Lets Get This Straight: "There Is NO Leftist Equivalent"

[kpete]

Both sides are, in fact, not "just as bad," when it comes to institutionally sanctioned violent and eliminationist rhetoric.

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There is, demonstrably, no leftist equivalent to Sarah Palin, former veep candidate and presumed future presidential candidate, who uses gun imagery (rifle sights) and language ("Don't Retreat, RELOAD") to exhort her followers to action.

There is no leftist equivalent to Glenn Beck, host of a long-running nationally syndicated radio show, former host of a show on CNN and current host of a show on Fox, best-selling author, DC rally organizer, and longtime user of eliminationist rhetoric, including equating universal healthcare to rape, joking about victims of forest fires being America-hating liberals, comparing Al Gore to Hitler, condoning the murder of Michael Moore, accusing Holocaust survivor George Soros of being a Nazi collaborator, joking about poisoning Nancy Pelosi, equating immigration reform with burning US citizens alive, publicly endorsing violent revolution, and winkingly telling his viewers not to get violent, all of which amounts to a speck on the tip of a very big iceberg.

There is no leftist equivalent to Ann Coulter, best-selling author and syndicated columnist, who has been a panelist on Fox's Hannity 28 times and was on Hannity & Colmes an additional 18 times, who has been a guest multiple times on The O'Reilly Factor, Geraldo at Large, Larry King Live, Huckabee, Your World with Neil Cavuto, Hardball, and other cable news shows, has made appearances on The Tonight Show, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, The Daily Show, and Real Time with Bill Maher, and has co-hosted The View, and has also said that a baseball bat is "the most effective way" to talk to liberals, as well as: "We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed, too." And: "My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building." And: "In recurring nightmare of a presidency, we have a national debate about whether he 'did it,' even though all sentient people know he did. Otherwise there would be debates only about whether to impeach or assassinate."

There is no leftist equivalent to Rush "I tell people don't kill all the liberals. Leave enough so we can have two on every campus—living fossils—so we will never forget what these people stood for" Limbaugh, nationally syndicated radio show host and invitee to the Bush White House.

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MORE: http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2011/01/lets-get-this-straight.html
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EVEN MORE: http://www.csgv.org/issues-and-campaigns/guns-democracy-and-freedom/insurrection-timeline

[gratuitous]

1. That's not what teevee is telling me

Teevee wouldn't lie, would it?

[Horse with no Name]

2. There is no leftist equivalent to Breitbart, Drudge Report, Fox News

There is no leftist equivalent to the MEDIA which doesn't start their day until they have rw talking points in hand.

[CLANG]

17. Not to mention Newsmax and WorldNutDaily

[progressivebydesign]

3. Truer words have not been written. Thank you.

I hate the false equivalency that the corporate media and the right wing talking heads push all the time. There is no equal to their hateful rhetoric. And the people who sit around and watch Fox "news" all day, truly believe that it is news.. and that these things are true.

[arthritisR_US]

8. 1000+ ! n/t

[kpete]

13. repeat

repeat and repeat
till they get tired of hearing it...and then repeat some more...
and thank you,
peace, kpete

[patrice]

4. Their willingness to obfuscate this fact is proof positive of their complicity. nt

[wiggs]

5. Damn good article at shaespearessister. Thanks. nt

[ewagner]

6. Absurdity upon absurdities

I don't buy the "they both do it" meme. Comparing Maddow or Olberman to Beck, O'Reilly, Limbaugh and a couple of locals I won't mention, is absolute nonsense. There is no comparison. We must not tolerate appeals to violence. We should shun and not reward those who do with ratings, money, recognition or fame. We have to cool the passions or there will be more Gabbys.

[mscuedawg]

7. Example of the "Leftist Equivalent"...

...given on CNN this morning: Rep. Alan Grayson's posterboard "Republican Health Care Plan: 1. Don't Get Sick"

Actually...it goes on to read "2. If you do get sick... 3. Die Quickly."

I'm sure everyone here sees the similarity to cross hairs over locations on a map and quotes such as SEAN HANNITY of False Nooze: "You know who should be tortured and killed in Gitmo? Every single Democrat in the US congress."

[Johonny]

9. How can there be an equivalency in rhetoric when there is not equal access to begin with?

no one on the left has the media power for their to be an equivalency. I have no doubt there are mean, crazy, hate spewing liberals out there. I just don't see many (any) with any kind of media exposure. The right so own the media they can use it to cover up ignore the obvious thread of this shooting that the right in the last 2 years offered up a lot of violence in there talk.

[CLANG]

18. That's a great point!

[pnorman]

10. K & R!

n/t

[The Backlash Cometh]

11. Keep beating that drum.

rec.

[snagglepuss]

12. Exactly. nt

[yodermon]

14. Is anyone on the Tee Vee listing *examples* of the leftist equivalences?

or are they just asserting it as self-justifying conventional wisdom, ergo no examples needed?

[Raksha]

15. K & R - Great blog and great post!

I just posted the link to my Facebook profile and I'm going to share it elsewhere as well. Thank you for posting this.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

16. Americans are falling for it. And as long as they do, unfortunately this will continue to happen!

[samsingh]

19. 100% agree

[Supersedeas]

20. If only DU had access to the National airways, the way Jon Stewart, Barbara Walters, John King

and the others who sling the equivalency bludgeon