What is it about the left on one hand giving it out, then on the other pretending that they don’t when somone does the same? Yesterday, I posted on Tumeke! using inflammatory language to fire back at a “hateful” Peter Dunne post, which was in reality quite mild compared to anything Tim had to say.
Today, here’s a video of Roger Ailes laying the smack-down on Arianna Huffington after she tries to attack Glenn Beck.
The money quote section:
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON: Well, Roger, it’s not a question of picking a fight. And aren’t you concerned about the language that Glenn Beck is using, which is, after all, inciting the American people? There is a lot of suffering out there, as you know, and when he talks about people being slaughtered, about who is going to be the next in the killing spree…
(CROSSTALK)
AILES: Well, he was talking about Hitler and Stalin slaughtering people. So I think he was probably accurate. Also, I’m a little….
HUFFINGTON: No, no, he was talking about this administration.
AILES: I don’t — I think he speaks English. I don’t know, but I mean, I don’t misinterpret any of his words. He did say one unfortunate thing, which he apologized for, but that happens in live television. So I don’t think it’s — I think if we start going around as the word police in this business, it will be…
HUFFINGTON: It’s not about the word police. It’s about something deeper. It’s about the fact that there is a tradition as the historian Richard Hofstetter said, in American politics, of the paranoid style. And the paranoid style is dangerous when there is real pain out there. I mean, with…
AILES: I agree with you. I read something on your blog that said I looked like J. Edgar Hoover, I had a face like a fist, and I was essentially a malignant tumor…
HUFFINGTON: Well, that’s…
AILES: And I thought — and then it got nasty after that…
HUFFINGTON: … that was never by anybody that we had…
(CROSSTALK)
AILES: Then it really went nasty, and I thought, gee, maybe Arianna ought to cut this out, but…
What was she thinking?
The moral high ground may have a good view, but so does a glass house.
Something should go here, maybe later. 