’)David Neiwert sets the intellectually dishonest Michelle Malkin straight once again
It isn’t Democrats who sprayed racist, pro-Bush graffiti on Democratic campaign HQ in Sacramento, or stole computers from Democrats in Ohio, or set campaign signs afire in Louisiana, or spread blood and innards around the front door of Bush critics. It isn’t Democrats firing workers for their presidential choices.
It isn’t Democrats, Michelle, who have denigrated the service of war heroes; it’s people like you. And it isn’t Democrats who are delivering a steady stream of “bestselling” books attacking liberals as subhuman scum: calling them innately treasonous, identifying them with terrorists, the “enemy within” with a “mental illness.” Going on talk shows and saying that the best way to talk to a Republican is “with a baseball bat, preferably.”
Two words: Al Franken.
Whoops…my bad. Three books. Over seven years. Boy, that’s a “steady stream” if I ever saw one. I guess us libruls should just sit down and shut up already, eh?
Wow. Al Franken’s two whole books constitute a “steady stream” that compares well to basically the entire backlist of Regnery Publishing?
Not.
Franken’s the obvious rebuttal, except for one thing: he’s forthcoming about the fact that he’s a satirist and is attempting–I agree it’s not always successful–to be funny.
The stream of conservative invective is coming from people who somehow fancy themselves “journalists.”
Ironically, Bill O’Reilly and Michael Savage, et al, are unintentionally ridiculous.
Your dyslexia is showing. “Columnist” and “editorialist” are not the same as “journalist”.
And what, Farris, has that got to do with the point?
Nothing, as usual.
Concordian, nothing as to YOUR point. To BD’s point, everything.
Your point seems to boil down to “as long as they don’t do it TOO often (of which I get to be the judge), it’s perfectly acceptable to threaten and commit violence against your political opponents”.
Which I disagree with 100%.
No, my point was that three books does not constitute a stream — citing Al Franken does not make an appropriate response to the constant and endless flow of bilious invective from the right. Since you disagree with threatening violence 100%, I take it you’ll also be making note of your criticism of Malkin, Coulter, Savage, et. al. at some point in the near future?
And please, oh please, point out one author who has “commit[ted]” an actual act of violence against his political opponents, either right or left?
Malkin, I haven’t seen any advocation of violence. I’m sure you’ll point it out to me.
Coulter and Savage I have no use for.
Well, there’s Al Franken. And there’s … Al Franken. And lest we forget … Al Franken.
Hmmm, seems like constant and endless bilious invective to me.
However, “columnist” and “editorialist,” for whatever reason, enjoy a legitimacy not afforded “satirist.”
My point is that O’Reilly, et al, take themselves far too seriously and revel in the fact that their audience takes them just as seriously.
And it’s not my dyslexia showing, it’s just poor word choice. Weak.
“And please, oh please, point out one author who has commit[ted] an actual act of violence against his political opponents, either right or left?”
Not my fight but just to interject:
“Wise-cracking funnyman Al Franken yesterday body-slammed a demonstrator to the ground after the man tried to shout down Gov. Howard Dean.”
Dugger (I’ll bet there are some more – some of the ‘heros’ of the ’60s were rotten people)
Dugger: I was speaking of more recent events.
Farris: I’ll reserve judgment on the Franken deal, since Lexis-Nexis fails to turn up any mention after seven iterations of the search criteria. If Powerline is the best you can do…
Also, that’s quite a trick…boiling Dave Niewert’s wide-ranging response to Malkin’s broad-brush tarring of the left down to “Michelle Malkin is a meek little kitten and Al Franken is a raging maniac, therefore Niewert’s response is invalid.” You still haven’t managed to get beyond one man in your response, and you haven’t reduced the applicability of Dave’s original critique one whit.
Like BD said…weak.
Attribution, Dugger?
Let’s not forget the Wisconsin tire-slashers, surely an act of political violence. Wouldn’t you agree?
Both sides have violent activists. Concordian asked you to name an author.
By the way, saying you have no use for Coulter and Savage doesn’t change the fact that an awful lot of people in your camp certainly do.
For what it’s worth, I don’t agree with Chomsky. But I accept that I’m going to get tarred as a Chomskyite because I disagreed with the war in Iraq.
You’re going to have to accept Coulter, Savage, Hannity, Scarborough, and the rest, whether you agree with them or not. Because they’re yours.
concord,
That was during the last presidential campaign.
And as to Dave’s criticism, he admits Malkin recognizes there are right wing extremists. SO then he goes and criticizes her for criticizing left wing extremists. Does he then disqualify every book ever written that does not include full criticisms of all side of the political spectrum. Thats silly. He’s just taking a cheap shot at Malkin, as the left is wont to do lately. Read some of her racist mail from the left. Thre’s nothing wrong with focusing on left wing extrmeism (or right wing). After all, left wing extremists are the worst murderers in human history.
BD,
It was in Kos and the NY Post.
Back on the international-leftist-conspiracy thing again, Dugger?
Conspircay h*ll, Quaker. Are those poor innocent victims of Communism any less dead because it was murder by multiple uncoordinated Communist groups. Why does it matter? They are clearly murderers unequaled in human hstory.
Dugger
Why does it matter?
I dunno. You tell me.
We’re rambling along talking about the American left and the American right, when up pops Dugger to remind us that leftists are awful murderers.
Of course, I understand that you mean Russian leftists and Latin American leftists and Asian leftists.
But that leaves me puzzled about what this has to do with what we were discussing.
International conspiracy was the best I could make of it. Sorry.
Quaker,
You are so insular! Only American leftists and American rightists need apply. Sigh. When will they learn?! Ok. I’m over it. Apology accepted but don’t let it happen again or you shall be taunted a second time.
Dugger, We’ve Already Got One!
Yeah…you’re only allowed to cite foreign examples so long as they’re down on leftists.
And for the record, Dugger…I wasn’t referring to the Franken thing, but to your comment about 60s radicals.