Left Wing Love

I could not disagree more with Obama... but i wish him no harm. I could not disagree more with Ted Kennedy... but i feel terrible he is suffering from brain cancer.
What do you think of someone who says the following: the world would be better off without him? That after Tony Snow announced his cancer had returned. The pope is a primate. Evangelicals are nut cases. Better luck next time after an assassination plot against Vice President Cheney in Afghanistan. And some attacks against coalition forces in Iraq are legitimate.
All of those thoughts were posted on a vicious far-left website called the Daily Kos, one of the worst examples of hatred America has to offer.
This summer, that website is having a convention in Chicago. And only one major corporation has stepped up as a sponsor. That company is JetBlue, the airline that melted down last winter.
JetBlue was contacted last week to ask why. Why would it sponsor a hateful website? It had no answer. I'm really not going to mix politics from the standpoint of running our business.
This seemed like a rather absurd answer inasmuch as Daily Kos is indeed a political website,and if you are going to sponsor it,you are indeed mixing politics with the running of your business.
Regardless,this is what Markos Moulitsas, the proprietor of Daily Kos, posted about this issue Monday evening:
I'm still in Greece, coming home tomorrow, but checking my email I see that O'Reilly set his hatemongers off on our humble little site.
Of course Fox News is pissed that we killed their Democratic debates while just about the entire party leadership and presidential candidates will be at YearlyKos.So they send their pit bull to attack. And his minions have responded.
Markos then shared some e-mail messages with his readers to make an absurdly specious point about this being Irony in spades, layer after layer of it.
Yet, Markos seemed to miss the difference between e-mail messages and posts at ones website. If these hateful comments were found at either FoxNews.com or BillOreilly.com, that would be ironic. Folks sending him e-mail messages is by no means analogous:
But what can you say when O'Reilly runs the most hate-filled television show in cableland, on the Republican Party's premier propaganda outlet?
Really, par for the course.
Actually, whats par for the course is how Markos and his ilk call opposing views hate.
It's like the Ku Klux Klan. It's like the Nazi party. There's no difference here. People should die. They want Tony Snow to die. Cheney to die.The overwhelming majority of Americans have never heard of Daily Kos or Markos Moulitsas. A few airline tickets is cheap advertising for JetBlue to all of the Kossacks and YearlyKos attendees.The cost/benefit analysis was clearly a positive one until OReilly did this segment.
Should JetBlue have been concerned about such a backlash? Probably not. After all,the major Democrat presidential candidates are going to be in attendance.If theyre not concerned about a backlash,why should JetBlue be?
Taking this a step further,if conservatives were disappointed by the efforts of the netroots and Daily Kos to get corporations to stop sponsoring KSFO,the conservative radio station in the San Francisco Bay Area,I think it would be hypocritical to come down on JetBlue for giving these folks a few airline tickets.
What is hate-speech?Is this a subjective term,or something perfectly objective?Isnt one mans hate-speech another mans opining?Before we can determine exactly what the difference is,in this Internet Era of seemingly limitless freedom of expression which we all should revel in rather than fear,it appears prudent to slowly wade through these waters.After all,the left is now advocating the reinstitution of the Fairness Doctrine.As the right seems uniquely aware,this is clearly a move to kill free speech along with conservative talk radio.With that in mind,it seems appropriate for the right to be cautious when pointing fingers at clearly left-leaning websites,for it could bealbeit speciously!used as a justification for reviving the Fairness Doctrine along with implementing further government regulation of all forms of media including the Internet.

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[USA04July1776]

I left the Democratic party because of liberals.

[quesondriac]

O'Reilly is a douchebag!

[jkovert]

You talk too much.

[hansson2000]

yes this is a display of right wing conservativ agenda... keep your mouth shut and stop complaing get job the only we have.. the military and do as ur told

[quakemack]

@gotigers362 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

owned... freaking love that response...

[LizzyxDarcy]

I don't like or trust O'Reilly or Williams...

[jays2474]

Im a middle class blue collar teamster.I wont vote democrat because of these people.They have nothing in common with me.Until democrats change leadership and show somekind of interest in thier middleclass traditional values voting base I wont even consider voting for that party.

[theshaggyshow]

Gore's stupid wife finally got smart, and left him...

[friginator]

Well, technically, the Pope actually is a primate, but I get what you're saying. Good to see that there are still some people who are willing to act like adults when it comes to politics.

[gotigers362]

I did the same USA04July1776.