Silence attacked as "hate speech"

You know the rightist brain trust knows they're out of issues when this is the only topic they can come up with to pounce on.

Mark Tapscott is the right-wing editorial page editor for the Washington Examiner. He's put out an op-ed attacking Joe Biden's choice of words in an interview about Iranian nukes.

In that interview, the veep had declared, "I can see Putin sitting in Moscow saying, 'Jesus Christ, Iran gets the nuclear weapon, who goes first?' Moscow, not Washington."

What set off Tapscott is the expression "Jesus Christ" - even though probably a majority of Americans use it fluently.

When the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Southern Baptist Convention, and other religious leaders refused to censure Biden over this saying, Tapscott said their silence is "hate speech."

So a lack of speech is "hate speech"?

Maybe this is like how a failure to conserve has become part of conservatism.

Maybe the Southern Baptist Convention and U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops have more important things to worry about than this.

The real hypocrisy? Tapscott said the lack of a reaction to Biden's quote is a double standard - even though Tapscott admits that he regularly uses the offending expression himself.

It gets worse.

Mark Tapscott grumbles, "Biden's uncorrected cursing is indicative of the slow strangling by the unrelenting forces of political correctness of the religious tolerance that is Christianity's greatest gift to America."

So now Biden's words are "political correctness"? You're a loon, Mark.

I thought one of the hallmarks of political correctitude was restricting speech - not allowing it.

This is what the GOP is going to run on?

(Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/03/biden-jesus-crist-called_n_250009.html)