You need to examine your behavior.

From the Conservative board.

The toxicity has become so potent that some of the cooler heads on the Left are starting to notice. Richard Cohen, writing in his Washington Post column  today, describes his email, traffic after a mildly critical reference to Stephen Colbert’s unfunny performance at the White House Correspondents Dinner:

It seemed that most of my correspondents had been egged on to write me by various blogs. In response, they smartly assembled into a digital lynch mob and went roaring after me. If I did not like Colbert, I must like Bush. If I write for The Post, I must be a mainstream media warmonger. If I was over a certain age—which I am—I am simply out of it, wherever “it” may be. All in all, I was—I am, and I guess I remain—the worthy object of ignorant, false and downright idiotic vituperation. [….]

But the message in this case truly is the medium. The e-mails pulse in my queue, emanating raw hatred. This spells trouble—not for Bush or, in 2008, the next GOP presidential candidate, but for Democrats. The anger festering on the Democratic left will be taken out on the Democratic middle. (Watch out, Hillary!) I have seen this anger before—back in the Vietnam War era. That’s when the antiwar wing of the Democratic Party helped elect Richard Nixon. In this way, they managed to prolong the very war they so hated.

The hatred is back. I know it’s only words now appearing on my computer screen, but the words are so angry, so roiled with rage, that they are the functional equivalent of rocks once so furiously hurled during antiwar demonstrations.

• Colbert White House Correspondents' Dinner sm - LVMT
  • I love him and thought he was great! - PK
  • I'm a fan too!!! - Democrat
    • I found it rude and disrespectful. sm - ?
      • Speaking of rude and disrespectful... - madhattie
        • Wrong. nm - ?
      • Well you're entitled to that...sm - Democrat
      • It was the truth & I admire Colbert's guts. sm - LVMT
        • You need to examine your behavior. - Be very careful
        • Is shoot the messenger the new mantra here. - ?
          • I do not follow the 'party' system. sm - LVMT
            • That's just silly. - Lila
              • No not silly. History is repeating itself. sm - LVMT
                • Oh so true, LVMT. Love the way you put that...El Duce the Moose! - holy cow
                  • I must have missed the humor in this. - Lila
                    • I paid attention during history lessons. sm - LVMT
                      • I know what his nicknames are. - Lila
                    • As far as I see it, there is no debate. - holy cow
                      • You are absolutely right. - Lila
                • Exactly - PK
                • I nearly didn't answer this out of the sheer lunacy of such a claim. sm - Lila
          • Are you the same person who just said "that's a liberal for ya??" - Democrat
            • I was talking about myself when I said that. - ?
              • LOL! - LOL!
        • Weren't they. I kept thinking someone was going to yank the cord...sm - Democrat
  • Even most liberals present thought it was poor taste. - ?
    • How do you know what most liberals thought? - Lurker
      • Great post. - PK
      • Was a Colbert fan before - holy cow
        • Did you see the look on George & Laura's face?sm - LVMT
          • No, that's why I wish they would rerun the - holy cow
            • Google video has the whole thing from CSPAN. See link. - LVMT
              • Thanks. Watched it last night, and - holy cow
      • I believe I used the word *present*. nm - ?
        • Yes you did...were you there? - Lurker

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Down below somebody cites lack of opportunity as a reason for blacks in American having a high incarceration rate...  Well, yes, that's one piece of the pie.  I say that ALL of the reason can be traced to the rampant fatherlessness in the black community, where 69% of all black children in this country are born to a single mother.  Everything else from A to Z can be derived from the broken family syndrome.  But of course this has nothing to do with race other than than the statistic above.  Whites and Hispanice from the same social situation suffer the same fate described below.

WHAT HAPPENS TO CHILDREN DEPRIVED OF THEIR NATURAL FATHERS

Compared to children in male-headed traditional families where their
natural parents are married to each other, children living in
female-headed single-parent, lesbian or other environments where they are
deprived of their natural fathers are:

1. Eight times more likely to go to prison.
2. Five times more likely to commit suicide.
3. Twenty times more likely to have behavioral problems.
4. Twenty times more likely to become rapists.
5. 32 times more likely to run away.
6. Ten times more likely to abuse chemical substances.
7. Nine times more likely to drop out of high school.
8. 33 times more likely to be seriously abused.
9. 73 times more likely to be fatally abused.
10. One-tenth as likely to get A's in school.
11. On average have a 44% higher mortality rate.
12. On average have a 72% lower standard of living.

• 85% of all children that exhibit behavioral disorders come from fatherless homes.
  
  
  
• 90% of all homeless and runaway children are from fatherless homes.
  
  
  
• 71% of all high school dropouts come from fatherless homes.
  
  
  
• 75% of all adolescent patients in chemical abuse centers come from fatherless homes.
  
  
  
• 63% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes.
  
  
  
• 80% of rapists motivated with displaced anger come from fatherless homes.
  
  
  
• 70% of juveniles in state-operated institutions come from fatherless homes.
  
  
  
• 85% of all youths sitting in prisons grew up in a fatherless home.
  
  
  
• California has the nation's highest juvenile incarceration rate and the nation's highest juvenile unemployment rate.
  
  
  
• Juveniles have become the driving force behind the national increase in violent crime; the epidemic of youth violence and gangs is related to the breakdown of the two-parent family.
  
  
  
• 71% of teenage pregnancies are to children of single parents. Daughters of single parents are 2.1 times more likely to have children during their teenage years than are daughters from intact families. Daughters of single parents are 53% more likely to marry as teenagers, 164% more likely to have a premarital birth, and 92% more likely to dissolve their own marriages. All these intergenerational consequences of single motherhood increase the likelihood of chronic welfare dependency.
  
  
  
• In 1983, a study found that 60% of perpetrators of child abuse were women with sole custody. Shared parenting can significantly reduce the stress associated with sole custody, and reduce the isolation of children in abusive situations by allowing both parents' to monitor the children's health and welfare and to protect them.
  
  
  
• 18 million children live in single-parent homes. Nearly 75% of American children living in single-parent families will experience poverty before they turn 11. Only 20% in two-parent families will experience poverty.
  
  
  
• The feminization of poverty is linked to the feminization of custody, as well as linked to lower earnings for women. Greater opportunity for education and jobs through shared parenting can help break the cycle.
  
  
  
• Kidnapping: family abductions were 163,200 compared to non-family abductions of 200 to 300, attributed to the parents' disenchantment with the legal system.

So it's only okay when you do it?