Comments on: And One Other Bit of Ignorant Hyperbole

By: Shaun P.

Shaun P. — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:09:25 +0000

And I find it refreshing that today’s leaders of the Right, who’s fore-bearers started this name-calling a couple of generations ago (e.g., “pinko commie”, “soft on crime”, and a few others I won’t repeat) have decided to call a stop to the vile invective and start talking about policy.

Oh, wait . . . that hasn’t happened, and it won’t.

You want to score points here? Don’t give me search engine hits that just highlight that there are plenty of idiots all over the political spectrum. Get back to me when Nancy Pelosi goes on Keith Olbermann and calls Sarah Palin a “racist moron”.

For now, I’ll gladly call Palin a moron, because she is. You want to equate that to calling Obama a Communist, go right ahead. I’m just another idiot on the left side of the political spectrum who comments on a blog; no one listens to me or pays attention to what I say.

Glenn Beck and Rush and Hannity and BillO and the rest - that’s another matter. And that worries the living daylights out of me.

By: andrew

andrew — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 17:07:05 +0000

The lack of self awareness on the Left is breathtaking.

By: David in Cal

David in Cal — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 14:49:59 +0000

Overheated rhetoric about policy is a step up from overheated personal invective IMHO. Calling what one believes is bad policy “slavery” at least focuses the debate on policy, where it belongs. It could lead to a useful discussion of pro’s and con’s of the health bill and its impact on civil liberties.

OTOH calling Bush “Hitler” (991,000 google hits) or Palin “moron” (656,000 hits) or Tea Partiers “racists” (1,680,000 hits) prevents useful discussion and leaves the debate totally in the gutter.

By: Ian

Ian — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 02:46:19 +0000

Steve:

Not to re-hash a conversation from below, but you did bring up the Nazis a few posts ago with regard to the Republicans. You have lost the right to complain about people using overheated rhetoric.

Ian