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Both Sides Don't Do It

ProudProgressive 2012/03/26 16:35:36
One of the most frequently repeated lies in an increasingly Right leaning media is the claim that "both sides do it". Rush Limbaugh slanders a private citizen for no legitimate reason, lies through his teeth about her testimony, and spends three entire days calling her every insult he can think of, and the response is "well, Bill Maher once said something bad about Sarah Palin." Of course, the fact that Maher is on HBO and Limbaugh is on the public airwaves doesn't matter, nor does the fact that Sandra Fluke was a private citizen and Sarah Palin was a candidate for Vice President of the United States. And that's just one in a long line of examples.

Both sides DON'T do it. Liberals are far from perfect and some of them have indeed done things worthy of condemnation. But they are the rare exception. With Conservatives ugly fact-free attacks have become the norm.

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Both Sides Do It

One of the most aggravating things about the “liberal” media is their claim that “both sides do it” – as if this somehow forgives the insane behaviors of the modern GOP. From David Gregory to David Brooks to Charlie Rose, this mantra is a Villager staple. Here are a few literally false equivalencies for you:

Remember when those Code Pink activists showed up at a Bush rally with semiautomatic weapons?

Remember when Marc Maron called Laura Bush a cunt on Air America?

Remember when that liberal activist blew up a federal building after Bush started the Iraq War?

Remember when George Soros and other lefty billionaires spent hundreds of millions to prevent George W. Bush’s reelection?

Remember back in 1989 when disaffected Democrats dressed up as WPA workers and held up posters of George HW Bush dressed as Lord Fauntleroy?

Remember when Clinton invaded Somalia and we were there for 10 years?

Remember when Walter Mondale went hunting, wandered onto an ashram, and shot that yogi in the face?

Remember when that gang of liberals called Newt Gingrich a “honky” as he entered the Capitol?

Remember when Janeane Garofalo told that black caller to “take the bone out of [his] nose”?

Remember the time that liberal radio host accused Lee Atwater of faking the symptoms of brain cancer?

Remember when there was a major disaster and it turned out that Bill Clinton’s head of FEMA was just somebody’s college roommate?

Remember when those black high school kids hung the effigy of a white boy from a tree?

Remember when Bill Clinton climbed onto the wreckage of the Murrah Building and promised to bring those responsible to justice?

Remember when that liberal edited a video and got W’s HHS director fired?

Remember when that liberal radio host said that a white Eagles quarterback was promoted by the media only because he was white?

Remember when that Democrat-controlled House tried to gut funding for mammograms and pap smears?

Make no mistake – these are horrible people

Read More: http://www.stinque.com/2012/03/25/both-sides-do-it/

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  • RJ~PWCM~JLA 2012/03/26 18:04:16
    RJ~PWCM~JLA
    +11
    YALKELWS!
    (Yet another looney-kazoonie extreme left-wing site!)

    "increasingly right leaning media" LOL!

    "private citizen" LOL!!

    "every insult he could think of" LOL!!!

    The rest is just the incoherent unhinged ranting of a mind obviously detached from any semblance of reality. LOL!!!!

    GET OVER IT! RUSH AIN'T GOING ANYWHERE, BABY!


    This is you LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    beating a dead horse

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  • Tinka123 2012/03/27 13:29:47 (edited)
    Tinka123
    Abject delusion. Artificial differences in status do not excuse or change behavior / words be them positive or negative. We're all people - we either accept responsibility for our behavior / words, or we don't - "status" is irrelevant. Either practice what you preach or submit to hypocrisy. I for one couldn't care less what talking heads have to say. If I dislike their rhetoric, I don't listen to them. If you're going to chastise vile rhetoric - then do it across the board rather than making excuses for it based on totally artificial differences in status. It's just childish.
  • goatman112003 2012/03/27 01:31:13
    goatman112003
    +1
    If we ran a litany of both sides non appropriate actions and comments we would have a pile of paper ten feet high. Its done on both sides and it will happen, no use yelling about it.
  • CaptnSassy 2012/03/27 01:07:04
    CaptnSassy
    'Rush isn't going anywhere soon.'
    1. He can't get anywhere fast
    2. Isn't it wonderful what a grassroots group started by a 23 year old can do? He made Rush rush.
  • Batman 2012/03/27 00:26:36
    Batman
    I like Bill Maher's answer the best.

    "Yes, there's a double standard. But that's ok, because when we do it, we consider it funny."
  • Tully 2012/03/26 20:06:44
    Tully
    Makes some sense, if there were more liberal commentators in the spotlight, then we'd see more baseless attacks.
  • Tinka123 Tully 2012/03/27 13:44:56 (edited)
    Tinka123
    +1
    To me it makes no sense. The above essentially suggests that certain statuses give one free reign to speak / act in ways that others with separate statuses cannot. We're all people, we all say things we shouldn't at times. Some accept responsibility for it, others do not - it has nothing to do with artificial "status."

    Having a particular status does not justify bad behavior / rhetoric - and those who attempt to excuse it as such only ever expose their own hypocrisy.
  • Stan Kapusta 2012/03/26 18:35:27
    Stan Kapusta
    The best presentation is not always the right one. The proof is above. Also around election time.
  • Fred 2012/03/26 18:19:15
    Fred
    +2
    Pee Pee has done it again .... more lib trash
  • Dagon 2012/03/26 18:12:28
  • RJ~PWCM~JLA 2012/03/26 18:04:16
    RJ~PWCM~JLA
    +11
    YALKELWS!
    (Yet another looney-kazoonie extreme left-wing site!)

    "increasingly right leaning media" LOL!

    "private citizen" LOL!!

    "every insult he could think of" LOL!!!

    The rest is just the incoherent unhinged ranting of a mind obviously detached from any semblance of reality. LOL!!!!

    GET OVER IT! RUSH AIN'T GOING ANYWHERE, BABY!


    This is you LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    beating a dead horse
  • voice_matters 2012/03/26 17:41:31
    voice_matters
    libby i get you are full of ignorance and hate but why do libs get away with it. why is maher still on after all the comments he made about palin. or letterman with the comments he made on palin's daughter. or any other of the thousands of attacks the libs have made towards republican women. sorry libby but all you have shown is that the left is alowed to attack women but the gop is not. either they all are attacked by the so caled women rights groups or none.
  • jackolantyrn356 2012/03/26 17:33:01
    jackolantyrn356
    +1
    llIKE THE LITTLE MONEY TRAMPS WHO SHONE SO BRIGHT;LY TO DESTROY THE REPUBLICAN SELECTION PROCESS. this little Democrat was too idealistic to take the money, but someplce has decided top take the moneyand disap[pear.
    of course this is one of thpose lottle coverup jobs that wil;l be no p[roblem,....... Ask a question or two like this arpound the ol' Union Hall. See what it gets you?
  • Idiot repubs 2012/03/26 16:54:43
    Idiot repubs
    +1
    They pull out one quote from Bill Maher on a subscription late night TV show from years ago and say see it's all the same.
  • Seonag Idiot r... 2012/03/26 20:16:46
    Seonag
    That went immediately up on PUBLIC YouTube. You are still responsible for what you say!
  • Idiot r... Seonag 2012/03/27 00:01:36
    Idiot repubs
    You think maybe the right wingers did that?
  • Seonag Idiot r... 2012/03/27 11:33:04
    Seonag
    I don't know who did it and it makes no difference. It's still out there in the public domain and people need to be held responsible for what they say in a public forum, including pay-TV!
  • The Electrician 2012/03/26 16:45:31
    The Electrician
    +4
    My best reply is "there isn't any such thing as "Liberal Media." There is Conservative Propaganda and there is the TRUTH.
  • Thor Am... The Ele... 2012/03/26 18:11:05
  • The Ele... Thor Am... 2012/03/26 20:14:05
    The Electrician
    +2
    That wasn't funny, that was the TRUTH.

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