Saturday, July 11, 2009

The Right Wing Filth and Smut is Just Starting

From my Open Salon Blog: OCTOBER 29, 2008 7:34PM

I just watched Chris Matthews allow Tom Delay to slime and slander Barack Obama for over ten minutes in the opening of Hardball. Chris allowed him to spew his vitriol without even one challenge.

Delay called Obama a Marxist, a communist, a socialist, and worse. He said Obama would essentially destroy the constitution by "packing the Supreme Court", brought up Ayers and Wright as "proof" of his wild accusations. He said that Obama would not give any tax cuts and, working with the Democratic Congress, actually raise taxes to 90%.

And I have noticed that main stream papers and so-called liberal leaning web sites are opening themselves to whatever junk the right wants to spew, in an attempt to be "fair and balanced."

Trouble is, the unstated Republican premise is that "the end justifies the (sic: ANY) means." And the main stream media is afraid to call them on it. If we think we have already seen the worst of the smears we are wrong. This is just the begining of a filth and lie strewn week.

The simple truth is that if we do not stand up to this crap we all deserve what we get. Personally, I'm sick of trying to be "nice" and "tolerant" to bigots, fools and single digit IQ neandertals. I'll likely lose a few friends if I start calling them out, but at least I will be able to live with myself.