Comments on: Don’t Be Hatin’ http://themoderatevoice.com/23677/dont-be-hatin/ An Internet hub with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, indies, centrists, moderates, and right Mon, 28 May 2012 21:59:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: kritt11 http://themoderatevoice.com/23677/dont-be-hatin/comment-page-1/#comment-160238 kritt11 Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:19:08 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/at-tmv/putting-the-culture-on-the-couch/23677/dont-be-hatin/#comment-160238 Good comment, Marlowe. We just have to stand up against it and say "I draw the line here, this is despicable"- as you just did. Good comment, Marlowe. We just have to stand up against it and say “I draw the line here, this is despicable”- as you just did.

]]> By: Marlowecan http://themoderatevoice.com/23677/dont-be-hatin/comment-page-1/#comment-160189 Marlowecan Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:41:57 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/at-tmv/putting-the-culture-on-the-couch/23677/dont-be-hatin/#comment-160189 I think one has to distinguish between the rhetoric and political imagery, and the serious hate. God, I can remember the imagery associated with Reagan and Thatcher, which was horrific (though often well done in a technical agitprop sense). <br><br>Now, however, things are different.<br><br>The glee at many sites on the Left at Tony Snow's passing was awful. <br>The other night, however, I came across several sites on the Right with post after post taking pleasure in the critical condition of Obama's grandmother and Obama's pain.<br><br>Something clicked in me. <br><br>Obama's grandma is, by all accounts, just a nice older lady. Not involved in politics at all. And here were all these people publicly taking pleasure in her pain and potential passing . . . just because Obama loved her.<br><br>The same day, I noticed the story at West Carolina University, where a bear cub had been shot in the head, with Obama posters stapled to its corpse.<br><br>This sort of thing goes FAR beyond posters on a Manhattan street. As most folks here know, I am conservative. But seriously . . . something is really f**ked up when there is this level of hatred out there. <br><br>I can't quite get my mind around this. The political pleasure in other's pain. <br><br>From Tony Snow . . . now to Obama's grandmother . . . things are getting worse. I think one has to distinguish between the rhetoric and political imagery, and the serious hate. God, I can remember the imagery associated with Reagan and Thatcher, which was horrific (though often well done in a technical agitprop sense).

Now, however, things are different.

The glee at many sites on the Left at Tony Snow's passing was awful.
The other night, however, I came across several sites on the Right with post after post taking pleasure in the critical condition of Obama's grandmother and Obama's pain.

Something clicked in me.

Obama's grandma is, by all accounts, just a nice older lady. Not involved in politics at all. And here were all these people publicly taking pleasure in her pain and potential passing . . . just because Obama loved her.

The same day, I noticed the story at West Carolina University, where a bear cub had been shot in the head, with Obama posters stapled to its corpse.

This sort of thing goes FAR beyond posters on a Manhattan street. As most folks here know, I am conservative. But seriously . . . something is really f**ked up when there is this level of hatred out there.

I can't quite get my mind around this. The political pleasure in other's pain.

From Tony Snow . . . now to Obama's grandmother . . . things are getting worse.

]]> By: Gichin13 http://themoderatevoice.com/23677/dont-be-hatin/comment-page-1/#comment-160162 Gichin13 Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:04:52 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/at-tmv/putting-the-culture-on-the-couch/23677/dont-be-hatin/#comment-160162 Good post. Too much vitriol on both sides obscures the fact that most of America really is in the middle and can find common ground. Good post. Too much vitriol on both sides obscures the fact that most of America really is in the middle and can find common ground.

]]> By: pdx632 http://themoderatevoice.com/23677/dont-be-hatin/comment-page-1/#comment-160141 pdx632 Wed, 22 Oct 2008 06:17:40 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/at-tmv/putting-the-culture-on-the-couch/23677/dont-be-hatin/#comment-160141 "I keep hoping one day for liberals and conservatives to learn to respectfully disagree with each other."<br><br>With all due respect, that horse has left the barn......... “I keep hoping one day for liberals and conservatives to learn to respectfully disagree with each other.”

With all due respect, that horse has left the barn………

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