Bigotry: Our Most Important Product
Daily Kos posted the following list from one of its diaries as a pre-Christmas Open Thread. It derives from Media Matters and is a list of the most outrageous, bigoted, and deliberately hurtful statements of 2005 in the Conservative Parallel Media Universe.
In bringing this forward when he did, I'm afraid Markos showed an unfortunate lapse of taste. These things do not mix well with whatever Holiday Cheer any of us can muster, and they do not allow even the option of a day of gracious contact between political adversaries in the common space of sentiments we really all share. Not that some of our good Conservative friends haven't been trying to use even Christmas as a stick to beat us with, but even the possibility that the actual Holiday itself might call a temporary truce, as between the trenches on the Western Front, is worth giving a fighting chance.
But Christmas is over and these disgusting tidbits need publication far and wide as representative of the sheer pointless hatefulness and bile that our adversaries spew all the time, regardless of situation, context, or even the fact their own political advantage in the government at the moment.
Former Reagan administration Secretary of Education Bill Bennett: "[Y]ou could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down." [Salem Radio Network's Bill Bennett's Morning in America, 9/28/05]
Bill O'Reilly, agreeing with a caller that illegal immigrants are "biological weapon[s]": "I think you could probably make an absolutely airtight case that more than 3,000 Americans have been either killed or injured, based upon the 11 million illegals who are here." [Westwood One's The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly, 4/15/05]
Ann Coulter: "Isn't it great to see Muslims celebrating something other than the slaughter of Americans?" [Syndicated column, 2/3/05] "I'm getting a little fed up with hearing about, oh, civilian casualties"; "I think we ought to nuke North Korea right now just to give the rest of the world a warning." [New York Observer, 1/10/05]; "[T]he government should be spying on all Arabs, engaging in torture as a televised spectator sport, dropping daisy cutters wantonly throughout the Middle East and sending liberals to Guantanamo".
Rush Limbaugh: "Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of society." [The Rush Limbaugh Show, 8/12/05], on the kidnapping of peace activists in Iraq: "I'm telling you, folks, there's a part of me that likes this." [The Rush Limbaugh Show, 11/29/05]
Radio host Glenn Beck: "[Y]ou know it took me about a year to start hating the 9-11 victims' families? Took me about a year." [Premiere Radio Networks' The Glenn Beck Program, 9/9/05]
American Family Association president Tim Wildmon: Liberals "don't have the kind of family responsibilities most people have, and certainly not church responsibilities." [American Family Radio's Today's Issues, 5/11/05]
Radio host Neal Boortz on the execution of Stanley "Tookie" Williams: "[T]here will be riots in South Central Los Angeles and elsewhere. ... The rioting, of course, will lead to wide scale looting. There are a lot of aspiring rappers and NBA superstars who could really use a nice flat-screen television right now." [Boortz.com, 12/12/05] , and suggesting that a victim of Hurricane Katrina housed in an Atlanta hotel consider prostitution: "I dare say she could walk out of that hotel and walk 100 yards in either direction on Fulton Industrial Boulevard here in Atlanta and have a job. What's that? Well, no, no, no. ... Well, you know what? [laughing] Now that you mention it ... [i]f that's the only way she can take care of herself, it sure beats the hell out of sucking off the taxpayers." [Cox Radio Syndication's The Neal Boortz Show, 10/24/05]
Accuracy in Media editor Cliff Kincaid: "Have you noticed that many news organizations, in honor of former ABC News anchorman Peter Jennings, have embarked on a quit smoking campaign? So why don't our media launch a campaign advising people to quit engaging in the dangerous and addictive homosexual lifestyle? ... It appears that the homosexual lifestyle is as addictive as smoking." [Accuracy in Media column, 12/14/05]
We no longer make much steel here. We no longer make many garments here. We are well on our way to ceasing to make cars here, except for the automakers who are owned abroad. Or any of the parts for them. But, at least in some quarters, we still make more bigotry than we can consume locally. And since all of the above Conservative writers and broadcast commentators are still well paid, sought after for copy, and on the air, it is perfectly clear that we can consume quite a lot of it.
In bringing this forward when he did, I'm afraid Markos showed an unfortunate lapse of taste. These things do not mix well with whatever Holiday Cheer any of us can muster, and they do not allow even the option of a day of gracious contact between political adversaries in the common space of sentiments we really all share. Not that some of our good Conservative friends haven't been trying to use even Christmas as a stick to beat us with, but even the possibility that the actual Holiday itself might call a temporary truce, as between the trenches on the Western Front, is worth giving a fighting chance.
But Christmas is over and these disgusting tidbits need publication far and wide as representative of the sheer pointless hatefulness and bile that our adversaries spew all the time, regardless of situation, context, or even the fact their own political advantage in the government at the moment.
Former Reagan administration Secretary of Education Bill Bennett: "[Y]ou could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down." [Salem Radio Network's Bill Bennett's Morning in America, 9/28/05]
Bill O'Reilly, agreeing with a caller that illegal immigrants are "biological weapon[s]": "I think you could probably make an absolutely airtight case that more than 3,000 Americans have been either killed or injured, based upon the 11 million illegals who are here." [Westwood One's The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly, 4/15/05]
Ann Coulter: "Isn't it great to see Muslims celebrating something other than the slaughter of Americans?" [Syndicated column, 2/3/05] "I'm getting a little fed up with hearing about, oh, civilian casualties"; "I think we ought to nuke North Korea right now just to give the rest of the world a warning." [New York Observer, 1/10/05]; "[T]he government should be spying on all Arabs, engaging in torture as a televised spectator sport, dropping daisy cutters wantonly throughout the Middle East and sending liberals to Guantanamo".
Rush Limbaugh: "Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of society." [The Rush Limbaugh Show, 8/12/05], on the kidnapping of peace activists in Iraq: "I'm telling you, folks, there's a part of me that likes this." [The Rush Limbaugh Show, 11/29/05]
Radio host Glenn Beck: "[Y]ou know it took me about a year to start hating the 9-11 victims' families? Took me about a year." [Premiere Radio Networks' The Glenn Beck Program, 9/9/05]
American Family Association president Tim Wildmon: Liberals "don't have the kind of family responsibilities most people have, and certainly not church responsibilities." [American Family Radio's Today's Issues, 5/11/05]
Radio host Neal Boortz on the execution of Stanley "Tookie" Williams: "[T]here will be riots in South Central Los Angeles and elsewhere. ... The rioting, of course, will lead to wide scale looting. There are a lot of aspiring rappers and NBA superstars who could really use a nice flat-screen television right now." [Boortz.com, 12/12/05] , and suggesting that a victim of Hurricane Katrina housed in an Atlanta hotel consider prostitution: "I dare say she could walk out of that hotel and walk 100 yards in either direction on Fulton Industrial Boulevard here in Atlanta and have a job. What's that? Well, no, no, no. ... Well, you know what? [laughing] Now that you mention it ... [i]f that's the only way she can take care of herself, it sure beats the hell out of sucking off the taxpayers." [Cox Radio Syndication's The Neal Boortz Show, 10/24/05]
Accuracy in Media editor Cliff Kincaid: "Have you noticed that many news organizations, in honor of former ABC News anchorman Peter Jennings, have embarked on a quit smoking campaign? So why don't our media launch a campaign advising people to quit engaging in the dangerous and addictive homosexual lifestyle? ... It appears that the homosexual lifestyle is as addictive as smoking." [Accuracy in Media column, 12/14/05]
We no longer make much steel here. We no longer make many garments here. We are well on our way to ceasing to make cars here, except for the automakers who are owned abroad. Or any of the parts for them. But, at least in some quarters, we still make more bigotry than we can consume locally. And since all of the above Conservative writers and broadcast commentators are still well paid, sought after for copy, and on the air, it is perfectly clear that we can consume quite a lot of it.
posted by Joseph Marshall | 5:54 AM
1 Comments:
Thank you.I hope I can improve through learning this respect. But overall, it's very nice. Thank you for your share!
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