How Long Will Just Hate "Speech" Be Enough?

Over at Powerline, Paul Mirengoff has a Hollywood friend who saw the light and abandoned his Democrat ways. Apparently he has seen first-hand what Karl Rove was talking about, to wit:

I'm intrigued by the liberal furor over Karl Rove's remark about the difference in reactions to 9/11. As my old grandfather used to say, "You throw a stone into a pack of dogs and the one that barks the loudest is the one you hit."

Everything Rove said is absolutely true. I entertained at a 50th anniversary party for a well-known feminist leader about 10 days after 9/11. Much of the liberal elite of the Twin Cities was present. I was wearing a little flag pin that elicited considerable mockery. In a post-performance conversation with 3 prominent DFL activists, they all agreed that 1) America had it coming 2) much of the rest of the world cheered the attacks and that was not a bad thing; 3) the attack was purely a "criminal" matter that required the issuing of indictments, but surely not a war, and finally and most horrifically, a direct quote, "At least we got rid of Barbara Olson."

This from the “loving, tolerant” Left. As is readily seen by Jim’s compilation regarding the liberals’ response to 9-11, there really is no argument that Rove’s analysis is completely correct. And how about that media coverage, huh? From The Washington Times:

Major news outlets that largely ignored the controversial comments of the No. 2 Democrat in the Senate last week immediately reported on a fiery speech by White House adviser Karl Rove, giving the story front-page prominence and the lead of newscasts.

Early yesterday morning, NBC’s Today show, the CBS Morning Show, and ABC’s Good Morning America all featured the Democratic outrage over Mr. Rove’s comments that after September 11 liberals “wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers” while conservatives “prepared for war.”

Okay…but didn’t Dick Durbin say something controversial just the week before…? You’d never know it from the mainstream media.

On June 14, Senate Minority Whip Richard J. Durbin compared the military’s interrogation techniques at the prison camp at U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to that of the Nazis and other murderous regimes. Yet CBS did not broadcast a single story on the Illinois Democrat’s comments. Today and Good Morning America and those networks’ nightly news programs didn’t air anything about it until the senator apologized after a week of complaints by Republicans, the Anti-Defamation League and veterans groups.

Heck, they aren’t even *trying* to hide their bias any more, are they?

JAS ADDS: Michelle Malkin glommed a slew of lefty "greeting" messages to a Huff & Puff post on Dick Cheney's alleged hospitalization for heart problems before dear old Arianna deigned to clean up the mess:

Hasn't he had his "last throes" of chest pains yet?

Posted by: Anonymous at June 24, 2005 10:28 PM

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I wonder how many regular readers to this pathetic, self-important blog are hoping that Cheney comes out with a sheet over his head...?

Posted by: Eric at June 24, 2005 10:32 PM

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His heart is listening to all the lies coming out of his mouth. It can't take much more of this drivel.

Posted by: Fred Colton at June 24, 2005 10:33 PM

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I wish the evil zombie would stop leaving his underground bunker. Surely, there's a medical ward where he lurks below the surface, near Washington, D.C.

Posted by: Citizen Milenko at June 24, 2005 10:37 PM

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You bet we losers want him dead. And I'm glad to be a loser. If I were a winner, I'd have to be around the kind of assholes who like Bush and Cheney.

Posted by: Medina at June 24, 2005 10:37 PM

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"Last throes," does one suppose? Here's hoping.

Posted by: HopingAgainst"Hoffman" at June 24, 2005 10:37 PM

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You're all assuming he actually still has a heart. I don't think so. I think it was replaced by a teflon pump a long time ago. Therefore he can no longer feel any pain.

Posted by: Don P at June 24, 2005 10:42 PM

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"I wonder how many regular readers to this pathetic, self-important blog are hoping that Cheney comes out with a sheet over his head...?"

Actually, Eric, I was thinking more along the lines of a stake through his heart.

Posted by: Chuck Feney at June 24, 2005 11:08 PM

Victor Davis Hanson wonders, as I have, where all this runaway hate rhetoric of the left will lead once just violent speech no longer provides libs a catharsis:

As a result, the bar is lowering. In today's climate, Alfred Knopf has already published a novel about killing the president. Charlie Brooker writing in the Guardian in London prayed for another Lee Harvey Oswald to take out George W. Bush. Comedians, New York plays and art exhibits also bandy about assassination.

Each time a public official evokes Hitler to demonize the President, the American effort in Iraq or its conservative supporters, cheap rhetorical fantasy becomes only that much closer to a nightmarish reality where the unstable, here and abroad, act on the belief America really is Hitler's Germany.

We will all soon reap what the ignorant are now sowing.

You know, another difference between Bush's America and Hitler's Germany is that before the latter was destroyed and its true hideous nature fully exposed, it wasn't, well, Hitler's Germany, and Hitler himself wasn't Hitler, as those terms are understood today. Thanks to the hideous efforts of the domestic and international Left, far too many people here and abroad look upon the former as equivalent to the latter "pre-emptively," and wouldn't be too awfully apologetic after its - and/or its leader's - downfall when the hideous nature attributed to it/him was proven to be utterly, and hideously, false.

Words have consequences. It is imperative that the consequences of the Left's hate speech be redirected to its sources before they can impact beyond the infliction of partisan aggravation.