By Larry Elder, Apr. 01, 2010
Differences of opinion and
ideology, passionately held, drive the opposition against ObamaCare.
Yet to shut down the effort to
overturn ObamaCare's unpopular assault on freedom and prosperity, the left
resorts to a frequently employed tactic. They and their media co-conspirators
find whack jobs holding stupid signs -- or saying or doing stupid things -- and
say, "See! Right-wing intolerance, hatred and racism fuel this
movement."
Idiots, wing nuts and haters exist
-- on both sides of the political spectrum -- in a country of 300 million
people. Those who threaten and engage in violence should be arrested and
prosecuted. Those who use incendiary language should be denounced.
But which "hater" said
the following, and where was the condemnation?
"The (George W.) Bush administration
and the Nazi and Communist regimes all engaged in the politics of fear. ...
Indeed, the Bush administration has been able to improve on the techniques used
by the Nazi and Communist propaganda machines." Was it a) Miss Piggy, b)
Lady Gaga, c) the Dog Whisperer, or d) George Soros, billionaire Democratic
supporter?
"(George W. Bush's) executive
branch has made it a practice to try and control and intimidate news
organizations, from PBS to CBS to Newsweek. ... And every day, they unleash
squadrons of digital brownshirts to harass and hector any journalist who is
critical of the President." a) Dan Rather, b) Katie Couric, c) Helen
Thomas, d) Al Gore, Nobel laureate.
"(Republicans are) coming for
our children. They're coming for the poor. They're coming for the sick, the
elderly and the disabled." a) Mother Teresa, b) the Grim Reaper, c) Jack
Bauer, d) Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga.
The contest between Democrats and
Republicans is "a struggle of good and evil. And we're the good." a)
Wolverine, b) Spider-Man, c) RoboCop, d) Howard Dean, then-Democratic national
chairman.
When asked whether the number and
prominence of blacks in the Bush administration suggested a lack of racism, he
said, "Hitler had a lot of Jews high up in the hierarchy of the Third
Reich." a) Adolf Eichmann, b) Joseph Goebbels, c) Heinrich Himmler, d)
Harry Belafonte, entertainer and liberal activist.
He called President Bush's
perceived lack of help for Katrina victims "ethnic cleansing by
inaction" and called it a "calculated ... policy." He added,
"So by simply not doing anything to alleviate this ... crisis that was so
greatly exaggerated by Katrina, they let the hurricane do the ethnic cleansing,
and their hands are clean." a) David Duke, b) Jack the Ripper, c) Jeffrey
Dahmer, d) Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass.
"When you look at the way the
(then-Republican-controlled) House of Representatives has been run, it has been
run like a plantation. And you know what I'm talking about." a) Kunta
Kinte, b) Harriet Tubman, c) Booker T. Washington, d) then-Sen. Hillary
Clinton, former first lady and current secretary of State.
"George Bush let people die on
rooftops in New Orleans because they were poor and because they were
black." a) Ming the Merciless, b) Ivan the Terrible, c) Vlad the Impaler,
d) Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo.
"It's not 'spic' or 'nigger'
anymore. (Instead, Republicans) say, 'Let's cut taxes.'" a) Bernie Madoff,
b) Bonnie and Clyde, c) Bennie and the Jets, d) Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y.
"You're damn right; Dick
Cheney's heart's a political football. We ought to rip it out and kick it
around and stuff it back in him." a) Dr. Seuss, b) Dr. Oz, c) Dr. J, d) Ed
Schultz, MSNBC and radio host.
"We are in danger. The extreme
right wing has seized the government. Tonight (John) Ashcroft and the CIA and
the FBI and Homeland Security and the IRS can work together. So look out,
because without a definition of who is a terrorist, anyone can be. ... Martin
Luther King could have been. ... The right-wing media, the FBI -- they are
targeting our leadership." a) Mr. T, b) Flavor Flav, c) Gary Coleman, d)
the Rev. Jesse Jackson.
"And what we are dealing with
right now in this country is whether we are having a kind of bloodless, silent
coup or not. ... (George W. Bush) is trying to bring to himself all the power
to become an emperor -- to create Empire America," a) Darth Vader, b)
Satan, c) the Rev. Pat Robertson, d) Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash.
Lanny Davis, former special counsel
to President Bill Clinton, campaigned for Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut. Lieberman,
despite his reliably left-wing voting record, infuriated the left for
supporting the Iraq War. Davis found himself on the receiving end of "hate
and vitriol of bloggers on the liberal side of the aisle" and "their
extremism, bigotry and intolerance." A friend and fellow Lieberman
supporter, said Davis, became "fearful for his physical safety."
"I held on to the view,"
Davis admitted, "that the left was inherently more tolerant and less
hateful than the right. ... I have reluctantly concluded that I was wrong. The
far right does not have a monopoly on bigotry and hatred and sanctimony."
The majority of Americans oppose
ObamaCare. Their opposition is not racist, fascist or intolerant. Let us work
to prevail.
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