For the Media, the Climate of Hate is Always on the Right

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American Thinker:

December 28, 2014

For the Media, the Climate of Hate is Always on the Right

By Clarice Feldman

I must say that for some decades now, the media have proven to be terrible weather forecasters, always finding the climate of hate on the right, and never seeing it on the left of the political map.

 

My friend (who picked his moniker "Danube of Thought" from the late Romanian despot Nicolae Ceausescu) documents some of the coverage of the assassination of President Kennedy --

murdered by a Communist gunman:

 

"Hatred and fanaticism, the flabby spirit of complacency that has permitted the preachers of fanatical hatred to appear respectable, and the self-righteousness that labels all who disagree with us as traitors or dolts, provided the way for the vile deed that snuffed out John Kennedy’s life.”

 

— The editor of the Austin American writing in November 1963

"Since the crime

[Cyber_Liberty]

FTA:

 

Despite the ridiculous anti-Palin “climate of hate” narrative, a pro-gun Republican won Giffords’ former Congressional seat. We may live in an atmosphere where the left lives by peddling post truths, but it appears fewer of us outside those institutional cocoons are buying them.

 

Pop quiz: What was the last thing to escape Pandora's Box?