The Greatest Blog Post Ever Written

[Rheo]

Patterico's Pontifications:


That might be hyperbole . . . but then again, it might not.

I’m in an odd position. In the last few months, I’ve had one foot in the left wing news stream and one foot in the right. My media duality began when conservative publisher Andrew Breitbart hired me to work with him on the Pigford ‘black farmers’ settlement story. I’m a pro-choice, pro-single payer, anti-war, pro-gay rights independent liberal with years of work in print and film backing those positions. Breitbart hired me to bring a different perspective to the non-partisan issue of corruption in Pigford.

Since then, I’ve written both here for the left-leaning Huffington Post and at Breitbart’s right leaning BigGovernment.com. I’ve ended up reading a lot more conservative sites and dealing firsthand with a lot more conservatives than any time since I attended a high school dedicated to the principles of Ayn Rand about 30 years ago.

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Since working with Breitbart, my position on political issues hasn’t changed but I’d be lying if I didn’t say I’m deeply disappointed by the virulent, lockstep attitude I see on the left. My experience in the last few months tells me what I would not have believed possible; on any number of issues (including Pigford, by the way) I’ve seen liberals act much nastier and with less factual honesty than the conservatives… and this includes on issues where I disagree with conservatives.

Who is saying these things? It is Lee Stranahan at the Huffington Post, a lefty for whom I have never had anything but the utmost respect. So much so that, when he was looking for a way to get in touch with Andrew Breitbart, I not only made the introduction but told Andrew that this was a lefty who was honest and whom he could trust. The rest is history in the making, as Stranahan is involved with Andrew in unveiling the massive fraud that is Pigford.

And as he has become more familiar with Andrew in particular, and conservative sites and conservatives in general . . . all of a sudden, this lefty has started to see just how ugly the left can be. Just one more example:

Just before writing this article, I did a Google search and it’s stunning to find out that the right wing media really isn’t exaggerating — proven death threats against politicians are being ignored by the supposedly honest media.

The only thing is, it isn’t stunning. It’s commonplace. We conservatives are used to seeing big stories be given the cold shoulder by Big Media, for no apparent reason except that the story might benefit Republicans. For example: why does any story about cutting spending not put the cuts in context against our stunning debt and deficit, for example, caused by our unsustainable runaway entitlements?

Can’t run that story. It might benefit Republicans. Let Fox News do it.

Give Lee time. He’s just now catching on. But he’s a totally honest guy, and he’s catching on quick.

Now click that link and prepare yourself to be stunned by the incredible honesty of a lefty.

P.S. I don’t mean to suggest by anything I say in this post that dishonesty or nastiness are exclusively characteristics of the left. If there has one thing I have learned while blogging, it is that people on the right can be every bit as venal and nasty as those on the left. Here on the right, we just notice it more from the left, because you notice nastiness more when it’s directed at you.

Lee is starting to see some fire coming his way, for the sin of working with Breitbart . . . and that helps him notice the left’s nastiness better. But it also takes honesty, which Stranahan has in spades.

Now click the link already.

[nickydog]

Good post, Rheo.

 

Edited because I clicked the wrong thing.

[Chickadee]

WOW, Rheo, what an excellent find!

 

To me this is an illustration of how getting better acquainted with almost anyone who you believe you disagree with, can lead to an understanding and more tolerance of that person. And, I am so happy he is speaking out.

[Pepper]

It's a great post.

 

Half the commenters are battling each other instead of the merits of Stranahan's point.

[Pepper]

See Geee's

 

Death Threats by the Dozen in Wisconsin

[NCTexan]

The HuffPo reader comments were enough to make a head explode in the morning.

 

The author should have ended his article with "If you don't believe my premise, just see the reader comments below (yet to be written).

[Valin]

WOW, Rheo, what an excellent find!

 

To me this is an illustration of how getting better acquainted with almost anyone who you believe you disagree with, can lead to an understanding and more tolerance of that person. And, I am so happy he is speaking out.

 

 

This is why I continue to post at Common Ground Politics

[Ghost]

The HuffPo reader comments were enough to make a head explode in the morning.

 

The author should have ended his article with "If you don't believe my premise, just see the reader comments below (yet to be written).

 

 

exactly

 

Good read

[righteousmomma]

As I always read comments here were my two favorites after Patterico's Pontifications --NOT Stratahan's

 

 

 

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I have many friends who are liberal Democrats, and many who are conservative Democrats. It is amazing how ignorant they are about Republicans and other conservatives. They read/see/hear what the liberal media tells them about Republicans and they believe it without even thinking.

 

SO TRUE!! I have seen it in my own Republican voting, evangelical Christian daughter's thinking because she is so surrounded by liberals as neighbors and friends in Chicago that she just accepts some things as "Truth". Like a few years ago telling me that she found W "embarrassing" and Palin a fool and wrong. Why? because she "reads" and "hears" and so its a fact. She "knows" these things.

 

I got into a sort of argument a few years ago about W and Iraq with a beaucoup successful lawyer neighbor who had voted for W but who had heard nothing but the press takes and the Dems drip after drip and so had been convinced of their absolute "rightness". W was stupid, stubborn and leading us all wrong and getting our young men and women killed for NO reason.

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You know Patterico, every Conservative does the whole, well the right is nasty too, could you give example’s of that? and do not go with what the left calls the right ie: kkk or something pathetic like that. I mean I spend an enormous amount of time on the internet and I cannot think of anything on the right that rises to the level of the Daily Kos or Huffington for that matter and that is on the small scale, there is nothing like the media wing of the Democrat Party ignoring or out right lying against anything that doesn’t fit their liberal orthodoxy. FOX News gets 3.5M for O’Reilly and 2+M for the rest of the night=time shows out of 300+ M Americans. It is because the lying, hateful, disingenuous ABCCBSNBCNYTWAPO who get 20+M between them daily that Democrats and unions and NPR, ACORN etc get away with what they do, because the Democrats and their minions are never held to account NEVER.

 

True dat.

 

Of course the usual everyday liberal's response is "Its just politics. They all do it. You hate the person" ---NEVER we DO NOT like their POLICIES or their WORLD VIEW because WE THINK THEY ARE WRONG FOR AMERICA

 

The most maddening thing I find is the complete utter convictions of the left leaning liberals I know that they are the intelligent just position.