The Blame-Righty Mob Falls Silent (Michelle Malkin)

National Review Online ^ | February 9, 2013 | Michelle Malkin

[neverdem]

An alleged murderer has singled out prominent lefties for praise.

Question: How many times over the past four years have exploitative liberal journalists and Democratic leaders rushed to pin random acts of violence on the Tea Party, Republicans, Fox News, and conservative talk radio?

Answer: Nearly a dozen times, including the 2009 massacre of three Pittsburgh police officers (which lib journos falsely blamed on Fox News, Glenn Beck, and the “heated, apocalyptic rhetoric of the anti-Obama forces”); the 2009 suicide insurance scam/murder hoax of Kentucky census worker Bill Sparkman (which New York magazine falsely blamed on Rush Limbaugh, “conservative media personalities, websites and even members of Congress”); the 2009 Holocaust-museum shooting (which MSNBC commentator Joan Walsh blamed on Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly, and yours truly); the 2010 Times Square jihad bomb plot (which Mayor Michael Bloomberg falsely blamed on tea-party activists protesting Obamacare); and the 2011 Tucson massacre, which liberals continue to blame on former GOP vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin.

Question: What will this rabid Blame Righty mob do now that an alleged triple-murderer has singled out prominent lefties in the media and Hollywood for fawning praise as part of his crazed manifesto advocating cop-killing?

Answer: Evade, deflect, ignore, and whitewash.

This week, former Los Angeles Police Department Officer Christopher Dorner allegedly shot and killed three innocent people in cold blood. He was the subject of a massive manhunt as of Thursday afternoon. Dorner posted an 11,000-word manifesto on Facebook that outlined his chilling plans to target police officers.

CNN headlined its story on the rant: “Alleged cop-killer details threats to LAPD and why he was driven to violence.” MSNBC reported: “Manifesto: Alleged Revenge Shooter Named Targets.” KTLA-TV in Los Angeles went with: “Christopher Dorner’s Manifesto (Disturbing Content and Language).”

There was a curious, blaring omission in both the headlines and the stories from these supposedly objective outlets, though. Dorner expressed rather pointed, explicit views of news personalities and celebrities who have influenced, entertained and uplifted him. Dorner praised stars from Ellen DeGeneres and Charlie Sheen (“you’re effin awesome”) to “Jennifer Beals, Serena Williams . . . Tamron Hall . . . Natalie Portman, Queen Latifah . . . Kelly Clarkson, Nora Jones, Laura Prepon, Margaret Cho and Rutina Wesley.”

The shout-outs to liberal journalists go on at length:

“Chris Matthews, Joe Scarborough, Pat Harvey, Brian Williams, Soledad Obrien [sic], Wolf Blitzer, Meredith Viera [sic], Tavis Smiley and Anderson Cooper, keep up the great work and follow Cronkite’s lead,” Dorner cheered. “I hold many of you in the same regard as Tom Brokaw and the late Peter Jennings.”

Dorner also offered an “atta boy” to the notorious anti–Second Amendment CNN anchor Piers Morgan, suggesting he be given “an indefinite resident alien and Visa card.” Offering up his political counsel, Dorner added: “I want you to know that I agree with you 100 percent on enacting stricter firearm laws, but you must understand that your critics will always have in the back of their mind that you are native to a country that we won our sovereignty from while using firearms as a last resort in defense and you come from a country that has no legal private ownership of firearms.”

Dorner reminded MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough that they had “met at McGuire’s pub in P-cola in 2002 when I was stationed there. It was an honor conversing with you about politics, family and life.” The alleged triple-murderer also advised Today show personality Willie Geist: “You’re a talented and charismatic journalist. Stop with all the talk show shenanigans and get back to your core of reporting. Your future is brighter than most.”

It’s ridiculous, of course, to blame these journos for the deaths of three innocents in Southern California. But herein lies a teachable moment. In the sick cycle of recent politicized tragedies, the Blame Righty mob demanded that conservative media personalities and GOP politicians apologize for crimes they didn’t commit; called for increased regulation of political free speech; and cranked up its decades-old machinery to stifle conservative talk radio in the name of public safety and civility. Even the remotest connection to anything right-wing was excuse enough to convict conservatives for homicidal sprees.

And while the Blame Righty crowd still inveighs about Palin’s completely innocent use of crosshairs on a political map, they have fallen silent about the stunning admission of Floyd Lee Corkins, who pleaded guilty this week to attempting to murder members of the conservative Family Research Council in Washington, D.C., last summer.

Corkins said he wanted to “kill as many as possible and smear the Chick-fil-A sandwiches (he had brought) in victims’ faces, and kill the guard.” How did he pick the office? From a “hate map” published by the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center — the leading guilt-by-association witch-hunt crew targeting conservatives.

Ho-hum. Nothing to see here, move along. Be vewwy, vewwy quiet.

— Michelle Malkin is the author of Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies. ©2013 Creators.com

[Mamzelle]

What about Jon Stewart? I’ll bet he was a favorite, too.

[lentulusgracchus]

Michelle Malkin is a national treasure.

Bump. If her husband goes all weak in the loins and throws her out, I've got dibs.

[lentulusgracchus]

....Ann Coulter shows up a lot in it, especially with her past snarky shots at Sarah Palin.

Yup. Google up that Commentary trashing of Sarah from January 2010, and chase links and reader comments and you'll get an eyeful of how little East Coast urbanites think of the rest of us. It really is a bigotry, but the Eastern press cover for them and reinforce them.

You really have no right to stand for office, you know, unless you have an Atlantic Slope liberal-arts or Ivy college degree, preferably an MA or better. Otherwise .... well, you just aren't equipped to be a Real Person.

</snottiness>

Read the stuff, don't go by me. They're amazing. And people like Sarah, who's charismatic as hell and challenges their ideas of what leadership looks like, really bring it out. They were snotty like that toward Ronald Reagan, only people don't remember that so well now ..... Jimmy Carter got The Treatment, too, because he was from small-town America and the South. Never mind that he was one of Hyman Rickover's scary-brainiac nukey guys coming out of Annapolis. He sounded hick, so he was hick. And the East Coast Media went after every single one of his associates, because they were hicks, too, and Not Good Enough. -- Every. Single. One.

[jimsin]

MITT—AS ANN pointed out so well was the best man we had had the time given the circumstances...being on the right side every single one of the issues that will change america forever if unleashed 1. he opposed obamacare which will make america Europe 2. he opposed illegal immigration which if not done something about will make America ...CALIFORNIA ....think about it..

[jimsin]

There are many conservative pundits that we all enjoy, and very few we agree with on every issue. A chopfest on any of them is bad form and beneficial to the enemy. Just my humble opinion.RIGHT on every point BCC....

both ANN AND MICHELL are outstanding i just dont want anybody knocking a genius like ANN COULTER proporting she takes a back seat to ANYONE....that’s lunacy...

[jimsin]

'I personally do not consider Ann Coulter attractive... Skinny body, long necked, boney legs, unattractive face... I concede she has nice hair but it is used to cover up the other unattractive parts.'

I CONCEDE THAT someone needs A TRIP TO LENSCRAFTERS...IF THERE'S A 51 YER OLD ...OR A 30 YR OLD AS BEAUTIFUL AS ANN IM STUMPED TO NAME HER...AND I BET THE MAJORITY OF MEN ON THIS BLOG AGREE....AS THE KIDS SAY...SHE'S DA BOMB...HAHHAAH take another look at this beauty:



'Her books are the same old, same old with a new title... I stopped buying them several issues ago.'

AGAIN THE MAJORITY AGREE WITH ME HER SINCE BOOKS CONTINUE TO BE TREMENDOUSLY POPULAR BEST SELLERS....YOU MUST BE GETTIN OLD..

'I also concede she is sharp witted and likes getting into liberal’s faces...'

YEP THAT 'SHARP WITTED IN YER FACEDNESS, YOUNG MAN, IS EXACTLY WHAT'S NEEDED AND MISSING IN ALMOST EVERY CONSERVATIVE POL EXTANT.....AND IT'S WHY AILES HAS GOT TO REPLACE TIRED OLE BILL [there's yer same ole, same ole, lad] WITH THE NEW AND STUNNING ANN.... A MOVE THAT'D PRETTY MUCH SINK THE LAMESTREAMS FURTHER DOWN into the bog they exist in already ...

[neverdem]

Thanks for the link. Maybe Tony Bennett is getting senile.

[Windflier]

MITT—AS ANN pointed out so well was the best man we had had the time

Huh? You must have missed the part of my comment to you, where I said that Ann was pimping Romney for the Republican nominee while there were still REAL conservatives in the race.

[jimsin]

‘Ann was pi***g [my grandma thinks that word is low class] Romney for the Republican nominee while there were still REAL conservatives in the race.’

And which candidate did you hope we’d nominate and think ANN should have backed? i hope it’s not Nancy P’s couchmate...

[Windflier]

And which candidate did you hope we’d nominate and think ANN should have backed?

Which candidate I preferred for Republican nominee is beside the point. There were conservatives running in the 2012 primary, any one of whom would have inspired more center-right voters to get out and vote. Had one of them won the primary race, we might have actually stood a chance of firing Obama.

But no, we conservatives were forced to yet again accept the GOP-e's liberal choice as our nominee. As a result, the vote on our side was depressed because too many decent Americans couldn't see enough difference between the Democrats' liberal and our liberal to bother with it.

[Kickass Conservative]

I had the pleasure of meeting Michelle, her Husband and her then small Children some years ago at CPAC.

She is very pleasant, took time to talk for more than a few minutes while her Husband was left holding their squirming Children and she had a smile that could light up a room. She seemed genuinely happy and she showed real interest in the topic being discussed. On the other hand, I have attended a few small affairs with the David Horowitz group featuring Ann Coulter. What struck me is that Ann acts like she is always on her way to another gathering, looking to her ‘assistant” to help get things over with and leaving the impression that the people coming to see her and get a Book signed are just a bother.

That is my impression of both Women. I may be wrong about Ann, but I had the same feeling more than once while in her presence. No more hard earned KC cash will be flowing her way. It took me a little while to learn that a Leopard doesn't change its stripes. LOL, just a little Jungle humor.

[3Fingas]

I was going to make a reply very similar to yours; but, then I realized I shouldn’t have dragged Anne Coulter in this in the first place. One can praise someone without putting down another. Sorry for that lapse. I suppose that I just wanted to make the point that Michelle Malkin seems like a sincere, decent, Christian woman while many others seem to be more in politics for self-promotion or money. I could have made the point without pointing a finger.

[Kickass Conservative]

I didn’t mean to drag Ann into it either, but I wanted to point out the differences between what I consider a sincere Conservative Crusader and someone who in my opinion has just become part of the Elite Lecture Circuit.

Or, I’m completely off base.... LOL

All I know is what I experienced when dealing with both people. I think Michelle Malkin is a cut above and if others disagree, so be it.