Because the current administration and MSM is largely left wing, the reality of left wing hate speech is completely ignored. Here are some examples. I'm sure you can find more. Unfortunately, the currently accepted version of what constitutes hate speech is any view wanting less government, anything that protests any of the extreme policies of obama and company, and any political speech the left doesn't agree with - is assumed to be inherently violent.
“Punish our enemies.” - Barack Obama
Obama talk of "kicking ass" and demonizing BP oil has led to a backlash from Great Britain, home country of the oil giant, while the rhetoric has also led to violence against BP facilities.
“break the conservative movement’s backs” “decimate their ranks” – Marko Moulitsas Zúñiga
Maher: You could have went to New Hampshire and killed two birds with one stone.
Kerry: Or, I could have gone to 1600 Pennsylvania and killed the real bird with one stone.
Craig Kilborn on CBS’s The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn ran a graphic of the words “SNIPERS WANTED” under George Bush as he gave his acceptance speech.
Nobel Peace prize Laureate Betty Williams: “I have a very hard time with this word ‘non-violence,’ because I don’t believe that I am non-violent…. Right now, I would love to kill George Bush….
NORMAN LEBOON, a regular Huffpo poster and Obama supporter, made the following statements: "My Congressman Eric Cantor, and you and your cupcake evil wife..." "Remember Eric...our judgment time, the final Yom Kippur has been given. You are a liar, you're a Lucifer, you're a pig, a greedy f*cking pig, you're an abomination, you receive my bullets in your office, remember they will be placed in your heads. You and your children are Lucifer's abominations."
U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson has compared Republicans to "Nazis," likened Dick Cheney to a vampire, and stated that Rush Limbaugh was "more lucid when he was a drug addict." He topped this off with his infamous 'taliban Dan' ads.
After Brown discusses his frustration with Whitman potentially cutting a deal for several seconds, another voice appears to interject saying, "What about saying that she's a whore?" "Well I'm going to use that," Brown replies.
MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann spews over-the-top, hateful rhetoric in his “Special Comments” on a regular basis. He has said that the Bush administration threatens America with a “new type of fascism,” referred to the GOP as the “leading terrorist group in this country” on the fifth anniversary of 9/11, and has said that Fox News is “worse than Al Qaeda” and “as dangerous as the Ku Klux Klan ever was.”
Keith Olbermann spewed bile at conservative commentator Michelle Malkin, accusing her of possessing "fascistic hatred," and comparing her to a "mashed-up bag of meat with lipstick on it." And let's not forget his vitriol agains Carrie Prejean for speaking her views.
Maddow viewer comments posted on her show: "Be careful what you wish for - the right to bear arms means that everyone can bear arms." "We will be fighting you to the death."
MSNBC comments by Rachel Maddow and Keith Olberman about the continued danger from "war criminals" like former VP Cheney, and explaining to us how someone from the right is "the worst person in the world".
"I want to go up to the closest white person and say: ‘You can’t understand this, it’s a black thing’ and then slap him, just for my mental health" — New York city councilman Charles Barron
"F*** God D*mned Joe the God D*mned Motherf*cking plumber! I want Motherf*cking Joe the plumber dead." — Liberal talk show host Charles Karel Bouley on the air.
Republicans, whose goal in life is to profit from disaster and who don’t give a hoot about human beings, either can’t or won’t. Which is why I personally think they should be exterminated before they cause any more harm." — The Village Voice’s Michael Feingold
"I have zero doubt that if Dick Cheney was not in power, people wouldn’t be dying needlessly tomorrow….I’m just saying if he did die, other people, more people would live. That’s a fact." — Bill Maher
President Bush has been so demonised by the left that some of them even publicly fantasise about murdering him. Checkpoint, a novella by Nicholson Baker and published by Alfred A. Knopf, is one such effort. Not to be outdone, the Guardian published a particularly nasty article by the vindictive Charlie Brooker (Dumb show, 23 October 2004) in which he fantasised about bringing back "John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley" to murder Bush.
"We will take to the streets right now. We will delegitimize [him], discredit him, do whatever it takes, but never accept him." -- Jesse Jackson
Code Pink Co-Founder Jodie Evans. She bore handcuffs and screamed at Rove, “Look what you did, you outted a CIA officer; you liked to take us to war; you totally ruined the country.”
Louis Farrakhan asserted, “The White Right is trying to set Barack Obama up to be assassinated.” and “There are Christians praying for God to kill Barack Obama.” Farrakhan also complained, “Now they got him with a mustache looking like Hitler,” seemingly forgetting that only a few years ago, President Bush was branded as “Hitler” and a “Nazi.” Not surprisingly, this type of language inflames hatred against Christians and whites.
West sings, “I say f*** the police, that’s how I treat ‘em”. He goes on to talk about the presence of crack in black neighborhoods, claiming “a white man get paid off of all of that.” Lyrics like these provoke hatred against white people and law enforcement.
"Regime change! Bush has to go, and we have the power to do it. The officials of the government shall be removed from office for crimes and misdemeanor[.]" -- Ramsey Clark
And a must read article. You have to see the pictures in this one. It really shows the best of those peace loving lefties.
http://www.zombietime.com/zomblog/?p=621
I contend that the media is aggressively reporting on, highlighting and pursuing any and all possible threats to President Obama — and even hints of threats — but they purposely glossed over, ignored or failed to report similar threats to President Bush. Why? I believe it is part of an ideological bias: most mainstream networks and newspapers tried their best during the Bush administration to portray the anti-war movement as mainstream and moderate; whereas now they are trying to portray the anti-tax and anti-health-care-bill protesters as extremists and as fringe kooks. To achieve these goals, they essentially suppressed any mentions of the violent signage (including threats to Bush) at anti-war rallies, but have highlighted anything that could even conceivably be construed as a threat at anti-Obama events.
“Punish our enemies.” - Barack Obama
Obama talk of "kicking ass" and demonizing BP oil has led to a backlash from Great Britain, home country of the oil giant, while the rhetoric has also led to violence against BP facilities.
“break the conservative movement’s backs” “decimate their ranks” – Marko Moulitsas Zúñiga
Maher: You could have went to New Hampshire and killed two birds with one stone.
Kerry: Or, I could have gone to 1600 Pennsylvania and killed the real bird with one stone.
Craig Kilborn on CBS’s The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn ran a graphic of the words “SNIPERS WANTED” under George Bush as he gave his acceptance speech.
Nobel Peace prize Laureate Betty Williams: “I have a very hard time with this word ‘non-violence,’ because I don’t believe that I am non-violent…. Right now, I would love to kill George Bush….
NORMAN LEBOON, a regular Huffpo poster and Obama supporter, made the following statements: "My Congressman Eric Cantor, and you and your cupcake evil wife..." "Remember Eric...our judgment time, the final Yom Kippur has been given. You are a liar, you're a Lucifer, you're a pig, a greedy f*cking pig, you're an abomination, you receive my bullets in your office, remember they will be placed in your heads. You and your children are Lucifer's abominations."
U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson has compared Republicans to "Nazis," likened Dick Cheney to a vampire, and stated that Rush Limbaugh was "more lucid when he was a drug addict." He topped this off with his infamous 'taliban Dan' ads.
After Brown discusses his frustration with Whitman potentially cutting a deal for several seconds, another voice appears to interject saying, "What about saying that she's a whore?" "Well I'm going to use that," Brown replies.
MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann spews over-the-top, hateful rhetoric in his “Special Comments” on a regular basis. He has said that the Bush administration threatens America with a “new type of fascism,” referred to the GOP as the “leading terrorist group in this country” on the fifth anniversary of 9/11, and has said that Fox News is “worse than Al Qaeda” and “as dangerous as the Ku Klux Klan ever was.”
Keith Olbermann spewed bile at conservative commentator Michelle Malkin, accusing her of possessing "fascistic hatred," and comparing her to a "mashed-up bag of meat with lipstick on it." And let's not forget his vitriol agains Carrie Prejean for speaking her views.
Maddow viewer comments posted on her show: "Be careful what you wish for - the right to bear arms means that everyone can bear arms." "We will be fighting you to the death."
MSNBC comments by Rachel Maddow and Keith Olberman about the continued danger from "war criminals" like former VP Cheney, and explaining to us how someone from the right is "the worst person in the world".
"I want to go up to the closest white person and say: ‘You can’t understand this, it’s a black thing’ and then slap him, just for my mental health" — New York city councilman Charles Barron
"F*** God D*mned Joe the God D*mned Motherf*cking plumber! I want Motherf*cking Joe the plumber dead." — Liberal talk show host Charles Karel Bouley on the air.
Republicans, whose goal in life is to profit from disaster and who don’t give a hoot about human beings, either can’t or won’t. Which is why I personally think they should be exterminated before they cause any more harm." — The Village Voice’s Michael Feingold
"I have zero doubt that if Dick Cheney was not in power, people wouldn’t be dying needlessly tomorrow….I’m just saying if he did die, other people, more people would live. That’s a fact." — Bill Maher
President Bush has been so demonised by the left that some of them even publicly fantasise about murdering him. Checkpoint, a novella by Nicholson Baker and published by Alfred A. Knopf, is one such effort. Not to be outdone, the Guardian published a particularly nasty article by the vindictive Charlie Brooker (Dumb show, 23 October 2004) in which he fantasised about bringing back "John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley" to murder Bush.
"We will take to the streets right now. We will delegitimize [him], discredit him, do whatever it takes, but never accept him." -- Jesse Jackson
Code Pink Co-Founder Jodie Evans. She bore handcuffs and screamed at Rove, “Look what you did, you outted a CIA officer; you liked to take us to war; you totally ruined the country.”
Louis Farrakhan asserted, “The White Right is trying to set Barack Obama up to be assassinated.” and “There are Christians praying for God to kill Barack Obama.” Farrakhan also complained, “Now they got him with a mustache looking like Hitler,” seemingly forgetting that only a few years ago, President Bush was branded as “Hitler” and a “Nazi.” Not surprisingly, this type of language inflames hatred against Christians and whites.
West sings, “I say f*** the police, that’s how I treat ‘em”. He goes on to talk about the presence of crack in black neighborhoods, claiming “a white man get paid off of all of that.” Lyrics like these provoke hatred against white people and law enforcement.
"Regime change! Bush has to go, and we have the power to do it. The officials of the government shall be removed from office for crimes and misdemeanor[.]" -- Ramsey Clark
And a must read article. You have to see the pictures in this one. It really shows the best of those peace loving lefties.
http://www.zombietime.com/zomblog/?p=621
I contend that the media is aggressively reporting on, highlighting and pursuing any and all possible threats to President Obama — and even hints of threats — but they purposely glossed over, ignored or failed to report similar threats to President Bush. Why? I believe it is part of an ideological bias: most mainstream networks and newspapers tried their best during the Bush administration to portray the anti-war movement as mainstream and moderate; whereas now they are trying to portray the anti-tax and anti-health-care-bill protesters as extremists and as fringe kooks. To achieve these goals, they essentially suppressed any mentions of the violent signage (including threats to Bush) at anti-war rallies, but have highlighted anything that could even conceivably be construed as a threat at anti-Obama events.
