What happens when the Democrats’ digital brownshirts get political power? The same thing that always happens when brownshirts get political power:
Sources say the axes were out for Palin as soon as Sen. Clinton pulled out because she did not want to attend the same event as the Republican vice presidential candidate. “I have never seen such raw emotion — on both sides,” said someone close to the situation. The groups sponsoring the rally against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaking at the UN were reportedly told, “it could jeopardize their tax exempt status” if they had Palin and not Clinton or Democratic VP candidate Joe Biden on hand. So all politicians were disinvited, most prominently, Palin.
Don’t be surprised – paranoid movements always end up like this. And what’s the use of having power if you can’t use it to silence your political opponents? You didn’t think that the left was going to settle for random acts of physical harassment forever, did you? Creepy fascism has been a constant theme in contemporary liberal activism, from gleeful photoshops of Rove getting frogmarched out of the White House to half a decade of shutting down movies that Democrats didn’t want the public seeing – with even the most powerful companies eventually bowing in voluntary self-censorship.
And make no mistake about it: the pressure came directly from Obama. When your task is nothing less than to remake the world nothing can be allowed to stand in your way.
References:
* EDITORIAL: The new ‘digital brownshirts’ [WashTimes]
* Sources: Intense Pressure Led To Palin UN Snub [WCBSTV]
* The Paranoid Style in The Left’s Anti-Palin Viciousness [MR]
* The Loneliness of the Blue-State Conservative [American Thinker]
* Thugs for life: Dems threaten ABC’s broadcast license over “Path to 9/11? Update: Stolen Honor redux? [Hot Air]
* Shareholder to Disney: Sell me the rights to “Path to 9/11? so I can put it on DVD [Hot Air]
* Wonderful: Under pressure from the left, organizers disinvite Palin from anti-Iran rally [Hot Air]
* Obama promises to ‘remake the world’ [Politico]
Previously:
* UC Irvine Muslims Can’t Decide Between Seething Resentment and Fantasies Of Global Conquest [Video]
* The 5 Stages Of Liberal Mourning Over Palin
* Juan Cole Is Enamored With Rank Populist, Borderline Anti-Semite Ron Paul. Of Course He Is.
