Geraldo Rivera’s a Nasty Dude
Why does Fox News continue to employ Geraldo Rivera? Rivera is a fanatic about allowing illegal immigration to go on unhindered. So on that issue, he is a hard-core left winger. Now, of course, hard-core left wingers have a big problem with intolerance. Their political opponents, in their eyes, are just rotten people. Listen to how Rivera in 2007 described fellow Fox employee (at the time) Michelle Malkin who is a conservative activist:
“Michelle Malkin is the most vile, hateful commentator I’ve ever met in my life. She actually believes that neighbors should start snitching out neighbors, and we should be deporting people.” He added, “It’s good she’s in D.C., and I’m in New York. I’d spit on her if I saw her.”
What I dislike the most about so many lefties is that they claim to be the broad-minded tolerant ones, but the opposite is true. Their world views are very narrow, and the range of thought they are allowed by their peers is quite limited.
It sure feels good to be a non-liberal. It makes you feel like a free person!
Update: I must add that conservatives lately have been doing their share of displaying political intolerance. To this, liberals are horrified. Hey, only they are supposed to get to be intolerant and say awful things about their opponents! What’s the world coming to?
February 7th, 2010 at 9:44 pm
I agree that the issue of intolerance is a two way street, but why do you quote Laffer, who has
no reputation as an economist, as opposed to Milton Friedman, who won the Nobel Prize and
is a true libertarian just as you are, Dan. I am a democrat because I feel that there are
issues of social morality such as homelessness and the issue of handling the mentally ill
that I feel the nation has a responsibility to deal with other than just neglect or worse. I
am a libertarian in personal life.