Watch me.
I blame one nutjob, namely, Jared Lee Loughner.
Done. Now, I am going to watch football with clean hands and conscience.
Posted on 01/09/2011 9:27:39 AM PST by Krankor
We cannot walk away from this one.
We cannot blame one nutjob for the shooting of 19 people Saturday in Tucson, Ariz., and wash our hands of it.
We cannot pretend that this is only about him and not about us.
Worst of all, we cannot say we were not warned.
For more than two years, sensible people have been pleading with their fellow Americans to tone down the rhetoric, to quit with the demonizing, to end the fear-mongering.
In what kind of country, the sensible people asked, do political leaders across the board not condemn a sign at a rally that reads: “We left our guns at home — this time”?
In what kind of country do people show up at presidential speeches with guns on their hips?
In what kind of a country do callers to radio shows routinely smear those with whom they disagree — beginning with our president — as “traitors” and “un-American,” while pandering hosts say only, “Thanks for the call.”
If we continue this way, the sensible people warned, something will happen.
And now something has happened.
U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, an Arizona Democrat, was meeting with constituents outside a supermarket Saturday — a “Congress on Your Corner” event — when a young man walked up, aimed a gun at her head and started shooting.
As we wrote this, Giffords was fighting for her life in a Tucson hospital. Six people were dead. Twelve others were wounded.
What drove the killer, who police say might have had an accomplice? Was it the reckless rhetoric of our times? As of yet, we don’t know. Maybe, though improbably, politics had nothing to do with this.
Only in time will we know if the killer was among those who threatened Giffords with physical harm last year when she voted in favor of President Obama’s health-care reforms. We may never know whether he was the one who shattered the windows of her Tucson office. And it’s entirely possible that he was not among those — the many — who threatened her with death after she spoke out against Arizona’s harsh new immigration law.
But would any intelligent person be surprised to learn otherwise?
The safe observation for us to make now — you will hear it from others all week — is that the angry and irresponsible talk that might lead an unhinged person to pick up a gun is common across the political landscape, from right to left.
But that simply is not true.
Overwhelmingly today, the fear-mongering and demonizing flow from the right, aided and abetted by cable TV and talk-radio hosts. They may represent only the irresponsible fringe of conservatism in America, but they are drowning out the thoughtful voices of the vast majority of conservatives.
Giffords, as she showed by meeting constituents outside that supermarket, dared to believe that Americans can disagree with each other without turning on each other.
Maybe that was a mistake.
“We stand behind Neil’s right to express his opinion but also acknowledge that not everyone will agree with him all of the time. We are always open to input from those who disagree with Neil or any of our commentators.”
Obviously, he feels conservative writers shouldn't be afforded the same right.
Is this guy suggesting that Americans be prevented from referring to “our” president — as a “traitor” and “un-American”?
In a country where the far left blames George W. Bush for global warming, the 1930's depression and the civil war........
So, these Chicago idiots saw nothing wrong with the demonizing of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Sarah Palin and so on...
Why am I not surprised?
Rich of the CHICAGO Sun-Times...
How about reporting on the people that Obama associates himself with? Didn’t Bill and Bernadine also babysit Obama’s kids?
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Bill Ayers (1968): “Kill all the rich people! Break up their cars and apartments! Bring the revolution home, kill your parents - that’s where it’s really at!”
1969 - Ayers attempted to extort money ($20,000) from the Vietnam Moratorium Committee. When a member of the Moratorium group asked Bill Ayers what he really wanted, “To kill all rich people,” Ayers responded. When another peace activist pointed out that Ayers himself came from wealth, he answered: “Bring the war home. Kill your parents.”
1969 (December 27 to 31) – Weathermen hold a “War Council” meeting in Flint, MI. Bernardine Dohrn comments about the Charles Manson-led “Sharon Tate - LaBianca Murders” “Dig It! First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them, and then they put a fork in pig Tate’s belly! Wild!
Guilty as Hell, Free as a Bird (for now)
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/03/guilty_as_hell_free_as_a_bird_1.html
Warmed over manure. Everybody knows by now that the shooter was a deranged lefty.
Where’s the barf alert!
A leftist nut job kills, and guess what...
That's why they hired a hit on Lee ~ HEY, THERE'S THAT NAME AGAIN ~ Harvey Oswald ~ to stop the investigation into the political murders Leftwingtards do.
Overwhelmingly today, the fear-mongering and demonizing flow from the left, aided and abetted by cable TV and newspaper editorial boards. They may represent only the irresponsible fringe of liberalism in America, but they are drowning out the thoughtful voices of the vast majority of liberals.
Watch me.
I blame one nutjob, namely, Jared Lee Loughner.
Done. Now, I am going to watch football with clean hands and conscience.
Hey Chicago Sun Times ... you’re being awful hard on DU, aren’t you?
Right Chicago Sun Times, I’m glad I am not in your ‘we’.
conservative writers shouldn’t be afforded the same right
It’s Obvious, IMHO this writer contradicts himself in several places !!!
The what? Liberals have no “thoughtful voices” ~ maybe they did once upon a time ~ maybe for 10 minutes or something, but that’s never been the case in my lifetime.
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The killer was a deranged, government school brainwashed, leftist idiot and the wacky left is and has been spewing nothing but godless hatred for America and hatred for freedom for years!! The media should clean up its own act first before preaching to us!!
Can anyone find the thread started by Jim Robinson which is a reprint of the Daily KOS entitled “GIFFORD IS DEAD TO ME”?
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