Right-wing calls to violence are deadly.
A federal judge and several others are dead, and a congresswoman is clinging to life - because the likes of Sarah Palin spend their lives drawing maps with poorly drawn crosshairs. Meanwhile, the media has generally ignored the fact that Jared Loughner was on Free Republic, is a registered Republican, was a fan of Palin's Facebook page, and is a follower of some right-wing nobody who encouraged people to add punctuation marks to their names because he thought it meant they wouldn't have to pay taxes.
I challenge anybody to find a leftist counterpart to the right-wing vitriol that led to the Tucson shooting. In my almost 38 years, I have yet to see one.
Believe me, I will fight for what I believe in. And I know there's some truly evil folks out there on the right. But it takes a lot - and I mean A LOT - for me to ramp up the talk to where the other side already is. I have no problem with telling child abusers and anybody who threatens me or my country where I stand. But I don't go around encouraging violence just because somebody has a different opinion.
My constitutional beliefs are naturally ordained, and it took me many years to reach this level of illumination. It is my natural duty to bring this message to the people. I don't have the power to change what the message is. It is what it is. I exercise my First Amendment right to spread the word.
But those on the lunatic right like Sarah Palin, Mitch McConnell, and Glenn Beck are frustrated at the lack of public support for their ideas. So they resort to promoting violence. That's all these cowards, weaklings, and America-haters have. It's the same feeling that drives the hatemongers who joined the Facebook page that tries to solicit Obama's assassination.
If we're at war with the Far Right, it's a war they started.
Monday, January 10, 2011
Right-wing vitriol lacks counterpart on left
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Tim, cut this shidt out. It's Halo Monday. Arizona Saturday was a case of a very, very mentally ill person who was able to get a gun and fire it in a crowd of people surrounding a congresswoman he was obsessed with. A week earlier another mentally ill man shot and killed a sheriff's deputy in Clark County, Ohio. There isn't anyone of any importance or influence calling for violence.
ReplyDeleteThe last sentence is probably true now - because Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck have probably just lost whatever influence they had.
ReplyDeleteNeither have called for violence.
ReplyDeleteI guess you missed the story about the crosshairs map.
ReplyDeleteNo, I didn't miss it. Again, Sarah Palin has not called violence. Targeting congressional districts for election takeovers is not a call for violence. At worst it's poor taste. Give us something more concrete than that on Palin and Glenn Beck and anyone else calling for violence against the left. The Arizona congreswoman isn't even a leftwing Democrat. She's a blue dog -- a centrist. The nut who shot her is CRAZY. Has nothing to do with politics. His writing and youtube videos are babble.
ReplyDeleteWell, every word that comes out of Sarah Palin's mouth is babble too.
ReplyDeleteDon't forget Obama saying “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun”
ReplyDelete"But those on the lunatic right like Sarah Palin, Mitch McConnell, and Glenn Beck are frustrated at the lack of public support for their ideas"
ReplyDeleteDid you even look at the recent election results.
'because the likes of Sarah Palin spend their lives drawing maps with poorly drawn crosshairs"
ReplyDeleteYou have no evidence that any right winger was responsible. Please stop lookng so stupid.
I challenge anybody to find a leftist counterpart to the right-wing vitriol that led to the Tucson shooting.
ReplyDeletehttp://michellemalkin.com/2011/01/10/the-progressive-climate-of-hate-an-illustrated-primer-2000-2010/
That's Michelle Malkin's site, dummy.
ReplyDeleteAnd? Does that somehow negate the existence of left wing hatred? You see posters advocating for Bush's assasination, apparently they don't exist because Michelle Malkin linked to them.
ReplyDeleteThat was based on mistaken information spread by who-knows-what.
ReplyDeleteYOu didn't say anything. Did she doctor the photos or anything.
ReplyDeleteYou know what? Forget it. I won the argument.
What the hell is that supposed to mean in English or any other known language?
ReplyDeleteI could ask you the same thing.
ReplyDeleteAllow to to reiterate. You have lost this argument, making the argument a perfect analogy to your entire life.
*allow me to reiterate
ReplyDeleteFor the record, I fully support what ACORN did when it took back that house in Baltimore. I don't know why the wingnuts are trying to equate it with what Glenn Beck does.
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