MSNBC’s Ratigan Goes Way Off the Deep End - Discussing violent revolution as if it’s just another...

Columbia Journalism Review ^ | November 11, 2010 | Ryan Chittum

[neverdem]

I searched for Rall's seditious screed, and this review came up. Columbia Journalism Review, who knew? It was better than I expected, but I found the comment about the Tea Party Movement incoherent. I heard about this interview here: "The Threat of Leftist Violence." It was posted already, so you can read the thread.

[JPG]

RATigan...the name says it all.

[Maverick68]

These Lefties are complete whackos.
They feel emboldened by being able to intimidate Jews and Conservatives on college campuses, or by having SEIU thugs knock down little old ladies.
If these idiots ever REALLY got into a fight with the Right, it would certainly be a quick one...

[Spok]

“the left to consider violent revolution if its aims aren’t met,”

The left fantasizes about a violent uprising, and conservatives fantasize about how quickly it would be over...and who’d be on top.

[Bryanw92]

I love it when the leftists get all butch and start talking about rebellion. How many rounds of ammo did the average democrat stockpile last year while we were clearing the shelves every day?

[Buckeye McFrog]

they always go back to their roots...Bill Ayers, SDS, Weather Underground, etc.

[Kartographer]

"We are here with a very disconcerting question. Are things in our country so bad that it might be time for a revolution? The answer obviously is yes, the only question is how to do it.">

And so it begins...It's a sure sign of the what kind of times we are in when I agree with someone from MSNBC!

[aces]

Are they crazy, don’t they know we still cling to guns and God..and we shoot em for fun...YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAw
They say they want a revolution well , we all want tom change the world...they start we have the solution well, we know, they’ll be eating dirt instead..

[texmexis best]

I don’t think that a violent revolution of the Left would get very far. Simply too many who love their country to be able to pull it off.

The left has always fantasized about a violent revolution but it just isn’t going to happen. Someone might try, granted, but it would be over quickly.

[TexasRepublic]

I wonder how proficient that armchair radical is with the use of firearms? I’ll bet he is all for violence so long that it does not involve him personally.

[Kackikat]

Time to go Ratigan, say goodbye, and please clean out your desk.

[GoCards]

Funny thing is they will pull a gun on you but not the terrorists. Its their own people who they despise. Backasswards

[Artemis Webb]

"...which calls for the left to consider violent revolution if its aims aren’t met, but Ratigan overtly endorsed revolution and implicitly endorsed considering violence."

FReepers do it all the time, in violation of FR posting rules. Why can't the commies?

[Pelham]

Ted Rall is a wannabe Georges Sorel:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Sorel

[NativeNewYorker]

The American Left just isn’t smart. They’ve made sure their own folks are disarmed, and now they’re promoting armed revolt. D’oh!

[LearsFool]

“Bring ‘em on, I’d prefer a straight fight to all this sneaking around.” - Han Solo

[MrB]

The reason that the ideas and thinking of the left always seem “backasswards” is that their ideology is based in LIES from the father of lies.

[umgud]

Who would they direct this violence against? They just had a majority in congress and the prez. I guess they want a much further leftward outcome.

[MrB]

Proficiency in arms requires a level of discipline that most leftists eschew if at all possible.

[Bryanw92]

>>Its their own people who they despise.

I was going to disagree and say that they don’t consider us “their own people” because we are the Other Tribe.

But on second thought, the self-loathing of leftists is one of their biggest defining characteristics, so I have to agree with you.