Lanny Davis, former special counsel to President Clinton between 1996-98 had this to say about liberal bloggers in the WSJ:
Now, in the closing days of the Lieberman primary campaign, I have reluctantly concluded that I was wrong. The far right does not have a monopoly on bigotry and hatred and sanctimony. Here are just a few examples (there are many, many more anyone with a search engine can find) of the type of thing the liberal blog sites have been posting about Joe Lieberman:
â?¢ “Ned Lamont and his supporters need to [g]et real busy. Ned needs to beat Lieberman to a pulp in the debate and define what it means to be an AMerican who is NOT beholden to the Israeli Lobby” (by “rim,” posted on Huffington Post, July 6, 2006).
â?¢ “Joe’s on the Senate floor now and he’s growing a beard. He has about a weeks growth on his face. . . . I hope he dyes his beard Blood red. It would be so appropriate” (by “ctkeith,” posted on Daily Kos, July 11 and 12, 2005).
â?¢ On “Lieberman vs. Murtha”: “as everybody knows, jews ONLY care about the welfare of other jews; thanks ever so much for reminding everyone of this most salient fact, so that we might better ignore all that jewish propaganda [by Lieberman] about participating in the civil rights movement of the 60s and so on” (by “tomjones,” posted on Daily Kos, Dec. 7, 2005).
â?¢ “Good men, Daniel Webster and Faust would attest, sell their souls to the Devil. Is selling your soul to a god any worse? Leiberman cannot escape the religious bond he represents. Hell, his wife’s name is Haggadah or Muffeletta or Diaspora or something you eat at Passover” (by “gerrylong,” posted on the Huffington Post, July 8, 2006).
â?¢ “Joe Lieberman is a racist and a religious bigot” (by “greenskeeper,” posted on Daily Kos, Dec. 7, 2005).
And these are some of the nicer examples.
Welcome to reality Lanny. Where have you been, Under a rock?
The leading lefty-blogosphere is nothing but an echo chamber of seething anti-Bush/ anti-Israel hatred. But we have known that for quite a while now. Nothing new here.
But Lanny you should admit that your party has quite a public track record of racist statements-not from kook fringe bloggers (now the core of the Dem Party) but from leading Democrat politicians.
For example:
Democrat Senator Robert Byrd from West Virginia was a Kleagle in the KKK and used the term â??white ni–erâ? twice in a t.v. interview on “Fox News Sunday” just a few years ago.
Democrat Al Sharpton who ran for the presidency in 2004 has a history of making anti-white/anti-Semitic remarks: In 1987 Sharpton accused Steve Pagones and a group of “white men” of abducting, raping, and smearing feces on 15-year old Tawana Brawley. The crime never happened and Sharpton was ordered to pay Pagones $345,000 but Sharpton to this day refuses to apologize for the highly charged incendiary racist remarks.
Sharpton, in 1991, railed against the “diamond merchants”- code for Jews- with “the blood of innocent babies” on their hands. After mobilizing hundreds of protesters to march in a Jewish neighborhood to protest the accidental killing of a 7-year old black child in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights, Sharpton leads chants of, “No justice, no peace.” And “Kill the Jews!” Yankel Rosenbaum is surrounded by a mob and then stabbed to death.
Democrat Sharpton, in 1995, used the term “cracker” to describe a white Jewish owner who raised the rent on a black tenant.
Former Democrat Presidential candidate Jesse Jackson used the anti-Semitic term “hymietown” to describe New York City and has admitted publicly to spitting in white peoples’ food.
And I kind of doubt that Lanny isn’t familiar with some of the racist comments his ex-booses wife Mrs. Clinton has uttered in the past:
Patterson observed Hillary standing at the bottom of the stairs in the governor’s mansion, and Bill at the top of the stairs with little Chelsea beside him, as Hillary screamed at him at the top of her lungs: “Goddamn stupid f—ing fool!” [NewsMax, 15 July 2000]
Patterson stated that Bill and Hillary Clinton would frequently argue with each other using the worst expletives known to mankind, sometimes in the presence of their daughter Chelsea. Some of the anti-Semitic slurs with which she commonly laced her tirades against Bill were “Jew motherf—er,” “Jew Boy” and “Jew Bastard.” [NewsMax, 15 and 17 July 2000]
“If she disagreed with Bill Clinton or she disagreed with some of the Jewish community in Little Rock — or some of the ethnic community — she would often make these statements.” “She would say ‘Jew Bastard’ or call her husband a ‘Jew boy’ or a ‘motherf—ing Jew’,” Patterson told the WABC New York radio audience. [Carl Limbacher and NewsMax Staff, 17 July 2000]
Patterson said he heard Hillary “utter anti-Jewish epithets between 10 and 20 times over the course of his six years at the Arkansas governor’s mansion.” [NewsMax, 17 July 2000]
Here is the entire article here (warning, language is very vulgar)
It’s not just virulent racist/anti-semitic bloggers Lanny. It seems that racist/anti-semitic remarks tend to be rather prevelant among Democrat Presidential Candidates as well.
Things that make you go hmmmmmmmmm.