Conservatives have nothing but good things to say about James O’Keefe
and Breitbart’s tactics of using hostile video crews to harass people
in public. They don’t complain when abortion protestors bomb clinics, or
when Trump encourages violence at his rallies.
(“Knock the crap out of them, would you? I promise you, I will pay your
legal fees.”) But they think it’s awful when liberals confront Trump
apparatchiks who orchestrated the unthinkably horrific practice of mass
child cagings. Liberals are rude and uncivil! Bill O’Reilly, who
harassed women so viciously that he had to pay $32 million to buy their
silence and lost his platform at Fox News, is aghast that a restaurant
owner privately told Sarah Huckabee Sanders to dine elsewhere. Some
Democrats are also telling protestors to pipe down. But Michelle
Goldberg, opinion columnist for The New York Times writes that “we have a crises of democracy, not manners.”
The entire column is worth reading, but here is one of many highlights in here piece.
“The civility police might point out that many conservatives hated Obama just as much, but that only demonstrates the limits of content-neutral analysis. The right’s revulsion against a black president targeted by birther conspiracy theories is not the same as the left’s revulsion against a racist president who spread birther conspiracy theories.”
