Wolfson accused O'Reilly of "cherry picking." Yeah, right. It's not hard to find thse cherries when the DailyKos orchard is full of them. Which leads to the obvious question: does Hillary actually believe she can draw support from a group that considers her to be just as evil as “BushHitler?"
I have several good friends who are moderate to liberal Democrats, and all of them are repulsed by the despicable ramblings of the loony left. One friend told me it wasn’t fair to use the DailyKos or Huffington Post as examples of liberal hate speech because they represent a very small minority of the Democratic Party.
Well, if that’s the case, why do his party’s leaders pander to them?
The answer is simple… the left-wing net roots have the money and manpower (or is it “personpower”) that candidates crave. Even though Hillary and the other Democrat hopefuls don’t agree with many of their positions, they’re hoping enough of them can be co-opted into supporting them during the primary season.
I believe the Democrats are playing a dangerous game. Hillary and the others are banking on voters’ short memories, hoping that we won’t remember in November 2008 what they’re saying and doing now to woo the Kos and Huffington crowd.
But with a 24 hour news cycle on cable television and the web, it can come back to haunt them. And I just can’t believe that conservative advocacy groups and Republican candidates won’t use quotes and footage from the DailyKos convention in commercials and direct mail.
One final note: Republican candidates and officials are often blasted in the mainstream media when they meet with Pat Robertson or speak at conservative universities such as Bob Jones or Liberty. But I haven’t heard a peep of criticism from that same media about Democrats attending the Daily Kos convention, where true hate speech is the order of the day.
Maybe I just don’t watch the right programs or read the right blogs or newspapers. But then again, maybe what Rush Limbaugh calls the “drive-by media” is actually biased. As my eleven-year old niece likes to say "Ya think?"< |
