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Originally Posted by Jim in CT
But no rational person supports the act of threatening the President. People who commit that act are crazy, and they go to jail. The kids at Wesleyan who threw condoms at Scalia are not ostracized within the liberal community, their actions are not condemned by the majority of liberals. I haven't seen the majority of cons. making any statement about the woman yelling about making believe that the target is Obama - maybe they agreed w/it? To be fair, I don't think the majority of the cons. think it is ok. But in both our examples, where is the "condemning" suppose to take place? Both you and I agreed the others example isn't appropriate (and in your example I posted like the 2nd or 3rd response and said it wasn't appropriate). The difference is that you posted a thread and said something like "an example of lib. intolerance" and I'm gave you an example to show that the actions of a supposed conserv. comes across just as bad.
Bill Maher is a liberal hero (I say that because extremely influential liberals agree to go on his show, and they don't challenge his lack of civility), and he called Palin a c*nt. David Letterman makes jokes about Palin's teenage daughter getting raped, and the First Lady agrees to go on his show. Yet Rush Limbaugh is being labeled a mysoginist. What does that tell you?
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All the statements are inappropriate (and have been discussed here). People prob. view Maher and Letterman as comedians and prob. cut them some slack. There is no way you can compare the "influential" libs on Maher's show w/the amount of "influential" cons. on Limbaugh's show (I never watch Limb. and watch Maher about 25% of the time).