More on hatred in US politics

More on hatred in US politics.

In “Hate Springs Eternal” Paul Krugman accuses Obama’s supporters of hatred towards Hillary, although he offers little if anything as evidence for this claim.

In “A Calumny a Day To Keep Hillary Away” Stanley Fish discusses some of the comments on his earlier post about Clinton-hatred and exposes more of the same.

Meanwhile, Ann Coulter (who I seriously suspect is mentally ill) says the following:

“I’m not equating Hillary Clinton to Stalin, and if I did I apologize to Stalin’s descendants… I’m not comparing McCain to Hitler. Hitler had a coherent tax policy.”

Crooksandliars.com reminds us of a vicious joke by presidential candidate John McCain:

Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno.

This was not one of those unfortunate and spontaneous slips of the tongue, but a pre-scripted joke in a public talk. At the time Chelsea Clinton was 18 years old.

Then MSNBC’s David Schuster couldn’t resist suggesting that the Clinton family was prostituting their daughter:

There’s just something a little bit unseemly to me that Chelsea’s out there calling up celebrities, saying ‘Support my mom.’ Doesn’t it seem like Chelsea’s sort of being pimped out in some weird sort of way?

That’s an odd comment to make about a 28-year-old woman who is working on her mother’s political campaign. I don’t believe that Schuster expressed any similar distaste about the fact that several of Mitt Romney’s boys were working for him.

And some of the comments about Hillary that I’ve seen on Digg.com are unprintable, including one calling for her assassination (although that particular comment didn’t use any four-letter words).

There really is something very toxic about the political climate in the US at the moment. It’s not just fringe elements either (like the Digg commenters who call Hillary a “witch” or refer to her in even cruder terms), but people who are center-stage in the media.

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