Liberal McCarthyism

Lanny Davis has seen the Left Blogosphere's vitriol and he doesn't like it, characterizing it as Liberal McCarthyism.
I came to believe that we liberals couldn't possibly be so intolerant and hateful, because our ideology was famous for ACLU-type commitments to free speech, dissent and, especially, tolerance for those who differed with us. And in recent years, with the deadly combination of sanctimony and vitriol displayed by the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter and Michael Savage, I held on to the view that the left was inherently more tolerant and less hateful than the right.

Now, in the closing days of the Lieberman primary campaign, I have reluctantly concluded that I was wrong. The far right does not have a monopoly on bigotry and hatred and sanctimony.
It's good seeing liberals admit that they aren't the picture of virtue that they've always thought of themselves. The Kossack/MoveOn.org bunch are as vitriolic as any people I've ever come across.

If this continues, Marty Peretz will be right.
Ned Lamont is Karl Rove's dream come true. If he, and others of his stripe, carry the day, the Democratic party will lose the future, and deservedly.


Posted Tuesday, August 8, 2006 3:21 PM

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