The Right’s Two Standards
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I think it’s funny that Byron York is outraged that Al Gore spoke in front of a crowd sympathetic to him, even though the former vice president and popular vote winner of the 2000 election no longer holds any elected office, but has no such vitriol for George Bush, currently the highest ranking elected official in the country who only speaks in front of audiences who wish to give him tongue baths.
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© 2000-2011 Oliver Willis
Way to go, Oliver! Perhaps you should have read beyond the first 2 or 3 sentences before you wrote the post.
York tore Gore and the audience to pieces. The fact that Gore had a friendly audience meant little or nothing.
His writing style contrasted the audience reaction with what you might ordinarily expect from such a crew.
You missed the boat on this one.
And it’s not Bush’s fault that liberals are so much more ill – mannered than conservatives.
No matter how many conservatives were at Gore’s stemwinder, they never would have misbehaved like liberals do when conservatives speak.
No matter how many conservatives were at Gore s stemwinder, they never would have misbehaved like liberals do when conservatives speak.
Do you think before you type this stuff or do your fingers move on their own? Do you really believe that one side is well behaved and the other is full of demons? Both sides are capable of being boorish.
Right, conservatives prefer to ruin peoples lives and careers through dishonest books and campaign ads, because you’re all such honorable people.
Wow, when regressives used to go to Clinton’s outings, they would be disruptive and heckle, and get away with it. If a liberal or protestor goes to a Bush speech, they get kicked out or arrested for wearing a T-shirt.
midder, you’re being too nice in describing the conservative’s treatment of Bush protestors. When you said ‘kicked’ in your comment, I immediately thought of this kind of protestor treatment .
Also, didn t one of you folks mow down a bunch of crosses in Texas, crosses set up to represent our troops killed in combat?
Although the idiot (Larry Northern) that did it is apparently registered as a Republican, I haven’t seen anything indicating he had the support or approval of anyone else on Earth, let alone in the Republican party. He wasn’t one of my folks, was he one of yours?
By the way, those crosses that Cindy & Co. erected… some of them were put up without the permission of the soldier’s families and in at least one case, against their direct wishes. Now THAT’S a respecting our troops…
Since everyone agrees that Conservatives are honorable, non-hateful people (and liberals are demented, unthinking animals) here are some quotes about Martin Luther King from the always thoughtful and charitible conservatives over at Free Republic.com:
“I have always wondered why so many people held this womanizing, plagiarizing Marxist in such high esteem. No one had the guts to tell it like it really was. I think the black community has many other leaders and heroes that had a better record in the community.”
“MLK was a communist. That can’t be taken from him either.
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“I regard King as another activist cleric that lives in denial of his ‘faith’ while using the collar as a cover for explicit political ends. I also regard his communist associations and infidelity as indicators of his real character”
“Just before the 67′ riots in Newark, N.J., the King and his merry henchmen strode into town, stroked the fires of rebellion, and as if on cue left the city hours before the riot began.”
“This is another thing about King that the public seems to have forgotten — seems that every time he came to town, riots and looting broke out. Amazingly, he claimed to be non-violent, but violence always reared its ugly head when he was present.”
“The liberals have developed a cult of King, based on revised history that overlooks or hides the ugliness that was Martin Luther King, Jr.”
“King may have been pure when he started, but let s forget about his personal flaws for a moment. He had been radicalized, and captured by the hard left communists after a while, and had become an organ for their cause. He had become another tool to bring down America by dividing us.”
Republicans sold their souls to Southern conservatives. Behold the legacy of Barry Goldwater and Ronald Regan.
Yeah, those cons are so respectful. Besides when they’re calling us moonbats, communists, traitors, seditionists, etc. I mean. This article is written in typical Byron York style (“THOSE liberals are WEIRD”), though having seen York up close and personal I can attest to people throwing stones in glass houses.
And it s not Bush s fault that liberals are so much more ill – mannered than conservatives.
So sayith our resident member from the Clan of the Purple Heart Band-aid. Also, didn’t one of you ‘folks’ mow down a bunch of crosses in Texas, crosses set up to represent our troops killed in combat?
I don’t know what goes on at every speech given by every politician, but I do know that when they’re carrying out protesters, arresting pie throwers, when obnoxious hecklers are shouting at speakers, it’s left wingers doing it to conservatives, almost 99% of the time.
And don’t tell me it’s because the press wants the left to look bad.
VRWC: don’t talk to me, talk to Frank for making retarded blanket statements about how well behaved conservatives are, and how low-down and dirty the Bush hating democrats are.
What in the hell in ‘transpartisan’ and when did conservatives stop packing
the audience with cheerleaders, refusing admittance to all others?
Everything s equivalent in this world. Al Sharpton s bigotry suddenly becomes just as corrosive and shameful as segregation and jim crow.
I’m sorry, I must have missed some recent events. Sharpton and Jackson are Dems today. Aren’t segregation and jim crow things of the past (back in the 50′s and 60′s, you know, when the Bull Conners of the world were all safely ensconced in the arms of the Democratic party?
Things are seldom equivalent, TomY, but… people… glass houses… stones… you know the rest.
The Republican party s Southern strategy, as enacted by Goldwater, Nixon, Reagan, and Atwater, has put you in bed with some racist motherfuckers, however, on whose votes your party and your president are sickeningly dependent.
And the Democrats, snuggled up with race-mongers like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, have some serious bigotry problems themselves. Ditto on the dependency.
I love the response, drone. Everything’s equivalent in this world. Al Sharpton’s bigotry suddenly becomes just as corrosive and shameful as segregation and jim crow. Not a second of doubt or reflection, always on the attack – that’s the republican way!
here are some quotes about Martin Luther King from the always thoughtful and charitible conservatives over at Free Republic.com
Yes, and we can find some similar bigoted, foul hateful quotes about Colin Powell, Mrs. Alito, Michelle Malkin, etc. from the peace-loving progressives over at democraticunderground.com or eschaton (atrios). Your point?
The people at FreeRepublic don’t speak for me or represent my views in any way, shape or form. Does democraticunderground represent you? Both parties have extreme elements that need to be marginalized.
At least we have one thing in common.
“The people at FreeRepublic don t speak for me or represent my views in any way, shape or form.”
The Republican party’s Southern strategy, as enacted by Goldwater, Nixon, Reagan, and Atwater, has put you in bed with some racist motherfuckers, however, on whose votes your party and your president are sickeningly dependent. That is to the everlasting shame of all modern Republicans.
Yeah TomY, after all, the proof that civil rights are under no threat is the
fact that they LET Gore give his speech.
“when they re carrying out protesters, arresting pie throwers, when obnoxious hecklers are shouting at speakers, it s left wingers doing it to conservatives, almost 99% of the time.”
But when they’re carrying people out for doing nothing at all except thinking incorrectly — that’s how you know you’re at a Bush rally.
“How in the hell would some one giving a speech know whether you were thinking incorrectly .”
I’m remembering the incident where folks were thrown out a Bush speech for having a Kerry sticker on their car. Not for throwing pies, or chanting, just for having the wrong thoughts in their heads. Now I’m going to call you silly, then make myself look sillier by hurling a juvenile insult your way, you silly, silly, non-middle school finihsing silly person.
left wingers doing it to conservatives
Fred Phelps
Planned Parenthood Protesters
Protest Warrior
Any number of “grassroots” protests in Florida over the past 10 years
And that’s just to name a few. Don’t be deluded into thinking that one side has a monopoly on protests, intimidation or poor taste.
“Aren t segregation and jim crow things of the past (back in the 50 s and 60 s, you know, when the Bull Conners of the world were all safely ensconced in the arms of the Democratic party?” Yes, the conservative wing of the Democratic Party. These were the people being denounced by liberals of both parties. Republicans threw their liberal wing out, and absorbed the southern conservatives. Read up on the history of the southern strategy, my drone. It’s part and parcel of the VRWC, after all.
TomY — How in the hell would some one giving a speech know whether you were “thinking incorrectly”. A little less silliness, please. Some of us have (not you, obviously) completed Middle School.
Back to the point: York is disigenious conservative who sadly graduated from University of Alabama(my alma matta). All I can say is that be glad he is a silly and disengenious Southern Conservative and not the more pathetic/ fantasy world type. For current events of Goldwater strategy you just need to know UA college republicans: Daddies money and all the hate that comes with being privelaged yet lacking.