Conservative Michelle Malkin knows first-hand what it’s like
to be harassed in public:
Fifteen years ago, when I still
lived in the D.C. swamp, I took my elementary school-daughter and toddler son
out for one of our regular weekend breakfasts at IHOP. But we couldn’t be left
alone to enjoy our meal. As my kids dug into their funny-face pancakes, a
fuming-faced liberal marched to our booth and started ranting about my
anti-open-borders commentaries on Fox News. The incident occurred not long
after Geraldo Rivera told a Boston Globe
reporter that I was the “most vile, hateful commentator I’ve ever met in my
life” and that “it’s good she’s in D.C. and I’m in New York” because “I’d spit
on her if I saw her.”
Fifteen years later, I’m
blacklisted by the “fair and balanced” network, while fork-tongued cable news
reptile Geraldo Rivera remains a heavily promoted Fox News contributor who
regularly attacks everyone else (including his former friend Donald Trump) for
inciting violence. File under “chutzpah.”
Fifteen years later, organized mobs
in the nation’s capital are targeting Supreme Court justices in their homes.
. . .
One outlet characterized the latest
intimidation campaign against the SCOTUS judges as a “troubling escalation.”
But I know from both professional and up-close-and-personal experience that all
this ugliness is a continuation of years and years of abuse of, and violence
against, conservative public figures in both public and private spaces. See,
for example, my 2006 encyclopedia of left-wing loons, “Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild.”
Some of us can’t dine in peace
because our simple existence is a threat to the “liberal world order.” If you
can’t be controlled, you must be de-personed. “Tolerance” is only for the
intolerant. The rules of civility don’t apply to the self-righteous monsters
sporting “empathy” bumper stickers on their cars and “love is love” banners in
the windows of their homes and businesses that will always be safe from
pot-bangers, Molotov cocktail-hurlers and billionaire-funded dissent-crushers. . . .
Ms. Malkin is one of my favorite commentators, and alas, she too is no longer optimistic.
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