Regarding today's events in Arizona
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has routinely used insane rhetoric with language evoking shooting and reloading and killing. Whether or not she intended this to be merely symbolic, it has had horrific consequences. She must not be allowed to dodge responsibility for the consequences of her words.
Let's see... he's an atheist, his favorite book list includes The Communist Manifesto and his favorite video at You Tube is of someone burning an American flag. He also apparently believes the US Government is trying to control us through the use of, um, grammar, somehow.
This says Sarah Palin... how, exactly?
No, nothing remotely connects this nutjob fuckstick with her, or Glen Beck, or Rush Limbaugh, but I've seen all three blamed not because there's any connection but because there are folk who hate them so much that they desperately want that connection to exist - and who instantly and automatically assume that it does, evidence be damned.
As Jennifer Rubins puts it: "You can almost hear the disappointment from the left that he was a pothead rather than a Tea Partyer."
You know what disturbs me? People who see in a senseless tragedy like this only an opportunity to attack those they disagree with, and to shut down political discourse.
It's shameful.
Edit: Actually, Rand Simberg has the best article I've found about it - and it talks of the over-reaction on all sides, not just one. "As usual, the event will be used as an excuse for everyone to saddle up their political hobby horses."
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