catwho wrote:
Er, Drill Baby Drill was the motto of the McCain/Palin campaign . . .
'Death panels' was coined by one Michelle Bachmann, R-Minnesota.
Those three aren't exactly merely TV/Radio personalities. (Palin is now, but at the time she was the candidate for veep.) However, their rhetoric is quickly picked up and repeated by the echo chamber, which is why they get associated with the right wing media.
Ok. But where any of those statements made during the Kagan hearings? If not, then what is the relevance to mentioning them?
As someone else pointed out, both sides engage in rhetoric. It's an unfortunate fact of politics that rhetoric influences the public more than rational reasoned debate. We could just as easily (and just as irrelevantly) talk about how any talk of reducing the tax burden gets turned into a a diatribe about the rich stealing from the poor. And anytime the right opposes spending they're greeted with a chorus of claims about us wanting to starve poor people, and make grandma die in a shack somewhere. And concerns about the constitutionality of forcing people to buy health care is met with angry claims that we're just being greedy and not willing to help sick people.
There's plenty of rhetoric to go around. It's a bit misleading to list off only the stuff coming from one side.