“Now in America when you act like an a whole you are a hero, the disease that is infecting this election is not pneumonia but a total lack of class.” Bill Maher.
It may seem out of character for Bill Maher to be asking for more civility in politics, but from his interview with Kellyanne Conway last night [and his past interviews with Ann Coulter] he does seem to walk that walk when face to face, though then again most of us do. Hell, I even liked George W. I thought he was a funny regular guy who would be fun to horse around with. He reminds me of my old high school pal Rick, who whenever he came across a ball would oss it up and down in his hands and declare,” Let’s have a ball!” For some reason I am attracted to corny. Bob’s Burgers.
The problem with this mutual civility thing, is as we have seen over the past 28 years [the advent of talk radio] that it’s a one way street. Liberals will listen and do their best to be civil while conservatives laugh and say, “Yeah right Libtards.” It is the nature of the Beast.
I put up with it for a few years, but in 1993 I began the hard copy newsletter Hard Response and moved it online in 1996 to try and compensate. To play with their deck so to say. But as was the case with liberal radio, liberals are not attracted to the harsh rhetoric, name calling and giving back tit for tat and such endeavors fall flat, which I believe is why we have suffered this Republican hegemony for a generation. Which has allowed deplorable right-wing swill do become the norm.
In fact I can name just two successful liberal sites that do get into the dirt a bit, Huffington Post and Media Matters. While on the other hand I could rattle off the names of successful right-wing hubris websites until the pigs come home to FLY OVER America,which all put both Huffington and Media Matters to shame. Here are just a few: Brietbart, Drudge, Maxnews, Fox News, Infowars, The Blaze, Worldnetdaily, Free Republic, Townhall, NY Post, Western Journalism and Redstate as the beat goes on.