Big Hate and How to Fight It: A Plea for Grassroots Action

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Friday June 12, 2009 · 3:04 PM PDT

2009/06/12 · 15:04

Krugman writes about the dangers of Big Hate in his NYT column today. He opines:

"... right-wing extremism is being systematically fed by the conservative media and political establishment."

"... at this point, whatever dividing line there was between mainstream conservatism and the black-helicopter crowd seems to have been virtually erased."

This diary is about what, if anything, progressives (other rational sentient beings also invited) can do to tamp down Big Hate. Follow me after the fold.

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Friday February 23, 2007 · 11:20 AM PST

2007/02/23 · 11:20

On Tuesday night some of Washington's elite print and television journalists got together at the National Press Club for a friendly bull session with White House press flack Tony Snow.

There (over drinks and cocktail weenies?), they back slapped and complimented each other on the important and serious work they do, and indulged in what's become a favorite Beltway passtime. Trashing bloggers.

Tony Snow confessed to occasionally reading blogs. "It's amazing, you get this wonderful imaginative hateful stuff that comes flying out," he said.

Then Newsweek's Richard Wolffe chimed in ...

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Wednesday February 07, 2007 · 2:28 PM PST

2007/02/07 · 14:28

The way the Edwards campaign has handled the "blogger" controversy kicked up by right-wing nutjobs Bill Donohue and Michelle Malkin is a fracking disaster.

First a quote from the item appearing this morning in Salon and then a comment below the fold.

Edwards campaign fires bloggers

The right-wing blogosphere has gotten its scalps -- John Edwards has fired the two controversial bloggers he recently hired to do liberal blogger outreach, Salon has learned....

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Tuesday December 12, 2006 · 12:46 PM PST

2006/12/12 · 12:46

[The above is a YouTube link--which doesn't seem to come up here]

If you've seen this segment of "Beat the Press," you already know it was a nasty hit piece attacking several leading progressive bloggers by name and the progressive blogging community as a whole.

If you haven't, you need to watch it.

Also, if you're unfamiliar with the background, you can get up to speed by reading the original NYT piece by Danny Glover of the National Review, the article that started the broughhaha, here, and by linking to some the responses that followed (I've tried to arrange them chronologically) here, here and here.

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Thursday September 07, 2006 · 3:39 PM PDT

2006/09/07 · 15:39

I am dismayed that so many here are buying Scholastic's limited, modified hang-out solution to their controversial, knuckleheaded participation in "The Path to 9/11" swiftboat hit piece from Disney/ABC. This is NOT a victory. Kossacks are being coopted, conned, cozened -- and I can just imagine the high level meeting that took place at Scholastic earlier today.

EXEC VP: This is a disaster! We're getting thousands of calls! The switchboard is jammed!

MR BIG: Well, it was your idea to climb into bed with the Disney people.

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Response I Got From Chicago ABC Affiliate

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Tuesday September 05, 2006 · 10:21 PM PDT

2006/09/05 · 22:21

This is the response I received to my complaint
about "The Path to 9/11″from the general
manager of WLS-TV, the ABC afilliate in Chicago.
I am also including my email response.

Are any of you receiving similar responses from
ABC network or ABC affiliates, and if so, is the
language of the emails the same--or similar to--
the wording Ms Barr used?

Just curious. Read More

You Have 1 Week To Stop A Rightwing Hit Piece

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Sunday September 03, 2006 · 2:05 PM PDT

2006/09/03 · 14:05

Following up on Yosef 52's excellent diary, have organized a blogsite called Open Letter to ABC to centralize contact info and coordinate strategy to sink this rightwing hacktacular swiftboat. All comments, ideas and suggestions are welcome. Please help.

What needs to be done.

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Denny Hastert's Sweetheart Real Estate Deal

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Wednesday June 14, 2006 · 9:36 PM PDT

2006/06/14 · 21:36

The Sunlight Foundation has uncovered House Speaker Dennis Hastert's latest shenanagens, a lucrative private real estate deal linked to a $207 million highway appropriations earmark that Denny engineered.

Dennis Hastert's Real Estate Investments
Written by Bill Allison on June 14, 2006 - 2:16pm.
House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert has used an Illinois trust to invest in real estate near the proposed route of the Prairie Parkway, a highway project for which he's secured $207 million in earmarked appropriations. The trust has already transferred 138 acres of land to a real estate development firm that has plans to build a 1,600-home community, located less than six miles from the north-south connector Hastert has championed in the House. ...

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Friday March 10, 2006 · 9:35 AM PST

2006/03/10 · 09:35

MSNBC's Chris Matthews routinely lobs softballs at his right-wing panelists, hurls hardballs at progressives, tells outrageous whoppers and maybe, just maybe, takes big money from conservative groups on the side. What a guy.

A new report advanced to RAWSTORY Thursday suggests that Chris Matthews, the star of the MSNBC's daily talk show Hardball, has accepted hefty speaking fees from an array of conservative trade associations.

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Friday January 27, 2006 · 8:15 AM PST

2006/01/27 · 08:15

Sooner or later all lame duck presidents start to worry about their legacy, their place in history. So I started thinking about W's -- in visual terms.

Long after the Cowboy from Crawford rides into the sunset and retirement at his Texas pig farm -- or some gated country club to be named later -- the powerful images left behind by the Worst President Ever will continue to sear the nation's soul.

Can't think of a recent president (any president, for that matter) where so many policies, so many actions, so many inactions, so many screw-ups conjure up so many negative images. Not Nixon. Not Ford. Not Carter. Not Reagan. Not Bush 41. Not Clinton.... Read More

Reaping What We Have Sown: Consequences of US Iraq Policy

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Tuesday December 06, 2005 · 3:02 PM PST

2005/12/06 · 15:02

Juan Cole has an insightful article on the likely consequences of our heavy-handed and disastrous involvement in Iraq - the piece is titled How Bush Created a Theocracy in Iraq:

The Bush administration naively believed that Iraq was a blank slate on which it could inscribe its vision for a remake of the Arab world. Iraq, however, was a witches' brew of dynamic social and religious movements, a veritable pressure cooker. When George W Bush invaded, he blew off the lid.
Shiite religious leaders and parties, in particular, have crucially shaped the new Iraq in each of its three political phases. The first was during the period of direct American rule, largely by Paul Bremer. The second comprised the months of interim government, when Iyad Allawi was prime minister. The third stretches from the formation of an elected government, with Ibrahim Jaafari as prime minister, to today.
In the first phase, expatriate Shiite parties returned to the country to emerge as major players, to the consternation of a confused and clueless Coalition Provisional Authority ...

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Sunday December 04, 2005 · 12:07 PM PST

2005/12/04 · 12:07

George W Bush, Iraq war originator, and Hillary Rodham Clinton, Iraq war supporter, both want you to believe that they have realistic approaches to the conflict in Iraq.

But do they? Are Bush or Clinton really facing the facts as they are on the ground?

The number-one fact on the ground in Iraq - the elephant in the room that Gen George Casey and Congressman John Murtha have (with their hair on fire) pointed to - is that the massive presence of US forces in Iraq is itself the gasoline fueling an insurgency we have not been able to extinguish with 150,000 US troops. Read More

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Big Hate and How to Fight It: A Plea for Grassroots Action

Questioning The Answers

Waiting for Godot (John Edwards screws the pooch)

My Conversation With Emily Rooney Of WGBH-TV Boston

Kossaks Conned -- Scholastic's Announcement Is NO Victory

Response I Got From Chicago ABC Affiliate

You Have 1 Week To Stop A Rightwing Hit Piece

Denny Hastert's Sweetheart Real Estate Deal

The Other Bill O'Reilly

Indelible Images of a Failed Presidency (A Photo Essay)

Reaping What We Have Sown: Consequences of US Iraq Policy

Ignoring the Facts on the Ground (both Bush and Clinton are)