After Barbara Bush's Death, Left's Torrent Of Bile Shows Who The Real Hatemongers Are
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RIP, Barbara Bush: The passing of former first lady and presidential mother Barbara Bush should have been a time for reflection on a life truly well-lived, both as a private person and as a public servant. Instead, the progressive left turned it into a political hate-fest. We need a safe space for civility.
It used to be a tradition that, with the passing of a politician or a member of the family, old political foes would verbally tip their hats with a few kind words in tribute. Today, such once-routine courtesy doesn't merely seem archaic, but positively antediluvian.
Twitter was awash with ugliness of the left kind following Barbara Bush's death, as captured on Twitchy.
"RIP Barbara Bush, the only woman who was 92 for 30 years," tweeted Jen Spyra, a writer for "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert."
We suppose she was riffing on Bush's famously white hair, which, along with her ever-present string of pearls, gave her a classic matronly look. What Spyra's jibe didn't comprehend was that Barbara Bush's hair began to go white shortly after she turned 28, following the untimely death of her daughter from leukemia. It was care, worry and grief that turned her hair gray. It wasn't a fashion statement.
Knowing that kind of ruins Spyra's cruel punchline, doesn't it?
Far worse was this from "Palestinian-American" professor Randa Jarrar at California's Fresno State University, who tweeted out: "Barbara Bush was a generous and smart and amazing racist who, along with her husband, raised a war criminal. F*#k outta here with your nice words."
Did she regret her vile comments? Not at all, since she doubled down with this: "PSA: either you are against these pieces of sh#t and their genocidal ways or you're part of the problem. that's actually how simple this is. I'm happy the witch is dead. can't wait for the rest of her family to fall to their demise the way 1.5 million Iraqis have. byyyeeeeeeee."
Later, she gloated about being a tenured professor who makes "100K a year doing that. i will never be fired." We'll give her this: She made maybe the best argument ever for ending tenure.
The Twitter spewage of hate by people who call themselves "progressive" didn't end there. A sampling, courtesy of DailyWire.com:
Rosa A. Clemente: "This is so disappointing. The things she and her family have down (sic) to global Black people is criminal, to say the least. She is part of the system of white supremacy, anti Black, anti feminist, as Malcolm said 'who taught you to hate yourself?' "
Todd Bonzalez: "wow. per a source close to the family, Barbara Bush's last words were 'Jeb is short for Jeborah.' "
Bella Ciao: "Dad: Barbara Bush died. Me: Ok, let me know when Henry Kissinger dies so we can have a party. Mom: Henry Kissinger is still alive?'"
Peter Coffin: "Geez, I get it. Barbara Bush is dead. Can we stop acting like it matters to anyone but a family of war criminals?"
Calleigh Little: "May Barbara Bush rot in pieces."
These are just some of the many other routine expressions of hate found on Twitter following Barbara Bush's death. There were many, many others. One can only hope that their authors' ObamaCare coverage includes mental health.
Nor are these aberrations or out of the ordinary. In fact, the far left has steadily ratcheted up the hate quotient of its speech for years. The goal is to continue to shrink the space in which basic decency, conservative or even moderate political thoughts can flourish, by constant public attack, threats, noisy demonstrations, name-calling, derision and ridicule.
But the tweets we reproduced above should be a reminder to all of who the real intolerant hatemongers are. And while conservatives are routinely silenced and even banished on progressive social media such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, we'll be surprised — no, stunned — if any of the above haters find themselves censured in any way at all.
Worse still, those who engage in this type of routine demonizing and character assassination claim absolute moral superiority for their own beliefs as the reason why they're fully justified. No need to have a conscience.
"In America today, being moral is out and moralizing is in," wrote John Daniel Davidson at The Federalist website. "Just witness the nonstop spectacle of moralizing everywhere you turn — from The New Yorker's panicked denunciation of Chick-fil-A's 'infiltration' of New York, to gun control activist David Hogg's boycotts, to the protester with a megaphone shouting in a Starbucks clerk's face."
It seems that nonstop hate and demonizing of the "other" — along with endless, narcissistic moralizing about race, gender, immigration, sports, economics, #metoo, #takeaknee, politics and all other aspects of American life — are the defining characteristics of the far left these days.
We feel terrible about filling an entire column with far-left bile, rather than the many public accounts of the goodness, decency and kindness of Barbara Bush. It's an injustice of sorts for which we apologize.
And yet, we feel obligated to point out that, at a time when the beliefs of conservatives, libertarians and moderates of both parties are routinely labeled as "intolerant," "hate speech" and "fascistic," and when even supposedly respectable Democrats in Congress and former "nonpartisan" heads of our national security agencies routinely call the duly elected president "morally unfit" to serve, and when even moderate voices speaking on college campuses are shouted down and physically threatened, it's clear that civil discourse has suffered a serious, perhaps irreparable, breach.
We hope most Americans agree: It's time to reclaim the civility that once was part of American public life. The response to Barbara Bush's death should be a wake-up call. If we can't return to decency and respect in public discourse, we'll bequeath our children and grandchildren a meaner, angrier and far less free America.
In the meantime, rest in peace, Barbara Bush.
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If Michelle Obama or Oprah Winfrey or Gloria Steinem for that matter, died tomorrow there would be insults from the right on twitter.
It is the nature of it.
Only your sources try to draw a wide assessment of the worth of political ideologies from the behavior on twitter.
I can't believe righties are using Mrs Bush's death as a political cudgel. They never miss a beat with this kind of bullshit...
You know how these people are. Never let a death go without trying to score some political points. It's sickening.
Oh bite me!
Just quit with the faux outrage all dam ready!
Roger Stone Disses Barbara Bush as a ‘Nasty Drunk’ on News of Her Death
That goes beyond repulsive. And this woman devoted her life to her husband and children in the most positive way, and was one of the most active and outstanding First Lady's for this country.
Roger Stone is a longtime friend and ally of Donald Trump. For him to denigrate, malign and defame Mrs. Bush upon her death goes beyond repulsive, and yet, this seed is supposed to be about how the Left hates her? This seed is a disgrace and a pot full of horse dung. And to present such hypocritical screed as this seed is truly the lowest of low.
This article is nothing but crap.....liberals and conservatives alike are mourning the death of Mrs. Bush. She was a great woman. Allow the accolades on her life continue before you begin to spew the trash you print here. You should be ashamed of yourself.
Exactly. She was an amazing woman, one of the finest first lady's this country has ever had. And this POS article wants to slam people like me for praising Mrs. Bush? Pffft....
Skirting the CoC [ph]
Comment removed for CoC violation [ph]It's all garbage and fake outrage designed to piss people off. "Pathetic" is a gross understatement when referring to articles like this.
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Yeppers. That is all he does, while playing the part of the pious devoted Christian that loves his fellow man. To use the death of one of America's finest First Ladies to promote his own hate is totally unacceptable.
Only Heartland would seek to use the death of this amazing woman to try to divide our wonderful country, and to spew hatred against anyone who doesn't think like he does. Talk about hatemongers.
For shame. What a way to try to ruin the legacy of a phenomenal woman (who would probably not have been happy with this crappy seed, since she had real class).
You apparently take absolute joy in filling any column with bile, by whatever means possible. Again, shame on you.
What a total load of shit.
I posted an article about her death... Right here.
Do you see any hateful comments from the "left" there? No. I noticed YOU didn't show up, probably because there wasn't any comments on there you could cry about.
CNN spent the entire day talking about her life and her accomplishments with guests that were very close to Mrs. Bush and they all were very appreciative of the coverage CNN was providing.
Who wrote that POS article anyway?
Some POS right wing scumbag.
A hater did.
More than obvious. And it speaks volumes for the one who seeded it as well.
Who is the author? Alex "Pizzagate" Jones?
Are you denying the hate of this professor? She has been engaged in this type of behavior for years.
It doesn't even say who wrote the article. Go to the link provided, Larry. Do you see any hateful comments by those evil leftists? Didn't think so.
“Jarrar continued trading barbs with other Twitter users for roughly three hours, even tagging the Department of Homeland Security's official handle, Fresno State’s official account and challenging a user handle called “@LogicalRighties” to contact school president Castro, KFSN-TV first reported. Both the school and Castro promptly issued statements via Twitter:
"On behalf of Fresno State, I extend my deepest condolences to the Bush family on the loss of our former First Lady, Barbara Bush. We share the deep concerns expressed by others over the personal comments made today by Professor Randa Jarrar, a professor in the English Department at Fresno State. Her statements were made as a private citizen, not as a representative of Fresno State. Professor Jarrar's expressed personal views and commentary are obviously contrary to the core values of our University, which include respect and empathy for individuals with divergent points of view, and a sincere commitment to mutual understanding and progress."
So, go to the link I provided, Larry. See all those mean comments? No, neither do I.
No.. You no doubt scoured the internet looking for ONE article that pointed out a few turds that don't have any class at all and then sell it as everyone on the left bashing the death of Mrs. Bush. In other words, it's complete garbage, and now you are whining that people are hating on you? Save it. You post shit articles, expect people to shit on you.
Another new low in FP articles. Well done XX you have a secure grip on useless vile editorials.
Indeed. His seeds are becoming more and more disgusting by the day.
Obviously, you have no clue what real civility is, as you promote anything but civility with your endless hate seeds here.
I am locking this article pending further review. There are 30+ flags on comments in this one, which suggests it is out of control at the moment. If nothing else, it will take time to sort through all of them. -PRF