| RE: Another liberal attack on freedom of speech
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tcp_ML500 - 7/19/2005 5:00 PM
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Shane - 7/19/2005 4:52 PM
I will attempt to be diplomatic about this (not a strong point of mine)...
So your saying it is ok for the political right to do blatantly biased things to further their interests (the examples of this are far too numernous to have to discredit their existence), but if the left adopts this policy of bias and prejudice then it is uncalled for and deplorable???
Quite the double standard. So the extreme right should never be countermeasured by equivalent left wing tactics? Isn't that what got the right in the position of power it is in now? Now you criticize the left for being naive because they are finally fed up enough that they adopt the same confining and totalitarian tactics? In a perfect world silly exaggeration would not be needed, until then though...
Same ol' eye for an eye. Regrettable but necessary.
| Not taking any side but mine here, but the problem is essentially in the "eye for an eye" theory.
When one criticizes someone, then one would be well served to be beyond reproach, at least insofar as the subject of the criticism is concerned.
I'm sure MS F. does not preach it's OK for one group but not the other. He is, however, saying that a group that accuses another of hypocrisy lessens the value of its discourse/opinion/integrity by indulging in the same behavior.
| I agree with this. But does the voting public at large? Obviously not considering the winning tactics of the right.
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