Let’s Talk Tolerance and Civility
Over the past year, the “mainstream media” punditocracy has sermonized the American people non-stop on the necessity of being more “civil” toward and “tolerant” of those with whom we disagree. Invariably, they point to unsubstantiated allegations of threats, taunts, or physical violence supposedly perpetrated by unidentified “Trump supporters.” However, the same civility preachers are nowhere to be found when national figures on the Left — in politics, media, academia, and entertainment — engage in viciously uncivil behavior (sometimes criminally so). What follows is but a small sampling of literally hundreds that could be cited. We’re still waiting for expressions of outrage by the media’s “civility police.”
California Democratic Party Chairman John Burton and “F*** Donald Trump”: “Elder statesman” John Burton did not merely make an offhand, vulgar comment during an unguarded moment. In May, at the party’s state convention, the outgoing California Democratic Party chairman led an obscene televised spectacle in which top Democrats joined him on stage and, defiantly jutting their middle fingers into the air, shouted “F*** Donald Trump.”
NBC Producer Approvingly Calls Would-be Donald Trump Assassin “A Good Guy With a Gun”: When Michael Steven Sanford, an illegal alien from England, tried to grab a policeman’s gun to shoot Donald Trump at a rally in Las Vegas, Matt Mowrer, a producer for NBC Universal, tweeted: “It could be argued that the dude who was hoping to assassinate Donald Trump is a good guy with a gun.”
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