Dennis Prager's "Libeling the Right: The Key to the Left's Success" column

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Dennis Prager does his usual fine work in this week's column. He spotlights the Left's utter disdain for the Right, and the unfortunate clarity the AZ shootings brought. The key quote is, "The left rarely convinces Americans to adopt its views. What it does is create a fear of the right that influences many Americans to align themselves with the left."

To its credit, the Left has succeeded for 50 years, due to the media and academic influence. I admit I, too, had my issues, as I was raised on the "Right = Evil" media bombardment. I have successfully purged from my system, but it wasn't easy. However, I realize others, especially around my age, aren't as lucky.

Until the past two weeks, I had believed that while the Left wanted to achieve their goals, the Right was just a major irritant. Now, I see they truly hate the Right -- specifically Sarah Palin -- with a passion reserved for truly despised people, like Hitler or Pol Pot. I have no words on this one, so I'll let Prager speak for me.

Link: http://townhall.com/columnists/DennisPrager/2011/01/18/libeling_the_right_the_key_to_the_lefts_success/page/1

Exit quotation: "What makes last week different is this: The left, for the first time, does not have the same monopoly over mass information, and the Republican Party is no longer emasculated. There is talk radio, there is the Internet, there is Fox News and there is a vigorous conservative Republican Party. So, when the left unleashed its libel against the right, claiming that it was responsible for a "climate of hate" that produced Jared Loughner, to its shock, America did not lie down and believe it. Many millions did, as usual. But for those with eyes to see, it was a false accusation, and for many, for the first time, it provided a clear view into how the left operates.

"As it becomes ever more obvious that Loughner's crimes had nothing -- absolutely nothing -- to do with conservatives, the left will do three things: change the subject by criticizing Palin's use of the term "blood libel," (a term whose use by Palin was honorably defended by Professor Alan Dershowitz, a prominent Jewish liberal); deny it ever really blamed the right for the Loughner's crimes (hoping, with good reason, that Americans have a short memory); and continue to blame the right for creating the "climate of hate" that the left itself has created."