Two days of reading, watching, listening and writing about the Arizona shooting mayhem, and I’ve almost forgotten about that genius Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff, who’s going on a tour this new year, to “target” (their words!) several Conservative ridings. Betcha he’ll be reloading his unpopular stand on the long gun registry, notwithstanding it making not a bit of difference — by which I mean neither he, nor his registry — make a bit of difference.

But speaking of progressives who are anonymous or might as well be, it was only partially to control the incessant left-wing hate and lies and vitriol and vicious personal attacks, that I decided to make this site, and others, sites where you could only comment using your real, and proven to be real, full name and real email address. It was always pretty quiet here, but it has turned VERY quiet in here since then. Of course I’ve replaced my house windows with bullet-proof glass, but otherwise everything’s cool.

I know of several public commentators who agree with my decision, including former Canadian Conservative MP and minister, the good Monte Solberg (read his column “Web comments sections drip with poison”). Another one is the author of some best-selling books which speak to using the right words in politics and business, Frank Luntz.  He had this to say, today, about anonymous commenters and the Arizona shooting: comments commonly found at the far-left’s Huffington Post, Daily Kos, and MoveOn.org — all sites with plenty of hate and anti-conservative vitriol, were largely a result of posters being anonymous. Well, left-wing, I would add, and anonymous.

Here’s a quick write-up by Tucker Carlson’s excellent “The Daily Caller” website, who made the above video of Luntz’s interview with Don Imus on Fox Business Network:

Pollster Frank Luntz goes after ‘violent’ remarks on Huffington Post, MoveOn and Daily Kos

By Jeff Poor – The Daily Caller | Published: 1:53 PM 01/10/2011

There has been a lot of finger-pointing from the left, particularly at former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, accusing conservatives of intensifying of the political discourse.

But who’s the pot and who’s the kettle?

[...]

…just go the Huffington Post, go to MoveOn.org, Daily Kos. Read the comments from people and maybe one out of five would qualify for violence.”

He explained that the posters were so freely expressing such violent message because they felt they were protected by anonymity. However, Luntz suggested all parties cool off.

“I’m sure that if you take a look at comments about you, if you take a look at comments about Fox, comments about John Boehner, Nancy Pelosi – every third comment because they think that they are protected by anonymity, every third or fourth comment is vicious and not just personal, but plays into this tension, the anger out there,” Luntz said. “And people really need to back off out there and treat others with respect.”

The question of anonymity aside, you only need to see how they — the Left in society in general but also from even the ever so smart know-betters in politics and their media — treat Sarah Palin, to see they’re not the least bit interested in “civility”, as they always preach, nor “respect” or dialogue or dignity or even a modicum of decency. Rather it’s something quite the opposite. The extreme opposite.

I’ve never in my life seen anything like the hate and vitriol spewed out at and about Sarah Palin and her family. It’s been absolutely disgusting by any historic standard. Let’s put a name on it too: it’s barbarian. There’s nothing she’s ever said or done — nothing Bristol or Willow Palin have ever said or done — or anything from anyone on the right have said or done — that justifies the expressed hatred and utter disrespect from the Left — “progressives” as they call themselves hilariously. Nothing justifies what they put on display at every opportunity, including this murder “opportunity”, which they don’t want to waste. And anonymity is their ammunition of choice. Nothing justifies it, and in fact again it’s quite the opposite. Sarah Palin has earned respect, and her family should all be taken out of their crosshairs of vicious, personal, and insulting attacks. You want to examine “dangerous rhetoric”? Examine the crap spewed toward Sarah Palin.

Sarah Palin’s supposedly “harsh words” — or what I simply call the truth and common sense — are absolutely no match for the Left’s expressed harsh words of hatred — they’re NOTHING compared to the words I’ve read at the Canadian state-owned, taxpayer-funded CBC web site, where reader comments are all by anonymous leftists (and they’re “moderated” by state-paid “moderators”, which if nothing else, proves how useless government can be). The fact that the CBC is a state-owned, taxpayer-funded web site just makes it all the worse — more atrocious — an order of magnitude worse. For its part, the CBC “reported” today that “many people” — yes that’s their name: “many people” — blame Sarah Palin for the murderous rampage of Jared Lee Loughner.

Luntz’s head would explode if he ever went and examined the reader comments at the CBC’s website of hate, often expressed at Americans, certainly all conservative Americans — particularly knowing it’s state-owned, taxpayer-funded, and seen by “many people” (especially outside of Canada) as being representative of all Canadians. Comments there show what I see as an anti-conservative, anti-Christian, anti-anything or anybody even vaguely “right-wing” home of free-speech hatred and vitriol — as I’ve documented over the years.

So since they (“many people”) are all pointing fingers, and gratuitously naming names, if not their own names, let’s just. Who’s driving the hateful rhetoric and the vitriol in Canada? I think it’s largely the CBC. The state-owned web site is one of the most hateful places I’ve ever seen. And judging by the consistency and the reliability with which I can find it there, the CBC’s fans have obviously come to know it as a safe-house for their hate and extreme speech.

It’s one of their weapons of choice.

And taxpayers pay for it.

So go on insinuating, or allow such insinuations through “news” reports, CBC and other left-wing media, that Sarah Palin, the “tea party”, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Christians, conservatives generally, or anybody on the right can be legitimately fingered for the blame with regard to another nutbar’s insane rampage. And keep on allowing all those hateful anonymous comments. It’s all a big lie. So if that’s your tactic, then like the rest of your entire existence, CBC, it doesn’t make sense to me either.

State-owned, or state-run media should be banned in Canada, and that notion — including clearly identifying the CBC itself by name — should be enshrined in its constitution.

Possibly related posts:

• Controlling left-wing vitriol and hate; And in defense of my “use your real name” commenting policy
• Controlling left-wing vitriol and hate; And in defense of my “use your real name” commenting policy
• Commenting using your real, full name. Watch the cowards run.
• CBC reports on far-left Cdn. Centre for Policy Alternatives; Not left-wing.
• CBC puts no label on extreme left-wing socialist Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

 

Two days of reading, watching, listening and writing about the Arizona shooting mayhem, and I’ve almost forgotten about that genius Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff, who’s going on a tour this new year, to “target” (their words!) several Conservative ridings. Betcha he’ll be reloading his unpopular stand on the long gun registry, notwithstanding it making not a bit of difference — by which I mean neither he, nor his registry — make a bit of difference.

But speaking of progressives who are anonymous or might as well be, it was only partially to control the incessant left-wing hate and lies and vitriol and vicious personal attacks, that I decided to make this site, and others, sites where you could only comment using your real, and proven to be real, full name and real email address. It was always pretty quiet here, but it has turned VERY quiet in here since then. Of course I’ve replaced my house windows with bullet-proof glass, but otherwise everything’s cool.

I know of several public commentators who agree with my decision, including former Conservative MP and minister, the good Monte Solberg (read his column “Web comments sections drip with poison”). Another one is the author of some best-selling books which speak to using the right words in politics and business, Frank Luntz. He had this to say, today, about anonymous commenters and the Arizona shooting: comments commonly found at the far-left’s Huffington Post, Daily Kos, and MoveOn.org — all sites with plenty of hate and anti-conservative vitriol, were largely a result of posters being anonymous. Well, left-wing, I would add, and anonymous.

Here’s a quick write-up by Tucker Carlson’s excellent “The Daily Caller” website, who made the above video of Luntz’s interview with Don Imus on Fox Business Network:

Pollster Frank Luntz goes after ‘violent’ remarks on Huffington Post, MoveOn and Daily Kos

By Jeff Poor – The Daily Caller | Published: 1:53 PM 01/10/2011

There has been a lot of finger-pointing from the left, particularly at former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, accusing conservatives of intensifying of the political discourse.

But who’s the pot and who’s the kettle?

[...]

…just go the Huffington Post, go to MoveOn.org, Daily Kos. Read the comments from people and maybe one out of five would qualify for violence.”

He explained that the posters were so freely expressing such violent message because they felt they were protected by anonymity. However, Luntz suggested all parties cool off.

“I’m sure that if you take a look at comments about you, if you take a look at comments about Fox, comments about John Boehner, Nancy Pelosi – every third comment because they think that they are protected by anonymity, every third or fourth comment is vicious and not just personal, but plays into this tension, the anger out there,” Luntz said. “And people really need to back off out there and treat others with respect.”

The question of anonymity aside, you only need to see how they — the Left in society in general but also from even the ever so smart know-betters in politics and their media — treat Sarah Palin, to see they’re not the least bit interested in “civility”, as they always preach, nor “respect” or dialogue or dignity or even a modicum of decency. Rather it’s something quite the opposite. The extreme opposite.

I’ve never in my life seen anything like the hate and vitriol spewed out at and about Sarah Palin and her family. It’s been absolutely disgusting by any historic standard. Let’s put a name on it too: it’s barbarian. There’s nothing she’s ever said or done — nothing Bristol or Willow Palin have ever said or done — or anything from anyone on the right have said or done — that justifies the expressed hatred and utter disrespect from the Left — “progressives” as they call themselves hilariously. Nothing justifies what they put on display at every opportunity, including this murder “opportunity”, which they don’t want to waste. And anonymity is their ammunition of choice. Nothing justifies it, and in fact again it’s quite the opposite. Sarah Palin has earned respect, and her family should all be taken out of their crosshairs of vicious, personal, and insulting attacks. You want to examine “dangerous rhetoric”? Examine the crap spewed toward Sarah Palin.

Sarah Palin’s supposedly “harsh words” — or what I simply call the truth and common sense — are absolutely no match for the Left’s expressed harsh words of hatred — they’re NOTHING compared to the words I’ve read at the state-owned, taxpayer-funded CBC web site, where reader comments are all by anonymous leftists (and they’re “moderated” by state-paid “moderators”, which if nothing else, proves how useless government can be). The fact that the CBC is a state-owned, taxpayer-funded web site just makes it all the worse — more atrocious — an order of magnitude worse. For its part, the CBC “reported” today that “many people” — yes that’s their name: “many people” — blame Sarah Palin for the murderous rampage of Jared Lee Loughner.

Luntz’s head would explode if he ever went and examined the reader comments at the CBC’s website of hate, often expressed at Americans, certainly all conservative Americans — particularly knowing it’s state-owned, taxpayer-funded, and seen by “many people” (especially outside of Canada) as being representative of all Canadians. Comments there show what I see as an anti-conservative, anti-Christian, anti-anything or anybody even vaguely “right-wing” home of free-speech hatred and vitriol — as I’ve documented over the years.

So since they (“many people”) are all pointing fingers, and gratuitously naming names, if not their own names, let’s just. Who’s driving the hateful rhetoric and the vitriol in this country? I think it’s largely the CBC. The state-owned web site is one of the most hateful places I’ve ever seen. And judging by the consistency and the reliability with which I can find it there, the CBC’s fans have obviously come to know it as a safe-house for their hate and extreme speech.

It’s one of their weapons of choice.

And taxpayers pay for it.

So go on insinuating, or allow such insinuations through “news” reports, CBC and other left-wing media, that Sarah Palin, the “tea party”, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Christians, conservatives generally, or anybody on the right can be legitimately fingered for the blame with regard to another nutbar’s insane rampage. And keep on allowing all those hateful anonymous comments. It’s all a big lie. So if that’s your tactic, then like the rest of your entire existence, CBC, it doesn’t make sense to me either.

State-owned, or state-run media should be banned in this country, and that notion — including clearly identifying the CBC itself by name — should be enshrined in our constitution.

Possibly related posts:

• Controlling left-wing vitriol and hate; And in defense of my “use your real name” commenting policy
• Commenting using your real, full name. Watch the cowards run.
• CBC reports on far-left Cdn. Centre for Policy Alternatives; Not left-wing.
• CBC puts no label on extreme left-wing socialist Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
• The left loves to hate