The heroes of the modern day liberal mindset: Janeane Garofalo, Keith Olbermann, and Perez Hilton. In the name of tolerance, they are as intolerant as the universe is big.
Remember how liberals fallaciously attributed a quote to Thomas Jefferson that “Dissent is the highest form of patriotism” to provide themselves a slick teflon media cover for attacking our troops and the war they were trying to win? Mark Steyn revealed the liberal deception and the media propaganda on that issue in his piece, “America’s hardboiled newsmen can’t get enough of the Thomas Jefferbunk.” Somehow all those “wise seekers of truth” that ostensibly fill the ranks of the media weren’t able to uncover the blatant historical falsehood that one liberal after another cited. “Truth” only matters when it hurts Republicans.
Democrats got us into World War I, and Republicans supported them. Democrats got us into World War II, and Republicans supported them. Democrats got us into Korea, and Republicans supported them. Democrats got us into Vietnam, and Republicans supported them. It is long-standing tradition to support a nation and its leaders in time of war. And, so, yeah, Republicans were rather bitter when Democrats – given that 29 of 50 Democrat Senators voted FOR the Iraq War; and given the many statements they had made in support of the need to confront and remove Saddam Hussein (see also here and here) – literally proclaimed defeat, pronounced our innocent soldiers as war criminals and cold-blooded murderers, and labeled Bush a liar and a war criminal.
“Highest form of patriotism”? Is THAT what the “highest form of patriotism” looks like? Do ya think? If Abraham Lincoln (a Republican, by the way) had been president instead of Bush, he would have thrown these rat bastards in jail for their vile undermining of a war while our troops were fighting and dying to win it.
Republicans expected bi-partisanship and support in dealing with a threat that both Republicans and Democrats had repeatedly recognized after the worst terrorist attack in history; what they got was unrelenting political backstabbing and demonization. And all in the name of “patriotism.” And how DARE we question them?
Well, liberals NEW butchery of history and truth is, “Dissent WAS the highest form of patriotism.” Now it’s suddenly become the lowest form of treason.
Rather than going to the lowest low of attempting to undermine a commander-in-chief and a military in time of war – a war which they had demonstrably supported when it suited them – conservatives today are decrying the fact that we are spending ourselves into a future financial catastrophe that will dwarf anything we’ve ever seen unless we STOP.
WASHINGTON – The federal government and the Federal Reserve have committed $12.8 trillion in spending so far to bailouts and “stimulus” packages – an amount nearly equal to the value of everything produced in the U.S. in 2008.
That’s the report from Bloomberg News about efforts to reduce the economic drag of a debt-based recession – the worst financial crisis to hit the U.S. since the Great Depression.
The numbers are growing so fast, it’s tough for most Americans to grasp.
Were the Tea Parties a politically-motivated hatchet job, as liberals and their lackeys in the media kept reporting? In a word, no. The liberals making this claim offered two contradictory straw men. They claimed that 1) the Tea Parties were a Republican- and Fox News-organized event even as 2) they refused to listen to the statements of those whom they claimed were behind the event.
As an example, when demonstrators confronted CNN’s Susan Roesgen for her biased reporting and presentation of the Chicago Tea Party event as an attempt to attack Barack Obama, a woman pointed just a couple of feet away and asked, “Did you look at his sign?”
You can see the woman’s finger pointing at the sign (at 4:02 into the video), and the head in the bottom right of the frame is Susan Roesgen’s. And even when she was FORCED to look at the sign, Roesgen didn’t acknowledge it; it simply didn’t conform to the liberal narrative, and therefore had to be ignored.
Another video from the Greenville Tea Party shows Tea Party protestors roundly booing Republican Congressman Gresham Barrett, who had voted for the first stimulus under George Bush. A comment left on the video by “Liberty4Ever” summed it up:
I guess Barrett didn’t get the message that the TEA Parties are non-partisan events, and weasels who vote for wasteful Big Government “stimulus” and socialist bailouts. He probably knows not to speak at another of these events. There will probably be tar and feathers waiting for him!
So the unrelenting portrayal by the liberal media machine that these were “rightwing” or “conservative” or “Republican” or “Fox News” events is simply propaganda and demagoguery out to marginalize a massive outpouring of popular – and bipartisan – sentiment.
And they weren’t merely mischaracterizing the Tea Parties and disingenuously creating a straw man in an attempt to marginalize them. They were downright hateful and evil.
Failed AirAmerica radio host Janeane Garofalo was allowed to appear on MSNBC‘s Countdown and say:
This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up. That is nothing but a bunch of teabagging rednecks. And there is no way around that. And you know, you can tell these type of right wingers anything and they’ll believe it, except the truth. You tell them the truth and they become — it’s like showing Frankenstein’s monster fire. They become confused, and angry and highly volatile. That guy, causing them feelings they don’t know, because their limbic brain, we’ve discussed this before, the limbic brain inside a right-winger or Republican or conservative or your average white power activist, the limbic brain is much larger in their head space than in a reasonable person, and it’s pushing against the frontal lobe. So their synapses are misfiring. Is Bernie Goldberg listening?
It would have been bad enough if Garofalo were just some blogger spewing her hate; but she is high-profile member of the liberal establishment in good standing appearing on a major news program to offer her commentary. And just what could she have said about the Tea Party participants that could have been any more hateful?
Keith Olbermann was merely one among many “journalists” who repeatedly characterized the Tea Party participants with the crudest sexual innuendo and insults. He said, “Well, the teabagging is all over, except for the cleanup. And that will be my last intentional double entendre on this one at least until the end of this segment.” But then – vicious liar that he is – Olbermann couldn’t help himself, and said, “Congratulations, Pensacola teabaggers. You got spunked. And despite the hatred on display, a few of you actually violated the penal code. But teabagging is now petered out, taint what it used to be.”
After all the crude, vicious, and hateful sexual innuendo, Olbermann actually had the gall to say of the Tea Party protesters, “And then there were the protest messages, seething with hate.”
“Seething with hate” means no riots. “Seething with hate” means no violence. “Seething with hate” means one or two demonstrators got tickets for jaywalking. Gregg Gutfeld had a humorous piece featuring hateful video from LEFTIST protesters, and said, “Oh, sorry. Wrong tape.” He pointed out:
Yep, those look like real extremists. Actually, they look like people who own riding mowers.
Fact is, I could find only one arrest among the hundreds of demonstrations that took place across the country. Sure, I didn’t look too hard — but still: Why is that not the story of the day?
I mean, not one person threw a chair through a store window. But that’s probably because that person owns the chair or the store or it could be a chair store.
I’ll tell you why the nonviolence wasn’t the story of the day: because it doesn’t conform to the liberal narrative. “Seething with hate” works better for them. Whether it’s true or not frankly doesn’t matter in this “brave new journalism.”
The hatred, anger, fear, and paranoia on the left is obvious: How DARE these people exercise their right to free speech and peaceful assembly to protest the bloated government socialism that we liberals love so much. Why aren’t our SS troops not doing something to STOP them!?!? You have to wonder how their heads don’t explode from trying to contain all the contradictions: On the one hand they trivialize the Tea Parties as being no big deal, while on the other hand they use the most over-the-top and hateful language imaginable to describe them; on the one hand they call conservatives the haters, while on the other hand they can’t help but reveal that it is THEY who are the real haters.
The only people truly “seething with hate” are liberals like Keith Olbermann and Janeane Garofalo. There’s your hate. And all offered from the perspective of “tolerant” liberals loathing the “intolerance” of conservatives.
And, of course, liberals like Perez Hilton. Let’s watch the videos of Hilton and Miss California and decide who is tolerant, and who is a vicious hater.
Poor girl. She might as well have been a Jew with Adolf Hitler or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on the panel.
Miss California presented herself well, and gave voice to a position on gay marriage that was proven to be the one held by the majority of voters in her state. But the left could care less about the will of the people or tolerance or anything but their agenda; which is why they embarked on a hateful campaign to punish the people who didn’t agree with them in the aftermath of the Prop 8 vote.
“Tolerance” for a liberal means crushing, punishing, or intimidating all opposition by any means available. When every voice but their own are silenced, there is “tolerance.”
Let’s just be clear on which side is truly “seething with hate.”
If you really want to find out what “seething with hate” really looks like, why not reflect on the words of Barack Obama’s pastor and spiritual guide for 23 years?
Update April 22:
It occurred to me to wonder how – for all of her racist invective against conservatives – Janeane Garofalo felt about conservative blacks. It didn’t take long to find out:
Youtube link (accessed here).
Garofalo attacks Michael Steele as a black man for being a conservative. It is a racist attack if there ever was one. Michael Steele is the chairman of the Republican National Committee – a powerful and prestigious position – but as far as Garofalo is concerned, she needs to put that negro in his place. And as this psychotic gargoyle is spewing this poison, who’s sitting with her but Keith Olbermann?
If Condoleezza Rice were president, does anyone seriously think this unhinged witch would have supported her? And precisly how does Janeane Garofalo feel toward our only black Supreme Court Justice, Clarence Thomas? Oh, yeah, that’s right: he’s a stupid negro with Stockholm Syndrome, kissing the feet of his massahs.
How dare this racist bigot call me or anyone else a “racist”?
And let me also say a little more about Carrie Prejean, Miss California and the hate that she encountered.
On yesterday’s “Bill O’Reilly” program, Wayne Besen, a founder of a gay rights group and author of a book entitled, “Anything but Straight,” was on the program, and said of Miss California, Carrie Prejean:
WAYNE BESEN, FOUNDER OF GAY RIGHTS GROUP, TRUTH WINS OUT: I think it is fair. When she made those comments, she entered the political arena. And she’s entitled to make those comments. and I applaud her for having the courage to do so. However, when you do that, people are going to be offended. She said no offense, I was offended. Millions of other people were offended.
No! NOT, you bigot!
Gay activist Perez Hilton asked the following question, which as a contestant Miss California had absolutely no choice but to answer:
Perez Hilton: “Vermont recently became the 4th state to legalize same-sex marriage. Do you think every state should follow suit. Why or why not?”
And Carrie Prejean’s answer was as tolerant as one could ever hope for:
Prejean: “Well I think its great that Americans are able to choose one or the other. We live in a land where you can choose same-sex marriage or opposite marriage. And you know what, in my country, in my family, I think that I believe that a marriage should be between a man and a woman. No offense to anybody out there, but that’s how I was raised and that’s how I think it should be between a man and a woman. Thank you very much.”
States have a right to choose, and Prejean is grateful for that. But since she was asked, “Do you think every state should follow suit? Why or why not?” Prejean answered the QUESTION.
And homosexual activists such as Perez Hilton and Wayne Besen, who are Big Brother Stalinists, then proceed to punish and attack her for giving her thoughts on a question that they themselves had demanded she answer, and then attack her for having “entered the political arena” when the only thing she had entered was a beauty pageant. THEY WERE THE ONES WHO DRAGGED THE POLITICAL ARENA INTO THE EVENT, AND THEN ATTACKED HER MERELY FOR EXPRESSING HER PERSONAL VIEW.
Perez Hilton went all over the internet spewing the message:
PEREZ HILTON, MISS USA JUDGE: Let me explain to you, she lost not because she doesn’t believe in gay marriage. Miss California lost because she is a dumb bitch, okay?
These people would punish the majority of Americans (and the majority of the Californians Miss California was representing) merely for having a viewpoint even as they try to use the courts to impose their lifestyle by the judicial fiat of black robed masters.
These people are the haters. And we need to expose them for what they truly are.
Tags: Democrats, dissent, Gresham Barrett, hate, intolerance, Iraq, Janeane Garofalo, Keith Olbermann, Miss California, Obama, Perez Hilton, prop 8, protest, racism, rednecks, Susan Roesgen, tea parties, Tea Party, teabagging, tolerance
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April 21, 2009 at 5:17 am
The mainstream media wouldn’t do it. So we are trying to get your important messages to the American people. 10 This post is a suggested read at, http://aresay.blogspot.com/
April 21, 2009 at 10:35 am
Great documentation of the truth and commentary. I can only hope their increasingly shrill, lying, dismissive voices means we are hitting the mark with what we are doing.
April 21, 2009 at 10:53 am
Thanks, HL.
I think there IS a great deal of fear on the left. They see the Titanic hitting the iceberg, and realize that THEY will get blamed. They have to discredit absolutely EVERYTHING we say, and in order to discredit the truth you have to LIE. You have to change the subject. You have to create straw men. You have to slander and label.
April 21, 2009 at 10:56 am
Garafalo- This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up.
She even affects black phrasing. How cool
Any why do we even care what she thinks? It does nto matter. Nobody watches MSNBC
April 21, 2009 at 11:29 am
I don’t care what she thinks. I’ve never even found her funny or talented.
But I DO care that she is one cog in a massive propaganda machine out to assist the left in implementing a Statist and frankly fascist agenda.
I truly believe that no democracy can long survive a climate of propaganda. When there is an avalanche of lies and ideology, people lose the ability to learn what works and what doesn’t, what is right and what’s wrong. People are voting for terrible candidates and policies because they have been indoctrinated to do so.
As a larger example, Charles Gibson didn’t use Garofalo’s hate, but he spouted the same party line that the Tea Parties were rightwing protests of Obama – which again clearly was intended to marginalize the event and those who attended it.
April 22, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Evan Sayet discusses with great humor and eloquence the “cult of indiscriminitness” in his lecture titled: “Regurgitating the Apple: How Modern Liberals “Think” :
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Here is a brief snippet from the lecture which captures the essence of this issue :
What happens is, they are indoctrinated into what I call a “cult of indiscriminateness.” The way the elite does this is by teaching our children, starting with the very young, that rational and moral thought is an act of bigotry; that no matter how sincerely you may seek to gather the facts, no matter how earnestly you may look at the evidence, no matter how disciplined you may try to be in your reasoning, your conclusion is going to be so tainted by your personal bigotries, by your upbringing, by your religion, by the color of your skin, by the nation of your great-great-great-great-great grandfather’s birth; that no matter what your conclusion, it is useless. It is nothing other than the reflection of your bigotries, and the only way to eliminate bigotry is to eliminate rational thought. There’s a brilliant book out there called The Closing of the American Mind by Professor Allan Bloom. Professor Bloom was trying to figure out in the 1980s why his students were suddenly so stupid, and what he came to was the realization, the recognition, that they’d been raised to believe that indiscriminateness is a moral imperative because its opposite is the evil of having discriminated. I paraphrase this in my own works: “In order to eliminate discrimination, the Modern Liberal has opted to become utterly indiscriminate.”
April 22, 2009 at 2:49 pm
Hey, thanks for posting that. I’ll be sure to go grab my own copy.
The quintessential defining element of the left is hypocrisy. They are racists who constantly charge everyone else with racism; haters who charge everyone else with hating; intolerant bigots who charge everyone else for being “intolerant” for not thinking exactly like they do.
2 Corinthians 4:4
In their case, the god of this world has blinded the minds of those who do not believe to keep them from seeing the light of the glorious gospel of the Messiah, who is the image of God.
April 23, 2009 at 11:13 pm
I don’t understand why Perez Hilton is taken so seriously — he’s a self-proclaimed media clown; he dances around in front of people hoping to get their attention
April 24, 2009 at 12:12 pm
I’d say three things to your legitimate point:
1) You’re speaking as an intelligent rational person; but intelligence and rationality are going out the window.
2) One of the reasons that Hitler was able to rise to power with such a terrible message was that ordinary Germans refused to take him seriously – and therefore didn’t try to oppose him until it was basically too late. Hilton (and I cited some other militant homosexual activist in the article whose name eludes me) want to stifle free speech and impose politically-correct speech. We need to make sure that everyone knows that.
3) We need to take this madness seriously. While Hilton himself is a loon, he certainly has a powerful movement behind him. This is about far more than gay marriage.
April 30, 2009 at 9:51 am
I am new to the site but very happy to actually read intelligent and heartfelt comments. Its nice to know there are actually others that share the same thoughts that I do. I will admit that they are much more eloquently stated than I am apt to write, but I am more of a humorist and always go for a laugh! To that point, after watching the last press conference, and listening to the absoulutely stupid journalistic questions fielded to these staged performances….I decided Obamas legacy will and should be called, “THE ENCHANTED YEARS”. Dictionary meaning of enchanted is:; 1: to influence by or as if by charms and incantation :BEWITCHed….2: to attract and move deeply: rouse to ecstatic admiration to the point of tears…..sounds like Obamas followers doesn’t it? A new Disney movie in the works!!!
April 30, 2009 at 4:50 pm
You didn’t like the New York Times reference to “Barack Obama’s enchanted kingdom” either, MH?
These weren’t so much stupid journalistic questions as BIASED ones. Handpicked people wrote softball questions. Imagine if Bush had used Air Force One to buzz fly Ground Zero while people literally screamed in terror and ran for their lives two days previous. You don’t think he wouldn’t have heard about it in a Q/A press conference?
I blame the media FAR more than rank-and-file liberals, because the former have a responsibility to report the truth and be objective – and they have refused.
I’m glad that there are people like you who see the humor in things. I’m in that “mad-as-hell-and-getting-madder-all-the-time” state.
I actually WANT to calm down and laugh at all the stupidity rather than scream at it, but I’m seeing the country seized by a bunch of totalitarians while the media basks in “the glow” of Obama, which makes me see red.