Dems get another Pass

[shrp88lx's]

There is a Democrat running for a State House seat in Tennessee. Who cares, right? Well, the campaign of Democrat Craig Fitzhugh is making news because of a flyer that he is circulating. The ad shows a picture of a Special Olympics participant running a race, with President Bush's head superimposed on top. The caption reads: "Voting for Bush Is Like Running In The Special Olympics: Even If You Win, You're Still Retarded." Well isn't that nice.

The flyers have been distributed from Fitzhugh's campaign office for two weeks. By the way, that office also serves as the Kerry/Edwards campaign headquarters. So now what is Kerry's campaign going to say?

Now imagine if you will what would happen if somebody on the Republican side had done this. It could be somebody running for school board in the middle of Montana. Immediately the mainstream media would pick it up, and the outrage would snowball. As it stands now, other than a mention here or there, the Democrats are getting a huge pass. It would appear they're going to get away with insulting people with disabilities.

Remember...there are two sets of rules. One for Democrats, who can say anything they want without scrutiny, and one for Republicans who can't.

[TexasDevilDog]

Simple search on the internet yielded many hits.

http://www.lissakay.com/images/uploads/demhate.JPG

[TexasDevilDog]

I wonder what some people with diabled children think. That is terrible.

http://www.traditionalvalues.org/modules.php?sid=1951

[46Tbird]

http://billhobbs.com/hobbsonline/poster.jpg

UPDATE: Now I know why AP reporter Tom Sharp seemed to be implying that Republicans were behind the disgusting flier distributed at a Democratic campaign headquarters in West Tennessee: That's the official spin from the Tennessee Democratic Party, which makes the reckless charge without evidence.

Also, see my next post for a statement from the national office of Special Olympics condemning the flier and the bigotry that infuses it.

http://billhobbs.com/

I don't know how much I believe it. Frankly, I can't see the Democrats making up such fliers and handing them out as official propoganda.

[TexasDevilDog]

I don't know how much I believe it. Frankly, I can't see the Democrats making up such fliers and handing them out as official propoganda.

If they came from a printing company, it will be easy to see who did it. Who printed them? Who ordered them?

[scrapwave]

I wonder what some people with diabled children think. That is terrible.
I have an infant niece who has cerebral palsy...and this ad just disgusts me and infuriates me. Special needs children and mentally or physically handicapped children are NOT retarded. Retarded would be the idiots who came up with that poster! That is the most degrading, unethical and morally wrong thing I have EVER seen. You can bet that there will be lawsuits over it.

[blownragtop]

Michelle Malkin:
Liberals have gone wild in hate-filled effort to beat Bush
By MICHELLE MALKIN


HOW MANY hate crime anecdotes does it take before the mainstream media spot a trend? If the victims are politically correct, all it takes is one or two.

One alleged name-calling. A few alleged acts of vandalism. A suspicious arson here or there. In an instant, an unsubstantiated attack against the right kind of ethnic, racial, religious or sexual minority becomes undisputed evidence of an epidemic of violence. A symbol of rising hate. A national crisis.

But what happens when the targets are the wrong kind of victim? What happens when conservatives and Republicans are on the receiving end of discriminatory threats or harassment or worse?

Hello, reporters? Is anybody home? Is it my imagination, or do I hear pins dropping in the grievance corners of America’s otherwise victim-friendly newsrooms?

For the past several weeks, the Internet has been buzzing with story after story of election-related mayhem aimed at Bush/Cheney supporters. Some have downplayed the incidents as run-of-the-mill pranks. Others claim that “both sides are doing it” equally.

Yes, both Democratic and Republican signs have been torn. Yes, there has been juvenile behavior on both sides. But left-wing activists have escalated their campaign attacks to a seemingly unprecedented level. We have gone from simple mischief to open-season malice. And the supposedly objective reporters who are always so willing to connect the dots to expose the politics of hate are now whistling past the smashed windows and flaming signs and bullet holes.

In Madison, Wis., someone burned an 8-foot-by-8-foot Nazi swastika on a homeowner’s lawn, which had been decorated with Bush-Cheney signs. The vandals used grass killer to spray the hate symbol (it’s OK, Bush-hating trumps environmentalism). Several other homes nearby were vandalized.

In Orlando, Fla., Democrats stormed the local Bush/Cheney headquarters, and the ensuing melee resulted in physical injuries to at least two Republican campaign workers. The liberal protesters justified their actions — including ramming the head of one of the workers into an office door — by blaming President Bush’s “negative campaign.”

So, the 30-second ads made them do it. It’s always someone else’s fault.

In Knoxville, Tenn., someone shot into the Bush/Cheney headquarters. Shots were also fired into Bush/Cheney offices in Huntington, W. Va., and Florida. The GOP office in Gallatin County, Mont., was vandalized twice in less than a week. Republican offices in the Seattle area, Spokane, Wash., Canton, Ohio, Fairbanks, Alaska, and Edwardsville, Ill., have also been burglarized and/or vandalized.

On an Alaska-bound flight, a drunken Kerry supporter went ballistic after harassing a female Bush supporter and refusing to calm down at the request of flight attendants. In Gainesville, Fla., police arrested a Democrat accused of punching the chairman of the Alachua County Republican Executive Committee in the face at the town Republican headquarters. The accused, David McCally, also punched a life-sized, cardboard cutout of President George Bush. McCally is a community college instructor whose specialty is social and behavioral sciences.

According to the GOP chairman, Travis Horn, McCally hurled obscenities at him before the assault. “He proceeded to say how he had a Ph.D., and he was smarter than me. I’m a stupid Republican.” And that, no doubt, is the superior attitude held by media reporters and anti-hate crime advocates and peace preachers and civility pleaders who refuse to acknowledge the totally unhinged tactics of Democrats Gone Wild.

Liberals promise to do “whatever it takes” — “by any means necessary” — to win this election. If it were conservatives mouthing those slogans as shattered glass was flying and lawns were smoking, Karl Rove would be under federal investigation. Jimmy Carter would be requesting U.N. assistance. And The New York Times would be calling for a National Day of Reconciliation.

A single act of hate is a danger to the Republic, except when it’s fomented by bug-eyed, rock-throwing, lighter-wielding Kerry/Edwards supporters just exercising their “free speech.”

[Stroked87]

For some reason I feel that this is BS. I would almost be willing to bet that it is merely a PS pic of the original that has just been floating around the internet and was never actually handed out.

Here is the origianl, which I am sure that everyone has seen:

[46Tbird]

For some reason I feel that this is BS. I would almost be willing to bet that it is merely a PS pic of the original that has just been floating around the internet and was never actually handed out.That's why I posted a link. ;) You should read it.

According to Sharp, Fitzhugh is upset by the flier and has determined that a stack of them were left on a table at his campaign office by someone not connected with the campaign, and promptly thrown away by the volunteers working in the office that day. But soon after they were thrown away, someone came into the campaign office and got one to take to the local newspaper.

The tone of Sharp's questions to me was strange. A tad prosecutorial. I may be imagining things, but his tone and questions seemed to imply that he thought maybe a Republican left the flier as a way to embarrass Fitzhugh. He didn't say that, exactly, just kept saying how interesting it would be to find out who made the fliers


There's much more to the story. Seriously, how could anyone from the Democratic party have those printed up and expect to circulate them? I ain't buyin it ..

[scrapwave]

Retarded would be the idiots who came up with that poster! That is the most degrading, unethical and morally wrong thing I have EVER seen.
This stands regardless of who produced the flyers. I don't care if it was a democrat or a republican who planted it...whoever did it completely unethical and immoral. :(

[TexasDevilDog]

. (10/29/94): "[North] is banking on the fact that he can raise enough money from the extreme right wing—the extra-chromosome right wing—to come in and buy enough advertising to just overwhelm the truth with blatant falsehoods [about Robb]," Gore said.
....
The vice president later apologized for his reference to Down syndrome, a genetic condition characterized by an extra chromosome.

"The phrase ‘extra chromosome’ is insensitive and inappropriate and I regret using it," Gore said in a statement issued from Air Force Two, en route from Washington to Chicago. "I did not intend it in the way some heard it, but that is no excuse, and I apologize."