http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/05/12/unhinged-left-liberal-reaction-to-kirsten-powers-book.html
The democrats are a real tolerant bunch..... that is until a black man runs for president as a republican, or a democrat criticizes the party for intolerance.... What great "vision" they have. Here are a couple pearls from the article that should make Osprey really proud.
Oliver Willis, a research fellow at Media Matters, went after Powers’ credibility within a few hours of the book’s release. He and his employer know that if they can push Powers out of the real Democratic Party, then she isn’t the credible insider she says she is. In order to take away her credibility as someone critiquing the party from the inside, they need to define her as someone on the outside. If Media Matters can successfully turn Powers into something other than a card-carrying Democrat, then her strong condemnation of the Left’s new tactics will fall flat. It’s the classic campaign strategy to “attack the messenger” while not engaging on the damaging message.
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Powers makes it perfectly clear in her book that she has supported gay equality since the 1990s. When working for the Clinton administration, she was considered a radical for supporting same-sex marriage in an era when few Democrats embraced it, including Hillary Clinton. In multiple pieces published in USA Today and even in Christianity Today, Powers has been unafraid to challenge religious leaders over their behavior toward gay people. But her courageous support isn’t good enough for the Left. It wants unequivocal agreement with its agenda.
There’s no better example of this intolerance than the self-appointed gay left leadership in Washington. Zack Ford, an editor at the far-left website Think Progress LGBT, didn’t waste any time in questioning Powers’ worthiness as a liberal. He went after her in a series of tweets:
The democrats are a real tolerant bunch..... that is until a black man runs for president as a republican, or a democrat criticizes the party for intolerance.... What great "vision" they have. Here are a couple pearls from the article that should make Osprey really proud.
Oliver Willis, a research fellow at Media Matters, went after Powers’ credibility within a few hours of the book’s release. He and his employer know that if they can push Powers out of the real Democratic Party, then she isn’t the credible insider she says she is. In order to take away her credibility as someone critiquing the party from the inside, they need to define her as someone on the outside. If Media Matters can successfully turn Powers into something other than a card-carrying Democrat, then her strong condemnation of the Left’s new tactics will fall flat. It’s the classic campaign strategy to “attack the messenger” while not engaging on the damaging message.
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Powers makes it perfectly clear in her book that she has supported gay equality since the 1990s. When working for the Clinton administration, she was considered a radical for supporting same-sex marriage in an era when few Democrats embraced it, including Hillary Clinton. In multiple pieces published in USA Today and even in Christianity Today, Powers has been unafraid to challenge religious leaders over their behavior toward gay people. But her courageous support isn’t good enough for the Left. It wants unequivocal agreement with its agenda.
There’s no better example of this intolerance than the self-appointed gay left leadership in Washington. Zack Ford, an editor at the far-left website Think Progress LGBT, didn’t waste any time in questioning Powers’ worthiness as a liberal. He went after her in a series of tweets:
