I was going to respond to this, and then I noticed Drain Bead already had, and had said everything I wanted to.
Although, to be honest, I probably would have left out the pus-boil part.
What we want, semi-realistically speaking, is for 80% of Republican politicians (starting 10 years from now until the end of the century) to cringe reflexively away from anything that reminds people of the current crop of right-wing poo-flingers in much the same way as 80% of elected Democrats currently cringe away from anything that resembles a hippie.
That’s why you’re always going to be a second-stringer around here, RNATB.
Why is it that rap songs, video games and Hollywood movies can supposedly motivate people towards violence, yet calls to the barricades from talk radio hosts are considered harmless?
Thanks, jayjay. Fortunately, my job no longer involves door-to-door canvassing, and my boss is pretty serious about us not being alone when we work.
What makes my current job fun is that I get to listen to people froth at the mouth about how the government wants their personal information for whatever nefarious purpose is currently in the fever dream of the right-wing commentators. I’ve heard that the Census wants to gather information about where gun owners live so “they” can come in and confiscate the guns from the law-abiding gun owners. (The Decennial Census questionnaire doesn’t even ask about gun ownership.) I’ve also heard that ACORN workers were supposed to steal information for their own purposes. (I can’t even imagine what that could be.) I’ve even heard that the Census itself is unconstitutional. (It’s not. The Constitutional authority is in Article I, Section 2, but you can’t tell the frothers that.)
I don’t have any more information about Mr. Sparkman’s murder than anyone else does. Officially, I’m not supposed to express an opinion about it. But we are all acutely aware of it.
On a personal note: aldiboronti, the rules of the SDMB forbid me from expressing what I truly feel about your rather stupid opinion about right-wing media. Suffice it to say that Drain Bead has expressed my sentiments perfectly.
Because the former make money for people who don’t pretend to care about “family values”.
That’s good. You were the first person I thought of when I read about this.
Just as long as there is a good, capitalist, reason for it, then.
I primarily wish they would observe a difference between reporting and commentary, and do more of the former. Is that an unreasonable expectation anymore?
They even control the Main Stream Media, if you’ll recall.
They always have their chance not to be worthy only of contempt, too, ya know. But instead they choose to be just as irresponsible as the network they think is providing them with actual information.
It’s not “to please liberals”, dip. It’s to reflect acceptance of the responsibility of citizenship in a democratic republic. Incitement to murder, even if not fully provable in court, hardly qualifies.
“Why should they police themselves”? Wow.
You have disqualified yourself from being considered human. Congratulations.
That attitude even has a name: Eliminationism.
See The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right, by David Neiwert.
How about taking personal responsibility for what they say and do. Isn’t that a conservative value?
Is there any other kind?
Actually, yes, to an extent.
It may seem quaint, but as far as I can tell, broadcast licenses are still supposed to be used in a manner that “serves the public interest, convenience, and necessity.” And while I understand the argument that, by and large, the free market should determine what serves these things, I would argue that those who routinely use the broadcast spectrum to spread lies and disinformation are actively harming the public interest, and only serve the convenience of those who want to hear what they believe, rather than hearing what’s true.
It’s one thing to say that they can make all the arguments they want, of whatever quality and from whatever ideological perspective, as long as they pretty much stick to the truth where actual facts are concerned.
But I fail to see how wanton disregard for the truth (as in the whole ‘ACORN is taking over the Census’ bit) serves the public interest.
The opnly probelm I have with the right-wing media is when they try to pss themselves off as something else, i.e. calling your self FOX News, when in reality you are FOX Wingnuts on Parade
Nope; blaming your victims is what “personal responsibility” means. “Personal responsibility” would mean in this case claiming that the murdered Census worker brought it on himself.
It looks like the moonbat libs may (and I stress, may) have gotten themselves all riled up over nothing with this story. According to this blog (yes, I know…a blog. But in this case it appears to be affiliated with the Washington Post):
Kentucky state police have not ruled out the possibility that the death was a suicide or even that it was accidental, according to police spokesman Don Trosper.
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Trosper said the initial AP story on the death contains “flaws and errors.” That means it’s possible that the AP’s claim, based on an anonymous source, that he had the word “fed” scrawled on his chest could be false.*
Yep, suicide is dangerous. He wrote FED on his own chest and hung himself. A typical suicide to be sure.
I read yesterday that suicide has been ruled out.
Is the U.S. Census Bureau permeated by a bizarre erotic autoasphyxiation cult?! And we’re supposed to let these people just come into our homes and count us?! :eek: