Alan "Milk Cow" Simpson In 2004 Lectured Liberals: "Keeping Making Fun … Tearing People Up ... And You'll Never Make It."

Before White House debt commission co-chair Alan Simpson became infamous for his insulting and condescending email to Social Security defender Ashley Carson, he was lecturing liberals on civility.

This week, Simpson ended his email to Carson saying "Call when you get honest work!", and referred to Carson as "people like you babble [who] babble into the vapors,"

But back in 2004, right after his Republican Party was victorious on Election Day, Simpson went on "Real Time With Bill Maher." After the host asked Simpson what is it that "blue staters" failed to understand, Simpson lashed out at the host and liberals in general:

You're making fun of Americans who have some religious bent or faith, keep doing that, and your people will never win an election...

...Keeping making fun of them … tearing people up, thinking that Hollywood has all the brains in America … and you'll never make it...

...You make fun of everybody. Why don't you make fun of their ideas instead of them as persons, and maybe you'd do better.

It didn't seem to occur to Simpson that Carson's initial post on Social Security in April was about ideas, and Simpson responded to it with personal insults.

Simpson's hypocrisy regarding political civility appears to feed his anti-Social Security bias,

He claims to want to seriously debate ideas, but when given the opportunity to do so, he resorts to cheap insults.

Considering that people ranging from the New York Times' Paul Krugman to The Fiscal Times' John Berry have said the debt commission co-chair has his facts wrong on Social Security, you might want someone in that position who can handle a honest discussion, and not reject facts because of -- in Simpson's words to Carson -- "biases and prejudices."

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