The left speaks
I knew it had to happen. In so many ways, people’s actions are too predictable.
The fuss between Meghan McCain and Laura Ingraham (and others) has given the left something to dish about. By the way, every person who attacked Meghan McCain with an insult about her appearance, her voice, her clothes - basically anything but her substance and political views - ought to be damned ashamed.
But here’s where it gets good. I’ve read a number of columns now (from the left) where they’ve said oooh, the right is eating its own. They’re criticizing Meghan McCain’s appearance; so typical of the right, they’re all just catty bitches.
THE LEFT DOESN’T DO THAT! WE’RE BETTER THAN THAT.
Yeah, I said that, too, when Ann Coulter came out with a book that charged the left did exactly that: they couldn’t argue on substance against strong women (the Laura Ingrams, Coulter, Michelle Malkin, etc.), so they go after appearance and other superficial things.
Oh, I said THAT’S NOT TRUE. Ann is so wrong.
Turns out Ann was absolutely dead on. And I’ve been horrified ever since. So every time someone from the left travels down that ridiculous road, I squirm, because Ann Coulter is floating above me saying “Told you so.”
I used to listen to Randi Rhodes; now not so much because I got bored. So maybe she’s cleaned up her act, though I doubt it. Just google her name with any of the lady stars from the right (Malkin, et al). I’ve heard her say horrible things about Coulter. Far worse than the thing Ingraham said about McCain (though I’m not excusing Laura…that was unnecessary and petty).
I’ve also heard nasty comments about appearances about Condoleeza Rice, Malkin and Ingraham, among others, on some of those TV shows by lefties.
The things that have been said are far more offensive than BO’s Special Olympics quip. At least he meant no harm. Try Rosie O’Donnel. Try the ladies from the View. I don’t watch that show unless there happens to be a guest I really want to see (such as Ann Coulter…hahaha), but I’ve seen it enough to get the gist. Whoopie seems to be the only one with a calm head on that show. (I could be wrong, and she could be as bad as the rest of the gang; perhaps I’ve always tuned in on nice days.)
The point is, I listen to a lot more conservative radio than I do liberal, because that’s what’s out there. I’ve always liked talk radio on in the way that people keep the TV on. As I work all day, I have the radio going. (Music carries me away. Talk radio doesn’t, and I can stay focused on work…it’s just the way I’ve always been.)
So I think I have a pulse on what’s being said on mainstream talk radio. I listen regularly to these women (and others, including Tammy Bruce, who rocks). For the most part, they go after political views and not appearances. The Laura Ingraham thing was so unusual that I posted about it when I heard it because it so greatly disappointed me.
What I say to the left is this: get off your high horse. You’re NOT any more tolerant, any better, nicer, more intelligent than the right. There was a time when I had my head in the clouds, too, and really believed (we) were. It was a huge slap in the face to come to grips with the fact that Ann Coulter was absolutely right.
And if you need further proof that the left is just as intolerant as everyone else, see if you can go to Michelle Malkin’s site for a few moments (without bloviating that you’re walking through a sewer or another non-brilliant metaphor). Find her section where she lists samples of hate mail.
Tolerance? Open-mindedness?
The words cunt, chink and slant eye are used most often.
When these things come from people who are trying (not very well) to express disagreement with her views on things like homosexuality, it’s rather telling.
Once I was able to step back from the left and stop viewing everything with glazed-eye love, it became one of my great disappointments to see how they (we) really are.
And here’s what I’m most certain of: every person who blogged or wrote a column about how petty women on the right are should read through his/her archives. I’ll bet at least 90 percent at some point criticized one of these ladies’ appearance, ethnicity, or clothing.
Of course my favorite of all time was a NY Senator’s big attack on Ann Coulter. At the end of his rant, he said she wore miniskirts.
I don’t remember the exact quote, but it was fantastic. How dare that Ann Coulter wear a short skirt!
