The Maha Rushie has been on a roll lately, ever since that CPAC barnburner speech. I love him. I quit watching Stewart years ago. Too smug for me. If he was as smart as he thinks he is, he'd devote three hours a day to El Rushbo. Maybe he'd learn something.

Thanks for the column. The left disgust me with their hypocrisy on the matter of hate speech. As conservatives, we stand up for our beliefs, are continuously called hate-mongers and racist bigots; all the while the leftists and extreme liberals scatter their hate all in the name of "free speech" while trying to shut down our free speech. When sanity is reclaimed in this country, I hope these people are exposed for what they really are: anti-freedom, anti-rights, and opposed to free though.

Right on!! Having that on the internet and playing it on Hannity, Limbaugh, whatever, would not only be hilarious it would put their insanity and hypocrisy on display.

What I don't get about these conservative hating, white male hating, Christian hating, Bush hating, etc 'celebs' is … don't they see that they are potentially alienating half of their potential audience …. And why the hell would anyone want to sit and listen to this tripe in the audience (even if you were a turbo liberal)? There is no thought provoking content in these comments/rants or in the comments/rants of the other super intellectual comedian, Mr Maher. In addition, there is no humor.

Hate Speech Resides on the Left

True, that.

So Rush doesn't deserve a second chance Jon? You of all people should admire a man who overcame obstacles and has gained a bigger audience than before.

Well, Jon certainly out did himself. I can almost see the spittle spraying from his mouth. Perhaps it's time to call in an exorcist.

And all the while they rant and rave and try to take Rush down let's not forget WHY they are doing it: Rush Limbaugh gave one of the greatest speeches this nation has ever heard. Bar None. It is what he said and the way he said it in the speech that launched this latest attack on Rush Limbaugh. The Nation should hear that speech as often as there is a hate rant against Rush by the likes of Stewart, Colbert, Begala,Carville( that big eared grinning Nosfratu!) and gang. Enough of their idiocy already. It is bad enough there is absolutely nothing on television that is worth watching or listening to regarding political commentary from the left. Bill Mahar is an idiot and unfunny. Jon Stewart is famous only in his own mind. I wonder how his sponsors feel about that rant because I know it offended me. As a consumer I make notations of sponsors of offensive shows and let them know I will not buy their products. They all need to have THEIR shows cancelled rather than trying to take down a man who excels at what he does. Especially when they DO NOT!)

Its not a defense of Stewart nor an attack on Rush that I'm making. I'm attacking what I think is a ridiculous argument by Jennings calling a few lame quotes critical of Rush "hate speech". Rush engages in vigorous critiques of his own daily, certainly every bit the same in tone as Stewart's or stronger. If you listen to Rush you know this to be true, I don't need a bunch of supporting "evidence". Rush's stock in trade is his robust and vigorous commentary. Why play this game that Rush is some sort of mealy mouthed radio peacenik?

I positively detest arguments of this sort that amount to bald faced lies in an attempt to push forward the conservative viewpoint and I find them counterproductive. We want to decry the left's hyperbole and then we practice our own. The quotes Jennings cites are not "hate speech" directed at Rush, its simply overkill to label them that way. Rush directs withering verbal fire at liberals and whoever else he likes. Its not hate speech either. The only difference between the two is one you agree with and one you don't. That would have been the honest point for Jennings to make.

I'm starting to think this isn't jealousy but frustration. Rush is someone they can't take down, they can't control, thus a serious threat. And the clock is ticking, even they know they can't cover for Barry and friends forever. Bush is wisely staying silent so that material is getting stale, now they've found substituting Rush hasn't worked. So, Stewart is following the liberal rulebook, when something doesn't work, do it again twice as large and twice as loud!

Loved the "Get Out!" line, delivered after Rush announced we was already going. Liberal standard, soon Stewart will declare he forced Rush out!

You sure he calls Ted Kennedy "the swimmer?" I thought that was Bob Grant's line. It's a good one, too.

I don't know why people watch this guy, every time I have seen him he commits the cardinal sin of comedians. HE JUST ISN'T FUNNY! It is all bad jokes and middle school face making. HE JUST ISN'T FUNNY.

After reviewing your blog (http://www.politicalseason.blogspot.com/ ) and reading the About Us (what, don't conservatives get to do background checks?), I'm not sure which side of the con/lib duo is actually posting here. Even with the benefit of the doubt that you're the conservative, from reading the posts there I must conclude you are to conservatism as McCain is to Reagan.

I've listened to Rush on and off over the years and while he is undeniably a master of his craft, he's a pompous, classless ass. I remember when he used to take shots at Chelsea Clinton, and when he was arguably at his least physically attractive himself his major argument against feminists was that they were ugly. Then his more recent potshot accusing Michael J. Fox of exaggerating his Parkinsons. Plus last week's recent comment on Gordon Brown's "anal poisoning." All power to him as an entrepreneur, but you can have him.

The author was trying to make a point, which I think most of us got. "Get the f–k out of New York" isn't exactly love speech. But the real point is that we're simply tired of being accused of hate speech when the left is, if anything, more experienced and has a whole lot more people and places to spew it. If you don't like the words "hate speech" as being too extreme, how about "mean-spirited?" The left has been calling us that for decades, usually just before saying that all us fascist pigs should die.

The author was not suggesting that the left has a monopoly on hateful speech, he was suggesting that the left should stop its faux indignation every time a conservative makes a comment they don't like. And please allow some of us to think that even if Stewart's routines aren't hate speech, they're still not funny.

Dude, are you surprised? Obama has openly admitted he is a socialist and we still have people on the left rolling their eyes, like Bill Maher, and asking "Do you _really_ believe he's a socialist? Seriously? You really believe that nonsense?"

It's like fact doesn't matter to these people. I saw the "interview" Maher did with Joe the Plumber, besides the "do you REALLY believe he's a socialist" nonsense he kept repeating the nonsense Obama spewed about only raising taxes "on the rich" from "36 to 39 percent". If it comes from a Democrat these people just take it as read, don't bother thinking about it or fact-checking it or anything. They just repeat it then go on another rant about how Republicans don't understand the economy, Republicans don't understand 'the working man', and on and on and on. They're delusional.

Once again, Stewart proves how much of an arseclown he is. He won't ever bother to mention that Rush hasn't lived in New York since '97, or that he's been audited every year for twelve years by New York 'cause they're trying to get more money out of him. Let Stewart flap his lips all he wants; New York will collapse on itself when Rush and others like him stop spending money there.

As for me personally, I'm still pissed about the stupid remark Stewart made against the Boy Scouts on SNL in 2000, back when there was the initial hellraising about the BSA not allowing homosexuals in the organization. (Last three lines of the Scout Oath: I will keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and MORALLY STRAIGHT. My emphasis). Stewart's joke was that the BSA was already the gayest organization there was.

If he ever gets within swinging distance of me, he's going down for that one.

How do you regard it when Rush says something offensive?

Is it hate speech if it's true? Have you seen Waxmen's nostrils or Begala's forhead? If Ted Kennedy's not a swimmer then how did he survive Chappaquidick?

[...] MassCops – Massachusetts Law Enforcement Network put an intriguing blog post on Hate Speech Resides on the LeftHere’s a quick excerptWhat ever happened to comedians who used politics but avoided political commentary?. Today, the pseudo-comedians couldn’t exist without… [...]

Preceded, not proceeded. To precede means to come before, evident by your context, while proceed means to continue on a course of action or direction. "We could not proceed because the leftards preceded us and blocked our way." Any questions?

Otherwise, excellent sentiments. I agree wholeheartedly. Every leftard is envious of Rush because he's a self-made success story. Something none of them are or ever will be.

Celine Dion and the Dixie Chicks could provide the soundtrack to the movie. On second thought, that would KILL the movie.

Moviebob

I thought you were the big champion of gay rights so I would guess your saying the Boy Scouts and Alter Boys are great otherwise your little crack shows the normal hypocrisy of the left, you can say something is gay to insult things conservatives like but when a conservatives call something gay it's hate speech…oh well at least we can be grateful you didn't give us another of your condescending lectures

Okay, I can see both a comma and a string of periods, so I know he knows where those keys are…

Oh wait, he mentions Alter Boys. That was the little cross-dressing Catholic-bashing group from San Francisco, did a few plays on college campuses around 1987, right?

Usually as humorous but there are some groaners. The difference in deliveries matters, while Rush tends to use a flamethrower to start a BBQ, the libs like to airdrop napalm. Makes it easy to spot who wants to be funny and who wants to inflict casualties. And who likes their steak without excessive carbonization.

I am so ready to delve into the personal lives of stewart, olbermann, tina fey, behar, o'donnell, etc……how much would a PI cost?…..I'd be willing to chip in, how about you?

I'm actually laughing having had the discipline to read entirely through this rant. Mr. Jennings has a sum total of *3* examples of "hate speech" on the left. Compared to the daily roar that is the staple of the right wing subversive media, *3* examples are laughable! This scholarly piece of work is 4 days late – it should have been posted on April 1.

I am always surprised when anyone is surprised that the American Bolsheviks like Stewart and Letterman, Moore et al rant and rave against counterrevolutionaries.

THAT'S THEIR JOB.

Just be thankful! If they had the guts of their old Soviet comrades, Rush would be in a Gulag or undergoing state-forced "psychiatric" treatment.

Yes…saw that as soon as posted. Bad on me.

Stewart is a political ideologue who apparently hates Limbaugh personally. His attacks ad hominem are obvious attempts to make up for personal shortcomings, such as his inability to stay focused on an issue–among others. He's just another talking head who took himself seriously and decided to change his purpose in life from entertaining people with amusing comments about life's sillyness to nag and scold. I guess comedy doesn't give his life meaning. Stewart is about as funny as Don Rickles on a bad day.

I wish conservatives would STOP using the lexicon of the left. There is NO such thing as "hate speech." You don't have to be George Orwell to understand that "hate speech" is a euphemism to disguise censorship. Stewart is welcome to use any trite, inane, or ugly words he likes. It's rather useless to accuse the left of hypocrisy when their real intention is control.

Isn't it odd though, Rush simply was saying he wants to get out of NY because of such sky high taxes. You'd think dumb butt Stewart would have some empathy. Stewart is just a mean old hateful man.

I was just waiting for Pol Seas to post examples of Rush's "hate speech." Still haven't seen it posted, so I guess it isn't coming. Not the cut and paste partial quotes of the Media Matters half-wits, either, as they live by disengenuousness. As for the IntenseDebate feature screw-ups, please complain about it, several of us here have, maybe if enough do, they will fix it. I know BH was trying to do something about it, but I am getting tired of posting and reading the threads, as they are not as free-flowing, difficult to read, and so not as enjoyable.

Yes, we know you hate Rush, love Jon Stewart. You tell us every single time the subject of either comes up. We. Get. It. And no, if you've had a kid in Boy Scouts, that s#it isn't funny. Rush says stuff that I disagree with, but he usually laughs or says them in such a way, (if you can detect subtle), that let's you know he is not overly serious. Stewart was mildly funny back when he first came out in his early stand up days. He should have pushed to do more movies, a much better fit for a man who is 50ish, whose comedy is on par with the stoned teenagers who watch. The kids I know call it The Daily Stoner Show. Sounds appropriate.

I have to say, yeah, the hate speech moniker is a bit much. Stew can spew all he wants. He is just terribly unfunny when he does it. As for his show, anyone with even the least bit of talent could do his show. The writing, scripting, the support of the audience, all one needs is some timing and an ability to mug for the camera. Stewart has more talent than that show, and that's not saying much. I get the why of kids watching, it's the adults who do, that concern me.

The fact he doesn't use his real name tells me all I need to know about him.

Again the lefties try to distract from what's really going on. Instead of addressing the reason Rush wants to get out to NY – Governor Patterson and his ridiculous tax increase – Stewart just attacks Rush – good riddance, etc. If the idiot thought about it for a minute he might disagree with the tax increase or question to validity of it. But if he did that the he would be agreeing with Rush – HORROR OF HORRORS! Since he can't do that, he'll just attack Rush and another stupid "tax the rich to death" increase is put through and no one blinks an eye. "Tax increase? What tax increase? Nothing to see here – move along – Rush is an idiot, etc."

Boilerbacker, I think what you're missing is that these guys are selling leftist humor. Their target audience is the left wing. If they attract you, it's purely by accident. They have basically decided that there is enough money to be made in preaching to the choir — or ranting to the lunatics (might be the better way to say it).

To attract the left, you need to do the whole bashing and hating thing that they do. Thought provoking is not wanted or needed, and the humor derives more from a shared hate than any actual humor.

It's probably time that we stopped calling these guys "comedians" and started calling them "left wing comedians."

Who cares what "Stewart" says, when he's ashamed to use his real name. That would be Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz… AKA Stewart, AKA Self Loathing Jerk. As to Hate Speech, if you are in question as to what it sounds like, listen to Air America…. if you can still find it on air, otherwise you can look for a tape at a Hollywood garage sale (if you find one, don't pay more than two cents for it).

Mr. Jennings, If you are reading this, I encourage you to keep on exploring some of the views and sentiments expressed here on Andrew Breitbart's internet company. As a frequent link from Matt Drudge's similar site, and one that supports a comment section, Breitbart's comment section has become a town hall of right america. And what a scary place that is!

I read racial epithets and calls for harm to minorities every day here at Breitbart's comment area. There is no doubt that, because this is the internet and everyone here posts anonymously, people feel emboldened to speak their hostilities more harshly and openly than I know they would in person, in public or private, in front of my face or yours.

But there's no doubt, and the proof surrounds us! Hate is right here with Breitbart's many followers. Just have a look around.

Jon "Douche-Bag" Stewart is one of the reasons that I got rid of my cable TV last November. I WILL NOT pay for any TV service that even has one cent of my hard earned money going into his pocket. There are countless other reasons why I ditched my cable (LOGO, MTV, CNN, MSNBC) just to name a few.

I'm challenging all other right thinking Americans to join me in "cutting the cable" on their TVs. We are winning the battle on the newspaper front. Papers are barely staying afloat. Most are in the financial ledge, ready to jump. They say that ad rates are their real problem. But how do they set their ad rates? It's in part set by circulation numbers. If nobody is looking at their fish wrap, they can't charge as much as they would like for their ad space.

If all of us start dropping paid TV, the same will begin to happen. One by one, these crap cable networks will begin to "wither on the vine" just like the papers are doing now. I am about 5 months in on my no cable lifestyle and I don't miss it one bit. It may be a bit more difficult for those with kids, but if you can swing it, try cutting the cord and send a financial message to paid TV.

I would disagree with your definition of hate speech. Quoting someone out of context and then devaluing their arguments and positions based on those out of context snippets and ad hominem attacks the way Stewart and the left typically do qualifies as hate speech – hate the speaker, ala 2 minutes hate. They attack the person and not the point the person makes. Bristol Palin was, and still is, an entire campaign designed to deflect us from the arguments and alternative that Sarah Palin provides, and Bristol is an entirely different person.

Rush may mock the person with names and silly voices, but he also attacks the point of the argument quite aside from who made it. If you haven't realized this by now, then I have to wonder which of us is actually listening to his radio show.

Clinton essentially blamed Rush for the Oklahoma City bombing. Look at what they did to Palin. They crucified her from day one. Made up stories that were easily debunked by a grade school kid. They went after her daughter and family like wildfire, while giving our current president a free ride and hardly a hardball question in his entire campaign. Tim Robbins (not a genius) talking about a cold wind blowing over free speech, while giving a speech, then going home to his cozy apartment (not prison) with his mom, Susan Sarandon, for speaking out on the war. I don't have a list of all the vile insults from the touch-feely liberals against those on the right, but it wouldn't take a few minutes to find them on DailyKos, MoveOn or Democrat Underground.

yeeech….Colbert is even worse than Stewart. Me thinks he got beat up to much as a little kid. What a tool.

I'll agree that he gave some pretty tame examples. There ARE much more vile ones that he could have used and plenty of them. It doesn't do any good to personally attack someone if you can legitimately attack their positions or policies. I've never heard Rush say anything racist in all the time I've listened to him. I don't believe he is.

It's fascinating to me to read this whining simpering garbage that you lefties put out there. I wear my beliefs on my chair when I am out in public and have never harmed a civilian piece of left wing trash…yet. However I have been repeatedly assaulted by the "tolerant" left. There is a reason that the common man is sick and tired of the left. I suggest you figure it out.

SUA SPONTE

John Stewart is a social and political commentator posing as a comedian. That is what is most maddening about his show. He's constantly taking potshots @ conservatives and uses his status as "comedian" as a fallback when pressed to defend his position.

Unfortunately, it is a waste of time to respond to GOP is History types. They are so blinded by ideological hatred that it makes it impossible to reason with them. There arguments and attacks are usually ad hominem and rarely based on facts. Best to ignore at times as opposed to get sucked into a mind numbingly banal argument.

Only the left thinks that the corrupt actions of groups like ACORN (convicted of vote fraud) is acceptable. And I am NOT your buddy. I'm done troll. Don't bother responding.

SUA SPONTE

I have been reading this blog since it's inception. I have never read one racial epithet. Please show an example or retract.

You better WATCH WHAT YOU SAY BUDDY. He took out a few of the LEFT-CONTROLLED POLICE, before he went down, but one of your brothers-in-arms died in the fight this weekend!

http://kdka.com/local/officers.shot.Stanton.2.975...

OK Wavey, name 6 comedians right now who are funnier than Stephen Colbert (who takes on pompous talking-point windbags of all stripes effectively), who even if you hate his guts is clearly superior to the worthless likes of O'Donnell and Cho…

You mean like Michael (Weiner) Savage? Not that I blame him in that instance…

Stewart and Colbert are powerful forces for the left in their ongoing cultural attacks on conservatism and their nightly distortions of who we are, what we believe in and the direction we would like to take the country. Sadly, they are very effective in their distortions since every real news and cultural outlet — including Fox News — pays homage to their mocking by running their skits and celebrating their stars.

Personally, I’m waiting for Fox to give Dennis Miller his own satirical talk-show which could combine elements of Bill Maher‘s newmakers/cultural icons/political figures panel mixed in with the snark and mockery of Colbert or Stewart . I can imagine Dennis running down the days news stories taking jabs at the MSM and making a mockery on a nightly basis as to what constitutes as journalism in today’s world as well as the sheer lunacy of today’s left and the vapid causes they support, endorse and believe wholeheartedly in. Dennis would never be hard-pressed for material — not with likes of the MSM bursting with overwhelming absurdity, hypocrisy and dishonesty.

And who can forget Clooney mocking Heston having Alzheimer's, the left hawking despicable t-shirts after Tony Snow died, Bernhard and Madonna going on tirades against Palin?

My own personal experiences with lefties is the same. I signed up for Facebook over a year ago and then had nothing to do with it. Recently, I went on it to see new photos of my new nephew who was born and lives in another state. I had a few requests from acquaintances to 'be my friend'.

On another site, I was reading about the Tea Parties that were being organized and clicked on my state, which lead me to Facebook. I affirmed I would be attending. I didn't know the workings of FB, but apparently a 'Madelyn *** will be attending the Chicago Tea Party' was sent to my handful of "friends".

Next thing you know, I have 2 people questioning my attendance (husband and wife). These people are NOT friends of mine; I rarely see them and had not for over a year.

The opening line was "have you lost your senses?", obviously a rhetorical question. He said some stupid things having nothing to do with the point of the Tea Party and said he was thinking of going to protest the protesters.

I replied saying I was not happy with the Stimulus Bill nor taxpayer money being used for all the bailouts. I said I despised big government and inept bureaucracy. You think it could have been left at that but nooooo.

He replies with a ridiculous rant, says wealthy people are driving us to feudalism and he prefers socialism and rich people are greedy and he welcomes their demise (among other things). He also went after me again personally saying I was naive if I believed such and such.

That was it. I sent the bully back a reply and put him in his place. Next thing you know, I have 2 (husband/wife) less "friends". They had become my "friend" and removed themselves within 2 days.

I told this to a friend who knows them and she said they used to send her anti-Bush emails. My friend is completely apolitical and doesn't talk politics and these people aren't close friends of her either. They're your all too typical aggressive lefties. FB is just another bully pulpit from which to launch their attacks.

Stewart is so brilliant, just ask him.

I quit watching "The Daily Show" when it became "The Daily Bash Republicans Show." Stewart can be funny, but he's too much of a liberal to realize that he's wrong about the misinformation he spews forth about conservatives and Republicans. Even though his audience of slackers/stoners/liberals is about 1/20th the size of Rush's audience, the media loves him because they're libs too. Rush had it right when he said that liberals are the angriest people around. Even with their Messiah as president and the other two stooges running the House and the Senate, they're upset. Talk about douchebags.

Watch Leno's primetime foray go down in flames, quickly.

Dr. Sowell would have my vote in a heartbeat.

Gutfled did make a joke about that he didn't even know Canada had soldiers, and afterward, he apologised for it, that wasn't good enough?" He wasn't being malicious, unlike Maher and Stewart. Seen them apologising to ANYONE lately?

Thomas Sowell? Heck, yeah! I would be rounding up carloads of people to take to the polls!!! I couldn't give a s#it less what color someone is, where they're from, etc. I want someone who knows America is great, will say KMA to those who oppose us, and treats our Constitution as the blueprint for our country. People like our troll don't understand that this country has "leaned left" more than a few times before, perhaps when his mommy was marching with her fellow hippies against Vietnam, for one. The pendulum ALWAYS swings back. We might have to wait for the old flower children to die out, or become infirm, but we will swing back.

It's less the taxes and more the 12 straight years of audits, plus he gets taxed per diem, meaning he has to prove for every day of the year whether or not he was in NY. While not conclusive proof of a totalitarian abuse of power by targeting him, it's something no sensible freedom-loving American should have to put up with.

Applying your standard, we now have a left-controlled military. Am I supposed to start cheering when they get killed?

Although on the face of it him and I share about the same views on O-baby and guns, calling him my brother-in-arms feeds liberal attempts to link us and label that group as dangerous to society. Lord knows I've seen those individual statements many places, dressing them as delusional paranoia is an old trick of the opposition. Looks like he was just some unemployed depressed guy who badly over-reacted, perhaps suicidal. While I don't approve of his actions, I can feel sorry for him. It's (still) a free country.

All you right wingers are whinny pathetic losers. Jon Stewart jealous of Rush Limbaugh? Maybe in an eating contest. But Stewart has shown time and time again that he can expose any politicians lies and crap, NO MATTER WHICH SIDE THEY'RE ON, by showing viewers clips of them opening their big mouths. There are certainly more Republicans than Democrats he skewers, but that's because the GOP have ruled the country with an iron fist for the past decade, which is why America is in the bad shape it is in. And all your hero Limbaugh can do is callously say that he wants Obama to fail in his efforts to clean up the mess Bush has gotten the country in. How disgusting.

Here's the difference. Jon Stewart cares about America. Rush Limbaugh cares only about himself. The fact that you would align yourselves with Rush speaks loudly about how miniscule and feeble your characters are. Do get help immediatly before even your own families are sickened and repulsed by your attitudes.

You people are just so *gross*. I mean, the thought of standing next to a liberal makes my skin crawl.

One could say the same thing about Rush.

My idea of funny? Rodney Dangerfield, Bill Cosby, Demetri Martin, Jackie Mason, Steven Wright, …….

I'm glad you brought this up. Stewart a Jewish name? I see where he got his "nome de plume". Thanks.

Many here will defend your right to speak out, anybody that physically laid a hand on you would have to deal with a response that would include extreme prejudice if any of us were present, rest assured many of us are sick of the left and their Gestapo tactics.

1. Rush is not a politician.
2.. The clip of Rush was nothing more than him saying he was leaving NY. What "lies" and "crap" was Stewart exposing?. The only thing Stewart exposed in his little game was his own hatred.
3. Stewart cares about America but Limbaugh only cares about himself? Says who, you? Fool.
4. A White House directed attack on a radio host and all Obama's brownshirters is just one example of Obama's "iron fist."
5. Obama is not cleaning up any mess; he's using the 'never let a crisis go to waste' to radically change America into HIS vision of what America should be. He's been an anti-American his whole life as revealed clearly through his books, his mentors and associations throughout life (communists/Marxists), and his adherence to the Saul Alinsky way (which is what his community organizing was patterned after).

"The Obama administration is considering asking Congress to give the Treasury secretary unprecedented powers to initiate the seizure of non-bank financial companies such as large insures, investment firms, and hedge funds whose collapse would damage the broader economy, according to the administration document."

The Obama administration has also forced banks to take TARP money. Now it's about the government determining how much money people 'deserve' to be paid. People who don't even pay income taxes are getting a 'tax refund'. The Democrats are the ones who forced banks to lower lending practices to begin with.

You left-wingers are ignorant and uneducated. Masses of people impressed by 'celebrity' as America is pushed off a cliff. Stick to your comedians for news; the rest of us are not lemmings.

BTW, Obama didn't have much luck with NATO allies. You see, the supposed lack of charm by Bush was never the problem. Just another thing lefties are ignorant about.

You left-wingers are fools, utter fools;

Remember that Line from "A few good men"? You can't handle the truth! Well that's the left for you. They can't handle the truth. If they could they might tell it every now and then.

http://www.atlantateaparty.net/

You shut up. You're ignorant and incapable of conducting a reasoned conversation. Your rabid dog response of insult and name calling give conservatives a bad name. Its telling that this is the kind of response you have to someone simply expressing their opinion. You don't agree with my view, you can simply say so and leave it there, but you want to jump off into sorry attempts at intimidation and name calling. You're a conservative, but clearly a stupid one.

Its indicative of the GOP's problem. Conservative principles which are supposed to underlie the GOP are superior to the ideas that underlie democrat political practice. We have a better foundation to build from. However, we have serious problems with our political practice within the GOP. The response to my comment is indicative of the problem. You're expected to think a particular way. If you don't, you're almost immediately branded as not being a conservative. Thats the reaction I got for the advancing the simple idea that I don't find anything useful in calling Stewart's rant on Rush "hate speech" and in fact, given that Rush is the master of political take down, its hilarious to think that Stewart even manages a glancing rhetorical blow here. I just don't find it useful, but that gets responded to like some form of heresy. I don't think we do ourselves any favors with that kind of approach and as you can see from some of the response, it QUICKLY devolves to name calling and insult. I didn't offer such first, but I don't have a problem with responding to it.

Puhlease..The jerk calling himself "Guy Arthur Thomas" is obviously a lefty plant. They send them out to make TRUE conservatives look bad.

Here we go again. Why am I not a conservative? Because I don't agree with you and Jennings about calling Stewart's comments "hate speech". I'm not a conservative because I don't find anything about that useful? Is it conservative to name call and disparage me by calling me an ACORN website watcher? Is that how you carry the conservative banner? Is this what passes for the exchange of ideas in the conservative sphere?

Frankly CD, nobody gives a $hit what you think. This is the game as defined by the radical left now we're all choosing sides.

If you're truly a conservative you don't need to point it out. As for being called a name? Hmm, I hardly doubt that but call it what you will.

Plato's Chosen have thought like this for 3000 years. The left are dictatorial tyrants. However like the ancient Greeks and Romans they equated their rule with a moral clarity that gave them the authority to proscribe thought. A conservative does not censor liberals, he answers them. When a liberal makes a statement that is unfair or wrong the conservative attacks the argument and explains its folly. The left believe their argument is superior and therefore have decided they don't need to answer us. The fact that we find fault with their perceived wisdom of Mount Olympus is enough for them to censure us.

It is probably the most evil aspect of their philosophy.

Well, thats an interesting angle to go with. Exactly what the heck is "hate speech" anyway? Do we have some common definition we are working with? I react to this terminology the same way I do when black and white people start labeling stuff "racist". The reality is that because for a long period of time black folks have labeled things as racist that were not, the word has lost any meaning in our discourse. White people now throw the word "racist" around with equal abandon to label things and its become meaningless. I get into debates with people who are using this terminology and the first thing I want is for them to define their terms, because I have no idea to what their referring when they label something "racist".

This strikes me the same way. Stewart says get the f**k out of here and other not nice things and Jennings says thats "hate speech". So I have to ask, exactly what the heck does that mean?

And I have to disagree with you about Rush. He attacks the argument sure, but he attacks people as well. I think its disingenuous to act as though Rush is any less hard hitting that Stewart or any of these others out there. In fact, Rush's audience is bigger than all these other guys, so I'd argue he's better at it.

I'm sorry you had that experience with FB. We've hooked back up with some friends who are decidedly left-leaning through FB as well. Luckily, we have hooked up with some who are more thoughful and have had some productive discussions where we have managed to make them see that conservatives are mainly interested in minimal government and personal liberty and in more area than they realize, we can agree when we actually come to the table and talk rather than lob emotion bombs at one another.

Than there are the ones like you describe who sound like the typical thoughtless sheeple who can't think beyond MSM party-line.

If you're truly not a racist, you don't need to point it out.

See how functionally useless that construction is? I'm not impugning some race thing to you in anyway, merely making the point that the logic of the statements is the same. And who are you kidding? The ACORN bit is an insult.

You might want to look at the percentage totals. You don't have quite as much control as you think… or want us icky awful people who disagree with you to think. That is your game, isn't it?

Though thanks for showing yourself as another "tyranny of the majority" supporter. The typical mindset found in lynch mobs across the globe and throughout history.

Well IF you CHOOSE to be insulted then by all means BE insulted.

Actually, their unfortunate (but justly constitutionally-protected, I stress) stance on homosexuals aside, I think that in theory the BSA is a fine organization with a lot to offer. The Priesthood is, to a lesser degree (at least MOST of what you can learn in Scouts you can actually USE at some point) much the same way IMO. But they're BOTH, unless my experience was a complete aberration, packed to the gills with who-do-they-think-they're-kidding closeted gays. Not a positive or a negative, just an observation.

Your observation about the Boy Scouts and priesthood being packed with gays (I was a scout for about two weeks and though Catholic, never an alter boy so I can't confirm or deny your observation) brings up an unsettling issue, why are gays attracted to groups that contain underage boys?

You brought it up. Sounds like you don't want to follow where it goes.

I'm pretty sure it's the indignant tone that's been putting people off. Pouncing on statements and declaring insult is liberal stock and trade. It helps to recognize the attempt at humor in the piece, the revealing of hypocrisy by the left on the subject. That should have happened from the very first line, "I thought conservatives were the only group that was guilty of hate speech…" If you really want to be known as an offended conservative, should have started there. You didn't, which leaves two interpretations, you're a conservative who recognizes self-deprecating humor, which is sort of counter-indicated by your non-humorous dead-serious taking-offense posts, or you breezed over it because you accept it as true. And why would a conservative do that?

You realize "cutting the cable" means no Fox News with sexual harasser O'Reilly, man-jawed Van Susteren, and "I hate 9/11 families" Glenn Beck, right? Not a bad idea, come to think of it…

[...] Hate Speech Resides on the Left by Brian Jennings [...]

I remember that time…I think they need to bring back Craig Kilborn!

It must have been the neck of the woods you grew up in because I was both a Boy Scout and Altar Boy until high school graduation and I can't say that I ever noticed "funny" stuff in either group from any of the adults (in Boy Scouts) or priests in church.

You sure you weren't projecting? …just sayin'.

Don Rickles was actually funny most times. I don't think he takes himself seriously whereas Stewart truly thinks his thoughts are profound….

Nice use of the strike to get around the moderation.

You say you "blew milk out of your nose." You ask, "You're kidding, right?" You denounce the examples given, which include calling Limbaugh a douchebag and having a taste for murder, as "laughable."

Then you get on your high horse about the offensive tone others use? Next time, think before you post. Maybe you won't have to backpedal so much.

*sigh*. Tone is the issue then is it? Well, sorry that the tone isn't to the crowd's liking. I don't think a complaint about tone has anything to do with my essential point, which was that I thought Jennings "hate speech" riff was non useful hyperbole, as pompous in its own way as you say Stewart is.

The extended "your'e not really a conservative" argument is tired. I'm only a conservative if I echo your take on this post is what I think that argument amounts too. Thats not a particularly good argument as it simply says if you don't subscribe to our groupthink, you're not a conservative. The right excoriates the left as the home of the truly intolerant, but the suggestion that talking about "hate speech" isn't useful to advance the conservative cause means I'm not a "real" conservative. I don't see how you can take that position and still crow that the right is the most tolerant of different points of view. That mild difference of opinion is enough to land me a -50 point score and repeated accusations of having no conservative convictions. What people say does not square with what they do.

As for tone, I think there is quite a good deal of "indignation" here to go around.

Fair enough.

I should perhaps elaborate that in the case of the Scouts I'm not referring to adult Scoutmasters – I only ever knew ONE person of authority in my region of the organization whom I was reasonably certain (and much later on in life became entirely certain) was a homosexual was a female Den Mother. The likely closeted (or not) gays I encountered as a Scout were OTHER Scouts, i.e. other 'underage boys.'

The Priesthood is, unfortunately, another matter altogether. I was NEVER involved directly in anything "untoward" as an altar boy (though a Priest I worked under was years later removed from a position of authority amid allegations of bad behavior) but what's known is what's known. I would say that a majority of the Priests I worked with were "suspected" of being gay by myself and my peers, a perhaps juvenile reaction that I none the less do not think was all that far from the mark looking back.
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And yet, the tone of your posts has improved, and you're not getting negatives now.

Look, let's just take a quick look at this thread. "…my essential point, which was that I thought Jennings "hate speech" riff was non useful hyperbole, as pompous in its own way as you say Stewart is." Okay, this is the same fluff we get from the left, while we have real work to get done. Valid point.

Now let's go to the start of this thread. Alright, that's not hate speech from Stewart, Rush has said far worse things that qualify.

You starting to see where some of the "indignation" was coming from? Granted it was a bit hair-trigger, but replies can fly fast around here and there's sensitivity towards trollish behavior. Now with the emotions wearing off, your comments don't look that bad, got some good stuff in there. But at the time…

Fine, I'll accept you as a fellow conservative. If you keep to reason and let the emotion go, lingering anger and resentment are hallmarks of the opposition. There's a pretty smart crowd around here, the first responders have already calmed down, so now I guess it's your turn. Is that asking a lot? Maybe. But you're the one saying we've got important work to do, and anger, especially among ourselves, isn't called for right now. As it's said, don't get angry, get even. 2010 is coming soon…

Oh and your rapid rant is…reasoned? STFU Jesse Jr.

LOL! Omg, this made me laugh so hard. Jon jealous of rush? LOL! ROFLXD I'm sure that's itxD What a sad post. Just really sad. People LOVE Jon Stewart. He is funny and populair. only bitter old people listen to Rush and his hateful ranting. attacking a man for suffering for Parkinson's, being sexist etc. He's done it all. Hate Jon all you want. He's the one with the emmy's, the smart fanbase and being loved. Nice try though.

Fools the democrats are propping up Rush so as to make him an issue the next election the dems are the ones who want to make him perceived as strong and a leader in the republican party

I love how you guys have resorted to attempting to bludgeon a comedy show. Trust me, it won't work. Still, you made me smile. Here's a quote – I don't think it will help, but it's worth a try.

"I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae or a banana split." – Kurt Vonnegut

You admitted you were a douchebag. Nice one, douche.