Michelle Malkin highlights DU as example of progressives' “climate of hate”

[Emit]

The progressive “climate of hate:” An illustrated primer, 2000-2010

The Tuscon massacre ghouls who are now trying to criminalize conservatism have forced our hand.

They need to be reminded. You need to be reminded.

~snip~

Flashback — the Democratic Underground indulging in name-calling the MSM ignores:

Reader Monica M. sent me a link to the Democratic Underground’s latest thread for commenters to come up with nicknames and posters to slime GOP Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin — and then to “spread all over the ‘net.” There are now nearly 100 filthy, hate-filled responses and counting. Among the “nicer” entries: “Cruella,” “Gidget,” “Governor Jesus Camp,” “VPILF,” “Fertilla the Huntress,” “Iditabroad,” and “KILLER PYSCHO FUNDIE BITCH FROM HELL!!”

…Peer with me further into the liberal sinkhole again and behold P.D.S. in full bloom. Note that this site is raising money for Barack Obama and that an ad for their fundraiser appears at the top of the thread. Is Obama going to accept their cash? Know your enemy:

…The Photoshop entries getting thumbs up from DU commenters...

~snip~

http://michellemalkin.com/2011/01/10/the-progressive-climate-of-hate-an-illustrated-primer-2000-2010/

[rfranklin]

1. Oh, "Cruella" is sure to incite shooters!

or Gidget, for sure!

[nc4bo]

3. They're reaching and if they try hard enough, get a reach around. nt

[DearAbby]

72. If you are a Dalmatian I am sure you are suitably frightened

[emulatorloo]

2. DU does not have a Newspaper Column, Radio Show, nor does it appear on TV as a commentator

as Ms. Malkin does.

Nor is it a Republican Politician or Candidate talking about "second amendment remedies" and so on.

For the most part if DU members advocate violence, they are

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[firehorse]

4. Fatwa Palin

There is a difference between name calling and political leaders inciting their followers to act out in violence.

[WingDinger]

32. FATWA'ss' Palin

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. Awesome job, DU!

I'll take that increased attention and raise you, Michelle.

[DCKit]

6. That WAS a fun thread.

Thanks for talking it up Michelle! You probably brought another thousand members to DU, along with a dozen or so trolls for us to play with.

[seabeyond]

7. and..... where is du saying kill her?????? nt

[HuckleB]

67. +1,000,000,000,000!!!

[luvspeas]

8. I really have to disagree with this...

As frustrated as I can get with some people on this board, it is an extremely rare event where anyone threatens real violence against anyone and those few occurrences are either obviously tongue in cheek and clever (references to turkeys, pit bulls or polar bears come to mind) or they are quickly admonished or just ignored (which is the equivalent of banishment around here).

[seabeyond]

21. not to mention against rules, post deleted and likely pzza'ed. nt

[WilliamPitt]

9. Malkin in a nutshell

[mmonk]

10. The difference is we believe in settling differences through the ballot

box and debate. We don't murder our opponents nor apologize for it. That is for fascist movements.

[cynatnite]

11. That's not inciting violence, you crazy freak...

That's name-calling. :evilgrin:

[Angry Dragon]

25. I guess name calling really upsets them

They are so afraid of words

[Cetacea]

12. It's good to know that they notice.

Seems to me that a lot of right wing media celebrities read DU.

[hobbit709]

13. If there's one thing Malkin is an expert on, it's hate.

[AspenRose]

29. Since she enjoys stalking children and all...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/malkin-and-fox-news-are-s_b_258051.html

http://crooksandliars.com/2007/10/09/graeme-foster-what-would-you-do-if-this-was-snooping-around-your-house

...it doesn't surprise me she stalks here.

[WilliamPitt]

14. P.S. I'll bet my shoes she's reading this link right now, refreshing, reading, refreshing, etc.

The Brett Favre of right-wing media.

PAY ATTENTION TO MEEEE WHHAARRRGARBLE!!!11!11ELEVENS!!!!

:hi:

[dembotoz]

51. b farve of the right wing media?? will there be photos?????

joke folks
i do have better taste.....

[HughBeaumont]

64. Except Brett Favre has talent . . . or had talent . . . or something.

[Systematic Chaos]

15. A long time ago, there was a thread here about nicknames for Malkin.

The photo of her with the pom poms doing her little "cheer" sprang to mind.

What instantly jumped into my head was Pom Pom Macoute.

If you're not already familiar with the term that's based on, Tonton Macoute, then Wikipedia will make it obvious why it's such an awesome fit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ton_Ton_Macoute

I wish it would spread, and that Malkin would find out about it. :evilgrin:

[sadbear]

16. They're going to be citing DU posters who only have 21 posts

And make generalizations about the entire DU.

[kestrel91316]

48. Hell, they will sign up with DU, make those 21 posts, and then cite them.

[liberal N proud]

But she can't provide examples where anyone has suggested killing

And it isn't like this is on the air broadcasting hate 24/7.

They had to dig deep to fin anything.

[leveymg]

17. Cheez-itz, her arguments are weak, and her examples weaker.

She doesn't know how to make a case that doesn't require proof, or even how to effectively illustrate her idiotic talking points.

"Fertilla the Huntress" - that might almost be a compliment giving Palin's pin-up girl status at the NRA.

Malkin is even dumber than I imagined.

[Urban Prairie]

18. Palin isn't a “KILLER PYSCHO FUNDIE BITCH FROM HELL!!"?!?

Hmmm...well maybe the "HELL" part is a little over the top...heh!!

[niyad]

19. no wonder I have a headache this morning. this idiot was fouling my air again.

it is sad that she isn't the only cretin in this town--she gets to share credit with lamborn, the entire city council, the rest of the reichwing fundienuts.

[tishaLA]

20. Go back to defending internment camps, Malkin

and while you're at it, make sure you double down on that "Kerry shot himself to get out of Vietnam" schtick, too. Because, ya know, those aren't examples of extremist rhetoric.

[Cleita]

22. Since she and her soul sister Ann Coulter invented a

"climate of hate" she knows what she's talking about but projecting her own mindset on progressives shows she's also a nut.

[LanternWaste]

23. Face it, Sarah.... there's no escaping the blood of a little girl that is on your hands.

Yet no targets, incitement to violence, or threats on or from DU... as she did.

Face it, Sarah.... there's no escaping the blood of a little girl that is on your hands.

[SoCalDem]

24. Thank you Michelle for including mine.. Fertilla, the Huntress

:swoon:

:rofl:

[harun]

63. Bravo! Bravo! lol.

[jillan]

26. Shall we compare DU to FR, Michelle?

[RandySF]

27. Malkin?

You mean the wackjob who stalked a 12-year old kid all the way to his house?

[seabeyond]

28. wouldnt it be something to pull threads on pelosi and obama and see all death threads on repug

boards and compare.

[devilgrrl]

30. Find any death threats Michelle

you piece of puke! :puke:

[Tom Rinaldo]

31. I bet she won't mention the DU thread offering prayers for Bob Dole

Earth to Malkin. DU is a free form discussion forum, but even here any threads calling for the use of violence against anyone get purged, and I don't mean after the fact when someone who posted one actually acts out and gets caught. They simply are not tolerated here. Meanwhile the Republican Party ran a candidate for the U.S. Senate who spoke positively about the option of Second Amendment remedies, and a radio talk jock who jokes about killing Liberals is off limit to any criticism from Republican leaders, and continuzlly bowed down to. There are countless examples of Right wingers who are actively courted by and embraced by the official Republican Party (not the "Republican Underground") making threats of violence and/or condoning the possible use of violence for political ends. This isn't a debate about relative "civility", it is an effort to prevent further actual violence - we just had an actual murder of a Judge and near assasination of a Congresswomen. And I say that with all due respect to our esteemed conservative commentator, and the once duly elected Governor of Alaska and all of her patriotic supporters. People are bing killed and more will be if violence continues to be equated with name calling.

[DCKit]

39. Not to mention two Tea Party Congressional candidates investigated by the military...

one for torture and one for murder - one of whom is now in Congress.

[Jamastiene]

33. So, name calling is their idea of "hate?"

You have GOT to be kidding me. :eyes:

[Ganja Ninja]

49. Yes name calling is just like taking a Glock with an extended magazine ...

and blazing away at a nine year old girl. Isn't it obvious? :banghead:

Is it any wonder the people that listen to morons like Malkin and Beck are unhinged. You'd pretty much have to be.

[Fleshdancer]

34. I'm not going to apologize for being angry

A Democratic member of Congress was shot through the head so Malkin is just going to have to deal with the fact that there's an online forum for us to vent our anger.

I know it doesn't seem nearly as sophisticated as going to the rallies of our political opponents with guns on our hips or holding signs that incite violence against people who disagree with us, but that's not our gig. We don't encourage others to target and reload on others. We don't laugh about lynching or executions. None of us will open fire on a group of innocent people or blow up a federal building or fly a private plane into an IRS building or even smash windows of political campaign headquarters. We discuss. Sometimes we use bad words (gasp!).

Deal with it, then learn from it Malkin. Then run off and teach your friends.

[fascisthunter]

35. the little fascist propagandandist sociopath

what is it like Malkin not to have feelings for other people? Lonely, empty? Need something to fill that empty hole inside of you, don't you. You reap what you sow, and you have been purposefully sowing hatred of the left by lying about us for years... you have blood on your hands.

[EFerrari]

36. Michelle Malkin can't stop herself even to mourn the dead.

We don't need to criminalize you, Michelle. You do a fine job of making yourselves look disgusting.

[MiddleFingerMom]

37. I was involved in a progressive activist issue here and, at a small planning meeting...

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...one of the fairly central figures joked (and I had no doubt that it was a joke) about
"some windows could get broken".
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I slammed him verbally leaving absolutely NO question that suggestions of that sort were
totally out-of-place in our group... that anyone who voiced those opinions -- joke or not --
had no place in our group and that I didn't want to hear ANYTHING along those lines
repeated again by anyone.
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We were increasing public awareness and support for our issue in a big way... and all our
opponents NEEDED was one, count 'em, ONE credible piece of evidence that this was "discussed"
at one of our meetings, even as simply a "joke" comment.
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This is why there SHOULD be a zero - count THEM -- ZERO tolerance level for suggestions
that an act of violence might be the answer.
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Trolls can come in and discredit this entire website with just one post.
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I say ALERT... and ALERT bigtime any time you see someone even JOKING about those sorts of
acts.
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[bullwinkle428]

38. Remember a few years ago, when the child of FR poster was killed

in a car accident?

There was a HUGE thread offering condolences to the family of this child, and the one asshole that tried to poison the well was very quickly run out of DU on a rail!

I wonder if this Malkin creature wants to include this in her "DU cavalcade of hate"?

[lumberjack_jeff]

40. "Iditabroad". I wish I'd invented that one.

:thumbsup:

Oh, wait. I feel so bad because calling someone a snarky name is JUST LIKE spraying a congresswoman with bullets.

[muriel_volestrangler]

41. Is she the dumbest piece of DNA ever to asked as a guest on a TV show?

This seems like evidence that she is. Her argument doesn't even start to make sense. Name-calling is not incitement to violence.

[truth2power]

43. Time for the FRAME...

There's a difference between ridicule, mockery, or caustic remarks and eliminationist rhetoric. The RW uses eliminationist speech all the time and that's vastly different from anything you hear from Progressives.

As Paul Krugman said:

"The point is that there’s room in a democracy for people who ridicule and denounce those who disagree with them; there isn’t any place for eliminationist rhetoric, for suggestions that those on the other side of a debate must be removed from that debate by whatever means necessary."

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/10/opinion/10krugman.html?_r=1

Their argument fails.

[flvegan]

44. Malkin must have missed DU's thread giving HER a nickname.

I believe I dubbed her "Miss Tijuana Donkey Show"

Good times.

[lukasahero]

45. Wow - we called Palin names!

Yeah, that's the same thing. Here's another bad name: moron.

[AspenRose]

46. Why do you hate free speech? Why do you hate America?

You must get paid well. Wish I could get a gig like that.

But I have a conscience.

[kestrel91316]

47. WE aren't elected officials. WE are not radio or tv show hosts.

WE are private citizens expressing our opinions.

99.999999999999999% of America has never heard of me or knows my opinions.

[Benedictine_09876]

55. There are borderline batshits

out there who have been listening to socially and politically prominent right wingers on TV, on radio and behind podiums inciting violence against the left for 10 years now. That is why people who have state or media power have always in the past been careful with words. They know their words carry extra weight- and to a mentally unstable person that sanction can be transferred.
Apparently the Right has used this knowledge knowing eventually someone would get killed.

Of course that would then further the right wing ambition of pulling the U.S. closer to a police state.

McCain Campaign (Palin) Amplifies Violent Rhetoric, GOP Crowds Threaten Obama's Life - OCT 7 2010

"An even more basic question, perhaps: Is Gov. Palin trying to incite violence against Sen. Obama as part of an ill-conceived campaign strategy to change the topic from the economy at any cost?"

"It's a dangerous road, but we have no choice," a top McCain strategist recently admitted to the Daily News. "If we keep talking about the economic crisis, we're going to lose."

They knew it was 'dangerous' - to the left. That means these cockfucks need to be in prison. Where are the indictments?

[Desertrose]

50. "Sticks & stones....

may break your bones......but words will never hurt you."


BIG difference between name calling and calling for actual violence against someone.

[Dappleganger]

52. Malkin is a god in her own sick little mind.

Some of the most vitriolic things I've ever read are from her so-called "blog."

[City Lights]

53. Go fuck yourself, Ms. Malkin.

There. I was just as polite as The Dick of Death. No hatred here. Just following the former Veep's lead.

:hi: Ms. Malkin! Let's do lunch! My peeps will contact your peeps! :hi:

[Carolina]

54. Oh puhleeze, is that

the best Michelle can do. We have really incited town hall riots, vandalism and shootings...

Meanwhile, that Queen Freep should juxtapose our temperance with Free Republic.

[GinaMaria]

56. Govenor Jesus Camp!

I missed that one. That's brilliant and completely non-violent, unless I have the wrong impression about Jesus Camp.

[Waiting For Everyman]

57. Well of course she's right... we laugh at them, they shoot at us.

You all are just deliberately missing Miss Malkin's point.

Now, since MM has pointed this out, I'm just mortified that you class clowns got me to join in the Nasty Namecalling with you. My calling Falin "Cruella" must have broken her poor little killing-is-fun heart.

I'm sure Caribou feels so wounded by that - the same as if she was really one of the shooting victims last weekend too. Come on, we can see how that's so obviously the same thing, can't we?

How could we do it? How could we allow ourselves to use laughter to diffuse our (justifiable) anger at the time? What a crazy thing to do! We are dangerous you guys, we need to lock ourselves up!!!

:cry:

[DainBramaged]

58. Yes Michelle Malkin, we hate you......

[Urban Prairie]

59. "The Tuscon massacre ghouls who are now trying to criminalize conservatism have forced our hand. "

Tuscon Massacre "ghouls"?

Exactly what did any DU member have, if anything, to do with what happened before, during, or after the tragedy that occurred in Tuscon, Malkin?

As far as trying to "criminalize conservatism", we are doing no such thing, we are, however, decrying the use of violent symbols and rhetoric uttered by supposed conservative "leaders" who have a much greater INFLUENCE over a larger group of people.

In fact, I will use one two-letterword to describe my reaction to Malkins claim, that was spoken by Dick Cheney, when asked about his reaction to those who opposed the US' continued occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan:

"So?"

[workinclasszero]

60. So we call Palin names and

She puts out maps of the US with crosshairs over her political opponents.

Oh yeah, that's equivalent. You betcha! :eyes::eyes::eyes:

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[HughBeaumont]

62. Highlight THIS, Whack-a-doo!

Don't you have any kids to victimize, Michelle?

[librechik]

65. calling someone racist is not being racist. calling someone violent is not indulging in violence

How do they get awy with this shit?

And when was Skinner hired as a correspondent on MSNBC like Malkin is on Fox?

[HuckleB]

66. Where is the violent rhetoric? The call to arms?

There doesn't appear to be any. Thus, Malkin's idiocy is shown yet again.

[robertpaulsen]

68. That's the best she can do against DU?

Holy false equivalency, Batman!

[LTR]

69. Typical crybaby conservatives

Anyone ever stop to realize just how whiny wingnuts are?

Bunch of wussies who think yelling and waving guns makes them tough. They're frauds!

[Ikonoklast]

70. Malkin is still doing her schtick? Who knew?

She must have got the same fax as all the others.


What do you call someone who sells themselves for money...I forgot.

[Mojeoux]

71. Hello from the "Liberal Sinkhole!" nt.