Comments on: "We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty"

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OrinEnglish — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 15:44:51 +0000

Oh, james, I’ve seen that before. Yes, Ann Coulter worships at the grave of Joe McCarthy. Scary indeed!

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James Craven — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 13:39:37 +0000

You wanna know how scary this is?

Cut and paste this picture link onto your browser:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v200/NozeNuggets/coultergeistmccarthy.jpg

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chicating — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 02:26:05 +0000

I’m a pretty committed lefty and feminist, but there’s something wrong with people that can’t see the humor in Oddball. It’s easy to *think* it’s like those On the Lighter Side news clips with the skating squirrels that bedevil local newscasts, but KO actually has perspective so it’s not like Horrible House Fire and then “Oh, look, skating squirrels…” and when Keith writes quips they’re funny.

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DavidW — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 22:38:42 +0000

The problem we have here Becky is that those words, "We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty," are now politicized, whereas they should not be (if you believe in the Constitution of this country).

Forgive me for bringing her name up, but Michelle Malkin sort of proves my point in her recent column:

Last week, I wrote about the Gathering of Eagles — veterans, active-duty troops, bikers, activists and ordinary citizens coming to Washington, D.C., on March 17 to hold a counter-protest against tens of thousands of anti-war extremists demanding immediate withdrawal of our troops from Iraq and Afghanistan.

What has happened is the right has demonized dissent. By calling anti-war protesters extremists, she and all the other right-wing whack-jobs have taken something that is deeply American and made it not so.

Whether Keith, in his personal life, is a liberal or a conservative (or maybe even a Libertarian) matters not to me. What matters most is that someone is standing up for the ideal that dissent is an American institution.

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James Craven — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 18:35:33 +0000

I’m glad I jogged your memory, Becky.