The Poignant For 3/24/10: The Painful Lesson Bart Stupak Learned This Week
12 days ago, Bart Stupak had enough of the left calling him out for his mendacity or poor reading comprehension skills.
If you forgot already what he said to the National Review nutplace site (because it's easy wanting to forget whatever Stupak says), he explained how those mean old lefties like the Daily Kos and Rachel Madddow were "stepping it up on him" on pushing back his fantasy interpretation of the Senate health reform bill.
"This has reached a really unhealthy stage" is what the Michigan Congressman uttered that day, almost a fortnight ago. If you were a casual, ardent CNN watching follower of politics in this nation, you would have thought Stupak was basically getting harassed by a bunch of unhinged, awful people.
Fast forward all the way to today, and Stupak (along with his family probably) is now faced with this from another set of people totally opposite from before:
Truly amazing, isn't it?
If the left made Stupak feel that current times lead to a "really unhealthy stage", then I'm really inclined, for the first time ever, to see what Bart Stupak thinks on anything in regards to his phone receiving such scary messages.
How would he describe what he's received from the rabid right, how their calls of violence and display of pestilent castigation are the true "unhealthy stage" that we have reached in our political landscape?
When Iraq was announced seven years ago, or when the Patriot Act was further renewed in the Summer of 2008, or when torture prosecution on the previous Administration were ignored, the left never preceeded to bust out windows of Republican (and Democratic) Congressional figures' offices. Or threaten the lives and family of these politicians where the FBI has to get involved. Or make vile phone calls of the sort that would make you cringe listening to them.
You know what the left did? They showed amazing respect despite the horrors of those decisions, never proceeding to threaten the lives of these people or their close ones. The left protested respectfully. The left let their views be known without crossing the line by warning violence is eminent. The left acted civil.
It really is a troubling thought for our democracy when the right resorts to being terrorists when they don't get what they want. But it's furthermore concerning when the distinction is not clearly made by both our media and politicians that current American extremism is nowhere near equal in both sides of the spectrum.
It is a crown jewel of false equivalence now if their ever was, and that is a negatively impressive thing to be.
It is difficult for the right to fess up for any mistakes that their side makes because they are forever immature petulant children (and that could be considered an insult to the youth of the nation). But when you continue to not slapped down these insane actions, and instead blame the other's sides relatively normal moves for causing bricks being smashed or phones being engulfed in flaming F-bombs and uncontrollable anger, you are more than just shameful hypocrites.
You are an outright, no bones about it, terrorist.
12 days ago, Bart Stupak basically labeled the true Democratic base of his party "extremist" in their totally honest and fair denunciation of his lies on the Senate health insurance reform bill.
But when he heard the death threats on his phone after this past Sunday's events, I wouldn't be surprised at all if he truly knew what it was for our political climate to reach a "really unhealthy state."
An unhealthy state coming from not both sides, but clearly just one.
Update: Ed Schultz deals with the exact problem right in front of your eyes with The Heritage Foundation fool he has usually, and how he just loves to play the shameful game of false equivalency:
If you forgot already what he said to the National Review nutplace site (because it's easy wanting to forget whatever Stupak says), he explained how those mean old lefties like the Daily Kos and Rachel Madddow were "stepping it up on him" on pushing back his fantasy interpretation of the Senate health reform bill.
"This has reached a really unhealthy stage" is what the Michigan Congressman uttered that day, almost a fortnight ago. If you were a casual, ardent CNN watching follower of politics in this nation, you would have thought Stupak was basically getting harassed by a bunch of unhinged, awful people.
Fast forward all the way to today, and Stupak (along with his family probably) is now faced with this from another set of people totally opposite from before:
Truly amazing, isn't it?
If the left made Stupak feel that current times lead to a "really unhealthy stage", then I'm really inclined, for the first time ever, to see what Bart Stupak thinks on anything in regards to his phone receiving such scary messages.
How would he describe what he's received from the rabid right, how their calls of violence and display of pestilent castigation are the true "unhealthy stage" that we have reached in our political landscape?
When Iraq was announced seven years ago, or when the Patriot Act was further renewed in the Summer of 2008, or when torture prosecution on the previous Administration were ignored, the left never preceeded to bust out windows of Republican (and Democratic) Congressional figures' offices. Or threaten the lives and family of these politicians where the FBI has to get involved. Or make vile phone calls of the sort that would make you cringe listening to them.
You know what the left did? They showed amazing respect despite the horrors of those decisions, never proceeding to threaten the lives of these people or their close ones. The left protested respectfully. The left let their views be known without crossing the line by warning violence is eminent. The left acted civil.
It really is a troubling thought for our democracy when the right resorts to being terrorists when they don't get what they want. But it's furthermore concerning when the distinction is not clearly made by both our media and politicians that current American extremism is nowhere near equal in both sides of the spectrum.
It is a crown jewel of false equivalence now if their ever was, and that is a negatively impressive thing to be.
It is difficult for the right to fess up for any mistakes that their side makes because they are forever immature petulant children (and that could be considered an insult to the youth of the nation). But when you continue to not slapped down these insane actions, and instead blame the other's sides relatively normal moves for causing bricks being smashed or phones being engulfed in flaming F-bombs and uncontrollable anger, you are more than just shameful hypocrites.
You are an outright, no bones about it, terrorist.
12 days ago, Bart Stupak basically labeled the true Democratic base of his party "extremist" in their totally honest and fair denunciation of his lies on the Senate health insurance reform bill.
But when he heard the death threats on his phone after this past Sunday's events, I wouldn't be surprised at all if he truly knew what it was for our political climate to reach a "really unhealthy state."
An unhealthy state coming from not both sides, but clearly just one.
Update: Ed Schultz deals with the exact problem right in front of your eyes with The Heritage Foundation fool he has usually, and how he just loves to play the shameful game of false equivalency:
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