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January 17, 2011
On the Left's call for a "new tone" for "civility"
Topics: Political News and commentariesJohn Podhoretz on the Left's civility non-sequitur (hat tip - Jonah Goldberg):
A week's worth of talk about civility is very nice. We should be more civil toward each other. There's little more depressing in life than the incivility of much public discourse. But if you take five seconds to think about it, what happened in Tucson had nothing whatever to do with unmannerly misbehavior. Quite the opposite: the morning's events gave ample evidence of humankind's ability to hear the immediate call to greatness, as in Daniel Hernandez's heroic salvation of Gabrielle Giffords's life and how Dorwan Stoddard gave his life to shield his wife, Mavanelle, from Jared Loughner's spray of bullet fire.Related: Expect Those Always Angry, Newly Desperate, Progressives To Get Much WorseThus, as we continue to gather more evidence of Loughner's schizophrenia, the continuing rhetorical calls for the need for "civility" are now turning into nothing less than cover. They're a dodge, a means by which those responsible for the slanderous accusation that somehow the Tea Party and Sarah Palin and the right were responsible for the massacre have been excused for hurling their grievously unjust charge. For, you see, they were only calling for a "new tone," for "civility," and who could be against those?
Posted by Richard at January 17, 2011 10:57 AM
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