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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (24835)	1/17/2008 10:55:03 AM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 71588

The way I see it, left wing hate mongers apply their ire liberally as suggested in the article, whereas right wing mongers at least have some principle attached to their targets. Another analogy is Shotgun vs. Rifle. No better example can be held than the hatred applied to GWB and Hillary. Here's another example, that I just stumbled on after writing the above, and insert herewith: Rush Limbaugh’s detractors never learn. They’ve tried everything to come between Rush and his more than 20 million listeners, intending to destroy his appeal and impact. But it’s a hopeless, almost laughable endeavor. They led boycotts against his advertisers -- yet his show continues to generate more revenue than any other on radio. They pressured his affiliates to drop his program, but he’s still heard on more than 600 stations -- more than any other talk host. They tried to keep him off Armed Forces Radio, of course, but he has the most popular program on the military’s radio network. Do you see anybody boycotting that pin-striped moron Keith Olberwho on MSNBS? He wrote a book called "The 100 Worst People In the World." I looked at it long enough to see pictures of Limbaugh and GWB on the cover. Talk about hate mongering. I simply ignore it.

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (24835)	1/20/2008 12:40:48 AM
From: TimF	Respond to of 71588

Worstall on Bureaucratic Actions Don Boudreaux Here's a letter that I sent yesterday to the Wall Street Journal: Arthur Brooks reports on research showing that "political intolerance in America ... is to be found more on the left than it is on the right" ("Liberal Hatemongers," January 17). I'm not surprised. "The right," after all, includes many persons who are liberal in the original sense. These persons distrust centralized power and celebrate markets and free trade as liberating humankind from poverty, tyranny, and superstition. True liberals do not fancy themselves fit to tell others what to ingest, what not to smoke, what merchants to patronize, what insurance to buy, or otherwise how to live. True liberals understand that society is indescribably complex and that our knowledge is always tentative. In contrast, too many of today's "liberals" - overestimating their own intelligence and underestimating both the intelligence of others and the dangers of government power - egotistically yearn to remake society according to their own images. Sincerely, Donald J. Boudreaux Lending evidence to the hypothesis that today's so-called "liberals" overestimate their own intelligence, the insightful Tim Worstall over at the Globalization Institute's site has this important post on -- oh my! -- a big bureaucratic blunder. Turns out that government bureaucrats are human after all. cafehayek.typepad.com