Isn't Michelle the woman who advocates internment camps?
Now that's idea... as a liberal, I think I'll mosey on down and volunteer to be locked up for the good of the nation.
And all that stuff you said about working hard, keeping my money, and stuff. It applies to me too.
Did you even read her book? Anyway, my post isn't about internment camps, it is about the vitriolic slime that comes through in the posts of some anti-conservatives. Unless you sent Michelle Malkin an email stating that you think she is a whore, then you are not included in my comments. Don't get me wrong, the hate comes from both sides, it takes a special breed. But, when it comes from a liberal it makes me snicker because they profess to be tolerant of the lives of others.
The title of your post reads, "Liberal Hate and Rhetoric." In English, that means the letters are representative examples of the rhetoric of liberals. You didn't say loony. You said liberal. You and Ms Malkin both got some nerve implying that hate mail represents 48% of America.
And where do any of the hate mail authors even profess to be liberals? Is a person liberal by virtue of saying f*** the GOP? Seems to me that a "liberal" is simply defined these days as, "Anyone we don't like." I am constantly surprised how Republicans are defining and re-defining (in horrible slanderous ways) my friends, my neighbors, and me.
To answer your question, I did not read her book. I saw the title and merely assumed that it was some sort of defense of the practice of internment camps.
Apparently we both did some assuming with regard to my post. I don't define "liberal as anyone I don't like" In fact, I have very close, very liberal friends, who don't resort to name-calling (too much, anyway) on the whole, however, I have heard them say horrendous things about the president, things that would rate as hate in my book. I have also watched lib. pundits on tv and here in the blogsphere spewing slightly tamer but still hateful words about our side of the aisle. So to that end, yes, I am saying that some of the mail Michelle Malkin received is representative of your side of the aisle, representative but not all inclusive. Now, if you read my post, as you certainly did, you will see that I have been subjected to this kind of attack, from liberals! Persons who were colleagues and at one point friends because I think different than them. They were not loony, just liberal, but hateful all the same. I welcome a diversity of ideas, in fact, I relish it, but my blog
I've heard voiced on the right say horrendous things about the president in the 1990s, things that would rate as hate in anyone's book. Recently Nazi references from the right have come back in vogue. Mainstream Senators have compared Democrat policies to Nazi policies.
So should I draw the same conclusions?
There are plenty of right-wing blogs that advocate "Open season on liberals." So by your logic, that represents your side.
Also, you can stop with this canard that we disagree with people simply because we don't like them. I don't know you, so how can I like you or not? But I disagree with you. It seems to me incredibly simple minded... or just good strategy... to paint anyone who disagrees as a hater. Oh, we don't have a gazillion reasons we articulated already to oppose Bush, we just don't like him. Yeah, that's some intellectual dishonesty to be proud of.
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