Chris Matthews, Eric Fuller, Steve Cohen: The New Civility

Can't we just get along?

Eric Fuller and Chris Matthews–and today Rep. Steve Cohen–usher in a new Age of Civility on the Left. For any who have been paying attention, their New Age is the Same Old Busted Name-calling.

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I love being lectured on civility by the most uncivil among us…

We are so screwed…

ALSO @ DBKP: Rep. Steve Cohen, Compares Republicans to Nazi’s, Brings up Holocaust, Blood Libel

Ariz. shooting victim arrested at town hall meeting for allegedly threatening Tea Partier’s life

A victim of last week’s Tucson shooting rampage allegedly made threats against Republican Ariz. Rep. Terri Proud and Tucson Tea Party spokesman Trent Humphries at a town hall meeting Saturday.

Upset about comments made by Proud and Humphries, shooting survivor J. Eric Fuller stood up from his seat, tore up a photo of Humphries, and announced, “You’re dead.”

Authorities quickly removed Fuller from the room. Pima County Sheriff’s spokesman Jason Ogan told KGUN that Fuller has been charged with threats and intimidation and will face an additional charge of disorderly conduct.

Chris Matthews calls Obama critics ‘crackers’

So much for that new tone of civility.

After citing a spokesman from House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s office, Matthews asked the Huffington Post’s Sam Stein if Republicans would play nice with Obama, or would they go ad hominem. However, in phrasing the question, he used what some believe is a derogatory term to describe his critics.

“Sam, it seems to me it is a big question,” Matthews said. “So much of this attack on Obama has been ad hominem – directed at the person of the president, whether it’s somebody – some cracker out there on the right calling him — some birther-type who says he’s not an American or someone more sophisticated but basically saying he’s a socialist. Will this be on the merits of the bill? Will it stay off the personal? Is it your hunch coming into Wednesday’s vote?”

“A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude. To make them love it is the task assigned, in present-day totalitarian states, to ministries of propaganda, newspaper editors and schoolteachers…. The greatest triumphs of propaganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.”
–Aldous Huxley, Author of Brave New World

[NOTE: This post is late. For the past four days, Mondo Frazier has been "unavailable, due to the deadlines" for the completion of his upcoming book about our beloved 44th president. It's release is scheduled for August -September 2011 by Threshold Editions, a division of Simon & Schuster. DBKP will be in "catch-up mode" until Friday evening. We apologize for any inconvenience.]

by Jamie
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