The idiot sheriff?
Bob Kerry associating it with Obamacare?
Brady’s proposed hate speech legislation?
Palin’s efforts to defend herself?
Definitely Palin’s attempt to deflect responsibility for her major contribution to the toxic atmosphere (free anti-Semitic dogwhistle included).
Why’s the sheriff of Pima County an idiot, exactly?
Can we audition, 'cause I have some detailed rants about how the victims brought it on themselves by living sinful purpose-lacking lives undedicated to Our Lord Jesus Christ, peace be unto him?
Bryan, Westboro Baptist beat you to that one already. Are you surprised? I suspect you are not.
From the blogosphere (and no, I’m not comparing bloggers to public figures) Heavy Ink owner Travis Corcoran takes an interesting approach: 1 down, 534 to go.
The subsequent justifications are a wonder to see, starting with “If you think it would be okay to go back in time to kill Hitler, then you agree that there are circumstances where killing government figures is acceptable.” Yeeeeeeeeah, that’s the path we want to go down with that hypothetical…
Pffft… amateurs… They don’t even address the whole issue of homicidal mental illness being a useful tool we can nurture and harness against illegal immigrants, as I detail at length in my newest manifesto The Tuscon Shootings and Other Signs That Humanity Needs its Eyes Gouged Out, Paranoid Press, soon to be a major motion picture.
WBC doesn’t count, because there’s nothing they can say that can make me hate them more.
Whereas there are still levels of contempt I can plumb for ordinary rightists, if they try really hard.
I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m feeling incited to violence by the balls on this guy.
I’d say Sarah Palin’s insistence that, unlike Muslims, right wingers are individuals who share no collective responsibility for the outrageous actions of a few. Or perhaps the Palin sycophants who need incontrovertible evidence that Palin’s crosshairs and violent talk of gunplay had a direct relationship to the shooting instead of condemning her vitriol on general principle.
Probably because he told the truth about Arizona…
The health quackery-promoting site naturalnews.com deserves at least an honorable mention, for linking the shootings to the Food and Drug Administration and “government violence”.
See, if a court compels parents to allow life-saving chemotherapy for lymphoma to be given to their minor child, it’s understandable that Jared Loughner would shoot a bunch of people.
In fairness, I read one news report saying that the shooters first threat came in 2007, before Palin ever reached prominance.
From the little I’ve read, it looks like we was going off the deep-end before Palin or the tea party came to international attention.
That may well be. But Palin’s crosshair map and her talk of gunplay, and Angle’s talk of second amendment remedies can and should be condemned regardless on whether or not they were factors in the shootings.
You missed the point, re-read the post. It does not need to be shown that Palin’s web site and violent metaphors led to this tragedy to know that using those sorts of tactics is shameful and dangerous.
I hate to defend Palin but I’m reasonably sure that neither she, nor her speech writers, knew about the anti-Semitic connotations or denotations of the phrase “blood libel.” I myself am an educated man, holding a accounting degree and a law degree from Midwestern American universities, and I’d never head the term before this week either.
I am continuosly amazed at the way some people can hold the (seemingly to me) simultaneous contradictory ideas that leaders of the “Conservative Movement” are both knuckle-dragging idiots AND are capable of hiding sophisticated codes in their speech to direct their minions.
I don’t believe they are either as dumb or as smart as their opponents want them to be.
Every single person who keeps trying to politicize this event. That includes, but is not limited to, the OP of this thread.
So not knowing the history or anything about the phrase you’d be comfortable using it in a statement about a contentious subject that you’d know would be gone over with a fine toothcomb by your nations media?
And have you therefore used that specific phrase in innocence?
I didn’t read it as a sophisticated code, but an insensitive appropriation and a deliberately provocative countercharge.
What was anti-Semitic about it… or is it the the kind of thing where only blacks can say “nigger” unless your a racist?