Over at The Corner, Jim Geraghty asks, and Mark Steyn answers:
How did we reach the point where Air America calls Hillary a 'whore'?
Indeed. Randi Rhodes agrees with Hillary Clinton and Geraldine Ferraro on everything - abortion, health care, climate change, you name. Yet the first is "a f***ing whore" and the second is "David Duke in drag" merely because they disagree which Democratic senator would make the best president. The people applying these deranged epithets to the Clintons are in large part the very same people who spent the Nineties applying equally deranged epithets to anyone who disagreed with the Clintons.
There's something rather heartening about this for those of us on the right who've been on the receiving end of the left's vehemence: Apparently there really is nothing personal about it. You can be a chickenhawk warmonger racist homophobe mysogynist Bush shill or a pro-feminist pro-gay pro-black icon of progressive politics for a generation, but, if you cross the likes of Randi Rhodes, you're all the same and you merit the same four-letter words and KKK slurs.
The left's Discoursometer is like one of those shower units where the slightest nudge turns it to scalding.
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Very wrong that some obscure radio host rates a huge amount of media coverage. Over here we have already dismissed such ravings. But TV and Youtube clips like this are used for anti-American propaganda in other countries.
I can anwswer Jim Geraghty's question if Mark Steyn cannot. We reached this point because everything and anything goes on TV and in movies today. Good taste and etiquette has died in America.
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