I am Death.
Gimme a hug.
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 01/09/2011 11:42:35 AM PST by Second Amendment First
Language has an effect. Violent political encounters have an effect. The link of the use of guns with patriotism and morality has an effect. Expressions like "targeting" and "in the crosshairs" evokes images of shooting to kill. The murder of a liberal leader in Pakistan seemed far away. Now it's here days later. Given all the death threats, it was almost inevitable. Gabby Giffords was in the crosshairs.
Republicans will say it was just the work of some crazy. Hardly. Even crazies get their ideas from somewhere. Violent political encounters and the language of violence activate the idea of violence. Ideas are physically there in the brain. People act on what is in their brains.
Keith Olbermann is right. And it's not just Palin and Beck. The Republicans who benefited from violent political confrontations and cross-hair language, who did not speak out and use their influence forcefully against it, bear full responsibility. Whatever John Boehner now says, he bears responsibility.
The tea party leaders gave explicit instructions on how to angrily disrupt public political meetings. Tea party rallies not only displayed violent signs, but rally leaders did not discourage them, and hence tacitly approved them.
As conservatives like to say, you bear the responsibility for the consequences of your actions.
This was tea party murder.
We should not shrink from calling it that.
1400+ posts on any Yahoo news or NY TIMES article...
And libs are trying to use this tragedy and atrocity committed by a lunatic for their own agenda. Despicable.
Who is more mentally and emotionally challenged? Liberals or the shooter? It’s a close call.
>> The Politico just descended another few notches into the sewer.
Unless they’re exposing the fallacious views of opportunists.
BTW.
“THE TEA PARTY MURDERS”?
wHAT KIND OF INFLAMMATORY RHETORIC IS THIS.
The Dummies are in big trouble, only HATE spews from their mouths. They are verbally challenged when it comes to civilized conversation.
This is blood libel.
George Lakoff (rhymes with), you have the right to remain silent....
I am Death.
Gimme a hug.
The Left is unmasked. They think they have a Reichstag fire. They want power, they want it all, and they want their political opposition gone. Bloodthirsty, unstable, unhinged, predatory, meglomanical, full of thoughts of mass genocide - they want troops in the streets and conservatives rounded up and put in camps and their leaders shot.
They are using this incident to further that agenda. Their leadership is making unvarnished threats against anyone who disagrees with their agenda. They have been on full display the last 24 hours that they want nothing less than a coup followed by a dictatorship with complete control over every aspect of this country.
You want to rachet the rhetoric liberals, let’s rachet the rhetoric.
“I’m thinking to myself if we were in other countries, we would all, right now, all of us together, . . . would go down to Washington and we would stone [Republican U.S. Representative] Henry Hyde to death! We would stone him to death! Wait! . . . Shut up! No, shut up! I’m not finished. We would stone Henry Hyde to death, and we would go to their homes and we’d kill their wives and their children. We would kill their families.” - Alec Baldwin
Already ugly: “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun,” Obama said in Philadelphia last night. “Because from what I understand, folks in...”
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0608/Obama_brings_a_gun_to_a_knife_fight.html
“Keith Olbermann is right.”
Olderwoman has never been right in his life.
I’ve just got to shake my head and wonder how this narrative ever got a foot hold. Utter non-sense and I’m not going to get my feathers ruffled. It will pass and anybody with half a brain will file this in the correct context when the facts trickle out. If not, then to hell with them.
Since the Leftnoids nitwits are blaming everybody BUT the perp who did the shooting... I’ll offer my “truther” theory: Obama’s NutLeft loons have said after the November election reversals, that the “One” needs an “Oklahoma City”! Well now he has one (surprise! surprise!), just like like Clintoon in ‘95!
Hmmmmm????? Who benefits from this??? Butthole media is already blaming Tea Party, Palin (et al) right on script! The FBI has taken over the “investigation”(cover-up?)... Looks like an “inside” job to me! Sacrifice a marginal DemWit Rep for the greater cause (Big O’s political fortunes)! And... today is 1-9-11!
Even crazies get their ideas from somewhere.
Violent political encounters and the language of violence activate the idea of violence.Ideas are physically there in the brain.
People act on what is in their brains.
The “story” is no longer about the victims or the shooter, but is about the right to actively dissent from the left’s entrenched political dogma and the current administration. It is not anger at the shooter, but anger at those who dissent. That is how low the left has descended in its tactics to quash the voices of dissent.
He sounds like a paranoid schizophrenic who latched onto leftist ideology.
Leftist ideology and mental illness seem to seek each other out.
So all the violent speech and hate from the left, the protests against the war, Bush, all those angry professors stirring up all those angry college students, death threats, insults, people being beaten up, spit on, intimidated, busing protesters to people’s homes, the name calling, “racists, Nazis, and so on don’t count, only the Tea Party can contribute to violence? Forget it. This had nothing to do with the Tea Party and everything to do with the hate the left has been pouring the fuel on for years. Does the left think it is possible to preach hate without sending some leftnuts over the edge?
Assassinated and attempted assassinated presidents:
Lincoln (R)
McKinley (R)
T. Roosevelt (R)
Kennedy (D)
Ford (R) (was shot at by Sqeaky Fromme)
Reagan (R)
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