Posted by
Patrick Henry on Thursday, September 02, 2010 6:46:15 PM
The mainstream media and liberal Democrats have doubled down on their random
accusations of hate speech, racism and violence-baiting against conservatives. Their
favorite target at the moment is Glenn Beck, whom former DNC Chairman Howard
Dean recently called a "racist" and "hatemonger." But a telescopic view of media
and political speech these days lays bare the real source of vitriol poisoning modern
discourse, and some dreadful consequences of it.
If you took in Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally, you heard little, if any, political
discourse, per se. Instead, there was a lot of praise for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,
and various exhortations to personal spirituality and honesty. There was zero hate
speech, no threats, no obvious anger, no fingers pointed at any political party and
no signs whatever of racism except for the little black boys paid by the New Black
Panthers to parade through the rally carrying a sign saying, "All White People Are
Racists."
As a result Beck was pilloried by the Washington Post for saying things that were
so unpolitical they were political (whatever that doubletalk means), slandered by the
New York Times, MSNBC and Time as a racially motivated hate leader, labeled as
previously mentioned by Dean who also suggested there was something amiss in
Beck's head, and viciously smeared by the NAACP for trying to "hijack" the
message of Martin Luther King. Liberal scribe Bill Press lamented the mention of
God at the sacred Lincoln Memorial, although Lincoln mentioned God repeatedly
in his speeches as did King at the very place from which Beck and the others spoke.
Beck and the Tea Party have drawn incredible over-the-top fang and dagger attacks,
and ALL of them have come from Democrats and the mainstream media.
As if that were not enough, Obama Labor Secretray Hilda Solis sponsored Delores
Huerta, honorary head of the National Democratic Socialist Party, to make tapes
and presentations to illegal aliens about their rights to fair wages. In such a speech
made recently to a Phoenix area magnet high school, Huerta praised Hugo Chavez
and Venezuela, and led the young people in repeating the "phrase of the day." The
phrase was, "Republicans hate Latinos." This is hate speech and race-baiting of the
vilest kind, and it's paid for with your tax dollars and mine. Between this incident,
"the police acted stupidly" knee jerk and the words and actions of DOJ offcials
Eric Holder and Thomas Perez, Obama and his administration are caught naked
in racial demagoguery and incitement to hatred. In so doing they have lost any
claim to moral high ground when addressing either hate or race, and no one should
pay even the slightest heed to their pompous babble. They have shamed themselves
as both racists and haters, and severely damaged, rather than encouraged racial
reconciliation and understanding.
But so what? It's all just words, right? Wrong! When Tea Party protestors went
to Washington to protest congressional tax and spending policies, numerous
Democrats and two former Democratic presidents warned and even predicted
that their anger would lead to violence. Yet in this age of camera phones, streaming
24/7 media and close political scrutiny, not one single instance of violence traceable
to the Tea Party or Glenn Beck has been proven. Not one! The people at the rally
on Saturday were amiable and well-behaved and, for the most part, even picked
up after themselves. There was no violence.
So where do we see the violence? I recount three very recent instances, though
there are dozens more. At a Tea Party rally in St. Louis, a young black man named
Kenny Gladney was passing out American flags, a Tea Party habit. For his trouble
he was called by a racial slur and physically attacked by labor union thugs wearing
SEIU tee shirts. The only violence at the rally was liberal shills assaulting a conservative
who was also black. Last Sunday night, left-wing activist and Hollywood actor John
Cusack let fly on twitter a rant against conservatives, calling for "satanic death cults"
at the offices of former House Majority Leader Armey, former House Speaker
Newt Gingrich and FOX News. Many non-partisan psychological professionals
reacted with alarm, concerned that Cusack's celebrity might lead some of his fans
to actually carry out acts of violence against the targets of his hate tirade. Finally,
yesterday, James Lee, a radical environmentalist angered at the Discovery Channel
for not advocating against the "polluting births" of "filthy human babies," armed
himself with a handgun and an assortment of pipe bombs and stormed the network's
headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, taking four hostages. Shot and killed by
police sharpshooters, Lee became a martyr for the radical leftist environmental
movement. His source of inspiration? Al Gore's pseudo-documentary, "An
Inconvenient Truth." So by this mini-count Al Gore, John Cusack and the SEIU
have together, spewed more hate and caused more actual violence than Glenn Beck
and the Tea Party put together.
The majority and the nastiest of the hate speech is coming from the left. And
they clearly have more than enough nut jobs to act on it. It happens when people
see power ebbing away like so much sand slipping through their fingers. But that
doesn't justify or make it less than the hate-mongering trash talk it is.