Now if you click here you can read a transcript of Sarah Palin's speech. Read it, if you care to, and see if you can find one line in there that you think could reasonably be called "hate speech." Sure .. she said something about Barack Obama and his teleprompter, and she said that we need a commander in chief and not a law professor at a lectern. Neither of those statements are hateful. Liberals could say such things and be branded eloquent ... but here comes Shrum with this gem:
"What we heard tonight was more a masterful exercise - masterful - in paranoid politics. I mean, she came across to me as a merchant of hate with an oh gosh smile..."
There you go. Sarah Palin was a "merchant of hate." That's all Shrum could come up with? The typical and tiring old liberal line about "hate?" We've talked here about this before. I can't really pin down when this particular left-wing rhetorical tactic began, but there's no questioning the game plan. It's simple: Whenever a conservative criticizes a liberal or any liberal initiative you simply respond by saying that the conservative is "full of hate" and engaging in "hate speech." I guess the theory here is that once you've labeled your political opponent or his ideas as "hateful" you are no longer under any obligation to respond to that person or their ideas. You just don't deal with hateful people, do you?
We've now come to the point where liberals throw around the "hate" word with about the same frequency as they toss in the "racist" word in a conversation. But let's face it .. when these leftists try to engage their philosophical opponents on the issues or in the arena of ideas; they lose. So they're just doing what they have to do.
Here, I a nifty little box, are some of the statements TV-lands favorite liberals had to say about Sarah Palin and the Tea Party convention
| BILL PRESS: "We were interested in what you get for $100,000. Not much, is I'd have to say, you know. If I paid her that, I'd want my money back." BOB SHRUM: "What we heard tonight was more a masterful exercise - masterful - in paranoid politics. I mean, she came across to me as a merchant of hate with an oh gosh smile..." RACHEL MADDOW: Tom Tancredo who started the event off with ... a big loud racist bang ... So the convention opened with a clarion call to bring back the literacy tests for voting. And as you could hear, the tea party convention crowd erupted in cheers at the suggestion, although, to be fair, it was sort of hard to tell exactly what the sounds coming from the crowd meant. They were sort of a little bit muffled by, you know, the white hoods.
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I could go on another rant about Maddow's comments. But ... she's not important enough in the grand scheme of things to waste the time. We'll chalk her performance Saturday night to FTS.
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