Bob doesn’t work for me anymore.

J.

Yeah, I’m sure if (insert name of liberal talk show host here) said on his/her radio show that “we ought to hang (insert name of prominent conservative here),” Jay would just view it as “tossing off a remark” (rolls eyes).

“Olbermann has a Hitler fetish”.

Yeah, because no one on the right (Savage, Limbaugh, Beck, O’Reilly) compares individuals, or even whole groups of people, they disagree with to Nazis. Savage, especially, makes so many Nazi comparisons, it dwarfs whatever “Hitler fetish” Olbermann (supposedly) has.

Also, there is/have been no conservative bomb-throwers in positions of power and authority? The late Jesse Helms said that if Clinton ever visited North Carolina military bases, he’d need to bring bodyguards. When he said this, he was incoming chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (no position of power and authority, there). The then-Minority Whip of the House of Representatives (again, certainly not a position of power and authority) Newt Gingrich, said that the fact that Susan Smith drowned her children reminded people that they should vote for Republicans. Dan Burton, chairman of the Government Affairs Commmitte (no position of power and authority whatsover), called Bill Clinton a “scumbag”. The current Minority Leader of the House of Reps said that the American people “are going to hang” Nancy Pelosi. I’m certainly glad there have been no conservative bomb-throwers in positions of power and authority.

Irony? Huh?

Are you suggesting that someone who thought the internments were wrong should defend Roosevelt just because he’s a Democrat? Are you really being critical of folks who are consistent in their views and don’t change them out of some warped sense of party loyalty?

Shorter Zython: where are the left-wing bombthrowers calling for stereotypical right-wing things? WHERE?!?!?!

Duh.

J.

Just in the last couple of weeks, Howard Dean referred to the Republican party as “the white party” and compared Republicans to Slobodan Milosevic. He also has a tremendous history of race-baiting that, quite frankly, make him look like a self-hating white man.

Olbermann has a Hitler fetish.

Stephanopolous probably doesn’t belong on the list, but he is still a former Clinton administration insider who is now considered a serious, impartial journalist.

Or so I hear — I haven’t seen that show since it was Brinkley, Donaldson, Roberts, and Will.

And has anyone ever explored the irony that while some modern-day conservatives are attacked for defending internment, but none of those critics ever defend the Democratic icon of a president who actually carried it out?

That would be educational, at the least…

J.

Oooh, and he sticks the dismount!

The best way to handle bomb-throwers is from a distance. Keep them away from any REAL power.

Not run them for Senate, or let them become national party chairmen…

And that doesn’t even touch upon people with REAL experience with REAL bomb-throwing, like Bill Ayers…

J.

With that absolute demand that she not conceal her loathing and contempt for such people, combined with her acid tongue and brutal, lightning wit, AND plenty of time to prepare, C-SPAN could put those hearings on pay-per-view and pay off the entire national debt.

Come on, admit it — wouldn’t you pay good money to see Coulter face the Senate Judiciary Committee and their hired guns of questioners? It’d be a FANTASTIC spectacle!

Of course, I wouldn’t want Coulter anywhere near the Supreme Court. But those hearings…

J.

The ‘KILL MICHELLE MALKIN!’ guy (can we find something easier to type) was in the wrong. No argument from me on that point.

I never denounced Malkin.

He (KMM! guy) would have been OK had it been Coulter, as she has called for U.S. Supreme Court Justices to be publicly hung. She called for murder, so calling for it in return would be fair, no? It’s the level of debate as she defined it.

I don’t read much of what Malkin writes, but I do not ever recall her calling for those she opposes to be murdered. She has called for them to be contacted and pointedly debated (some would call this harrassment) however. She was harassed in this case. it’s the level of debate as she defined it.

I stand by Kharma.

rotter, there’s a huge difference from O’Reilly tossing off a remark on his TV show and a guy trying to literally incite a mob to commit murder. The crowd surrounding Malkin was very large and very unhappy with her and her presence, Jones was already whipping up passions against her, and her “security contingent” was vastly outnumbered. I was very pleasantly surprised that nothing came of it (apart from Jones shoving one guy who apparently irritated him.)

Jones came across as a raving asshole — I guess that counts as “truth in advertising.”

Oh, and as far as those flyers that Malkin left up on her site… I’m a big believer in “the moving hand hath writ,” and whatnot. Perhaps Malkin should have taken them down, but she had no legal responsibility for simply the the “student activists” in question exactly what they asked for — publicity and attention and feedback.

Be careful what you wish for, indeed.

A personal example, of a very lesser degree: almost every time I get into a major tussle over here, I end up with some serious troll problems over at Wizbang — and I suspect some of the folks here have “followed me home” and chosen to hassle me there. Mostly it’s no big problem, but a few times they’ve simply resorted to profane personal attacks that have no relevance to the topics at hand, and simply insult me. Naturally, I remove them — I’m interested in discussion and debate, and not simply standing there and being insulted — and have, on occasion, simply banned the idiots.

Once or twice, I’ve thought of asking Oliver for a “professional courtesy” favor and giving him the IPs of some of the most offensive idiots to see if he’ll confirm that they are, indeed, commenters here as well. I haven’t gotten around to it, and I’m certainly not going to while he’s wrapped up at the DNC.

But I’m not gonna stop listing Wizbang under my web site here, despite the annoyances it sometimes causes. I knew it would draw some folks, including some I’d rather it not, but I can live with it.

But let’s recap the facts:

The “student activists” organized a movement to harass and drive military recruiters off the college campus. They didn’t want to argue with the military, they wanted to silence them. They didn’t want to give their fellow students the right to decide on their own whether they wanted to join the military. As part of that move, they sent out a press release, including their names, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses. Malkin simply cut and pasted that contact info, along with an account of their activities.

THAT was the heinous offense you denounce her for — re-publishing a portion of a press release the “student activists” themselves sent out.

Oh, the humanity.

J.

Did you feel the same way about the F(R)NC’S Bill O’Reilly when he said on the radio about George Soros “We ought to hang this guy”?

Yes, that is what I was refering too. She posted that information and encouraged her readership to take action. This is what blogging is all about – I assume (I could be wrong) you wish for your readers to take action in suport of your views. This Alex Jones guy encouraged his supporters to take action. It didn’t seem to phase her security entourage much (no melee and no-one rushed her out of the threat zone) so he must not have been percieved to be anythign more than a windbag. Of course, that can be said of many on the fringes of the left and right…

Kharma – balancing things since 1000 B.C.