Liberal Thinking

Dick Cheney has checked into a specialized cardio-unit in Vail, CO. Ariana Huffington has provided some running posts including this post where she pines over his health, and questions the report from the White House stating that Cheney simply has agitated a good-ol-boy Wyoming Football knee injury.

She also has posted an announcement on the removal of the comments from her running logs on the Huffington Post for reasons of sensitivity; a responsible thing for her to have done.

Fortunately for us, the objective reasoning in the analysis on the Conservative Thinking blog has posted some of the comments with their astute determination that it proves that Liberals are a "Party of Hate:"

As Michelle Malkin, Chad Evans, Jeff Quinton, and Scott Boone (in the comments at Huffster's) expressed last night; liberals are despicable people.

Some of you would say I'm stating the obvious but I'm referring to Arianna Huffington's coverage of a Vice Presidential visit to a Vail Hospital and the comments by The Huffington Post's readers.

Let's run down how nice and peaceful these liberals are; consider this the greatest hits of the party of peace and flowers:

[ Many Comments from this post have been deleted by General Stan in the interest of space. Please see the post in its entirety here]

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Anonymous: I want him to live long enough to face his trial The Hague.

Steve Rogers: Swift boat to hell?

Rusty: Cheney can't even check himself into a hospital without lying about it. I'm sure one of the ministers of information at the Fuhrer Bunker will clarify this by explaining that Cheney's knee was in its last throes, so he considered it "absolutely essential" to consult a cardiologist. Makes perfect sense.
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It just goes on and on with liberals saying that all conservatives were evil because the shock jock, Michael Savage said, "There must not have been any room in hell," about President Clinton's heart surgery. Savage? Come on, even I think Savage is trying to push people's buttons. If you think Michael Savage represents the Republican party you're sadly mistaken.

But, this further proves the hate, absolute hate, which has slowly morphed the party of peace into the party of hate. I mean how many times can someone pour out hate for another person before they get struck down by lightning or American people wake up and realize those that preach peace are pulling the wool over their eyes.

You're absolutely right, Mr. Short. Many of these comments are very much inappropriate [and selected, of course, out of context], gloating, crass, spiteful, venegeful. In fact, I would argue that their greatest crime is that they have begun to reek equally of the reactive tendencies of anonymous internet political debate so pioneered by...

Conservative Blogs and some of their more extremist readership.

Consider Media Matter's resurrection of comments posted on FreeRepublic.com, where Swift Boat Veterans co-author Jerome R. Corsi, PhD, published such reasoned, thoughtful comments as the following:

• on Islam: "a worthless, dangerous Satanic religion"
• on Catholicism: "Boy buggering in both Islam and Catholicism is okay with the Pope as long as it isn't reported by the liberal press"
• on Muslims: "RAGHEADS are Boy-Bumpers as clearly as they are Women-Haters -- it all goes together"
• on "John F*ing Commie Kerry": "After he married TerRAHsa, didn't John Kerry begin practicing Judiasm? He also has paternal grandparents that were Jewish. What religion is John Kerry?"
• on Senator "FAT HOG" Clinton: "Anybody ask why HELLary couldn't keep BJ Bill satisfied? Not lesbo or anything, is she?"

A quick look over at FreeRepublic has some more wonderful, reasoned thoughts to a story about an arrested California Imam in a terrorism probe. Fortunately, he's presumed innocent [according to the Constitution, remember] over at the Conservate Blog comment's section, and certainly people are not rushing to be racist or derogatory...

Or maybe even just some of your posts. Who hates Oprah so much [oohh... Debbie Schlussel.]? Why do you have to support this kind of slander against her? It should be noted that this is a particularly devious slander: it relies on a propagandist faction of racism in order to be so offensive. To me, I don't have much sense that it would be offensive if Oprah started covering Islam more; but to you... this is dissent, and therefore, treason.

The point is that the anonymity of the blogosphere is a key factor in much of this speech, and that there are extremists and reactionaries on all sides of the debate. But certainly, Mr Short, don't perjure yourself by claiming that Liberals are the genesis and termination of all this. It was systematically built through Rush Limbaugh and conservative talk radio, and propagated through conservative blogs; both of which predated Liberals even figuring out either of the mediums.

In other words... You started it. Try not to be so short sighted.

And yes, it is notable that Huffington's crew is willing to roll back the comments on her blog- a policy that has been clearly posted since the inception. This is a far more peaceful technique than what you apparently have in place. This is called "Checking yourself."