GOP Convention Exposes Bigotry And Hatred On The Left

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Hypocrisy: Liberals love to label conservatives as bigots and haters. But the Republican National Convention has exposed where such miscreants find a comfortable home these days: among the mainstream press and the liberal elite.

On NBC this week, Chris Matthews launched into an unhinged rant about how Mitt Romney was playing the "race card" by talking about work requirements in welfare.

Never mind the racist assumption underlying Matthews' complaint; it's NBC — along with much of the rest of the mainstream press — that's been playing the race card.

Another case in point: NBC News blacklisted all the minorities from its Web page highlighting "notable speeches" from the GOP convention Tuesday night. And the network's hyperpartisan cable arm, MSNBC, refused to show them during its live coverage, cutting away each time to its lefty panel.

It's worth pointing out that one of the speakers — Rep. Artur Davis — is a Democratic Party defector who seconded Obama's nomination four years ago, making his appearance at the GOP convention highly newsworthy.

The Los Angeles Times, meanwhile, accused the GOP of trying to put "a brown face on a white party" by featuring minority speakers. And an ABC News webcast inadvertently caught Yahoo's (now former) Washington bureau chief, David Chalian, telling a colleague about how Republicans "are happy to have a party with black people drowning."

Then there's the religious bigotry the liberal press feels increasingly free to express against a minority religion, so long as one of its practitioners happens to be a Republican presidential candidate.

MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell charged earlier this year that "Mormonism was created by a guy in upstate New York in 1830 when he got caught having sex with the maid."

Subscribe to the IBD Editorials Podcast Chris Matthews called Mormons "cultists," and New York Times columnist Charles Blow tweeted that Mitt Romney should "stick that in your magic underwear" — a bigoted remark referring to a Mormon religious practice.

Things only get worse when you venture further out among the liberal elite.

Here's just a tiny sampling of the kind of tolerance and open-mindedness you can expect to find there these days.

• After Mia Love — a black candidate running for a House seat from Utah — finished her widely praised convention speech, liberals flocked to Wikipedia to deface her page, calling Love a "house nigger" and "dirty, worthless whore." On Twitter, they labeled her "Aunt Tom."

• Self-proclaimed open-minded actress Ellen Barkin, apparently incapable of understanding irony, retweeted a message to her 103,000 followers expressing hope that Hurricane Isaac would "wash every pro-life, anti-education, anti-women, xenophobic, gay-bashing racist SOC right into the ocean!"

• Samuel L. Jackson complained about "Unfair s--t. GOP spared by Isaac!"

• A left-winger created a "Kill Mitt Romney" page on Facebook "advocating the murder of (the) Republican presidential candidate." It got dozens of "likes" before Facebook took it down.

• Cher took to Twitter to express her fondest wish that pro-life Republican senatorial candidate Todd Akin would "get raped by man with HIV/AIDS."

• Comedian Jon Lovitz reports getting death threats after he started openly criticizing Obama. "I know where you eat," one warned.

Tell us again how bigotry and hatred can only be found on the right?

"What I find bizarre is how the 'liberals' are bringing up race (and) saying shut the f--k up," Lovitz told Breitbart's Big Hollywood, "I thought you were liberal. You should be tolerant of everybody whether they agree with you or not."

Boy, that Lovitz guy sure is a hater.