$%^&*!!: Civility and tolerance in the Age of Obama

[jmichna]

Malkin, spot on:

$%^&*!!: Civility and tolerance in the Age of Obama
By Michelle Malkin • April 22, 2009 09:55 AM

My syndicated column today looks at the outbreak of Obama-esque discourse across the country. Couldn’t even mention some of the misogynist sleaze prompted by the Tea Party movement because newspapers wouln’t print it. And they call us an “unhinged mob?”
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Civility and tolerance in the Age of Obama
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2009
They told us if Barack Obama were elected, the nation would come together. Souls would be fixed. Spirits would be healed. Public discourse would be elevated. Welcome to civility and tolerance in the Age of Obama:

* Celebrity leech/trash blogger Perez Hilton took to the Internet and TV airwaves to humiliate a beauty pageant contestant who gave what he considered an “offensive” answer about gay marriage. Hilton, inexplicably serving as a judge of the Miss USA contest, had asked Miss California Carrie Prejean whether she supported the legalization of gay marriage. Prejean respectfully answered: “I think that I believe that a marriage should be between a man and a woman. No offense to anybody out there, but that’s how I was raised.” President Obama, by the way, defines marriage the same way Carrie Prejean does.

No matter. Hilton immediately lambasted Prejean as a “dumb b*tch” in a viral YouTube video he taped after the pageant Sunday night. He apologized the next morning for the attack, then retracted his apology, then escalated his divisive rhetoric. On Tuesday afternoon, Hilton told an MSNBC female anchor that he was thinking of an even more vulgar epithet – the “c-word” – as he listened to Prejean’s answer. The female anchor said nothing. Basking in his new role as thought and speech enforcer, Hilton told CNN’s Larry King that beauty pageant contestants must bow to the tolerance mob: “Yes. I do expect Miss USA to be politically correct.”

And apparently, the Miss USA organizers agree. Instead of apologizing for pageant judge Perez Hilton’s vile behavior, the pageant director of the Miss California contest, Keith Lewis, sent a note to Hilton throwing Prejean under the bus: “I am personally saddened and hurt that Miss CA USA 2009 believes marriage rights belong only to a man and a woman…Religious beliefs have no place in politics in the Miss CA family.”
But gutter profanity and misogyny do?

*At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill last week, former GOP congressman Tom Tancredo came to speak against legislative proposals to provide illegal alien students in-state tuition discounts not available to law-abiding Americans and legal immigrant students. Protesters at the institution of higher learning responded by blocking Tancredo with massive banners and screaming “No dialogue with hate.” Adults in the room stood by while students smashed a window a few feet from where Tancredo stood. Physically threatened, Tancredo was forced to leave without delivering his remarks.

According to campus reports, leftists had prepared for a week to mount a speech-squelching demonstration. The same thuggish tactics have been used at Columbia University, Georgetown University, and Michigan State University to shut down speakers who support strict immigration enforcement. The UNC administration apologized for the students’ tantrum, but took no steps to examine its own culpability for fostering a climate of intellectual vandalism and intolerance.

*The nightly airwaves turned into a soft-porn cesspool last week as liberal journalists derided and slimed hundreds of thousands of Tea Party protesters across the country who oppose reckless taxing and spending by both major political parties. Award-winning CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, mimicking his bottom-of-the-barrel competitors at MSNBC, smugly indulged in sexual puns about “teabagging.” MSNBC devoted the entire week to sophomoric sexual slang and innuendo with references to “nuts,” **** Armey, and “full-throated” protesters.

And White House adviser David Axelrod calls the Tea Party folks “unhealthy?”

Speaking of unhealthy, angry white liberal actress Janeane Garofalo venomously played the race card: “It’s about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up and is nothing but a bunch of teabagging rednecks.” The theme was echoed by Jeffrey Kimball, a professor emeritus of history at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, who castigated the “extreme right” for organizing against President Obama because “he’s black and he’s liberal.“ Tell that to the thousands of activists in South Carolina who practically booed and heckled white Republican Rep. Gresham Barrett off the stage at a Tea Party in Greenville last Friday night for supporting the trillion-dollar TARP and embracing the pork-laden stimulus law after voting against it. “Go home!” they shouted. The only color that mattered to protesters: the red ink of government debts.

But in the age of Obama, there’s no room for such nuance and inconvenient truths. A decent young woman is a “dumb b*tch” for holding the same view of marriage as the Obamessiah. A conservative campus speaker is bullied as a hatemonger by wild-eyed hatemongers. A grass-roots movement is debased as a bunch of racist vulgarians by a media mob of racists and vulgarians. Civility and tolerance have taken a left-hand turn down a one-way street. So much for changing course.

Posted in: Double standards, Tea Party

The whole thing reminds me of Huxley's Brave New World.

[Brickboy240]

Why was a gay guy judging a female beauty pageant?

Doesn't he pretty much see ALL the contestants as ugly?

LOL

- brickboy240

[amandaorange]

The beauty queen pagent was a bit ridiculus. They asked her a question and she gave an honest answer. I don't like how the judge said it wasn't "politically correct". What was incorrect about it? She didn't say anyting rude or derogitory, it was just her opinion. Their definition "politically correct" isn't everybody's definition.

[DanTheEldest]

They told us if Barack Obama were elected, the nation would come together. Souls would be fixed. Spirits would be healed. Public discourse would be elevated. Welcome to civility and tolerance in the Age of Obama.

It's just the same thing we've always had with the liberal left. You're welcome to express your opinion, and it will be treated with civility and tolerance, as long as your opinion is also their opinion. I've experienced this primarily on college campuses; far from being the bastions of the quest for truth and the homes of knowledge, our modern education establishments are actually some of the most rigidly dogmatic entities in the country. If you go along with the secular orthodoxy, then great--if not, expect to be mocked, derided, ostracized, and condemned. It never ceases to amaze me how some of those who maintain it as a point of pride to be so "open-minded" are so closed and insecure in their beliefs that they lash out at the first sign of deviating from their accepted norm.

[Brickboy240]

These are all "teachable moments" into how the left operates...are they not?

The left does not...in any shape, form or fashion...want an honest or two-sided discussion of ideas. They do not want views, other than their to ever see the light of day, period and when they do - they are beaten down or marginalized an a very crude and uncivilized manner.

The left will SAY that they are open-minded and all for the First Ammendment but only if it applies to THEIR views or side of an issue. An opposing viewpoint is often silenced much like Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini silenced their opposition. Ok, so they're not gassing anyone or digging mass graves (...yet) but their censorship and stereotyping is a mirror image of these monster's way of dealing with opposition and dissent.

Flash back to a few years ago and it was cool with the left to oppose just about anything that the leadership of the USA enacted. Many of their leaders often said that it was "American' to disagree or challenge the authority. Odd, because their views on opposition and challenging a leader's actions today are very different...right?

What we are learning is that the American left are esentially fascists and are not open-minded, fair or enlightened at all. In fact, the left often shows themself, through their actions, as less tolerable and more bigoted and mean-spirited and hateful than the right.

We need to take this into account and learn to deal with them much differently than we have in the past.

- brickboy240

[Mobilized1]

Originally Posted by Brickboy240

These are all "teachable moments" into how the left operates...are they not?

The left does not...in any shape, form or fashion...want an honest or two-sided discussion of ideas. They do not want views, other than their to ever see the light of day, period and when they do - they are beaten down or marginalized an a very crude and uncivilized manner.

The left will SAY that they are open-minded and all for the First Ammendment but only if it applies to THEIR views or side of an issue. An opposing viewpoint is often silenced much like Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini silenced their opposition. Ok, so they're not gassing anyone or digging mass graves (...yet) but their censorship and stereotyping is a mirror image of these monster's way of dealing with opposition and dissent.

Flash back to a few years ago and it was cool with the left to oppose just about anything that the leadership of the USA enacted. Many of their leaders often said that it was "American' to disagree or challenge the authority. Odd, because their views on opposition and challenging a leader's actions today are very different...right?

What we are learning is that the American left are esentially fascists and are not open-minded, fair or enlightened at all. In fact, the left often shows themself, through their actions, as less tolerable and more bigoted and mean-spirited and hateful than the right.

We need to take this into account and learn to deal with them much differently than we have in the past.

- brickboy240

+1
Well said, the left needs to be understood and their radical ways shown for what they are.

[Brickboy240]

Mainly because the American left is portraying themselves as people that they are not. Their claim of being open minded and tolerant is a total ruse.

The right has never touted itself as tolerant or open to other ideas or sold themselves to the public in this manner...the left surely does but their actions tell a very different story.

Noah Greenberg's book, "Liberal Fascism" outlines this in great detail and is an eye-opening read for anyone interested. Greenberg uses facts to back up this theory of the left being fascist...its not a opinion piece at all.

- brickboy240

[Palmguy]

Originally Posted by Brickboy240

Mainly because the American left is portraying themselves as people that they are not. Their claim of being open minded and tolerant is a total ruse.

The right has never touted itself as tolerant or open to other ideas or sold themselves to the public in this manner...the left surely does but their actions tell a very different story.

Noah Greenberg's book, "Liberal Fascism" outlines this in great detail and is an eye-opening read for anyone interested. Greenberg uses facts to back up this theory of the left being fascist...its not a opinion piece at all.

- brickboy240

The author is Jonah Goldberg, but yeah. Fascinating book...highly recommended.

[Brickboy240]

Oops! Yes his name IS Jonah...its been a while since I read the book...but its message resonates loudly today as it did before the election.

- brickboy240

[Dhunter55]

Kudos to her for standing up and speaking the truth instead of being an *** kisser to the judges or a shill for the politically correct. She was running for Miss USA not Miss USSR. I admire her guts and honesty.