And for the record, Dugger…I wasn’t referring to the Franken thing, but to your comment about 60s radicals.

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!

Why does it matter? They are clearly murderers unequaled in human hstory.

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.

Dugger

After all, left wing extremists are the worst murderers in human history.

Back on the international-leftist-conspiracy thing again, Dugger?

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.

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.

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.

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)

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.

Coulter and Savage I have no use for.

point out one author who has  commit[ted] an actual act of violence against his political opponents

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.

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?

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%.

Nothing, as usual.

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.

Not.