'Climate of hate'? Don't overlook the left

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ^ | January 17, 2011 | Ruth Ann Dailey

[2ndDivisionVet]

Given their scurrilous, insupportable yet sustained accusations against Sarah Palin, tea party activists and other non-Democrats after the Arizona mass shooting, it would seem that Paul Krugman, Keith Olbermann, Clarence Dupnik and other left-wingers have created a "climate of hate" and are thus responsible for Eric Fuller's violent threats and arrest on Saturday.

Mr. Fuller was part of the crowd at Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' "Congress on Your Corner" event Jan. 8 in Tucson and was shot in the knee and back during a gunman's murderous rampage. Two days ago he attended a public forum on the shootings, hosted by ABC's Christiane Amanpour.

The forum was intended to help Tucson heal, but when -- to that end -- Tucson tea party founder Trent Humphries suggested that discussion of gun-control bills be postponed until after all the victims had been buried, Mr. Fuller shouted, "You're dead!"

He then took a cell-phone photo of Mr. Humphries and reportedly began a barrage of "inappropriate comments." Police surrounded and arrested him.....

[Red Badger]

Maybe we need Climate Change, after all....................

[JudyinCanada]

Don’t overlook the left? I’d say look mostly to the left. Good grief, to hear them bemoaning a climate of hate is surreal.

Being on the left pretty much indicates your thinking is somewhat irrational in the first place, so it’s only logical that most of the hateful rhetoric originates with them.

[RobRoy]

There is a “background noise” that has been going on for me ever since this thing happened, but I just never bother to go there. I will bring it up though:

I spar with liberals all the time on the internet. Though there can be “bad manners” from both sides, the liberals have absolutely cornered the market. I could generate all the evidence one would need in roughly a half hour. It’s pretty comical, actually.

[pillut48]

Facebook has Discussion Boards (forums) and I’ve been over at Sarah Palin’s all week, fighting the good fight. You would not believe the vitriol coming out of the ‘mouths’ of the majority of the liberals there!!! Hate speech? This far surpasses hate speech, especially when it involves talk of Trig...>:-(

I found that one way to chase them off was to tell them I was screengrabbing the page for evidence of what they were writing...several people started freaking out because they couldn’t delete their comments, ha! If you’re gonna spout hatred about Palin, Rush, conservatives and the Tea Party, by George, OWN IT.