The emergence of open hate speech on the left

Not just hate speech..lately left wing commentators and some so-called right wingers (No, we do not include Charles Johnson of LGF as a right winger) like David Brooks have felt free to step away from the smelly masses of tea partiers, using appalling language to describe patriots who are fighting for the future of their country AND the way our money is spent. The following is excellent commentary on this issue:

Naturally, it's tempting for politicians to fight dirty when they're not getting their way. The classic method is to depict one's opponents as fools or knaves.

We are used to such tactics in the halls of Congress, where officeholders of both parties deliberately and loudly misunderstand one another, and cast one another's views and votes in the worst possible light.

But we are not used to politicians pouring their bilious invective on ordinary citizens. And we do not like it. Since Joe the Plumber had the temerity to question then-candidate Obama, we have seen the reasonable objections of regular people turned into a kind of rhetorical weapon against them.