Theme: The lefts immediate reaction to the Arizona shooting proves again that it will not forgo any chance to exploit a tragedy (crisis). Minor theme: In the process mostly through projection of its own perversions it is setting records for hypocrisy irrationality and unfairness.
Politico reported that after the shootings one veteran Democratic operative said that President Obama should deftly pin this on the tea partiers. Just like the Clinton White House deftly pinned the Oklahoma City bombing on the militia and anti-government people.
Newsweeks Jonathan Alter similarly wrote Can Obama Turn Tragedy Into Triumph? Just as Bill Clintons response to the 1995 Oklahoma City bombings helped him recover from his defeat in the 1994 midterms so this episode may help Obama change -- at least in the short term -- the trajectory of American politics. Clinton said Alter was able to use the event to ... tamp down hate speech on talk radio.
So here we have Alter bragging about Clintons egregious smear of conservative radio which to him equals hate speech by suggesting it fueled Timothy McVeighs homicides and urging Obama to try that same tactic against his critics today.
Beyond the drive for selective censorship liberals also seek to leverage the shootings to advance their causes of gun control and even Obamacare. As for the latter former Democratic Sen. Bob Kerrey out of whole cloth opined that Jared Loughner the suspect in Arizona was partially motivated by his anger over the GOPs move to repeal Obamacare.
Liberals decry conservatives for their allegedly irresponsible hateful inflammatory and dangerous rhetoric and in the same breath demonize conservatives with irresponsible hateful inflammatory dangerous and unsupportable rhetoric. Theyve constantly berated conservatives for rushing to judgment while theyve set a world record for rushing to judge this probably nonconservative shooter as a mad conservative.
They are uniformly wringing their hands over Sarah Palins supposedly violent imagery in targeting Democratic congressmen for defeat with cross hairs on an electoral map saying this kind of language not just could lead to violence but actually contributed to Loughners violent mindset.
Lets put aside for now the unhinged lefts ongoing violent rhetoric and imagery against former President George W. Bush Palin conservative talkers and others on the right. Lets put aside that if certain rhetoric causes violence then liberals false depictions of Palin as advocating violence or their fraudulently smearing Rush Limbaugh as a racist based on manufactured stories could lead to violence. Finally lets put aside that notorious liberal Markos Moulitsas the founder of the Daily Kos targeted Rep. Gabrielle Giffords for defeat using the term bulls-eye and that another Daily Kos contributor wrote My CongressWOMAN voted against Nancy Pelosi! And is now DEAD to me!
Instead lets focus on the lefts accusation. It is patently ridiculous and puerile. No intellectually honest person believes that Sarah Palin had violence on her mind in using that imagery or that her words could be fairly construed to promote violence. More importantly liberals know that neither Palins maps nor rhetoric had anything to do with the mass murder. Therefore it is irresponsible and incendiary for any of them to make this suggestion.
But theyre going way beyond making the suggestion. Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik blamed Palin and Sharron Angle and refused to back down when confronted about having not a scintilla of proof to support his slander.
And no less a Democratic luminary than former senator and presidential candidate Gary Hart wrote Gradually over time political rhetoric used by politicians and the media has become more inflammatory. ... Today we have seen the results of this rhetoric. Those with a megaphone whether provided by public office or a media outlet have responsibilities. They cannot avoid the consequences of their blatant efforts to inflame anger and outrage.
Today we have seen the results of this rhetoric? Is Hart completely oblivious to his rank hypocrisy? He had no proof that inflammatory rhetoric from anyone -- left right or apolitical -- had anything to do with the shootings yet with his own irresponsible rhetoric he made a clear causal connection between conservative rhetoric and the murders. (He also made clear that he had right-wing rhetoric in mind: in the name of the Constitution and patriotism.)
This wholesale absence of proof also didnt prevent New York Times columnist Paul Krugman from tying the shootings to a climate of hate created by Glenn Beck Limbaugh etc.
In all likelihood this terribly sad and tragic event was not politically motivated at all at least not by either particularly conservative or liberal ideas. What is political is the lefts unconscionable scheme to exploit the tragedy for political gain by using it to demonize and silence opponents and intimidate them from effectively blocking Obamas radical agenda. Republican congressmen must respectfully push forward with the same intensity theyve finally been exhibiting unencumbered by the leftists sordid efforts to paralyze them.
David Limbaugh brother of radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh is an expert in law and politics and author of new book Crimes Against Liberty the definitive chronicle of Barack Obamas devastating term in office so far.
Theme: The lefts immediate reaction to the Arizona shooting proves again that it will not forgo any chance to exploit a tragedy (crisis). Minor theme: In the process mostly through projection of its own perversions it is setting records for hypocrisy irrationality and unfairness.
Politico reported that after the shootings one veteran Democratic operative said that President Obama should deftly pin this on the tea partiers. Just like the Clinton White House deftly pinned the Oklahoma City bombing on the militia and anti-government people.
Newsweeks Jonathan Alter similarly wrote Can Obama Turn Tragedy Into Triumph? Just as Bill Clintons response to the 1995 Oklahoma City bombings helped him recover from his defeat in the 1994 midterms so this episode may help Obama change -- at least in the short term -- the trajectory of American politics. Clinton said Alter was able to use the event to ... tamp down hate speech on talk radio.
So here we have Alter bragging about Clintons egregious smear of conservative radio which to him equals hate speech by suggesting it fueled Timothy McVeighs homicides and urging Obama to try that same tactic against his critics today.
Beyond the drive for selective censorship liberals also seek to leverage the shootings to advance their causes of gun control and even Obamacare. As for the latter former Democratic Sen. Bob Kerrey out of whole cloth opined that Jared Loughner the suspect in Arizona was partially motivated by his anger over the GOPs move to repeal Obamacare.
Liberals decry conservatives for their allegedly irresponsible hateful inflammatory and dangerous rhetoric and in the same breath demonize conservatives with irresponsible hateful inflammatory dangerous and unsupportable rhetoric. Theyve constantly berated conservatives for rushing to judgment while theyve set a world record for rushing to judge this probably nonconservative shooter as a mad conservative.
They are uniformly wringing their hands over Sarah Palins supposedly violent imagery in targeting Democratic congressmen for defeat with cross hairs on an electoral map saying this kind of language not just could lead to violence but actually contributed to Loughners violent mindset.
Lets put aside for now the unhinged lefts ongoing violent rhetoric and imagery against former President George W. Bush Palin conservative talkers and others on the right. Lets put aside that if certain rhetoric causes violence then liberals false depictions of Palin as advocating violence or their fraudulently smearing Rush Limbaugh as a racist based on manufactured stories could lead to violence. Finally lets put aside that notorious liberal Markos Moulitsas the founder of the Daily Kos targeted Rep. Gabrielle Giffords for defeat using the term bulls-eye and that another Daily Kos contributor wrote My CongressWOMAN voted against Nancy Pelosi! And is now DEAD to me!
Instead lets focus on the lefts accusation. It is patently ridiculous and puerile. No intellectually honest person believes that Sarah Palin had violence on her mind in using that imagery or that her words could be fairly construed to promote violence. More importantly liberals know that neither Palins maps nor rhetoric had anything to do with the mass murder. Therefore it is irresponsible and incendiary for any of them to make this suggestion.
But theyre going way beyond making the suggestion. Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik blamed Palin and Sharron Angle and refused to back down when confronted about having not a scintilla of proof to support his slander.
And no less a Democratic luminary than former senator and presidential candidate Gary Hart wrote Gradually over time political rhetoric used by politicians and the media has become more inflammatory. ... Today we have seen the results of this rhetoric. Those with a megaphone whether provided by public office or a media outlet have responsibilities. They cannot avoid the consequences of their blatant efforts to inflame anger and outrage.
Today we have seen the results of this rhetoric? Is Hart completely oblivious to his rank hypocrisy? He had no proof that inflammatory rhetoric from anyone -- left right or apolitical -- had anything to do with the shootings yet with his own irresponsible rhetoric he made a clear causal connection between conservative rhetoric and the murders. (He also made clear that he had right-wing rhetoric in mind: in the name of the Constitution and patriotism.)
This wholesale absence of proof also didnt prevent New York Times columnist Paul Krugman from tying the shootings to a climate of hate created by Glenn Beck Limbaugh etc.
In all likelihood this terribly sad and tragic event was not politically motivated at all at least not by either particularly conservative or liberal ideas. What is political is the lefts unconscionable scheme to exploit the tragedy for political gain by using it to demonize and silence opponents and intimidate them from effectively blocking Obamas radical agenda. Republican congressmen must respectfully push forward with the same intensity theyve finally been exhibiting unencumbered by the leftists sordid efforts to paralyze them.
David Limbaugh brother of radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh is an expert in law and politics and author of new book Crimes Against Liberty the definitive chronicle of Barack Obamas devastating term in office so far.
