Age of Kindness Obama Style ...

MALKIN: Tolerance in the age of Obama

They told us if Barack Obama was elected, the nation would come together. Souls would be fixed. Spirits would be healed. Public discourse would be elevated. Welcome to civility and tolerance in the age of Obama.

No matter. Mr. Hilton immediately lambasted Miss Prejean as a "dumb ..." in a viral YouTube video he taped after the pageant Sunday night. He apologized the next morning for the attack, then retracted his apology, then escalated his divisive rhetoric.

Tuesday afternoon, Mr. Hilton told an MSNBC female anchor that he was thinking of an even more vulgar epithet as he listened to Miss Prejean's answer. The female anchor said nothing.

Protesters at the institution of higher learning responded by blocking Mr. Tancredo with massive banners and screaming, "No dialogue with hate." Adults in the room stood by while students smashed a window a few feet from where Mr. Tancredo stood. Physically threatened, Mr. Tancredo was forced to leave without delivering his remarks.

According to campus reports, leftists had prepared for a week to mount a speech-squelching demonstration. The same thuggish tactics have been used at Columbia, Georgetown and Michigan State universities to shut down speakers who support strict immigration enforcement. The UNC administration apologized for the students' tantrum but took no steps to examine its own culpability for fostering a climate of intellectual vandalism and intolerance.

But in the age of Obama, there's no room for such nuance and inconvenient truths. A decent young woman is a "dumb ..." for holding the same view of marriage as the Obamessiah. A conservative campus speaker is bullied as a hatemonger by wild-eyed hatemongers. A grass-roots movement is debased as a bunch of racist vulgarians by a media mob of racists and vulgarians. Civility and tolerance have taken a left-hand turn down a one-way street. So much for changing course.

Michelle Malkin is author of "Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild."

So much for tolerance .... well if your Gay or a Socialist ....


if your opinion differs from the administration, your not welcome in the public dialog


other wise:

• The nightly airwaves turned into a soft-porn cesspool last week as liberal journalists derided and slimed hundreds of thousands of "tea party" protesters across the country who oppose reckless taxing and spending by both major political parties. Award-winning CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, mimicking his bottom-of-the-barrel competitors at MSNBC, smugly indulged in sexual puns about "teabagging." MSNBC devoted the entire week to sophomoric sexual slang and innuendo with references to "nuts," former Republican Rep. Dick Armey and "full-throated" protesters.

And White House adviser David Axelrod calls the tea party folks "unhealthy"?

[HighTechRedneck]

Too True!

[BOP]

To be fair - something libs aren't very good at, unless it comes at the expense of someone or something they don't like - that kind of thing has been going on for a very long time in too many of our institutes of higher learning. "Rigorous" is another conservative value, and something, therefor, to be rejected.