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Frightening GOP Behavior

March 26th, 2010 No comments

link  James Zogby: Frightening GOP Behavior.

I seldom, actually, never read articles from the Huffington Post because I prefer news straight up rather than shaken and twisted.  However, their headlines creep occasionally into the popular press and you can’t avoid their unhinged hyperbole.

This article is typical of the types of news and opinion pieces posted since the passage of the US Healthcare bill.  To distract attention from the wildly unpopular means by which this bill was passed, the left dominated media is playing up stories of “violent” and “dangerous” right wingers who purportedly are threatening Democratic supporters of the bill.  Naturally, racism is also invoked.   Apparently, Sarah Palin is behind the hatred.

Without line by line debunking of this authors’ claims about democracy in action, blah blah blah, let’s just focus on what specific incidences of hatred and violence they are talking about.  Play the tape.

Hmm, nothing.  Nothing on tape, nothing on video.  Let’s contrast that to the recent enlightened display by peace loving Canadians at an Ottawa university where yelling and fist pumping students wouldn’t even allow Ann Coulter to speak.  These peace loving and inclusive people were deemed to be such risk to everyone there,  that the engagement was cancelled.  Contrast this again to the events of last night in Calgary where Coulter had another engagement.  According to The National Post:

“…Meanwhile, last night about 40 protesters stood gathered outside the entrance to the Red and White Club at Calgary’s McMahon Stadium waving homemade signs and chanting “Ann Coulter go home” and “free speech not hate speech,” while about 900 students and ticketholders filed in quietly and orderly. Just a handful of police officers and security guards stood watch, silently….”
 
Readers of  the Huffington Post as well as readers of The National Review at the other end of the political spectrum will be predisposed to certain belief systems, so no harm is really done by absorbing their respective viewpoints.   The harm is when people accept opinions masked as fact.  That’s unlikely to happen to people who are reasonably intelligent but it will influence those that are more trusting of everything they hear in the media.  With the dominance of the left in popular media, that’s what is truly frightening.