The hateful harbingers of 'change'
I fear for us, these next four years
The hateful harbingers of 'change'
Two of my good lady lawyer friends, smart and conservative and courageous, recently made me aware of just how low some liberals will sink when they are drunk on pyrrhic victory.
Linda Kerns, a tenacious defender of the right to vote, posted on her Facebook page a link to a recent Fox News Story involving Martin Bashir, Charles Krauthammer, and hateful hypocrisy. Commenting on Krauthammer’s appearance on Fox after the election, Bashir quipped to his MSNBC audience that ““Now I need to apologize to any young viewers who may have been frightened by that face.”
“That face” is one that poignantly reflects in its features the peerless courage of a man who was paralyzed while in medical school, completed his Harvard degree, became a certified member of the American Board of Psychology and Neurology and, in his free time, picked up a Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1987.
Bashir, a British journalist of Pakistani descent, is not the first media liberal to criticize the revered conservative pundit. He is simply the latest, and in his petty and pathetic commentary proves just how unhinged, to borrow a phrase from Michelle Malkin, the institutional Left has become. They are so concerned with tolerance, but find nothing at all wrong with ridiculing a man who lives a daily calvary and neither complains nor seeks justification. I wonder what would happen if I were to make fun of Bashir’s skin color, his funny accent or his foreign status.
Actually, I don’t have to wonder.
And then comes my beloved friend Tara, champion of the unborn and a tireless defender of at-risk children (and a mother of five of her own) who tells me of the craziness she’s seen on Facebook postings, where rabid females wild with the blood lust of electoral victory see fit to make comments like “Paul Ryan is a Douchebag,” “Paul Ryan is Evil,” “Paul Ryan is a Bitch Puppet,” “Republicans are Morally and Mentally Challenged,” and of course the usual liberal catch phrase “Theocracy was dealt a crushing blow yesterday. Let's *keep* it that way.”
I know that conservatives can be offensive. I hate some of what passes for educated punditry on the right. And I am not, I repeat not, a fan of Ann Coulter (who at least, however, knows how to spell.)
But when you see what disgusting things have arisen from the damp, post-election earth, you have to wonder where our country is headed, with such as this in the driver’s seat.
Wonder, and shudder.
Ed, a word please. If you read over the next to last paragraph of this piece it says quite clearly:
"I know that conservatives can be offensive. I hate some of what passes for educated punditry on the right. And I am not, I repeat not, a fan of Ann Coulter (who at least, however, knows how to spell.)"
I think that qualifies as a criticism of the right. (Even Charles called those politicians who commented insensitively about rape - "morons".)
We all need to "lighten up" and see the humor and satire in the whole political scene.
And I am not a far right conservative.
8-)— Gendres- G, you know Flowers doesn't really condemn her own side. She is the worst, nastiest, partisan hack ever...besides Ann Coulter (whom she evidently longs to be).
Also, there's never any actual humor in a Flowers piece...just sad, pathetic, unfunny "humor."
Flowers needs to go and your sickening sycophancy needs to stop, too. It's all quite barfalicious.— sophistry 
That's right Gendres, these darn libruls need to Lighten Up. I've been called a Pinhead on these boards many times. Does it bother me? HECK no, because well, look at me: I AM a pinead!- O yes, Gendres, what a full-throated condemnation that was! So bold and so brave. And what a complete and utter joke.
Ms. Flowers proudly declared her changed affiliation to a member of the Republican party a few months ago. This is a party who in its modern incarnation began its electoral successes with the Southern Strategy and as recently as a few election cycles ago, they were using irrational fears of gay people in ballot questions on gay marriage to drive wedges in the electorate. Their entire electoral philosophy has been to win through denigration of groups to bolster their support. And she has proudly aligned herself with this group. And it has not ended with this group, either, painting Barack Obama as the other by whatever means necessary (Kenyan, Muslim, marxist, socialist) and dehumanizing Michelle Obama so it was okay and fashionable to mock her (Moochelle anyone?).
So really, for Ms. Flowers to complain about what Martin Bashir said is truly a pathetic comparison to what the right has said and she is a joke for trying to do this. But you will defend her because she makes use of the pathetic technique of mildly calling out someone on her side as well so that she does not seem like a hypocrite.
I'm not buying. Liberals have been mocked and called names for decades and are finally starting to stand up and give back what they get and now Ms. Flowers clutches at her pearls about the lack of civility? Get over it... if you wanted to any credibility, you should have been condemning this activity when it was your party doing it... not once it started happening to you as well.— Ed G 
Speaking of harbingers, presidential lies are harbingers to presidential resignations.
Nixon, Watergate. Obama, Benghazi.— PlumberJoe- Having read much of Krauthammer's opinions, it is his words which frighten me more than his face. Considering the comparisions he's made on those who disagree with him, Bashir's comment on Krauthammer's face (which was not directed at his disability) is very much deserved.— Lancer248
- That's the face of a bitter, nasty, war-mongering racist, a man driven by nothing but a personal animus for Obama. A man who spent years sitting in his chair at Fox and cheer-led the Bush wars. A man who shares blame for the needless deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, a man with blood on his hands. I'm not surprised krauthammer is a "revered" pundit, after all you have Limbaugh, Hannity, Coulter, and the rest of the clowns (in the John Wayne Gacy sense).
I like Bashir. He's funny, and he's on the right side. More power to him.— carl and sons
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