Submitted by Lawrence Rafferty, (rafflaw), Guest Blogger
Since Professor Turley is snowbound in the Winter Wonderland, the weekend warriors are back to bring your blood pressure up!
I have been critical of the Right Wing Mass Media for its continual banging of the drum of hate towards President Obama and the Democrats in general. Now, there are times that the Democrats and President Obama should be called on the carpet. For instance, for not confronting the Bush torture crowd and for claiming that the President has the authority to kill American citizens without due process, just to name a couple. However, the civility that President Obama has asked for in his latest speeches, have gone unheeded by many on the Right and some on the Left.
We all succumb to the emotion at times and say things that we shouldn’t, but the Right seems to carry these statements to an extreme and they are unapologetic for it. Yesterday, fans of Rush Limbaugh faxed death threats to California State Representative and San Francisco Mayoral candidate, Leland Yee, because Lee had requested Rush to apologize for Rush’s ill-tempered and racially charged comments about the Chinese President during his recent visit to the United States. Rush mocked President Hu Jintao’s speech and Mr. Yee “..said Limbaugh owes the Chinese community an apology for his “pointless and ugly offense.” ‘. http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/crime/2011/01/leland-yee-receives-racist-death-threat
You can guess the result of State Rep. Lee’s request for an apology from Rush Limbaugh. He continued his rant and mocked Rep. Lee on the next program. I know some of you will want to know why the authorities believe that Rush’s fans are behind the death threats. Take a look at one of the faxes on the link below and you will understand. Rep. Lee received similar threats in April of last year that are also being investigated.
I would put the fax on here, but the language is a bit “rough”. See below for a link to the faxes in question. Those who continue to voice their ugly rhetoric in the mass media have a responsibility for the result of that rhetoric. I for one think they are getting the response that they are looking for. What do you think?
http://www.sfexaminer.com/files/blog_files/Yee%20threat%20flier.pdf
Submitted by Lawrence Rafferty, (rafflaw), Guest Blogger
Chan,
You’re simply not equipped to hurt my feelings, but you keep up that misinformed delusion too if makes you feel better.
By the way, the idea of somebody without a social conscience who operates off a “greed first” mentality being the least bit concerned about somebody else’s “feelings”?
Is just funnier than Hell.
Buddha:
did I hurt your feelings by not mentioning you? I am so sorry for the oversight, of course you are one of the smartest people I know and the best educated of all.
Elaine M:
only my opinion.
Elaine,
When one is themselves covered in filth, sometimes all they can see is filth.
The rest, as you suggest, is mere psychological projection.
I’ve been pondering the question: What makes a leftist filthy?
Possibly the “dirty” minds of some right-wingers???
Given that you make up terminology to suit your faulty premises, are demonstrably and admittedly greedy and completely devoid of a social conscience, Chan? I’m pretty sure nobody – but especially liberals – cares about your assessments of what is or isn’t liberal. Or about anything else for that matter. Especially since you’re a propaganda organ for Hillsdale Clown College, a self-described “citadel of conservatism”.
Say, has your tuition gone up since the college had to pay the ridiculous severance package for former President Roche after he resigned because he was having an affair with his 42 year old daughter in law, Lissa Roche?
Yeah. Nothing better encapsulates “conservative family values” like paying some scumbag off to leave his job after he’s busted screwing over his son and outed screwing his daughter in law. Literally.
You can call that retrograde “greed is good” Libertarian bullshit “liberal” all you want. It no more makes it liberal than your false equivalences in terminology makes Marxism the equivalent of socialism. It also doesn’t change that you, an admittedly greed driven person without a social conscience, are about as far from liberal as the Earth is from Andromeda. And the idea that a theocratic zealot racist is the primary person on this blog you can identify with? That’s just a tribute to the low quality of education and total lack of ethical underpinning you get at a racist ideologically driven school like that “citadel of conservatism” you’re so proud of: Hillsdale College.
http://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/15/us/scandal-rocks-a-conservative-campus.html
http://www.salon.com/books/it/2000/01/19/hillsdale/print.html
Garbage in, garbage out is especially true if the mechanism they feed the garbage into is garbage itself.
Chan L.,
Everyone here claims to be educated? Really? I don’t think regular contributors to this blog are in the habit of posting their curricula vitae.
BTW, I was wondering who appointed you to the exalted position of Arbiter of Who Is an Educated Person???
😉
Chan L.,
How did you get so smart? I admire your intelligence, how did you get your ability to think like that?
Buckeye:
Tootie is a Christian Libertarian. She has read many libertarian works. She is as most of the progressives on this blog except she just believes something else.
Everyone here claims to be educated but from my experience, limited though it is, I count only 2 who truly are-Bob Esq and Mespo727272.
Mespo727272 because of his knowledge of Classical literature and Bob Esq because of his knowledge of philosophy and they both seem to understand and apply those influences in the law.
What makes a leftist filthy in your mind tooties? How do they become filthy? I would surmise that most liberals are better educated than propagandist fed right wingers. Life goes on and on.
Tootie:
has it finely gotten to you? Why do you call leftist filthy?
Do they not take baths? Do they use “filthy” language?
Just what makes a leftist filthy?
Tootie
I can’t find anything on Harold Stevenson; perhaps you could give a link. I also can’t find anything on Szatz, though there is a Szasz who has been published and whose theory of mental illness is different to say the least.
About Szas(t)z you stated you don’t know and you don’t need to know, which is may be just as well in his case, and confirms my impression that you prefer to project your opinions rather than convince anyone with reputable sources.
If it is only your opinions that are important to you, how will you learn anything new by considering other’s opinions which are informed by reputable sources? Part of the reason for participating in blogs like this one is to learn new information which will help you make decisions important to your life.
But thanks for trying and good luck with your future decisions.
rafflaw:
Unlike filthy leftists, whose current business model is to stick to ideology even if it isn’t profitable (like the NY Times or MSNBC), companies like Clear Channel do that which is going to be profitable. If being lefty was profitable, they would do that. And I’m not saying lefty radio won’t be as profitable as right-wing radio some day. I’m just saying it isn’t at this time.
And if the filthy leftists had the power Clear Channel had, they’d be quite happy about it too. They are just cranky that it’s not them. Leftists are mostly furious that right wingers have any voice in the electronic media, because before talk radio, cable TV, and the internet, they had ALL of it (NBC, ABC, and CBS). And when I was growing up radio was mostly music or information minus any real content about politics.
When the filthy leftists had control over all the electronic media (while I was growing up in the 60s and 70s) they never worried about any fairness doctrine. They made all the money and were very content with their monopoly (aided by government) during a time period when America was even more center right than it is now.
It wasn’t UNTIL freedom broke through with talk radio, cable, and the internet, that right-wingers had any substantial voice in US media. This must have been shocking for people accustomed to having complete control over the electronic media for nearly half a century. And now that right wing media finally has outlets all we hear is the whining and crying from the filthy left.
Poor babies.
Right wingers were shut out nearly completely for decades except for Bill Buckley (Firing Line–first with WOR-TV then with PBS until it ended). There was Crossfire too, but that was controlled by the leftist media (CNN)and also featured a left-winger (big surprise!). That was about it for most of my life until the new media. Every news outlet and news program (nightly news hours included) was slanted left, from Walter Cronkite on down.
The leftists who controlled the media during my formative years controlled it for ideology’s sake, even though they made money hand over fist (even at PBS). Just ask that filthy rich leftist Bill Moyers. Of course they made all the money, they were the monopoly.
But it wasn’t until the new media that we learned they were primarily motivated by power and ideology. They wanted to control the minds of Americans. And no matter how badly they would suffer in the ratings by maintaining their old ways (while cable and talk radio soared in popularity)they continued with their propaganda over profits model. Which is fine on their own dime. The problem is the whining and complaining about profits AND propaganda (by the right). After all the years they controlled the media and profited, it is just a tad too much to hear them suddenly interested in content and fairness when we know that they would shut down fairness if they could and provide only one view: theirs.
So it is very frustrating to the filthy leftists who controlled all the mainstream (mass) media for decades to have to share power. And now its always the whining and crying, slandering and sniveling, lying and pouting, attacking and griping, smearing and complaining, loathing and tantrums, and threats to shut down the free flow of ideas.
http://talkers.com/online/?p=3774
Ahhh.
The pleasures of a day away repaid by watching my friends make the troll patrol look foolish in my absence.
That’s the beauty of sharing!
Tootie,
It is not a fact just because you say it is. I have told you that before. Look up the ratings of lefty talk radio hosts vs. the righties when they are in the same markets. I am not suggesting that Shock Jocks are lefty or righty. I am talking about talk show hosts whose main thrust of the programming is politics. Don’t confuse shock jocks with political talk show hosts.
Corporations are the ones calling the shots in radio, just like everything else. When you have big conglomerates like Clear Channel and others making the decision, they don’t want progressive radio hosts confusing the listeners with facts. Nonsense and conspiracy theories are more profitable because it will rile up their political base without having to deal with facts and the truth getting in the way. One more thing. Don’t call Leftists filthy. Thanks.
Buck:
There ARE any reputable folks in psychology today? That is funny.
Okay, Harold Stevenson appears to be a very reputable fellow, but I don’t think he has done anything regarding depravity. Szatz is reputable but I don’t know what he thinks about it, and frankly I don’t need to know.
Only nincompoops need to consult such experts about the nature of evil.
1) Since the word depraved predates the fields of psy and soc by well over 500 years (if I did my math correctly), I doubt I need to be informed by some half-baked kook (most likely depraved himself) as to what a depraved person is. But if you would like a little run down on why leftist are depraved, I certainly don’t mind tossing out a few examples.
48 million lives snuffed out in the womb is depravity at its best…er…uh…I mean…it’s worst. This is a really really really BIG deal. And a really BAD thing. And it alone is enough to merit the label.
Also, a life of crime ought to be considered a form of depravity. And thus, after living ones entire adult life (as leftists and Democrats do) fully dedicated to robbing others of their money through confiscatory taxation, the label of depravity certainly fits them well. Both robbers and the Democrats will most likely tell you their thievery was necessary.
Now, the evil nature of robbery has been understood for around what? 6,000 years that we know of? And, silly you, unless an “expert” fills you in on it, you don’t think you can determine that a life committed to robbery it is depraved?
I wouldn’t believe that of you. You know better than that.
2) Now the first (English) use of the word normal was in 1738 according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary online. This word thus predates the quacks…I mean the psychologists. It is easy, even for a kindergartner to determine what normal means. For example: normal people get hungry during the day. Normal people get thirsty. Normal people like to have a happy life. And so on and so forth. This is not much of a mysterious thing such that we would need to consult quacks…I mean ducks…UGGG!…I mean psychologists!
Sheesh, sorry, sometimes I get so confused.
2b) What normal people wish to hear? Normal people wish to hear what they are turning the radio on to listen to. I would think that if they turned the radio on day after day after day to listen to Rush and HATED listening to him, that that would likely NOT be normal. Especially if it made Rush a cool 400 million dollars or whatever it is.
3) Um, the illiteracy I refer to is of the sort in which ignorance results from not reading. I’m not talking about the act of ciphering the language (though that kind of illiteracy is completely the fault of Democrats and you can learn about that from Phyllis Schalfly at her website called Eagle Forum (dot org). You could consult her Education Reporter section.
But I am talking about the kind of illiteracy which comes from a lack of reading. And when Americans do not know basic American and World History, and haven’t read even great American literature, we can be sure (with a little encouragement) they got this way because Democrats are in charge of the teachers’ unions, the colleges of education, and the accreditation organizations that have made sure to write these important studies out of school curricula.
Have you missed this decades long debate between Bill Bennett and the blob (the education establishment run by the left?).
If so you must be very young or not paying attention (maybe you are not reading enough?????
And then there’s that recent polling that revealed Americans (especially Christians) know very little about religion.
See that here:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/religion/july-dec10/religion_09-28.html
So it is easy to come to the conclusion without much effort (and certainly without any assistance from the quackaroos) that Americans are an ignorant bunch by virtue of their reading habits (especially in school).
By the way, I Googled the phrase “What Americans Do Not Know” and got over 57 million hits. Yikes. (I googled the same for the Canadians and got nearly 200 million hits. LOL
An interesting summary of the problem is here:
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=120061&page=1
5). I meant that Americans have chosen right-wing radio (stupidity) over left-wing radio (evil). And this is a fact. Americans who listen to radio cannot stand listening to leftists and that is the only reason why there isn’t the phenomenon on the left that there is on the right. If Americans preferred listening to leftists, left-wing radio would at least be as powerful as right wing radio. And the station owners would not care who was bloviating over the mic as long as the money was rolling in.
But the money doesn’t roll in with left-wing talk radio (unless it is filth like Howard Stern).
Gee, I’m so surprised, filthy leftists are popular.
Stamford Yankee Liberal:
“One question – your posts indicate that you are quite adept at economics…”
that is very kind but I haven’t engaged in the depth of study required to become an expert. The ideas seem alien to you because they are not mainstream, they used to be but progressive economics has overtaken the field. Jesus De Soto and others are making in roads into the Keynesian castle but their ideas are not proclaimed on MSNBC or in the pages of The Nation.
Stamford Liberal Yankee:
No, I know a little about economics. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know that if you don’t have money and need to print it, the value of the dollar goes down.
It is pretty simple stuff actually and many people from Say and Bastiat to Von Mises and De Soto would disagree with Krugman as well and I don’t believe any of them have Nobel prizes either.
So by your standard a person must have a Nobel prize for their ideas to have merit? So why should I believe what you are saying? Where is your Nobel Prize or anyone else’s on this blog for that matter?
Stamford Liberal:
why do I need one to be able to determine if he is a hack or not?
If you devalue your money what happens? Don’t you think printing money is going to devalue it? The Federal Reserve can create money from cotton. They are better than the old Alchemists.
“your posts indicate that you are quite adept at economics”
That should have read, “your posts indicate that you THINK you are adept at economics.”