BCT Editorial – 12/24/09

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Fear and hatred; Editorial; Beaver County Times; December 24, 2009.

This editorial exploits a despicable act to push political propaganda. Here is the excerpt to which I refer: “This kind of right-wing in-your-faceness has become all too acceptable today, in large part because the rhetoric of populist right, which is fueled by fear and hatred, gives it cover.” Once again we have leftists (this time the Times) promoting the idea that Nazis are on the right.

As I’ve noted often, Nazi is the abbreviation for Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei. The English translation is National Socialist German Workers’ Party. Does that sound “right-wing” to you? To the best of my knowledge, there are no Nazi policies that can be remotely tied to principles of the right. Indeed, the Nazi belief in a strong central government (a dictator) and its fascist economic policies are hallmarks of the left. Even lefties routinely claim those of us on the right want to abolish government. While I understand why lefties try to dump Hitler and his Nazis on the right, I never understood why they don’t try the same with Lenin, Mao, Stalin, et cetera.

As for “right-wing in-your-faceness,” what a hoot! Even if it were true, righties can’t hold a candle to lefties when it comes to “in-your-faceness.” Just recently, who was “in your face” during the G-20 protests in Pittsburgh and who were the rioting protesters during the Copenhagen climate conference? Hint: it wasn’t the right. The examples go on and on.

“The populist right?” If you want to talk about populism “fueled by fear and hatred,” what about President Obama demonizing doctors? What about promoters of a government-run healthcare monopoly constantly demonizing private insurers? What about Mr. Obama bashing CEOs in just about every industry? What about defenders of Mr. Obama claiming that opposition to his leftist policies is indicative of racism? What about Times editorials and the columns of Gino Piroli (the political ones) and J.D. Prose? Please, don’t talk to me about “the rhetoric of the populist right.”