Joe 'n Mudcat can't wag their finger enough when it comes to admonishing the "incivility" of the librul blogosphere/netroots...but I don't see any criticism of the little slugs who comprise Michael Weiner's segment of wingnuttia:
Last week, right-wing radio host Michael Savage was presented a Freedom of Speech award at Talkers Magazine’s annual New Media Seminar. C-SPAN, which aired portions of the two-day event, chose to not air Savage’s acceptance speech because the conservative talker only appeared in a pre-recorded DVD speech.
Savage is now claiming he is a victim of censorship. Repeatedly attacking C-SPAN this week as "fascists" and modern versions of the "brownshirt movement in Hitler’s Germany," Savage encouraged his listeners to call and email CSPAN about their supposed "blacklisting" of his speech.
On Washington Journal this morning, host and C-SPAN CEO Brian Lamb read aloud some of the emails he has received from alleged listeners of Savage’s show. The emails defending Savage are filled with personal attacks, referring to Lamb as an "ass loser Communist," "pervert," "bed-wetting commie," and worse.
In a related post, Hullabaloo touches similar trends re: the left being held to utterly different and decidedly unfair standards relative to wingnuttia...which tends to be reinforcing: the left is CONSTANTLY placed on the defensive, even as the neo-con movement is virtually alone in being responsible for the mother of all fuck ups that is the federal government since 2001.
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