DU Challenge. Let's compile examples of Republican Hate Speech

[Tom Rinaldo]

Let's keep a running file of Over the Top Republican sound bites that are every bit as "intemperate" as anything Howard Dean or Dick Durbin ever said (but usually far worse). Let's document Republican quotes that are mean spirited, outrageous, and insulting of good Americans and the values we all (Republicans included) profess to hold as a nation.

"Democrats are weak on defense" doesn't rise to this standard, but "Democrats are helping Al Quada" on the other hand would. Where are those juicy Republican quotes about Democrats wanting to ban the Bible? I'm looking for outrageous things said by elected Republican office holders or Republican Party officials. Fund raising letters are fair game. We need actual quotes and the links to document them. Google is our friend.

Who can go first?

[Tom Rinaldo]

1. OK, I did the easy one I mentioned:

We need to be digging for fresh stuff, maybe in the Congressional Record or in mailers being sent to constituents.

New York Times

September 24, 2004
Republicans Admit Mailing Campaign Literature Saying Liberals Will Ban the Bible
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK

"The Republican Party acknowledged yesterday sending mass mailings to residents of two states warning that "liberals" seek to ban the Bible. It said the mailings were part of its effort to mobilize religious voters for President Bush.

The mailings include images of the Bible labeled "banned" and of a gay marriage proposal labeled "allowed." A mailing to Arkansas residents warns: "This will be Arkansas if you don't vote." A similar mailing was sent to West Virginians"

http://www.theocracywatch.org/bush_ban_bible_times_23,htm.htm

[patrice]

2. Support for same sex marriage will lead to people marrying their pets.

Sorry, I don't have a quote on that, but that IS what I was running across in general conversation on the topic here in Cupcake Land. I heard it a few times in casual conversation with general acquaintantces. I wonder where it was coming from. They seemed to seriously believe this.

[Norquist Nemesis]

3. Here ya go!

all from the same article

http://www.hillnews.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/062205/squabbles.html

Then, during remarks on the House floor Monday evening, Rep. John Hostettler (R-Ind.) said, “Like a moth to a flame, Democrats can’t help themselves when it comes to denigrating and demonizing Christians.”

“What else could say?” House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) said yesterday during a press briefing, adding that Democrats “are constantly attacking people of faith.”

“Senator Durbin’s statement was a premeditated and monstrous attack against the United States military,” DeLay said. “These attacks are as dishonorable as the Democratic leadership.”

[JNelson6563]

4. I saw this

Funny the corporate media isn't talking about it. Inexcusable!

Julie

[dajoki]

5. from WP

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/20/AR2005062001194.html?referrer=email

[Tom Rinaldo]

8. Democrats can't help themselves when it comes to denigrating...

"Like a moth to a flame, Democrats can't help themselves when it comes to denigrating and demonizing Christians"

Of course Howard Dean saying that the Republican Party is made up mostly of White Christians was MUCH more inflammatory. Uh huh.

[dajoki]

10. just reporting

republican hate speech:shrug:

[JNelson6563]

6. Great idea Tom!

I'm book-marking this in anticipation of the volumes that wil be added.

Julie

[Tom Rinaldo]

7. Two from (who else) Tom Delay!

First the framing quote:

"DeLay condemns 'overheated' debate at NRA convention
10:58 AM CDT on Sunday, April 17, 2005

By WAYNE SLATER / The Dallas Morning News
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/041705dntexnra.1b43dd9b.html

HOUSTON ?? House Majority Leader Tom DeLay on Saturday decried "overheated" political debate that seeks to challenge the character of elected officials.

"It is unfortunate in our electoral system, exacerbated by our adversarial media culture, that political discourse has to get so overheated that it's not just arguments, but motives are questioned," Mr. DeLay told the National Rifle Association."

OK, this fine compilation of Dekay quotes was compiled by
Brendan Nyhan
The art and science of politics http://www.brendan-nyhan.com/blog/2005/04/

Here's DeLay suggesting opponents of the war in Iraq don't want to protect the American people, CNN's "Inside Politics"
Sept. 25, 2002: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0209/25/ip.00.html

"He is not doing what others are doing that are questioning the president's leadership, that are constantly throwing up hurdles to keep us from doing what we have to do to protect the American people: using the false arguments, these constantly -- throwing up, Well, I have to have answers to this question, and when they get the answer, they come up with a new question. These are people that don't want to protect the American people. They don't see -- they will do anything, spend all the time and resources they can, to avoid confronting evil."

And here's DeLay claiming Democrats want to destroy the economy: CNN's "Saturday Edition" July 20, 2002: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0207/20/tt.00.html

"The Democrats are working to extend America's misery for their own political gain, and we just think that's just outrageous."


I didn't know about Nyhan's site, nor was I familiar with these quotes. I just went hunting on Google following leads. We gotta do this type of work folks. The can't let the Republicans get away with their one sided game!

edited to add Dallas story link

[Catrina]

9. Excellent idea

This article deals with the hateful rhetoric but includes Democrats, without emphasizing that mostly Dems are responding to the hateful and extremely hyperbolic rhetoric of the likes of Tom Delay, Bill Frist and Rick Santorum, etc. not to mention the 24/7 hate being spewed on rightwing radio every day.

Notice how vitriolic the remarks of those three are in comparison to the relatively mild response to Delay's own attack on judges during the Terry Schiavo debacle.


DeLay, who relishes opportunities to attack Democrats, is constantly hammered by Democrats for his remarks. Democrats asked whether DeLay was advocating violence against judges when he stated that the time will come for judges involved in the Terry Schiavo case to "answer for their behavior."

Now look at Tom Delay's hyberbolic, hateful and out-of-proportion statement about Durbin's comments, by comparison.

DeLay, R-Texas, also decided to get in a couple of licks at Durbin, calling his remarks about Guantanamo Bay a "premeditated and monstrous attack against America's military."


Rhetoric Takes Nasty Turn in Congress

By JIM ABRAMS
The Associated Press
Tuesday, June 21, 2005; 7:17 PM



WASHINGTON -- A Republican accuses Democrats of demonizing Christians. A Democrat talks of Nazis in connection with the treatment of terror suspects. Both sides cry foul, and apologies are hard to come by.

It's just another day of vitriolic gotchas at the Capitol.

House Republicans on Tuesday were all over Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the Senate's second-ranking Democrat, because of recent comments in which he referred to Nazis, Soviets and Cambodia's Pol Pot in describing the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.

On Monday, House Democrats stopped debate on a defense spending bill to protest a comment by Rep. John Hostettler, R-Ind., that, "like moths to a flame, Democrats can't help themselves when it comes to denigrating and demonizing Christians."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/21/AR2005062101034_pf.html

What the Post doesn't say is that while everyone in America heard about the Durbin comments, I doubt you could find too many people who even know who Hostetler is, let alone what he said about Democrats, many of whom are Christians, as I am. I know I was not aware of his comments and I pay attention to these things.

So, one thing that might be done is to blast the media and ask them to give equal coverage to Hostetler's comments, and to Santorum's remark painting all Democrats as Nazis. I saw Durbin's 'apology' on the news last night, I did not see anything coverage of Republican references to Nazis. Maybe I missed it!

[Scout1071]

11. I would say that Delay's speech about Michael Schiavo was very hateful

not to mention an outright lie like everything that comes out of his filthy, corrupt mouth.

[melissinha]

12. What about Cornyn

Gee... some of the WORST are from Texas... its a long one...

Cornyn continued: "I don't know if there is a cause-and-effect connection, but we have seen some recent episodes of courthouse violence in this country. . . . And I wonder whether there may be some connection between the perception in some quarters, on some occasions, where judges are making political decisions yet are unaccountable to the public, that it builds up and builds up and builds up to the point where some people engage in, engage in violence. Certainly without any justification, but a concern that I have."

Disclaimers can't save you, Cornyn. I hate it that you represent me.

[Tom Rinaldo]

13. Why didn't Frist repudiate some of these statements?

Anti-Democrat Christian event to include Frist
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
New York Times News Service
http://www.tennessean.com/nation-world/archives/05/03/68268101.shtml
Party 'against people of faith' for blocking judicial nominees, say organizers of telecast

WASHINGTON — As the Senate heads toward a showdown over the rules governing judicial confirmations, Sen. Bill Frist, the majority leader, has agreed to join a handful of prominent Christian conservatives in a telecast portraying Democrats as ''against people of faith'' for blocking President Bush's nominees.

Fliers for the telecast, organized by the Family Research Council and scheduled to originate on April 24 at a large church in Louisville, Ky., call the day ''Justice Sunday'' and depict a young man holding a Bible in one hand and a gavel in the other. Under the heading ''the Filibuster Against People of Faith,'' the flier reads: ''The filibuster was once abused to protect racial bias, and it is now being used against people of faith.''...

..."Asked about Frist's participation in an event that describes the filibuster ''as against people of faith,'' his spokesman, Bob Stevenson, did not answer the question directly."...

...''As the liberal, anti-Christian dogma of the left has been repudiated in almost every recent election, the courts have become the last great bastion for liberalism,'' Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council and organizer of the telecast, wrote in a message on the group's Web site. ''For years, activist courts, aided by liberal interest groups like the ACLU, have been quietly working under the veil of the judiciary, like thieves in the night, to rob us of our Christian heritage and our religious freedoms.'"

[LiberalEconomist]

14. What??!! I don't have that kind of time!!

Hell, no mortal being has that kind of time. Every word that comes out of the mouths of those pigfuckers is classified as "hate speach." By definition, Republican = small minded, hate filled, creep.

[BigBearJohn]

15. RECOMMENDED -- I LOVE THIS IDEA!!!

[abbiehoff]

16. William Pitt put together a good list on truthout last year...

Look here

http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/22/3843

[Tom Rinaldo]

17. Some great ones there

But he cast a wider net. Including people like Ann Coulter is like shooting fish in a barrel, it's too damn easy to fill a book with statements like that from her, in fact she does it regularly.

I was glad to find this one there:

"If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual gay sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything. All of those things are antithetical to a healthy, stable, traditional family and that's sort of where we are in today's world, unfortunately. It all comes from, I would argue, the right to privacy that doesn't exist, in my opinion, in the United States Constitution."

- Senator Rick Sanatorium (R-PA), Associated Press, 04-22-03

I'm hoping we can collect as many current era statements from elected Republicans and Official Republican Party spokespeople as possible, say from 2000 to the present.

[Nikki Stone 1]

22. Actually, we do have the right to adultery already

It's not a good idea, mind you, but no one is gonna arrest you for it. Santorum needs to get a clue.

[Pirate Smile]

18. From the DNC website:

"The kind of words we're hearing now from the Democratic candidates go beyond political debate. This is political hate speech." — RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie

During the 2000 presidential campaign, George W. Bush made a central theme of his candidacy his promise to "change the tone" in Washington. But a look at Bush's own record on negativity shows that he embraces the Republican Party's long tradition of negative political attacks and vicious campaign tactics. It is this tradition they are attempting to mask when GOP Chairman Ed Gillespie hurls accusations of "political hate speech" at Democrats who challenge President Bush for his failed policies. Moreover, as president, George W. Bush has personally launched negative attacks against Congressional leaders and his administration has used the war on terror as rationale to muffle any opposition or criticism of its policies.

The GOP Record of Negative Attacks

Retaliating Against the Critics and Stifling Dissent http://www.democrats.org/specialreports/gop_negative/critics.html

Bush Launches Attacks Against Sen. Tom Daschle http://www.democrats.org/specialreports/gop_negative/daschle.html

Georgia, 2002: The GOP Smears a War Hero http://www.democrats.org/specialreports/gop_negative/ga.html

South Carolina, 2000: Bush Runs One of the "Nastiest Races in Recent History" http://www.democrats.org/specialreports/gop_negative/sc.html

The Gingrich Era: Nasty Newt http://www.democrats.org/specialreports/gop_negative/gingrich.html

Bush I, 1988: The Willie Horton Ads http://www.democrats.org/specialreports/gop_negative/horton.html

http://www.democrats.org/specialreports/gop_negative/

[Tom Rinaldo]

19. "the United States of America is a Christian nation."

July 14, 2004


GOP's "Christian Nation"

New excuses for a bad idea

Cathy Young
http://www.reason.com/cy/cy071404.shtml

After a short respite from the fight over the Pledge of Allegiance, the Republican Party has once again thrown itself into the fray over issues of church and state. This time it's the Republican Party of Texas, President Bush's home state, which has approved a plank in its platform affirming that "the United States of America is a Christian nation."

The plank, which also pooh-poohs "the myth of the separation of church and state," has elicited protests from Jewish groups. So far, however, it has not been rejected by the national Republican Party. This is in contrast to a similar flap in 1992: A statement by then-Mississippi Governor Kirk Fordice at a Republican governors' convention that "the United States is a Christian nation" was met with rebukes from leading Republicans, and Fordice eventually had to apologize...

...Some conservatives in the media have not merely refused to criticize the "Christian nation" plank but rallied to its defense. Interviewing Texas Republican Party chairwoman Tina Berkiser, the Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly described the plank as a "largely symbolic" response to secularist activists and judges who would throw God out of the public square. On another Fox News show, Hannity & Colmes, guest host Mike Gallagher suggested that objections to the plank stemmed from anti-Christian "bigotry."


Cathy Young is a Reason contributing editor. This column originally appeared in the Boston Globe.

[Clyde_dubyaD40]

20. Don't forget Dick

Cheney told Republican supporters at a town hall meeting in Des Moines that they needed to make "the right choice" in the November 2 election.

"If we make the wrong choice, then the danger is that we'll get hit again -- that we'll be hit in a way that will be devastating from the standpoint of the United States," Cheney said.

"And then we'll fall back into the pre-9/11 mindset, if you will, that in fact these terrorist attacks are just criminal acts and that we're not really at war. I think that would be a terrible mistake for us."

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/07/cheney.terror/

[Tom Rinaldo]

21. Robertson: Liberal Judges More Dangerous than 9/11 Terrorists

http://www.spymac.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=175307

Right wing fundamentalists are threatening to destroy our democracy and upset the balance of power by rewriting the political rules...with comments like this, everyone should be concerned. No matter what party you belong to.

This article was published from Moveon...all the sources of this information is available at their website. Robertson said these comments on national television for the whole country to witness:

"...On Sunday morning, Christian Coalition founder Pat Robertson told TV viewers nation-wide that the threat posed by liberal judges is "probably more serious than a few bearded terrorists who fly into buildings." When an incredulous George Stephanopoulos asked if Robertson really believed that these judges posed "the most serious threat America has faced in nearly 400 years of history, more serious than al Qaeda, more serious than Nazi Germany and Japan, more serious than the Civil War?," he responded, "George, I really believe that."

[Tom Rinaldo]

23. Self Delete. Posted in wrong place. eom

[Tom Rinaldo]

24. The Hitler comparison Jack Pot!

Thanks to The Raw Story:
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Questions_of_hypocrisy_in_Republican_attacks_on_senator_who_raised_Nazis_in_Guantanamo_c_0620.html

A few of the examples gathered by them:

"We certainly have all seen the rejections of Nazi Germany's abuses of science,” Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) declared regarding his opposition to stem cell research last October. “As a society and a nation, there ought to be some limit on what we can allow or should allow."

In response to a ruling on abortion last September, Congressman Steve King said following law on reproductive rights equivalent to a Nazi guard saying he was following orders.

“That, Mr. Speaker, is a ‘modern-day’ equivalent of the Nazi prison guard saying 'I was just following orders,’” he said on the House floor Sept. 8, 2004. “It was all legal in Nazi Germany at the time.”

Another senator even compared the Kyoto climate treaty to Nazism, repeating a quotation from a Russian official.

Sen. James Inhofe said Oct. 11, 2004 that Kyoto "would deal a powerful blow on the whole humanity similar to the one humanity experienced when Nazism and communism flourished."

There's more. Check it out

edited to correct link

[Catrina]

25. Those are excellent

examples of the Republican use of the word 'Nazi' but the link didn't work for me ~ :-(

[Tom Rinaldo]

26. Thanks for the heads up. Just fixed the link. Try it now n/t

[Tom Rinaldo]

27. Inhofe's compelling evidence that catastrophic global warming is a hoax.

This is a little off topic but I couldn't resist. Then again maybe it's not. He was calling global warming a hoax perpetrated on the American people. I would assume he didn't think Republicans were perpetrating it.

Majority Press Release
Contact: Mike Catanzaro 202-224-5165
http://epw.senate.gov/pressitem.cfm?party=rep&id=212247

Monday, July 28, 2003

Sen. Inhofe Delivers Major Speech on the Science of Climate Change “Catastrophic global warming alarmism not based on objective science” Part 1

Washington, D.C.-Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), chairman of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, delivered a comprehensive speech on the science of climate change today, concluding that, based on the best, most objective science available, predictions of catastrophic global warming are baseless and should be rejected.

...4) The motives for Kyoto are economic not environmental-that is, proponents favor handicapping the American economy through carbon taxes and more regulation.

With all of the hysteria, all of the fear, all of the phony science, could it be that man-made global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people? It sure sounds like it.

[spooky3]

30. Keith Olbermann's substitute just reviewed some Rethug references

to Nazi's, such as "femi-Nazi's".

[Lindacooks]

28. Where do I start?

Pat 'Slimeball' Robertsons' claims that 9/11 was God's wrath upon the country because of 'liberalism and homosexuals'

Cheney's 'Go fuck yourself' comment on the FLOOR of the U.S. Senate.

ALL of the attacks against President Clinton.

All of the attacks against Senator Max Cleland.

The Swift Boat Liars attacks against Senator Kerry.

The horrible things they said about Chelsea Clinton's looks when she was 14 years old.

Anything out of Mann Coulter's or Michelle 'whackjob' Malkin's filthy mouths.

[Niccolo_Macchiavelli]

29. SISYPHUS WORK! I JUST SAY SISYPHUSWORK!

now where's the beer?

[JHBowden]

31. False speech maybe, but not hate speech

While hate is subjective, stupidity is very easy to document. For instance, a few years ago, Tom Delay blamed school violence on the teaching of evolution in biology classes. Jebus that is dumb!

[Tom Rinaldo]

32. DeLay Criticized for 'Only Christianity' Remarks

DeLay Criticized for 'Only Christianity' Remarks

By Alan Cooperman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, April 20, 2002; Page A05
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A18077-2002Apr19¬Found=true

House Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) told evangelical Christians last week that only Christianity offers a reasonable answer to basic questions about the purpose of life.

Speaking to about 300 people at the First Baptist Church of Pearland, Tex., on April 12, DeLay said that God is using him to promote "a biblical worldview" in American politics, and that he pursued Bill Clinton's impeachment in part because the Democratic president held "the wrong worldview."

"Ladies and gentlemen, Christianity offers the only viable, reasonable, definitive answer to the questions of 'Where did I come from?' 'Why am I here?' 'Where am I going?' 'Does life have any meaningful purpose?' " DeLay said. "Only Christianity offers a way to understand that physical and moral border. Only Christianity offers a comprehensive worldview that covers all areas of life and thought, every aspect of creation. Only Christianity offers a way to live in response to the realities that we find in this world -- only Christianity."