Of Course They Know There's A Difference

Take your liberal ethos and shove it in your dirt chute putz. Don’t come here with that game.

That statement was directed at me as a response to me pointing out the difference between being against a "policy" or against a "person" and being "anti-American".

But, "anti-policy" doesn't have that evil-sounding ring that "anti-American" does.

That's why so many conservatives use it.

Not because it's true, but because it sounds good.

Rush Limbaugh continually uses it.

Click here to take a listen.

Transcript below:

LIMBAUGH: And this Obama thing is a pure unadulterated sideshow. Obama is not a great thinker; he's a believer. He has been inoculated -- indoctrinated at his schools, and he's believed what he has been told there. And among those beliefs is that the United States is fundamentally a force for provocation in the world, and that the United States is at root responsible for the way we are treated and seen by those who hate us. This is what he believes. He's not a thinker.

It's a form of self-loathing, ladies and gentlemen -- not of himself, of course, 'cause he's the messiah -- but in the aggregate self-loathing of nation, the kind of self-loathing of America that the left here and in Europe embraces. And that's why they love Obama -- because he loathes America. He blames America. America's responsible for all that's wrong in the world. If we just did somebody in touch who has compassion, sensitivity, the rest of the world will miraculously love us. There will be no more evil.

This is standard operating procedure for Malkin, Limbaugh, and O'Reilly uses it when he calls people who post at DailyKos or attend the Netroots Nation convention "Nazis" or "just like the KKK".

You'll find this used ad infinitum on conservative talk-radio, on Fox"News", and online at every conservative site you can think of.

What's almost more frieghtening, is that far too many people aren't willing to call these people out. Too many Democrats, too many bloggers, to many "liberal guest hosts on news programs for balance" seem to be afraid to throw this back in conservatives faces.

It's far more patriotic, far more "American", to voice decent that it is to blindly follow.