This thread is inspired by the thread about Al Quaeda's video insulting Barack Obama. That was vile enough on its own but one of the posters claimed that people here had said worse things about him than that. Since we know those evil right wingers have nothing but hate in their hearts and left wingers have collective amnesia I decided to show a little bit of the love that the left has shown over the years. Naturally I can't post them all, that would use up every bit of bandwidth that DIS has, but you'll get the idea. Feel free to add some of your favorites (only use professional cartoonists, columnists, tv commentators, etc., it is too easy to use anonymous rants from left-wing blogs), here are some of mine:
"The man is on the Court. You know, I hope his wife feeds him lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease. Well, that’s how I feel. He is an absolutely reprehensible person."
-- USA Today columnist and Pacifica Radio talk show host Julianne Malveaux on Justice Clarence Thomas, November 4, 1994 PBS To the Contrary.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aLGkFpsdHo (video of Jesse Jackson wishing he could cut off part of Obama's anatomy)
“I’m just saying if he did die, other people, more people would live. That’s a fact.”
— Host Bill Maher on his HBO show Real Time, March 2, discussing how a few commenters at a left-wing blog were upset that an attempt to kill Vice President Cheney in Afghanistan had failed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FIBJt-c2o0 (video of Robert Byrd, distinguished Democratic Senator)
Adorable special needs child desperately requires loving family. Used once as a prop during televised speech. Requires spit to style hair. Can shoot a rabbit with an air rifle at 35 feet. Mother is pushy social climber, unwilling to let pregnancy and children stand in way of ambition. Father unknown.
Text for a fake Ebay ad for Sarah Palin's son Trig 9/9/2008
ABC’s Steve Osunsami: "In many black neighborhoods, they actually believe that white residents sent the barge that destroyed the levee and flooded their communities."
Unidentified black man, in HBO’s film by Spike Lee: "They had a bomb. They bombed that sucker."
Osunsami: "To this day, the conspiracy theories are so widely held, director Spike Lee put them on film...."
Spike Lee, director: "As an African-American in this country, I don’t put anything past the government."
— ABC’s World News with Charles Gibson, August 29
"The man is on the Court. You know, I hope his wife feeds him lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease. Well, that’s how I feel. He is an absolutely reprehensible person."
-- USA Today columnist and Pacifica Radio talk show host Julianne Malveaux on Justice Clarence Thomas, November 4, 1994 PBS To the Contrary.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aLGkFpsdHo (video of Jesse Jackson wishing he could cut off part of Obama's anatomy)
“I’m just saying if he did die, other people, more people would live. That’s a fact.”
— Host Bill Maher on his HBO show Real Time, March 2, discussing how a few commenters at a left-wing blog were upset that an attempt to kill Vice President Cheney in Afghanistan had failed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FIBJt-c2o0 (video of Robert Byrd, distinguished Democratic Senator)
Adorable special needs child desperately requires loving family. Used once as a prop during televised speech. Requires spit to style hair. Can shoot a rabbit with an air rifle at 35 feet. Mother is pushy social climber, unwilling to let pregnancy and children stand in way of ambition. Father unknown.
Text for a fake Ebay ad for Sarah Palin's son Trig 9/9/2008
ABC’s Steve Osunsami: "In many black neighborhoods, they actually believe that white residents sent the barge that destroyed the levee and flooded their communities."
Unidentified black man, in HBO’s film by Spike Lee: "They had a bomb. They bombed that sucker."
Osunsami: "To this day, the conspiracy theories are so widely held, director Spike Lee put them on film...."
Spike Lee, director: "As an African-American in this country, I don’t put anything past the government."
— ABC’s World News with Charles Gibson, August 29
