UPDATE: Welcome to all the readers sent here by our left-wing friends over at Mediaite.
There’s a terrific debate going on in this earlier post defending Democratic Congressman Cohen’s right to call us Republicans Nazis without a bunch of media Speech Policers publicly shaming him into shutting up. It’s fine to criticize his hypocrisy and argue that he’s wrong on the facts, but to criticize his speech… That’s something else entirely.
So while that debate’s rocking and rolling, let’s move part of the discussion back onto the grounds of hypocrisy. While we’re being told the use of the word “crosshairs” is wrong, the term “job-killing” is verboten, and Nazi references unacceptable, we’re currently left wondering if an exception we’re unaware of has been granted to Stephen Colbert.
Unless we missed it, there was no media criticism or Jon Stewart humiliation-logues after Mr. Colbert launched this profane, insulting and objectively non-New Tonish attack on Governor Sarah Palin:
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Here are the bullet points, if you’ll pardon the expression:
- coded talking points mixed in with words picked up at random from a Thesaurus.
- self-promoting ignoramus
- encouraging insurrectionists
- pathetically unstatesmanlike
- shut up for just ten fucking minutes
- media troll
From what we can see, both Jon Stewart and the Media Elites gave Colbert a pass on this one. We understand there were other “crosshairs” dragons to slay, but that is some pretty ugly and mean-spirited rhetoric spewing from Mr. Colbert — at least from our point of view. Before we call all the New Toners out on their hypocrisy, though, let’s take a poll and see what you think…
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