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That's One Hell of a Broad Brush
10/28/2003

Glenn Reynolds has found reason for some equivalence:

BARKING MOONBAT ALERT: The anti-Americanism of groups like A.N.S.W.E.R. comes in for lots of criticism, as it should. But as more proof that there's less and less difference between the far left and the far right, check out this photo I'm pretty sure that these are the kids of "Pastor" Fred Phelps, though this story doesn't say. The signs read: "God Blew Up the Shuttle," "God Hates America," and "God Hates Fag Enablers." ...

Yeah: No-show for the Holocaust, or Rwanda, or what's going on in North Korea, but he's going to come down from the clouds and hurl lightning bolts if two guys get married.

Here's a description of the event that equates the far right with the far left:

Hundreds of Long Islanders stood outside Mepham High School yesterday to blast a handful of out-of-town picketers who said teaching tolerance of gays led to the football hazing incident that has rocked the school.

The picketers - eight family members from a church in Topeka, Kan., gathered on the sidewalk in front of the Bellmore school at 7 a.m. waving anti-gay signs, including one that read "God Hates Fags." ...

The eight protesters - four children among them - were drowned out by some 400 counterdemonstrators organized by a gay rights group and an equal number of angry local parents.

Yup, you read that right. The comparison is between an organized international Marxist group with support from many in the major media, which has held up its protests (attended by thousands, perhaps millions worldwide) as proof of the unpopularity of world leaders and their policies, and a family of eight who were outnumbered fifty to one by the crowd that came out to "blast" them.

I guess two of the "less and less" differences between the two extremes are influence and size. It seems to me that one could go pretty far right before finding the median ideology between the two.

And funny how gay marriage isn't mentioned in the linked article.

Posted by Justin Katz @ 06:41 PM EST