The San Francisco Board of Supervisors was outraged at the ad and sent a letter to its sponsors condemning it as "hateful rhetoric."
There is not a nation on the planet that could not be described with the same hateful rhetoric that you use here.
The advertisement was labeled by the City and County of San Francisco as "hateful rhetoric," which incites hate crimes.
Amazingly, these younger citizens saw beyond the hateful rhetoric of their elders.
"I cannot and will not as the price for any endorsement embrace or excuse those who use hateful rhetoric that separates and divides," she said.
But so has hateful rhetoric like the 1975 U.N. resolution, essentially saying that Israel will not be accepted as legitimate no matter what it does.
They never bought into the hateful rhetoric spewed by a succession of clowns from the speakers' platform.
"When citizens here participate in hateful rhetoric and intolerance toward Muslims, it leaves soldiers over there exposed."
He made no attempt to explain his relationship with Wright and why he hung around a man who habitually offered such hateful rhetoric.
The hateful rhetoric was placed alongside the sophisticated use of humor and popular Zairean music.