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July 27, 2007

Falsey Shouting “Nutroot” In a Crowded Theater

by AltHippo @ 12:08 pm. Filed under Life in D.C., wingnuttia

One thing I’ve learned is that pretty much everyone in DC reads Glenn Greenwald’s column in Salon. That includes both “regular people”- the average person I get into a conversation with, as well as the literary media establishment- people like Dan Froomkin or Murray Waas.

Glenn’s been pointing out over the last year how harmful some of the right-wing websites are to civilized discourse. That’s presumably why you see people like Bill O attacking Kos for being so over the top. It’s a lot easier to attack than to acknowledge that people you have on your show (I’m looking at you, Ms. M) run hate sites.

Presumably, Little Lulu woke up the other day and realized that ignoring popular bloggers like Greenwald, widely read in our mutual home town, was at her peril. She leaps into action, and has one of her trained flying monkeys make orangutan noises at Greenwald:

Glenn Greenwald has a history of redefining terms to suit whatever argument he is making at the moment. This is not unusual – for a liberal. Language and definitions acquire a certain elasticity when in the expert hands of liberal wordsmiths like Greenwald. Hence, his idea of just what constitutes “hate speech” could very well mean one thing in one context and an entirely different thing in another.

Allow me to translate. In the mid-1990’s Bill Clinton uttered the phrase “Depends on what the meaning of ‘is’ is.” That became somewhat like original sin. All liberals are guilty of moral relativity as a result of that single act. Clinton’s congenital dishonesty caused an inherent lack of moral rectitude in all liberals. Not until liberalism (and the French) is(are) renounced will they be free of this original sin. They have eaten of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of relativism. They will be saved only by their faith in American exceptionalism.

Whatever.

So, in what context is defending the internment of Japanese- with the obvious implication that the same should be done with Muslims in the US- not hate speech? That’s what got Malkin her current visibility, as well as guest spots on Tucker Carlson and Bill O’Rightwing.

Falsely shouting fire in a crowded theater is about as concise a definition for hate speech that I can come up with. While Malkin isn’t the only one in this category, she’s one of the more visible offenders.

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