Glenn Greenwald: Peggy Noonan's poetic love of dissent, civility and grace

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Peggy Noonan has a new column in the Wall St. Journal solemnly lamenting the "fact" that, unlike the right, "the left" in America has no tolerance for dissenting views and does not understand the values of free speech or civility in political discourse. She cites four examples to "document" her thesis -- the recent protests by some Columbia University college students at an appearance by one of the Minutemen; criticisms allegedly voiced by unnamed "blog critics" and unnamed CBS employees over the airing by CBS News of a Columbine parent who blamed legalized abortion for the Columbine shootings; Barbra Streisand's use of a bad word when responding to a heckler at her concert; and an argument over gun control which Rosie O'Donnell had with Elizabeth Hasselback on The View.