Posted on 01/17/2011 9:05:13 PM PST by Starman417
You just have to love how the MSM is walking in lockstep with the Democrats on this "civility" issue. It seems when the Republican message starts to gather steam and the country begins tilting right, all of sudden....we're meanies. What these calls for civility are is the left telling Conservatives to sit down and shut up. And the MSM is doing their bidding. Case in point, Time Magazine conducting a forum about civility in politics....and who did they invite?
Mr. Markos "I feel nothing over the death of mercenaries" Moulitsas:
..we now have a side that is gun-obsessed, whipping people up into a frenzy with lies about Obama taking their guns away and interning conservatives in FEMA concentration camps (to name just two conspiracy theories).When Sarah Palin tells her followers not to retreat, but to "reload," when Sharron Angle says people should resort to "Second Amendment remedies" if they don't get their way at the ballot box, and when Glenn Beck spreads the latest insane conspiracy theory, well then, it's only a matter of time before people start getting killed.
Hypocrites one and all.
Andrew Klaven described this tactic in a video made in April 2009:
[VIDEO AT SITE] or HERE
I guess we are just supposed to forget and ignore the non-stop hatefest from the left during the Bush years. Hell, they even made a movie about his assassination while he was President. Did they screech about civility when Montell Williams urged Michelle Bachmann to slit her wrists? Or when Chris Matthews had a fantasy about Rush's head exploding? Or when Sandra Bernhard warned Palin she would be "gang-raped by my big black brothers"? Or how about when they used bullseye on their own political targets?
Were there calls for "civility" then?
Nope.
But now, after the midterm trouncing the Democrats received....NOW, there should be some civility in politics.
Please.
However, Mickey Kaus believes this may not be the silver bullet the left believes it to be.
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net...
Liberals can prove their new civility by helping REPEAL DeathCare.
The democrats have some sly operatives among them. The ‘Blame Righty’ tactic that they are using is a tactic.
They know that 99.9% of these cases of terrorist style violence come from within their own base. So by ‘Blaming Righty’ they automatically put themselves and their base on the offensive instead of waiting to be on the defensive.
They did this of course just hours after the attack.
Then of course they start calling for civility in order to appear that is they that are the ones truely against violence and that their opponents must either join them in agreement or are for violence.
Though of course the facts no longer matter if their stradegy works for them. The murderer / attacker was left-wing, one in a recent long line of left-wing terrorists / murderers but they already used the MSM and their base to make it an issue against the right.
If this kid was largely altered and motivated by a mindset based upon the work ‘Zeitgeist’ then this is the second time in nearly under a year that some LEFT-WING person was influenced by a Marxist style work that invites it readers to engage in a fantasy or delusional conspiracy lifestyle.
The Discovery channel terrorist was also inspired largely by a type of work such as this. A work called Ishmael. It was also just as insane as Zeitgeist in the way it interlaced fantasy and Marxist ideology. It featured a psychic eco-warrior gorilla that taught a new way of viewing human history from our creation in the Garden of Eden to now whereas capitalist were the villains.
It became even more then just a fictional work and developed followers called the ‘Friends of Ishmael’. It became as if a political movement based upon fantasy, conspiracy and insane political activism though it was rather obscure.
From my understanding the Discovery channel terrorist had become deeply influenced by this work.
Now of course if this work ‘Zeitgeist’ serioursly influenced this kid then we have two such cases in a row.
Besides the other fact that left-wing culture breeds people like Loughner being that it denies all morality and teaches kids that all alternatives to morality are cool and worth embracing. It is breeding a culture whereas kids and adults ven turn towards forming a distorted and perverted identity.
None of these issues though of how the left-wing is poisoning our culture will get discussed now being that the left-wing came out strong and played the ‘Blame Righty’ card right out of the box.
This is a tactic used by the left-wing in order to divert attntion from the real issue.
This nation is at a very dangerous crossroads: half of the population is so dependant upon the federal oligarchy to take care of them in some way that they have sold their soul and their freedom, and are now defending the demonic policies of the democrat party
like abortion on demand
like killing embryonic aged human beings for their body parts
like stealing the earned wealth of others to buy votes from those who have been taught to covet
like wink at and define as enlightened the gross immorality of men like sinkEmperor clinton and John Edwards, and dead-soul women like Nancy Pelosi and Barbara Boxer.
And the blind sycophancy is being primed to move into violence mode at selected cities and industires, to bring the dying Republic to its final halt so the oligarchs can 'fix it all for the too stupid people'.
Any attempts by libs to impose “net neutrality” or reimpose the fairness doctrine will backfire on them disastrously. The average American, which would include many moderates or indys, can clearly see it for what it is...an effort to stifle free speech.
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