Washington Post columnist criticizes Mike Malloy's Monday comment about shooting

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alp227 (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Fri May-06-11 11:00 PM
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Washington Post columnist criticizes Mike Malloy's Monday comment about shooting GW Bush
   
Colbert King, a Washington Post columnist whom I've never heard of, claims in his latest column " Caution: Words can inflame" that Mike Malloy sank to Glenn Beck's level on Monday's program when Malloy said: “So when does SEAL Unit 6, or whatever it’s called, drop in on George Bush?” regarding Malloy's opinion that Bush was responsible for more deaths (through the wars) than was bin Laden.

I would not have believed it if I hadn’t heard it myself. Monday night, Mike Malloy, host of a nationally syndicated show on satellite radio, took freedom of expression to a really ugly level. Malloy, described on his Web site as a “traditional Liberal Democrat doing his part to return the Democratic Party to its Liberal roots,” talked about the death of Osama bin Laden and the lives lost in the war on terrorism. Malloy said former president George W. Bush was responsible for more deaths than bin Laden, and he asked “So when does SEAL Unit 6, or whatever it’s called, drop in on George Bush?”

Whoa.

Did Malloy suggest that Navy SEALs treat the former president of the United States the same way they did the founder of al-Qaeda in that compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan? Forget for a moment the absurdly false and offensive likening of Bush to bin Laden or the body count charge. The suggestion by a talk radio host that Bush should be executed is abhorrent. It warrants, at the very least, condemnation across the political spectrum.

But, unfortunately, tirades such as Malloy’s have become almost commonplace in this country. And they’re heard on the left and right.


And then King goes on to compare that with wingnut commentary:

Abrasive, venomous tirades against the president of the United States are daily fare on cable TV and radio talk shows.

Take, for example, President Obama’s tasteful and respectful visit to the World Trade Center site this week, and his wreath-laying and meeting with firefighters and victims’ families.

“Absolutely despicable,” said Fox News’ Glenn Beck. “Extraordinarily offensive,” he called it.

Eric Boehlert, writing for Media Matters for America, noted that the Obama-haters in the media have convinced themselves and their followers that “Obama is a fraudulent and illegitimate president.” They fill up the “hate tank,” he said, “by trying to demean the president in the most petty and pointless ways possible.”


And King concludes:

The display of contempt, on view with Malloy in his suggestion of Bush’s execution and with Obama’s critics on the right, can have consequences. In this trigger-happy country, it can have consequences indeed.


I thought that liberals wanted more civil discourse after Rep. Gabrielle Giffords got shot. So I guess that Malloy can't complain about right-wing incivility and violent rhetoric anymore. I bet that a message like Malloy's remark about shooting Bush would've been deleted by DU admins for violating the rules. Oh, the only left-wing radio show I listen to right now is Thom Hartmann, and I sure as hell have never heard Hartmann advocating/glorifying violent actions on his show; Thom sure keeps it civil.

And while inciting violence should be a crime, should radio hosts watch their language in case some insane wacko Jared Loughner type might misinterpret their words violently?
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So saying that Obama is despicable for something, is just as bad as if Beck were to call for him to be shot. 

tabatha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Fri May-06-11 11:02 PM
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1. I've stopped listening because he is sometimes
   
as bad as the far right.

That's unpossible, there is no hate on the left ever.

Ramulux (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Fri May-06-11 11:31 PM
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8. I'm sick of people holding up Malloy as some sort of representative of the left
   
Hes right about a lot of stuff but also makes highly incendiary comments that constantly get held up by the mainstream and conservative press as proof that lefties are just as violent as right-wingers.

Whenever I hear anyone make the whole false equivalency argument, Malloy is almost always the liberal they hold up in comparison to Limbaugh and Beck. It pisses me the **** off because basically one liberal media personality is making it possible for the left to be smeared in this way.

In other words, you are just pissed that Malloy shows just how nasty and violent you guys really are.

alp227 (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Fri May-06-11 11:49 PM
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9. right on about false equivalency
   
you'd think that more conservatives would be denouncing Beck/Limbaugh if they didn't want their ideology reflected by those fools. But guess which ideology has a softer spot for violence? And even George W. Bush is proud to boast of his death penalty record as governor of Texas having overseen more executions there than in any other state.

Tell you what DUmiies, when Beck or Rush say that the SEALS should kill Obama then I will denounce them. As of now neither of them has said anything of the sort. In fact you human cartoons of DU, Beck has repeatedly said he prays for Obama's safety.

RZM (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Sat May-07-11 12:14 AM
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13. The SEALs didn't do a whole lot of 'rounding up' at the compound
   
Sounded more like a 'shoot first, ask questions later . . . or not at all' type of thing.

This really does sound like something Rush Limbaugh would say.

Funny thing is they say that he's just like Rush, yet no calls for boycotts. If he really is as bad as you think Rush is, wouldn't he be a danger to society, like you idiots claim Rush is?

Then again, you scream "War criminal!!!!!!!111" at Bush, yet are silent when Obama continues on with the exact same wars that prior to 2009 were illegal. Hell Obama even started a 3rd war on top of it, and not a single call for frogmarching, going before the Hague, and getting hanged at dawn, like you do for Bush.

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The last time I looked, most DUmmies were pretty proud of their 35 million dead babies, and screaming for Uncle Sam to pay for more and more. Not to mention their tendency to blame Bush for the people Al Queda and the Taliban killed.  Morons and  Hypocrites.

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When Malloy made his comment there were several threads pant-hooting in praise.

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The suggestion by a talk radio host that Bush should be executed is abhorrent. It warrants, at the very least, condemnation across the political spectrum.

And yet for all the suggestions (and outright calls) for just that between 2001-09 and beyond were met with crickets from the left.  Hypocritical much?