Say Anything Blog

If this isn’t hate speech I don’t know what is. I think O’Reilly is right in calling this site a hate speech site is right on the mark. This is the same site that had President Bush having sex with a farm animal, can you imagine this if the right has done such a thing to their treasured president Bill Clinton there would be out rage and public outcry.

Daily KOS Diary of John Stafford

First things first.  Bill O’Reilly is criticizing us for being a “hate site.” He even went so far as to compare DKos to Nazis and the KKK.  Does anyone else see the irony in that?  Maybe he’s just worried about someone else horning in on his territory.

I don’t know what’s more galling – the unmitigated hypocrisy or the metaphorical asymmetry.  The Nazis and the KKK are right-wing groups.  They are representative of conservatism in it’s most extreme incarnation.  Daily Kos is a liberal organization.  If you’re going to make outrageously exaggerated comparisons, at least keep you’re ideologies straight.  The extreme version of DKos’s philosophy would be better represented by comparing us to someone like Lenin.  Yeah, it’s just as ludicrous.  But I like consistency in my hate-filled sloganeering.  I’m old fashioned that way.

So here’s where it gets personal.  Today, on his radio show, Bill O’Reilly made a comment about a blogger on DKos who said that Tony Snow should die of cancer.  I’m here to say that I’m that blogger.

As usual, O’Reilly got it mostly wrong.  I never said that Tony Snow “should” die of cancer.  Nor did I say that I wanted him to die of cancer.  Or of anything else, for that matter.  What I said, in a comment responding to a diary about the White House spokesman’s illness, was that I really didn’t care if he died.

Now, you might say there’s not a lot of difference.  But I disagree.  Actively wishing for something to happen is not the same as expressing indifference as to whether that thing happens or not.

With that in mind, I’ll say it again:  I honestly do not care if Tony Snow lives or dies.  I see him as the propaganda minister for a regime that has perpetrated mass murder, sowed ethnic and religious hatred, and subverted the will of both the American people and the world community.  He has used his communication skills to further the agenda of people who have dedicated themselves to nothing less than the systematic dismantling of the Constitution in the name of greed.  Make no mistake – the people holding the reigns of power in this administration are evil.  And Tony Snow is their front man.

Would anyone have cried if Joseph Goebbels had died a premature death?  I doubt it.  (Bill O’Reilly is pretty fast and loose with his Nazi comparisons.  What goes around...) I certainly don’t actively wish any harm to Mr. Snow.  But neither would I shed a tear for him.