Potty-Mouth Politics II

John Kerry and Ted Kennedy’s posts grace DailyKos, leading far-left blog and home to repeated slurs and vulgar language, John Dean fulminates like a drunken Blue redneck, Nancy Pelosi channels Haight-Ashbury, and their Hollywood contributors echo their onscreen filth. The other leaders of the Democrat Party and its allies in the mainstream media don’t chastise them but look the other way.

Is that the political pornography Party that Americans want to attend? I don’t think so. More spotlight needs to be focused on this totally unacceptable speech.

Last June I wrote about “Potty-Mouth Politics”:

Baby Killer! Nazi! Gulag! Genghis Khan! Khmer Rouge! Torturer! And more! These are the charges and shouts heard by Americans against the U.S. military during the Vietnam War and now. Sadly, they're spoken and yelled by Americans, who should know better. During Vietnam, some radical college students used this offensive and hurtful language. Now, these defamers have graduated into positions of power and influence throughout America's institutions. They're at it again…. Recently, I washed my 5-year-old son's mouth out with soap. His potty language quickly stopped, and has not been repeated. I suggest the same be administered to those leaders who are now using such potty language to slander the American military and Americans. They deserve public shame and strong criticism. If other Americans do not, especially others in positions of responsibility, then they are complicit in the degradation of America. This destroys our future as a civil society. It also does give aid and comfort to our sworn enemies abroad.

GayPatriotWest, Dan Blatt, today addresses the extension of this potty-mouth by the radical left to any gays or minorities that disagree with leftist positions or stereotypes, in Do Minority Conservative Bloggers Attract More “Moonbats”? . [HT: Gateway Pundit]

“moonbats” get particularly agitated by “minority” conservatives, that it upsets their view of the world when gay people and Asians refuse to join some “coalition of the oppressed” in speaking out against conservatives. They would rather all conservatives be white Christian men so they could more easily dismiss our ideas….

Or perhaps they get so upset because the mere notion of a member of a supposedly persecuted group backing what they see as the ideology of the oppressor makes it less easy for them to dismiss that “ideology.” The fact that minorities take conservative positions means that such ideas aren’t as narrow as many on the left believe them to be. Instead of undertaking the intellectually challenging task of grappling with our ideas, they choose instead to define us to fit their own narrow world view, ignoring our arguments and insulting each one of us.

UPDATE: Leftist Blog Makes My Point

A leftist blog linked to this post, and I thank it for quoting extensively as some of its readers may get the point, as it reinforces it by commenting: “Bruce Kesler: a middle-aged former Marine who actually uses the term "potty-mouth" sans irony.” Actually, I’ve known few Marines or veterans who gratuitously use curse-words, especially anywhere near as frequently as the childish leftists bloggers. Also, as many Americans are parents, our use of vulgar language is purposely restricted because we care about the example we show. Apparently, many extreme leftists don’t care what common language they use, that alienates parents trying to raise decent children. Then, this blogger calls me a term, beginning with “F” that I’ve never heard of, and I haven’t lived a sheltered life. Must be a secret language of the left. Just like some children have a secret “ishkabibble” language of their own. Hardly useful, however, for mature discourse.