Hmmmm….David Duke Sees Promise in the Tea Party

Frankly, he probably resonated with Tea Party types until he went anti-Jew. Dissing Muslims, Blacks and Mexicans is easier to get away with. But many on the right are not anti-Semitic; many WANT Israel to rebuild their Temple so as to hasten the “rapture”.

That antisemitism is far less tolerated by the right wing than anti-”other stuff” is shown here:

If there’s one outcome of the Juan Williams firing that should surprise no one, it’s that the right has jumped to his defense and condemned the desecration of his first amendment rights by the evil left-wing NPR, (which, by the way, should be investigated for something or other, and who even cares what he said about Muslims because everyone was thinking it anyway).

But what many of these conservative pundits have forgotten is how they sang a slightly different tune when certain other journalists were let go for making comments that offended the right.

Let’s take a look back…

Since June, several reporters have been dismissed after media controversies over their offensive comments. Helen Thomas was forced into retirement in June after she said that the Jews should “get the hell out of Palestine” and “go home.” CNN forced out Octavia Nasr in July for tweeting her condolences when a spiritual leader of Hezbollah died. And Rick Sanchez was let go from CNN in October after calling Jon Stewart a “bigot” and suggesting that CNN is run by the Jews.

Today, Williams was fired from NPR after these comments on The O’Reilly Factor last night:

Well, actually, I hate to say this to you because I don’t want to get your ego going. But I think you’re right. I think, look, political correctness can lead to some kind of paralysis where you don’t address reality.

I mean, look, Bill, I’m not a bigot. You know the kind of books I’ve written about the civil rights movement in this country. But when I get on the plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous.

So what has the right said, then and now?

Glenn Beck, in typical hyperbolic Glenn Beck fashion, was outraged today on his radio show that the “voices are being silenced” by “the jack booted thugs of the left.” He also said: “Juan Williams was put up against a wall and NPR shot him”

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