It's been about 24 hours since the Arizona shooting and after watching several hours of network news the only thing I can tell you for certain is that while she may not have personally pulled the trigger, the media is pretty sure that Sarah Palin had something to do with it. (Meanwhile back in reality, Ms. Palin has expressed her condolences to the families involved like many public figures, But apart from that she has no absolutely connection to this shooting in any way whatsoever.)
I know - it sound surreal to me too. But according to the mainstream media and all the liberal outlets like the Huffington Post and the NYTimes, since she was loosely connected to the graphic above during last year's election, she was personally culpable in some small way for inciting this nut case to violence.
I've looked at that image pretty carefully and I can't see anything that would lead a rational person to that conclusion. After looking at if for some time, it never instilled in me any desire to grab one of my semi-automatic pistols and go on a killing spree. I still have no greater desire to throw off any perceived 'yoke of oppression'. It didn't set off any deeply buried 'manchurian candidate' style blood-lust, or fill me with the desire for murder and mayhem. In fact, it doesn't speak to me in any secret code at all. It's just a little picture of the US, with some graphics on it. Typical election stuff really - no big deal at all.
To me what this really looks like, is another case of liberal fantasy congealing into the standard mythology of the Democrats, and then being overstated by their echo chamber as if it were already a demonstrated fact. It's a common phenomenon for simple minded people like them to reduce things like this to caricature so they can understand it. And it's pretty clear that the liberal media had their villains picked out before the first shot was fired. Liberals really are psychotic when it comes to Palin, and this is just more evidence of that.
To me the kid who they've arrested for the shooting sounds like a genuine loon; the kind of guy that everyone should be afraid of, not just congressmen. I mean - among the people he shot and killed was a 9 year old girl. How can that possibly be politically motivated? How can that be motivated by anything at all except dementia or some other psychotic mental aberration?
The answer is - it can't. And if the congressman that he had shot had been a Republican, then that's precisely what we'd be hearing from the media right now. But instead we get all this hyperbolic nonsense about how horrible conservative speech is, and how Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh must be the 'root cause'.
Even if it were politically motivated (which at this point I doubt), to them it couldn't possibly have been the behavior of the Democrats over the last 2 years which incited his anger, it can only be the fact that some conservative somewhere complained about it afterward.
The truth is, I don't really blame the news teams for trying to be 'first' and being wrong because of it. I heard a guy on Foxnews yesterday claim that it was probably a 'fully automatic' weapon because so many people were shot in the head. To anyone whose ever fired an automatic weapon that was obviously untrue, but those guys are getting all kinds of information behind the scenes and sorting through it in real time, so you have to cut them some slack.
But this is business about blaming Sarah Palin because of that image is just nuts. And attaching it to Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh is a demonstration of a serious mental illness if you ask me.
Jeez people - are you really seriously making this claim? Aren't you afraid that people will see you as hyper-political imbeciles? I know I do. Grow the F -up.
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I'd also like to come out right now as being firmly in favor of violent rhetoric, because our choice isn't between good words and bad words. More often than not, our actual choice is between violent rhetoric, and actual violence. And I, like most people who have had genuine violence in their lives, can tell the difference between the two.
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They do it because the Big Lie works. I heard someone who I had thought was a reasonably intelligent person say that she would not buy a Toyota car because of their acceleration problems. Bill Clinton made a lot of political hay by tying Rush Limbaugh to the Oklahoma City bombings. And of course the only way to deal with "hate speech" is to restrict it. They are just following R Emmanuel's advice to never let a crisis go to waste.
The Left and the MSM, but I repeat myself, conveniently forget all the books and plays that called for the assassination of G W Bush.
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