More On Liberal Rage

By: Jason Maoz

Published: February 16th, 2011
Latest update: April 24th, 2012

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Our column week before last, “No Hate Like Liberal Hate,” drew a number of interesting responses from readers, many of whom submitted their own favorite morsels of liberal hate speech. A few noted that for many years Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby devoted a column every December to the year’s most egregious examples of liberal hate.

One reader sent a link to Jacoby’s 2004 column (2004 was a particularly rewarding year for those interested in mining the depths of liberal rage, as the Monitor hopefully demonstrated two weeks ago).

Jacoby described 2004 as “another year in which liberals engaged in, and mostly got away with, grotesque slanders and slurs about conservatives – the kind of poisonous rhetoric that should be beyond the pale in a decent society.”

That liberals are world-class haters is a fact of life that should be apparent to anyone with an IQ higher than that of a typical television anchorperson.

In his 2004 column, Jacoby observed that “Republicans were almost routinely associated with Nazi Germany.” Former vice president Al Gore characterized Republican activists as “brown shirts” while singer Linda Ronstadt, reflecting on the reelection of George W. Bush, lamented that “we’ve got a new bunch of Hitlers.”

Left-wing crank Bill Moyers, formerly Lyndon Johnson’s political hatchet man and easily one of the most overrated men in the history of television news, told viewers that if Democrat John Kerry were to defeat Bush by a narrow margin, “I think there’d be an effort to mount a coup, quite frankly…. The right wing is not going to accept it.”

And consider the lovely liberal sentiments voiced in an ad paid for by the St. Petersburg, Fla., Democratic Club that called for the assassination of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. The ad read, “Then there’s Rumsfeld, who said of Iraq, ‘We have our good days and our bad days.’ We should put this S.O.B. up against a wall and say, ‘This is one of our bad days,’ and pull the trigger.”

Speaking of liberal bloodlust, in 2004 the prestigious publisher Alfred A. Knopf came out with a thinly plotted novel by Nicholson Baker in which a couple of Bush haters spend the entire book arguing the merits of killing President Bush.

It is inconceivable that a mainstream publishing house would even entertain the idea of putting its imprimatur on a novel that discussed in such graphic detail the planned killing of a Democratic president.

Tarring Republicans with the “Nazi” or “racist” label is, of course, old hat for liberal hatemongers. Here’s disgraced Harlem congressman Charles Rangel, one of the more accomplished name-callers in the recent history of Capitol Hill, responding in the mid-90′s to a Republican tax-cutting initiative:

“It’s about race and a certain costume change. Where once it was the sheets and hoods of the Klan, it’s now the black suits and red ties of conservative politicians. It’s not ‘spic’ or ‘nigger’ anymore. They say, ‘Let’s cut taxes.’ “

Here’s Rangel again, referring to the Republicans’ 1994 Contract With America: “When I compare this to what happened in Germany, I hope you see the similarities to what is happening to us.”

When George W. Bush chose John Ashcroft as his attorney general shortly before being inaugurated to his first term in January 2001, Representative William Clay, Democrat of Missouri, Ashcroft’s home state, said the choice reminded him of “the way Ku Klux Klan members worked to improve race relations; they, too, reached out to blacks with nooses and burning crosses.”

Some months after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the actress Sandra Bernhard, a proud and outspoken liberal, opined that “the real terrorist threats” to the nation “are George W. Bush and his band of brown-shirted thugs.”

Liberals like Bernhard, Michael Moore, Howard Dean, Harry Belafonte, and others too numerous too mention have spent years impugning the motives, intelligence, integrity, patriotism and simple human decency of conservatives.

Black Republicans have come in for a particularly tough time at the hands of liberals, especially black liberals, who tend to portray black conservatives – actually, not just black conservatives but even moderate black Republicans like Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice – as Uncle Toms, Aunt Jemimas, slaves working on their masters’ plantations, and worse.

But if you believe the liberal media, it’s Republicans and conservatives and (shudder) Tea Party Neanderthals who threaten the country’s stability with intemperate statements, uncivil discourse, and hate-filled rants.

Jason Maoz can be contacted at jmaoz@jewishpress.com