Frightening GOP Behavior
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: