Memorex wrote: but the most hateful things I have ever heard in the last ten years have come from the left.
Complete and utter bullshit.
Faux "News" and their ilk, along with the assassination-like Republican political campaigns of the past 30 years, generate more than 90% of the hateful, angry, and ultimately dangerous rhetoric.
Sorry, you're DEAD FUCKING WRONG on this one.
Seriously, find me ANYTHING from a mainstream leftist radio or TV station or program, or ANYTHING said by a Democrat running for the House or Senate that compares with what the GOP has been up to, especially since Obama declared his candidacy. ONE FUCKING THING. I'm not talking about the blogosphere. I''m talking about MSNBC, mainstream radio, or national-level politicians. FIND IT. Please.
There is NO left-wing equivalent of Faux News. In no way, shape, or form, does Olbermann at his worst come anywhere near to Beck, Limbaugh, Hannity, Coulter, O'Reilly, Kax, and Palin at their collective best.
From the New York Times:
During the culture wars of the 1990s, fought over issues such as gun rights and abortion, right-wing extremists killed 168 people in Oklahoma City, terrorised hundreds in an Atlanta park and at abortion clinics in the South.
Consider the comments of Sharron Angle, the Tea Party favourite who ran for the Senate in Nevada last year. She talked about ''domestic enemies'' in the Congress and said, ''I hope we're not getting to second amendment remedies'' (a reference to the constitutional right to bear arms).
Then there's Rick Barber, a Republican loser in an Alabama congressional race, but not before airing an ad in which someone dressed as George Washington listens to an attack on the Obama agenda and proclaims, ''Gather your armies''.
I've got hundreds and hundreds of other links, references, and articles.
Care to compare the worst of Al Franken and Olbermann to, say, the worst of Beck, Limbaugh, Hannity, Coulter, O'Reilly, Kax, and Palin?
“This administration...they model themselves...after Al Capone. You take these guys on, and they will bash your brains out. That’s what they did to Fox, that’s what they’ve done to the Chamber of Commerce. That’s what they do to everyone who stands in their way. So, you have to ask yourself, as Sean Connery did, what are you prepared to do. If you’re going to get into a fight with these guys, you better be able to battle all the way to the end."
http://www.newshounds.us/2009//24/with_slurred_speech_beck_exhorts_viewers_to_stand_up_and_risk_getting_whacked_by_the_obama_administration.php
Beck: “In the beginning of our country, we used to call it ‘freedom of speech.’ Now we call it, ‘Time for me to use the baseball bat...You can all sit around the table like those people did. And then you can say, ‘Which one’s gonna get whacked?’ You can sit there and you can live in fear or you can stand up and say, ‘Enough of your bat.’ I warn ya. That means that some people are gonna get whacked.’”
Rush Limbaugh: "
I tell people don't kill all the liberals. Leave enough so we can have two on every campus--living fossils--so we we'll never forget what these people stood for."
Ann Coulter: "
My only regret with Tim McVeigh is that he did not go to the New York Times building."
Bill O'Reilly: "Americans who work against our military once the [Iraq] war is underway will be considered Enemies of the State by me. Just fair warning to you, Barbara Streisand, and others who see the world as you do. I don't want to demonize anyone, but anyone who hurts this country in a time like this, well, let's just say you will be dealt with."
Eric Erickson (Redstate.com): "At what point do [people] get off the couch, march down to their state legislator's house, pull him outside and beat him to a bloody pulp for being an idiot?"
Michael Savage: "I say round liberals up and hang em' high.
When I hear someone's in the civil rights business, I oil up my AR-25."
G . Gorden Liddy (
broadcasting advice on how to kill law enforcement officers): "...head-shots, they are wearing body armor, head shots... or shoot for the groin."
Seriously. Find me ONE quote by Olbermann, Maddow, Matthews, or a liberal mainstream journalist or radio personality.
DO IT!!!
It's gonna be a crowded motherark. 
