[DMB]
I appreciate your generosity to some extent but it's wrong to assign
equal blame to "both sides". To do so would be a case of "grotesque
even-handedness".
[Arlo]
Fair enough, and I'd agree. I see nowhere near the hatred for McCain
in "leftist" channels that I see for Obama in the "rightist" media.
Indeed, I think (as I just wrote to KO) that one reason for Obama's
win was his consistent rising above such deplorable rhetoric. And,
going back over the elections of my lifetime, I have seen nowhere
near the level of hatred and outright _fear_ being regurgitated and
reinforced by media channels. My family were ardent Carter supports
(I still am), but they never accused Ford of being malicious,
traitorous, evil, an enemy of liberty, etc. Nor did I hear our
neighbors at the time make such accusations about Carter. I recall
very vocal political exchanges on the porch, heated even, but never
once did it approach even the barest similarity to what I hear daily
on the Hannity or Levin shows. As I said before, it must have been
embarrassing for McCain to have to defend Obama during his own event
from those whose level of involvement teeters on the insane. But as
you correctly point out, this is the crowd pandered to and riled up
by those who would exploit fear and xenophobia to advance their
political agenda. My point was only that it is not a "all them, never
us" issue.
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