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<\/p>\nThis is a doctored picture of my niece in Northern California doing a honk-and-wave in support of Proposition 8.<\/p>\n
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The guy standing next to her clearly was on the other side of the issue. With a smile on her face, Stallion\u2019s Niece said to the \u201cJesus Didn\u2019t Teach Hate\u201d guy, \u201cI have a lot of respect for you.\u201d To which the \u201cJesus Didn\u2019t Teach Hate\u201d guy responded, \u201cI ain\u2019t got none for you.\u201d So then, in typical hateful fashion, my niece said, \u201cThat\u2019s okay.\u201d<\/p>\n
Question: What\u2019s wrong with this picture? (Besides the fact that my niece doesn\u2019t look like Yul Brynner in real life.)<\/p>\n
Al Franken is currently in the process of stealing a Senate seat, yet long before he was a candidate for office, he walked up to Karl Rove at a White House Correspondent\u2019s Dinner and said, curtly, \u201cI\u2019m Al Franken. I hate you and you hate me.\u201d To which Rove responded, \u201cBut I don\u2019t hate you.\u201d<\/p>\n
Question: Which of those two men has a reputation in the media for being a hatemonger, and which one deserves that label?<\/p>\n
In his October 20th \u201cSpecial Comment,\u201d gasbag Keith Olbermann decried \u201cRepublican smears without end\u201d and accused John McCain of allowing his campaign to \u201cdevolve into hatred.\u201d Almost exactly a year earlier, the same guy opened his show with the question, \u201cWhy does President Bush hate American kids?\u201d<\/a> Indeed, one of Olbermann\u2019s most consistent themes is \u201cright-wingers \u2026 instinctive hatred.\u201d<\/a> This, of course, comes in conjunction with Mr. Olbermann\u2019s less-than-charitable disagreements with our president, whom he has told to \u201cshut the hell up.\u201d<\/p>\n Question: Does Olbermann have a problem mistaking invective for argument, or does President Bush really hate American kids?<\/p>\n My Esteemed Colleague, gloating shamelessly over Obama\u2019s win, says that our nation has \u201cbegun to heal,\u201d because the Republicans were defeated. \u201cGood riddance and may those orcs and orukai never come back!!\u201d he says. Labeling anyone who could have once voted for \u201cthe National Buffoon and his Constipated Puppetmaster\u201d as \u201cstupid idiots,\u201d he then exults that \u201cHope is alive and well in this land again!\u201d<\/p>\n Question: How does calling your ideological opponents \u201corcs\u201d and \u201cstupid idiots\u201d contribute to a hate-free atmosphere of healing and hope?<\/p>\n Michael Moore, who has built a lucrative career on the false premise that our sitting president is a terrorist and a mass murderer, wrote an open letter to America after Obama\u2019s win, in which he celebrated the victory as a \u201ctriumph of decency over personal attack\u201d and condescendingly urged his supporters to \u201cnot treat the Republicans in your life the way they have treated you the past eight years.\u201d<\/p>\n Question: Is it possible to name a reputable Republican who has treated the opposition as hatefully as Moore has treated us?<\/p>\n I hope you see where I\u2019m going with this.<\/p>\n Plenty of people on both sides of the political spectrum are too eager to assign base motives to those with whom they disagree. But the kind of sanctimonious self-righteousness that accompanies Lefty hatred has no equal on my side of the aisle. How can hatemongers like Keith Olbermann and Michael Moore presume to lecture me on decency and fair play? How do advocates of tolerance and love justify smearing political adversaries as monsters and demons? How am I supposed to feel united with anyone who thinks I\u2019m too stupid or too evil to live?<\/p>\n One of the most appealing things about Barack Obama, in my estimation, is that he appears to be a fundamentally decent man. Here\u2019s hoping that those who support him will follow his example and abandon the vitriol that has fueled their movement lo these many years.<\/p>\n Hope and change have to mean more than just hating George Bush.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thisis a doctored picture of my niece in Northern California doing a honk-and-wave in support of Proposition 8. The guy standing next to her clearly was on the other side of the issue. With a smile on her face, Stallion\u2019s Niece said to the \u201cJesus Didn\u2019t Teach Hate\u201d guy, \u201cI have a lot of respect ... Read more<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}