Palin was way, way more famous so it’s not a fair comparison. A more fair debate would be Palin versus Pelosi or Gabby versus a moderate Republican who is little known nationally.
Apparently I need to grant Shodan his “certain percentage.” However, I’m a big believer that there’s a certain percentage of people who talk on the Internet in a hateful, spiteful fashion, and that certain percentage is best ignored or implicitly condemned by everyone around them without giving their immature antics undue attention. If people who say shit like fuzzypickles ever start speaking at the DNC, I’ll be really freakin’ alarmed.
I was responding to the “Liberals don’t use the same rhetoric” claim stating that it was more subtle but equally as bad (IMHO)…sorry I didn’t tie it all together for you.
Snow wasn’t murdered. I never wished for anyone to be murdered, and I didn’t “wish a painful death on him,” before the fact. The notion that liberals on this board would be celebrating if Palin was murdered is the sheerest fantasy on your part.
Somebody needs to explain to you how cites work.
When you make a leap like that, you ought to provide a trail of breadcrumbs, if not a map.
This is a moronic and impossible request. If you want to assert that such rhetoric exists on the left and on the prominent left - elected officials and major party candidates for national office, not fringe websites or some kook you can find in a google image search at an anti-war rally), then you need to pony up the cityes. Good luck with that. They don’t exist.
You didn’t fail to tie it together, it doesn’t make sense. Calling someone an enemy (I’ll take it for granted it even happened) is not a subtler version of all the insurrection rhetoric - it’s not even in the same category.
“Leap”…what are you talking about? I was tempted to leap past the facts that I laid out but I didn’t.
And if some crazy shoots the entire state of Arizona, I will condemn him as well.
It is difficult for me to believe you needed that post to understand that my assessment was completely accurate. If you didn’t know that, you should have - it is one of those screamingly obvious truths that some folks have so much trouble with. Therefore it is that much harder to believe in the rest of your rationalization as well.
What the Democratic Leadership Committee says doesn’t count, but what Palin says does. :shrugs:
The alleged shooter is said to have played video games too much in high school. I am sure you will agree that this is likely to behind the shooting, right? There is evidence that the alleged shooter was thinking about Giffords since 2007, before Palin was a national figure and even before most of the nasty rhetoric you are all (rather selectively) objecting to.
Welcome once again to the next episode of The Dio Show, where truth doesn’t matter and monotonous repetition wins the day.
Regards,
Shodan
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No…Dems are much more subtle…nuanced if you will.
Obama has stepped up enforcement well above Bush.
Hispanics don’t need Dems to tell them that. The right spends 24/7 a day saying it themselves.
He was talking “enemies” within a specific polocy debare, and later apologized and said he should have said “opponents.”
It’s kind of hypocritical to snivel about this anyway when the word “enemy” is on the milder side of words that are used by the right every day. You guys think Obama is literally the antichrist, for fuck’s sake.
Leaving aside the question of whether liberals here would celebrate if Palin was murdered - and I’ll grant you that a few probably would - why is that relevant?
People are not suggesting that *Dio or anyone else on this board is inciting political violence, because nobody is listening.
If you are asserting that it’s okay for Sarah Palin to say something because Der Trihs says equally improbable, inappropriate and irresponsible things - well, DT is some guy on a message board and Sarah Palin is arguably America’s most prominent conservative.
Because it answers the question in the OP.
Regards,
Shodan
I highly doubt the OP is asking about the board’s reaction.
The last sentence surely must be your own words, because it has absolutely nothing to do with what I said. I’m not sure why you think the DNC’s words don’t count; want to explain?
And yes, there are some hateful people on all sides who say hateful things. I would love it if the Republicans would stop giving a major platform to the likes of Glen Beck and Michelle Bachman; in return, I’ll try to make sure that fuzzypickles et al don’t get to speak at DNC conventions. Fair enough?
I don’t believe there would be any celebration on this board by liberals if Palin was murdered (probably not a lot of full body sobbing either, but no condoning of murder), and even if anyone did, they would be condemned and first and foremost by other board liberals.
No, I don’t need to re-explain.
Remember how I said I didn’t believe you when you said that there wouldn’t be any celebration by liberals if Palin was shot? I don’t believe you on this one either.
The flip-flops would hardly be contained to this board.
Regards,
Shodan
Oh, I’m certainly ineligible for public office…if for no other reason than I’ve “inhaled” on a daily basis since '92. 
And I’ll retract my “cheering” statement, merely out of prudence – after all, no one ever knows how they will react to any hypothetical situation, until it actually happens.
One might argue that being an author, motivational speaker, news analyst and nature show host, are more real jobs than being a politician.
Being a politician is what allowed her to do the other stuff. That’s like saying that Bill Cowher’s real job is journalism. I’m pretty sure nobody would be beating down doors to get her autobiography if she was a housewife in Alaska.