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Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Michelle Malkin :: Townhall.com Columnist
Civility and Tolerance in the Age of Obama
by Michelle Malkin
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They told us if Barack Obama were elected, the nation would come together. Souls would be fixed. Spirits would be healed. Public discourse would be elevated. Welcome to civility and tolerance in the Age of Obama:

-- Celebrity leech/trash blogger Perez Hilton took to the Internet and TV airwaves to humiliate a beauty pageant contestant who gave what he considered an "offensive" answer about gay marriage. Hilton, inexplicably serving as a judge for the Miss USA contest, asked Miss California, Carrie Prejean, whether she supported the legalization of gay marriage. Prejean respectfully answered: "I think that I believe that a marriage should be between a man and a woman. No offense to anybody out there, but that's how I was raised." President Obama, by the way, defines marriage the same way Prejean does.

No matter. Hilton immediately lambasted Prejean as a "dumb b*tch" in a viral YouTube video he taped after the pageant Sunday night. He apologized the next morning for the attack, then retracted his apology, then escalated his divisive rhetoric. On Tuesday afternoon, Hilton told an MSNBC female anchor that he was thinking of an even more vulgar epithet -- the "c-word" -- as he listened to Prejean's answer. The female anchor said nothing. Basking in his new role as thought and speech enforcer, Hilton told CNN's Larry King that beauty pageant contestants must bow to the tolerance mob: "Yes. I do expect Miss USA to be politically correct."

And apparently, the Miss USA organizers agree. Instead of apologizing for Hilton's vile behavior, the pageant director of the Miss California contest, Keith Lewis, sent a note to Hilton throwing Prejean under the bus: "I am personally saddened and hurt that Miss CA USA 2009 believes marriage rights belong only to a man and a woman. … Religious beliefs have no place in politics in the Miss CA family."

But gutter profanity and misogyny do? Continued...
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Reply # 1
Date: Apr 24, 2009 - 4:54 AM EST
Melissa TX
In this post Reply # 8 Date: Apr 23, 2009 - 2:11 PM EST michelle malkin wrote this 4 years ago, you are either a liar or ignorant as a box of rocks. But that is being unkind to boxes of rocks.
You have no clue how POWs were treated in NVN or who did the treating.
The POWs there were bound with ropes and twisted until their sockets were separated, limbs broken, knocked off stools while bound, injuries re-injured time after time, starved, beaten and shot to death, clamped to stone or wooden beds by their ankles until the shackles cut through to bone, and all this not for intel info but only to get them to appear on film with such traitors as Jane Fonda or Ramsey Clark, former U.S. AG.
These tender treatments were executed by NVN, Russians and Cubans in North Vietnam.
So I suggest you shut up, honey, stop posting here or anywhere until you learn some facts, truth, real history and current events.
Bush authorized no such treatment, sought intel info to protect your sorry self and others in the U.S. and worldwide from heartless murderers, and your loved Congressmembers knew it, approved of it and funded it.
You poor dear and your ilk are disgusting stupid and a liar.
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Date: Apr 23, 2009 - 9:21 PM EST
Melissa fails
to devulge that Senior members of the Dem Party....Hillary Clinton, Pelosi, Reid and others knew that this was authorized and said nothing....they are just as culpable. However, I for one blieve that whatever it takes to protect the American Citizens is warranted. I appreciate the Bush Administration for keeping this country safe. I would have done more.
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