The Left's Hurricane of Hate

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The Left's Hurricane of Hate

 

Isaac brings out progressives' true colors.

 

By Arnold Ahlert · August 30, 2012

 

A hurricane coupled with a Republican convention is more than enough to elicit the latest spasms of hate emanating from the Left. Our list of oh-so-tolerant all-stars comes from the predictable precincts of Hollywood and the mainstream media. All of them seemingly embrace the Obama administration's credo of never letting a crisis go to waste.

Former movie star Ellen Barkin apparently didn't get the memo about toning down the violent rhetoric in the wake of the Gabby Giffords shooting. Last Sunday, Barkin re-tweeted a message from one of her followers that illuminated the rank hypocrisy of those who consider themselves paragons of tolerance. "C'mon #Isaac! Wash every pro-life, anti-education, anti-woman, xenophobic, gay-bashing, racist SOB right into the ocean! #RNC," the message read. Barkin defended herself by lashing out at Twitchy, the website that reported the tweet. "For better or worse, that was not my original tweet.A retweet.But Twitchy liked it better their way," she wrote. Twitchy noted that a re-tweet is not necessarily an endorsement of the original message, but noted that "Barkin didn't give any indication that she disagreed with the revolting sentiment when she retweeted it to her followers."

Barkin is no stranger to expressing such "open-mindedness." Back