New York Times columnist Paul Krugman recently wrote a piece entitled, “The Big Hate,” in which he tried to blame the murder of abortion-doctor George Tiller on commentators at the Fox News Network. Not having a shred of evidence to back up his spurious claim didn’t stop the smear-merchant from pointing the accusatory finger at the conservative network that has been winning the cable news ratings war hands down. “Now, for the most part, the likes of Fox News and the R.N.C. (Republican National Committee) haven’t directly incited violence, despite Bill O’Reilly’s declarations that “some” called Dr. Tiller “Tiller the Baby Killer,” that he had “blood on his hands,” and that he was a “guy operating a death mill,” Krugman wrote. He went on to pen several more accusations at upcoming Fox star, Glenn Beck, and radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh. In other words, he tried to silence as many influential conservatives as possible, all under the guise of referring to them as people who peddle hate.

      Keep in mind; this comes from a guy who spent most of the past 8 years venting his spleen every week at President Bush. Krugman, and his legion of liberals, accused Bush of being everything from a war monger to a sadistic torturer, to a conspirator in the 9/11 attack on America. As if that wasn’t enough, after Obama was elected, Krugman called for criminal trials to prosecute the Bush Administration. The problem with people like him is that they are so blinded by their own fire-breathing, agenda-driven hostility that they can’t recognize the colossal hypocrisy of their words. Rather than admit that he’s irreversibly committed to the radical policies of the left, he tries to paint a radical picture of the right, and condemn them for beliefs that are antithetical to his. That’s the problem with zealots, whether on the right or the left; they go blind when it comes to recognizing their own character flaws. Some people get so caught up in their political beliefs that they abandon reasonable thought and would be perfectly willing to stifle any opposition, while simultaneously declaring that they’re proponents of freedom.

      When Bush was being symbolically torn apart by vicious columnists and reporters, his detractors didn’t refer to it as hate speech. The left has always been anti-military, but when an Army recruiter is murdered by a Muslim in Arkansas, we don’t hear them proclaiming it was because of hate speech. When David Letterman refers to Sarah Palin’s daughter as getting “knocked up,” it’s not called hate speech. And, when Miss California, Carrie Prejean, is called vulgar names and is stripped of her title for giving her opinion on gay marriage, left-leaning columnists don’t describe it as the result of hate speech. Yet, when a Fox News commentator reports that a late-term abortion provider has been termed a “baby-killer” by some who are ardently opposed to the intentional killing of fully-formed children in the womb, it’s called hate speech. A glaring example of the murky thought processes in Krugman’s mind is his criticism of The Washington Times for being “widely regarded as the Bush administration’s house organ.” Again, this, from a guy who works for a newspaper that has not let a day pass by in more than a decade without acid-laced animosity and/or ridicule directed toward George Bush. Moreover, that same paper now behaves as though it were romantically involved with President Obama.  

      Meanwhile, the Washington Times, struggling to create a tiny ripple of conservative philosophy amid the tidal waves of liberalism along the Potomac, is resented for its views. Cable news doesn’t reach half the audience reached by the mainstream media, yet it must be silenced if liberalism is to have its way. The true hypocrite is one who ceases to perceive his own deception and therefore is able to lie with sincerity.  Krugman pretends to be against hate, even though his entire career is bound up in the gut-wrenching emotion that’s eating his heart out. He constantly spews vitriol for those on the right, accusing them of inspiring=2 0the Oklahoma City bombing, for example, while being unable to find even a mildly damning syllable condemning the terrorists for attacking our country. When people try to muzzle their ideological counterparts it’s because the only way they can win the propaganda war is if they are the only ones with a voice. The Fox Network and radio free America provides an open line of dialogue to the heartland of these United States. Without that open line, Krugman and his radical band of acolytes would have everyone drinking from the same cup of Kool-Aid.