Umm, you realize that this lunatic was not a tea party member, not a right wing extremist, not a follower of palin, and shot a republican judge along with the democratic senator who was widely loved by republicans due to her immigration stance, right?
I think you are getting caught up in the rhetoric. This didn't happen because of Palin's website, as disgusting as it may be. And the right certainly isn't the only one to embrace this targeting language. We need to calm down the rhetoric, but on both sides. It wasn't all that long ago that bush was getting death threats and every libral friend I had was commenting how much they wished he and Cheney would die.
Did you read my post? Did I say anywhere in there that I thought that the person who committed these things was actively and premeditatively carrying out some kind of planned right wing execution? My focus was very specifically on the climate we have created, the words that flow every day from all the media we have, creating a cultural climate that encourages expressions like this, whatever its underlying initial impulse is.
You also cannot compare individual leftists saying they had wished Bush or Cheney would have dropped dead. You would have to draw up a list of media personalities comparable to Beck, O'Reilly, Limbaugh, and many others to make that sort of comparison legitimate. Hell, pull up one, just one video clip of Rachel Maddow calling for Bush's execution, and I'll capitulate utterly and completely to your argument.
They can't call for an execution in those words, but it took me 2 minutes to find Killman's famous "snipers wanted" picture of Bush. This was aired in 2000 - even before the war. Is CBS mainstream enough for you
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I think you are getting caught up in the rhetoric. This didn't happen because of Palin's website, as disgusting as it may be. And the right certainly isn't the only one to embrace this targeting language. We need to calm down the rhetoric, but on both sides. It wasn't all that long ago that bush was getting death threats and every libral friend I had was commenting how much they wished he and Cheney would die.
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You also cannot compare individual leftists saying they had wished Bush or Cheney would have dropped dead. You would have to draw up a list of media personalities comparable to Beck, O'Reilly, Limbaugh, and many others to make that sort of comparison legitimate. Hell, pull up one, just one video clip of Rachel Maddow calling for Bush's execution, and I'll capitulate utterly and completely to your argument.
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