Posted on 01/09/2011 12:27:06 PM PST by t-dude
Posted on January 09 2011 - 10:47 AM - Posted by: Nicole Coulter
I think I speak for most of us in Palin-land when I say that the last 24 hours have been heartbreaking and maddening at the same time. First a national tragedy: a deranged shooter snuffs out the lives of six innocent people in Arizona, and gravely alters the lives of dozens of others, including a young Congresswoman and her family. Then, some in the liberal blogosphere and punditry pour salt on the wound, choosing to recklessly assign blame for this heinous act to Gov. Sarah Palin and members of the Tea Party.
As victims still fight to survive, and as families mourn, we who love and support Gov. Palin feel dual pangs of sadness.
We witness the senseless violence springing from the mind of an unstable individual and we also witness the cruel divide of politics that apparently can’t even take a day off to pray for fellow Americans.
I received a particularly maddening message on Facebook from my former boss. The essence of his strange wall post dart: See, Nicole, your Sarah Palin put Giffords in her rifle scope crosshairs. See what you Tea Baggers have wrought? What do you say now?
One of the reasons I left liberalism behind was because of what I perceived as its inherent juvenilism. Class envy is straight out of Adolescence 101. The tendency to blame America for all that is wrong in the world little more than a teenage railing against authority.
And so we see this immaturity again in the rush to blame Gov. Palin and Tea Party America for a terrible act of violence.
Except when 52-year-olds like my former boss behave like juveniles, it’s not cute. It’s symbolic of the rot and irresonsibility that I believe lies at the heart of modern liberalism. Somehow, in some way, someone else always is to blame. Not the individual who committed the atrocity.
Mostly, we will ignore the likes of Paul Krugman, Gerald Rivera, and Jane Fonda who have policitized this tragedy. To engage with them is pointless. They will find any reason or rationale however concocted to justify their hatred of the Tea Party, even using mass murder to besmear their political opponents, even turning surveyor symbols into crosshairs.
And we will dig deep to forgive them for their cruelty.
The Tea Party is the most peaceful, law-abiding movement, perhaps in American history.
And though it pains us … now we must turn the other cheek, and rely on a higher power to heal our wounds, and comfort the real victims of this nightmare.
As victims still fight to survive, and as families mourn, we who love and support Gov. Palin feel dual pangs of sadness.
We witness the senseless violence springing from the mind of an unstable individual and we also witness the cruel divide of politics that apparently can’t even take a day off to pray for fellow Americans.
I received a particularly maddening message on Facebook from my former boss. The essence of his strange wall post dart: See, Nicole, your Sarah Palin put Giffords in her rifle scope crosshairs. See what you Tea Baggers have wrought? What do you say now?
One of the reasons I left liberalism behind was because of what I perceived as its inherent juvenilism. Class envy is straight out of Adolescence 101. The tendency to blame America for all that is wrong in the world little more than a teenage railing against authority.
And so we see this immaturity again in the rush to blame Gov. Palin and Tea Party America for a terrible act of violence.
Except when 52-year-olds like my former boss behave like juveniles, it’s not cute. It’s symbolic of the rot and irresonsibility that I believe lies at the heart of modern liberalism. Somehow, in some way, someone else always is to blame. Not the individual who committed the atrocity.
Mostly, we will ignore the likes of Paul Krugman, Gerald Rivera, and Jane Fonda who have policitized this tragedy. To engage with them is pointless. They will find any reason or rationale however concocted to justify their hatred of the Tea Party, even using mass murder to besmear their political opponents, even turning surveyor symbols into crosshairs.
And we will dig deep to forgive them for their cruelty.
The Tea Party is the most peaceful, law-abiding movement, perhaps in American history.
And though it pains us … now we must turn the other cheek, and rely on a higher power to heal our wounds, and comfort the real victims of this nightmare.
Actual Topic: Sheriff’s News Conference Yesterday
Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik
I think people such as yourself need to remember when you are so intent on blaming what voters have said as the cause for this tragedy, why not mention the rhetoric from Democrat politicians and liberal talking heads including:
President Obama:
“If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun,” Obama said in Philadelphia last night. “Because from what I understand, folks in Philly like a good brawl. I’ve seen Eagles fans.”
And “I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors. I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican. I want you to argue with them and get in their face.”
Or John Kerry who said on the Bill Maher show: “I could have gone to 1600 Pennsylvania and killed the real bird with one stone.”
Or Howard Dean “I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for…”
and: “This is a struggle between good and evil and we’re the good?”
and “we need to remember that the enemy here is George Bush, not each other.”
Or Senator Chuck Schumer who called a flight attendant a “bitch.”
Or the Florida Democrats who ran an ad calling for the assassination of Donald Rumsfeld
Or New York State Comptroller Alan Hevesi who called for Senator Schumer to “put a bullet between the president’s eyes?”
Or Jonathan Chait who said “I hate President George W. Bush.”
Or singer Rickie Lee Jones who aid of President Bush “You’re an ignorant, low-class, opportunistic man, both personally and politically, who does everything for political gain and nothing for the wellbeing of the people, and you should not be in office, and the kind of fascism you’re perpetrating on our country we don’t want, and you’re out. We’re done with you. Ffffhgggmm.”
And when asked if she would be willing to take Bush out for the benefit of democracy? “If I say that, I might get arrested when I go back. And I have to go home.” She’s thinking it out carefully. “I guess the question is, would I kill anyone? And the answer is, no. But would I feel sorry if someone killed him? No, I wouldn’t. It would depend on who killed him, I guess.”
Or “The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn” where they superimposed the words “Snipers Wanted” over an image of Bush delivering his acceptance speech at the Republican convention.
Or Nobel Peace Prize winner Betty Williams who said she could kill President Bush?
Or Randi Rhodes who joked about killing the President?
Or Reverend Wright who called Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, Condoskeeza [sic] Rice.
Or England’s Charlie Brooker who wrote: “On November 2, the entire civilised world will be praying, praying Bush loses. And Sod’s law dictates he’ll probably win, thereby disproving the existence of God once and for all. The world will endure four more years of idiocy, arrogance and unwarranted bloodshed, with no benevolent deity to watch over and save us. John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr – where are you now that we need you?”
The left act like hysterical banshees when it comes to Palin and the Tea Party. Conservatives need to slap down their lies and hysteria.
It’s very sad, I can’t imagine being Sarah Palin right now..hearing the media BS that she is somehow to blame for the murder of a 9 year old girl..even though she knows she is not responsible, in the back of her mind, hearing all of this crap, I hope she doesn’t start believing the lies of the media. This was always their plan, have a tragedy like this happen and exploit it so that Sarah Palin doesn’t run for President. I even read one twitter statement from some loon who said that he HOPES that Giffords dies so that she will be a martyr so that Sarah Palin never runs for President..that is how these lunatics think, and its downright SCARY
Why should we suffer any better fate?
That being said, there are two things I do which, when in a state of rage as you feel now, tend to calm me down.
1) I check the spring tension of every magazine for every firearm I own.
2) After completing task 1), a week has gone by and I've calmed down.
I am too.
The Left sees this as an opportunity to disparage the Right.
I have not seen OR heard ONE Liberal ask for prayers for the victims or their families.
All I have seen is finger pointing and the laying of blame.
The Left is like a bucket of crabs..
You don’t need to put a lid on one, as they will pull all the others down trying to get to the top.
It describes the Libs perfectly
They are vile and beneath contempt.
Prayers lifted for the victims and their families.
Great article by Nicole Coulter. I am horrified that the left is trying to politicize this tragic and senseless killing. We can’t focus on those that need our prayers for being exposed to the vile hatred of the leftists who care more about trying to pin the blame on Conservatism. It is shameful and disgusting.
It’s only a liberal tactic to take out the Tea Party and Sarah Palin. Is it insane? Oh, yes. When have ‘they’ ever been sane and to what low have they ever stopped stooping? They don’t give a hang about the people killed, they only want to get Sarah Palin and the Tea Party. That is the goal. Not sensibility. They know the truth. They just don’t care if this will achieve their goal.
It was not wreckless. It was very deliberate.
I personally remember how they used the JFK assassination by blaming conservatives for the hate and violence in the political language.
IT'S NOTHING NEW! The liberals did the exact same thing when JFK was assassinated. They blamed the emerging modern conservative movement! IT'S WHAT THEY DO.
They even speak of horrific misfortunes as opportunities for their agenda. To wit, "Democrat pollster Mark Penn appeared on MSNBC’s Hardball and said that President Clinton reconnected with his speech after the Oklahoma City bombings, and Obama needs a similar situation to do the same."
BTW, I recall the New York Times with yet another column by James "Scotty" Reston condemning the "conservative atmosphere of hate and violence" that led to the assassination while on the same page there was a news article detailing Oswald's connections to "Fair Play for Cuba," not exactly a conservative group, and his earlier attempt to assassinate a conservative activist and former Army major general! You can not reason with fanatics. I may not have known the word jihad back then but I sure do today.
These sick puppies take advantage of the situation no matter how horrific it was and sustain the offensive with lies and mau-mauing.
This time we cannot let them get away with lies that lead to the suppression of our inalienable right of free speech again.
Demand that they present FACTS not lies. Where's the brief!
lol
Never mind that Hussein has ranted about bringing knives to a fight. The only person who should carry the blame is the person who pulled the trigger.
That makes two of us. Make that three. My sister has been calling me non-stop since yesterday afternoon, including one this morning, livid about the lame stream media.
We are all seething. These people have no shame. But they will never shut me up. Never.
I am too. So angry I have been brought to tears.
People that would push a person to the point of shooting people are depraved and sick. They are doing to Palin what they did to Bush.
Never let a crisis go to waste.
A lover of freedom and liberty would use a gun to defend his life, his wife, his children or his property. A liberal would more likely use a gun because they’re losing in the arena of ideas and wish to lash out at the stupid and unenlightened people that won’t listen to him.
Alinsky tactics
If you’re losing the debate, tip over the table and have your planted operatives create a disturbance. They should make it look like your opponents started the fracas. Create disorder and confusion as to the real story.
Amen, FRiend! Unfortunately, I've already detected an attitude of cowering in fear by some on this very forum. This is being spun to hurt Palin, to hurt the Tea Party, to hurt the 2nd Amendment, and to hurt conservatives and conservatism overall.
If we, as patriotic, conservative Americans, don't stand and fight back, then we're cowards who don't deserve this nation given to us by God, and defended with the blood of patriots for 235 years. STAND AND FIGHT BACK!!
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Palin IMHO is going through a hell of alot more than Bush.
Excellent collection of quotes. Thanks.
Re the White Supremacist angle being spun: I am curious: How many of the dead and injured are White? Black? Hispanic?
3 little old ladies and a little girl are dead, a campaign staffer and a 60+ year-old judge—and people think these shootings are political? The guy is calm and detached, even stand offish, with the group of people there in line and when pinned on the ground.
Doesn’t make sense. By all accounts.
The guy is a whackjob who went on a psychotic rampage.
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