Colbert King is the real fanatic here
This hysterical- and frankly, racist- attack on the Tea Party people by Colbert King of the Washington Post is even scarier than the ridiculous image Democrats are trying to evoke of an entire Republican party resorting to violence to express its opposition to Obamacare, or the wholly unsubstantiated charges of spittle and racial epithets supposedly hurled at Democratic congressional provocateurs during the Tea Ba'ggers' recent rally in Washington.
King's rhetoric is so far over the top that it's embarassing. Consider this ripe passage:
That Colbert can identify Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck with George Wallace is merely inflammatory, irresponsible, and borderline libelous. Limbaugh and Beck are often over the top, but they are not racists. But for King to include Sean Hannity in the comparison is to forfeit any right to serious consideration by thoughtful people.
I have no doubt that there were whack jobs among the Teabaggers at that rally. Of course the signs King cites are nutty. But they are no nuttier than the excessive, malicious and libelous rhetoric of fanatics like King and other Leftists in and out of the media, who are continuing the same pattern of behavior we saw from them during the administration of Bush 43: when frustrated by an inability to answer the arguments of those they disagree with, they simply start spewing ad hominems, with utter and reckless disregard for truth or even proportion.
Mr. King, you should be ashamed of yourself.
HT: Real Clear Politics
King's rhetoric is so far over the top that it's embarassing. Consider this ripe passage:
Without folks like them, there would be no Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity or Pat Buchanan. There would never have been a George Corley Wallace, the Alabama governor dubbed by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Diane McWhorter in a 2008 Slate article as "the godfather, avatar of a national uprising against the three G's of government, Godlessness, and gun control."Gee. I guess anybody who worries about an excessively powerful government, about the increasing spiritual vacuity of our common life, and about an admittedly questionable but very admissible interpretation of the Second Amendment must be a racist. Care to try again, Mr. King? Ms. McWhorter?
That Colbert can identify Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck with George Wallace is merely inflammatory, irresponsible, and borderline libelous. Limbaugh and Beck are often over the top, but they are not racists. But for King to include Sean Hannity in the comparison is to forfeit any right to serious consideration by thoughtful people.
I have no doubt that there were whack jobs among the Teabaggers at that rally. Of course the signs King cites are nutty. But they are no nuttier than the excessive, malicious and libelous rhetoric of fanatics like King and other Leftists in and out of the media, who are continuing the same pattern of behavior we saw from them during the administration of Bush 43: when frustrated by an inability to answer the arguments of those they disagree with, they simply start spewing ad hominems, with utter and reckless disregard for truth or even proportion.
Mr. King, you should be ashamed of yourself.
HT: Real Clear Politics
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