UPDATE: Nationally syndicated radio talk show host Sean Hannity read Bozell's statement on the air on August 6th. The audio can be found here.
Liberal Democrats have launched a war of outrageous hate speech directed at Americans who haved dared to express opposition to Obama's health care "reform."
First, the Democratic National Committee launched a Web video charging "desperate Republicans and their well-funded allies" with "organizing angry mobs" to "destroy President Obama." Then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) accused town hall protestors of "carrying swastikas."
In response this morning, MRC President Brent Bozell called on the mainstream media "to report on this hate speech, who is behind it and how vicious it has become."
Mr. Bozell's full August 5 statement is printed below:
Liberals are not only grasping at the straws of desperation to protect this radical government takeover, they have crossed into unabashed hate speech. Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity have never said anything like this. Yet they are accused of hate speech. To put it another way, if Limbaugh and Hannity are guilty of hate speech, how much worse are these liberals?
The third in line to the Presidency just characterized Americans exercising their First Amendment rights as Nazis. Imagine if the Bush White House had launched the same attacks against Iraq War demonstrators. They would have chastised, lambasted and made a target of destruction by every national media outlet.
The media have a responsibility to report on this hate speech, who is behind it and how vicious it has become.



















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"The media have a
August 6, 2009 - 10:50 ET by Cthulhu2012"The media have a responsibility to report on this hate speech, who is behind it and how vicious it has become."
Unfortunately, that will never happen, mainly because the media largely approves of the hate speech directed towards protestors against this government (remember CNN's "coverage" of the tax day TEA parties?).
Why choose the lesser of two evils?
That will never happen
August 6, 2009 - 10:55 ET by jdlybrandI'm not gonna hold my breath either.
"What a revoltin' development this is!"
Chester Riley
Right Mr. Bozell....from
August 6, 2009 - 12:26 ET by motherbeltRight Mr. Bozell....from your mouth to their ears.
Thanks for voicing it though.
They are completely shameless.
Her Speakerness et al call this uprising "organized" and "coordinated" but they don't see the negative talking-points, practically word-for-word coverage of the protests by the networks as a "coordinated" effort?
Nancy Pelosi is simply evil and if she weren't so powerful...
August 6, 2009 - 11:05 ET by ThalpyNancy Pelosi is simply evil and if she weren't so powerful, she would be dismissed for the nut-job she is. Leftists have no memory of their vile treatment of President Bush, any conservative guest speaker on university campuses, or anyone who is in disagreement with their world view. It is they who have made civil discourse impossible because their world view has morphed into their religion. Celator mentioned it yesterday: they are "true believers." For them, there is no place for an alternate viewpoint and sadly, they have little use for the truth.
Re Princess Nan
August 6, 2009 - 11:23 ET by slickwillie2001Folks need to stand up and call Pelosi for what she is, an idiot. If a few people do it, it might catch on. We all know it; the democratics know it but continue to accept her because 'she is mean as a snake' and that allows her to keep the democratics in the House in line.
The leftist liberal ...
August 6, 2009 - 11:13 ET by SentryDanThe leftist liberal elite politicians do not believe in free speech unless they are the ones doing the speaking. They even bad-mouth people from their own party who show opposition to their tired BS.
Where it starts is at the top, with "the one" Obama and it goes on from there. You can include any politician who says that the citizens voicing their opinions are part of angry mobs that are funded by outside interests.
The voices of "We the People" are becoming louder and louder and the extreme left doesn't like what they are hearing, so they keep trying to marginalize us. The groundswell of opposition to Obama's ill-advised healthcare and "Cap-N-Trade" is only becoming larger and larger. Beware of "the one's" reactions to this opposition.
Remember folks, Freedom isn't Free. It was bought with the blood and sacrifice of the men and women who are serving and who have served in the U.S. Armed Forces.
For those who fought for it, Freedom has a flavor that the protected will never know.
Also remember folks, that the way to SUPPORT THE TROOPS is to support their mission. Anyone who says that they support the troops but don't support their mission is lying about supporting the troops. And if you want to know, yes I do have a dog in the fight, he is a United States Marine.
Still waiting...
August 6, 2009 - 11:43 ET by beauxdogSentryDan:
I asked you a long time ago to clarify why someone can't support the troops without supporting the mission, but you have chosen to ignore me.
My position is that I can support the men and women fighting for our country, but I don't have to approve of the mission that some stupid politician sent them on. I appreciate their sacrifice and dedication regardless of why they were sent. Why do I have to also approve of the stupidity of some politician who sends them into harms way to advance his agenda? Do you think their sacrifice is less important if we don't approve of the politics? That just doesn't make sense. EVERY military life is important regardless of the mission.
Yes, I have a player in the game. My son is serving in the middle east.
Thank you.
Beauxdog
beauxdog,
August 6, 2009 - 11:56 ET by AgnosticIf you don't mind me interjecting here I would like to repost my response to WhichWing on the same subject.
My lack of support for what was happening in Bosnia was toward the top of the list of reasons I got out of the military (that alone would not have made my decision). Once military operations are accepted by the military and being carried out by military personnel there are two lines you can’t cross and still say you support the troops and not the war. One is you can’t go in front of the media and voice derisive remarks about the war, battles, strategies, etc…, and the other is you can’t fixate politically otherwise the war becomes a political tool and that is extremely disrespectful the American men and women who are fighting. This is just my opinion and I am not saying that I have witnessed you doing either.
A person may be won over with logic and reason but the masses must be bought with spectacle and platitudes. - 2008 Elections
BD, Sorry but I'm not on the blogs 7/24, so I ...
August 6, 2009 - 13:03 ET by SentryDanBD, Sorry but I'm not on the blogs 7/24, so I had no idea you asked me for an explaination.
So, which is better to say to the troops: I support you and I support the mission you are trying to do; or, I support you but I don't support the mission you are trying to do? Which one do you think would have a positive affect on the troops?
There's a difference between supporting the troop's mission and supporting an unpopular way. The troops go where they are told. That's called following orders. "We the People" don't have to follow those orders unless we just happen to be in the military. "We the People" can voice our opposition to what the government does in that regard and there is nothing wrong with that. To support the troops, you must support their mission. Their mission is to do whatever job they are told to do, whether that is typing reports, going on patrol, driving a truck or flying a plane. And the overall mission was to get rid of Saddam and free his people.
I always tell my son to do his job, his mission. I would never tell him to violate an order (his assigned mission). And my son is on his second tour in Iraq and my grandson is on his first tour to the Middle East.
Just remember back to how the Vietnam Veterans were treated. Initially, the troops had the support of the people and the majority people for the most supported the mission. Things started going south when the media turned on the military and their mission.
Remember, the military doesn't ask to go to war, they are always asked to do that by the president ad congress. When they are asked, that becomes their mission. You and I may not like the fact that the president ad congress chose that course of action, but once that choice is made, it's done.
Remember folks, Freedom isn't Free. It was bought with the blood and sacrifice of the men and women who are serving and who have served in the U.S. Armed Forces.
For those who fought for it, Freedom has a flavor that the protected will never know.
Also remember folks, that the way to SUPPORT THE TROOPS is to support their mission. Anyone who says that they support the troops but don't support their mission is lying about supporting the troops. And if you want to know, yes I do have a dog in the fight, he is a United States Marine.
Thank you...
August 7, 2009 - 09:57 ET by beauxdogSentryDan:
Thank you for your response.
I can't say that I really understand it to the point where I can acknowledge your point of view. Maybe we have a semantics issue. Maybe I am too thick.
However, I think we do agree on our admiration and appreciation for the sacrifices the men and women of our military make on a daily basis for us. I know I have appreciated them long before my son enlisted. I work in a very public hospital and I encounter servicemen all the time. I make it a point to thank each and everyone of them that I encounter for their service to our country. Lord knows that I could NOT do what they do on a daily basis.
May God protect your loved ones in harm's way,
Beauxdog
BD, please understand my passions ...
August 7, 2009 - 10:54 ET by SentryDanBD, please understand my passions about this subject. I am a USAF and Vietnam veteran and I have more friends than I can count that have served. And I have lost to many of these friends, to many who were still bitter that their country turned its back on them.
I don't doubt that many, many people do "Support the Troops" and rightfully so. However, to truly support our service men and women we must support what they do.
We, who serve and have served, have a job that most people don't want to take on. We are the ones who guarantee the freedoms that we enjoy. If there wasn't a military, would we still have these freedoms? We do this job because we know if we didn't then none of us would enjoy our freedoms. This is why we must support the mission as well as support the troops.
I fear that this country may be heading down the same road it did in the late 60s and early 70s with regards to the troops. I pray to God it isn't so, but ...
I to pray on a daily basis for the safety of all our men and women in uniform.
Remember folks, Freedom isn't Free. It was bought with the blood and sacrifice of the men and women who are serving and who have served in the U.S. Armed Forces.
For those who fought for it, Freedom has a flavor that the protected will never know.
Also remember folks, that the way to SUPPORT THE TROOPS is to support their mission. Anyone who says that they support the troops but don't support their mission is lying about supporting the troops. And if you want to know, yes I do have a dog in the fight, he is a United States Marine.
the lefties[democrates] are getting
August 6, 2009 - 11:14 ET by larry on LIdesperate, i love it that they are truly showing their frustrations over these town hall protests.
§ ALERT!!!!! Dick Cheney called War Protesters...NAZIs!!!*
August 6, 2009 - 11:20 ET by TheSterI JUST FOUND THIS!!!!
The Vice President* just characterized Americans exercising their First Amendment rights TO PROTEST THE WAR as Nazis.* !!!
OMG!!!
Hey ...Media Matters, Think Progress, Daily KOS!!!!!
LINK THIS!!!!!
HURRY!!!!
NOW!!!!!
*The third in line to the Presidency (Pelosi) just characterized Americans exercising their First Amendment rights as Nazis.
Ster.
you are badly in need of an expensive course of psychiatric treatment. Now I'm not going to say that a trip down to our dairy will cure you, but it will give hundreds of lower-paid workers a good laugh.
Then House Speaker Nancy
August 6, 2009 - 11:27 ET by Chris NormanThen House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) accused town hall protestors of "carrying swastikas."
Ironic, that the House Speaker employs Nazi-like lies in accusing her opponents of being "Nazi's".
The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.
→ Nan's still laughing
August 6, 2009 - 11:32 ET by Cool ArrowNancy is getting all the chuckles now because she knows she's deliciously close to meting out a death sentence to senior citizens.
She knows the rules don't apply to her.
LYDSEXICS UNTIE!
Yeah, All that makeup and
August 6, 2009 - 11:53 ET by Chris NormanYeah, All that makeup and plastic surgery can't hide the deaths head grin underneath. Who thought the grim reaper would be so stylish?
The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.
→ In other news
August 6, 2009 - 12:03 ET by Cool ArrowIn other news, the Grim Reaper is recovering after an apparent suicide attempt following a night of drinking.
Sources close to the investigation say he gnawed his arm off after a night with Nancy Pelosi.
LYDSEXICS UNTIE!
Well, I sort of meant Nancy
August 6, 2009 - 12:06 ET by Chris NormanWell, I sort of meant Nancy was the Grim Reaper, but your version works too. Along my version, Pelosi leaving for August Recess = "Death Takes a Holiday" :)
The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.
I dont like to be mean, but speaking of medical matters
August 6, 2009 - 12:09 ET by StarAZThe work on Nancy's left eye looked puckered.
Star,I say this in the
August 6, 2009 - 12:25 ET by Chris NormanStar,
I say this in the most concerned way for her - there's only so many times that the skin can be stretched, treated, pinned, rotated, recycled, and coated.
The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.
Union Goons Coming!
August 6, 2009 - 11:40 ET by slickwillie2001The democratics are rounding up Big Union goons to attend townhall meetings and overwhelm the anti-Obamacare protesters:
White House & DNC Release Labor Goons on Obamacare Town Halls: http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com
I'm afraid that the Cold
August 6, 2009 - 11:45 ET by Chris NormanI'm afraid that the Cold Civil War is about to heat up.
The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.
I feel that is a very real
August 7, 2009 - 10:42 ET by dvdaughtryI feel that is a very real possiblity too.
You trying to say Jesus Christ can't hit a curveball?
"The media have a
August 6, 2009 - 11:40 ET by RESTLESS 1"The media have a responsibility to report on this hate speech, who is behind it and how vicious it has become."
That shouldn't be too difficult for them Brent. The media are the main culprits in much of this hate speech.
"This liberal would be all about socialize -- uh, uh, would be about basically taking over and the government running all of your companies."-Maxine Waters 2008
No hate speech
August 6, 2009 - 11:46 ET by AgnosticWhile I agree with Mr. Bozell's sentiments in wanting the ‘hate’ speech to be investigated and reported it is important to keep in mind that these people are not necessarily lying but are merely so disconnected, ignorantly sympathetic and/or needy that there is no understanding of the protest outside of the paradigm that they have created.
The politicians are isolated with socialist agendas that they believe will work as a salve on social injustices and therefore a means to an ends in pacifying the population to a political ruling class. The people who support such social programs are either sympathetic to the plight of others without the true understanding of what improves people as individuals thereby advancing society or they are needy people who would rather redistribute than contribute.
I am, however, against the idea of the legal label of ‘Hate Speech’ or the manipulative use of the phrase by media, politicians and pundits.
A person may be won over with logic and reason but the masses must be bought with spectacle and platitudes. - 2008 Elections
This is going to backfire
August 6, 2009 - 11:47 ET by ZacraThey can only call us racists for not agreeing for so long before at least the centrist dems get it. This won't bode well for them in 2010. But I am not convinced ACORN isn't primed and ready to steal another election.
Swastika Source?
August 6, 2009 - 12:01 ET by slickwillie2001Here's the likely source of the 'swastika' nonsense that the Snake Queen came up with:
Daily Kos Source Behind Pelosi's Charge: http://www.weaselzippers.net
Answer Today
August 6, 2009 - 12:24 ET by jaywlWe will get a reply to Brent's demand today. At today's news presser we will find out if the MSM is at all interested. Will NBC ask about the many facets of this that lead to the oval office? Will Gibbs say anything about the "Mob" or a conspiracy to "harm the President!"? Will Nancy just SHUT UP for God's sake? Any guesses?
2010 Strategy
August 6, 2009 - 13:11 ET by Junk Science SkepticRather than letting the media pick the candidates in the 2010 congresscritter elections, let's set some ideology aside for a moment and send a profound message by working toward 0% re-election in congress to remind everybody exactly who works for who.
We've quickly found out that there are worse things than candidates not having a 100% purity rating on wedge issues like abortion and immigration.
All but the most extreme of the moonbat far left are now of the opinion that congress is completely out of control. Regardless of where one is in the ideological spectrum, no reasonable person wants to have 1,000 page bills that are neither written nor read by congress shoved through the process and voted on before they can be reviewed or understood.
Let's send a message in 2010!
Stop Funding Leftist Propaganda - Boycott GE & Disney
Semantics
August 6, 2009 - 13:47 ET by JimboI guess these days semantics mean more now than ever. Some call peaceful citizens voicing their first amendment rights in town hall meetings where such opinions ARE SUPPOSED to be heard are called mobs.
Others consider groups of Black Panthers intimidating voters in front of polling booths only to later be set free mobs.
I know where my semantics stand.
Well-funded?? Where do I sign up?
August 6, 2009 - 15:47 ET by bpjamMy own 'blue dog' Congresswoman/Pelosi rubber-stamp won't even hold an event which the public can attend.
But I've never heard of anybody getting 'funded' 'paid' 'financed' or anything else involving $$ regarding these confrontations with Congresscritters in their home districts. Who is paying them? And where do I sign up to get the money?
I was just hoping to get in the same room with the idiot who represents by Congressional District in person since her staffers routinely lie to me about whether or not she will vote on something or (more commonly) whether she really IS 'undecided' on something like the Stimulus Bill (ie, Porkulus) until the last moment when she predictably votes with Nancy Pelosi (100% so far!!!!).
If I thought I could get paid for this, I'd be offering to attending town hall meetings within a 5 hour drive in any direction!!! The only people I've ever heard of who get paid to attend public protests are the Rent-A-Mobs like ACORN who show up with matching t-shirts, pre-printed signs (with the SEIU logo in the lower corner) and printed scripts to chant once the cameras arrive.
The people I've seen in these 'protests' and the member of the 'angry mobs' I've seen on TV or on YouTube appear to be pretty mundate, average folks. They aren't lobbyists (unless wearing a t-shirt and a trucker hat or a shirt with a pocket for your smokes is some kind of 'disguise') and they certainly aren't coordinated since none of them appear to be arriving in buses from some neighboring large city where out-of-work union members can be paid to spend x-number of hours 'protesting' somewhere while they are waiting to get a real job.
In Las Vegas, the local Carpenters union pays people $10 an hour (not exactly a living wage, btw) and ZERO benefits for poor suckers to stand out in the 100+ degree sun holding up signs in front of some business. The signs typically say 'Shame On ...... Labor Dispute' and the Carpenters Union Local is in small type in the lower corner. Whenever the Carpenters Union doesn't win a bid for some work on any private building job, they accuse the business doing the construction of being shameful. As if anybody who doesn't agree to pay the ridiculous 'prevailing wage' of the Unions demand (even in a recession, those wages don't go lower) a business should be ashamed of themselves.
The funny part is that the poor unemployed suckers who have to stand out in the sun IN THE SUMMER holding these stupid signs make WAY less than the people who actually WORK at the places being picketed. They would make more money WORKING for the company being protested than they do working for the Carpenters Union who treats them like illegal under-the-table labor (and they might be for all I know, many of them are hispanic).
The local businesses being protested (which includes hospitals, grocery stores, CHURCHES and home builders) send our their own employees to provide lunch and ice and water to those picketers so they don't die while they stand around for 8 hours a day in 115 degree heat. Many of the protested companies offer access to their office bathrooms and lobbies for these protesters to come in and get out of the heat and ensure they don't literally die for $10 an hour.
Because the Union isn't providing healthcare benefits to these 'laborers' (actually, contracted protestors), if they collapsed from dehydration the Unions would tell the police and the lawyers that these protesters were 'independent contractors' and that the Union had no responsibility for their death or any financial liability.
The Las Vegas Carpenters Union IS a provider of 'astroturf'. And shameful astroturf at that. Yet, nobody in the media EVER points out that THESE ARE THE PEOPLE WHO PAY FOR PROTESTORS and they are the ONLY people who pay for it.
August 6, 2009 - 17:30 ET by jessieHI am an angry mob! A mob of one. Nancy Pelosi is a TRAITOR!!!!!!!!! To accuse the People of the United States of carrying swastikas is an out and out LIE! California must impeach her. I have been at three protests. There were NO swastikas. Only "Old Glory" was present. She, Boxer and Waxman, have already destroyed the economy of California. The rest of the United States is now in jeopardy. Get rid of the corruption, before it's too late...... Angry Mob!
Do These People Even Know What They Are Complaining About?
August 6, 2009 - 22:51 ET by The7SticksYou know, you're beginning to do the same thing the liberals did to President Bush for the last eight years. You're pulling the same kind of bullsh*t the liberals did by complaining, "Oh, they're taking away our rights and our civil liberties" or "We are under a Nazi dictatorship". I remember perfectly well because at the age of 17, I was one of them. But guess what? I grew up. I learned the truth the hard way, repented, and made the decision to only vote on an issue-by-issue, person-by-person basis. I voted for Obama, which whom I believe will be a near-great president alongside George W. Bush for protecting us from our enemies. I also voted against all those propositions the California Democrats were supporting. Who knows, I might even be tempted to vote for Carly Fiorina over Barbara Boxer if the price is right.
The point is, do you think these protesters have any idea what they are protesting? If you just asked them directly, they might say, "Umm...Uhh.." Most likely, they wouldn't know what the actual problem with healthcare reform is. Yeah, there's no need to do it now, but why not? Better to do it now than never. If you ask me, these protesters have no one to blame but themselves, as they were personally responsible for letting the Democrats win the congress and the senate by either voting for them or not voting for the Republican.
Besides, these protesters have no showmanship, no finess, no simple identity to organize anarchy behind. They have to take a page out of V for Vendetta's book if they are to get any serious attention. Well, not the blowing up of builidings like in V for Vendetta, but mostly the theatrics and a lot of dry ice to make their escape.
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August 6, 2009 - 23:11 ET by Free Stinker.
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August 7, 2009 - 04:13 ET by BondPlainBond