@Finn dAbuzz,
Holy ****, you went to
Glenn Reynolds?!!?! Yes, he's a right-wing hack with a history of idiotic statements. You did yourself no credit by linking to him. Worse than the other two, by a lot.
I reject his false set of options. One is perfectly capable of pointing out the inevitable consequences of violent rhetoric without specifically assigning blame to individuals.
Are Palin, Beck, Bachmann or others on the right-wing guilty of inspiring this guy to assassinate? Probably not, at least not directly. But they are guilty of regularly using rhetoric which can easily be seen as a call for such things. And as you've pointed out before, it's irresponsible and should be condemned.
When you use overheated rhetoric and then actions like this occur, you ought to be ready to own up to the fact that you participate in said rhetoric. The right-wing doesn't seem able to do that. Instead, they instantly deny any connection between anything they might have said and anything any person does - every time.
Quote:Watching the Left reflexively trying to score political points in connection with this tragedy is disgusting.
What political points? Who scores points by comparing the violent rhetoric? Who is keeping this score? Who is harmed by this?
The right-wing wouldn't have to worry about this if they didn't regularly promote and celebrate what amounts to thinly-veiled calls to violence. But they do, and this is the result. If you don't like it - and it's pretty clear you don't - then maybe next time when your candidates and political leaders start engaging in violent rhetoric, you'll be a little louder about telling them to shut the **** up. You and other right-wingers claim to find such statements distasteful or over the line, but that's hard to believe, as no consequence ever comes from the use of such language by your political leaders.
At least, not from your side, it doesn't.
Cycloptichorn
