Yes. The Tuscon “rampage” did that. Not Democrat and media attempts to tether the tragedy to talk radio and the TEA Party, this generation’s version of the “angry white males” who skulked about being all angry and white in the 90s.
— And which angry white males, incidentally, happened to rear their ugly, hate-filled heads — and were ubiquitous objects of media scrutiny and analysis — in the run-up to (and then after) the conservative takeover of the Congress.
What a strange coincidence, that!
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update: And speaking of Sarah Palin (yes, we were), how dare she insert herself into the national story this way! ABC’s The Note:
BOTTOM LINE: Sarah Palin, once again, has found a way to become part of the story. And she may well face further criticism for the timing and scope of her remarks. She is already taking heat for her use of the term “blood libel” (see today’s Tweets).
Oh, do shut up.
Honestly. It’s like these people have convinced themselves we’re all as incapable of seeing through heavy-handed rhetoric as they are. Here’s a reminder, ABC: it wasn’t us who felt it move in our pants every time Obama stood before a teleprompter.
We know who you are and we know what you’re trying to do. Morons.
but at least Pelosi is on-message God bless her
I got news for the New York Times: we’ll take care of that “political initiative” part on Boehner’s behalf, not to worry. We aren’t going anywhere but from victory in 2010 to victory in 2012. Don’t cry, New York Times. It’ll be alright.
Sometimes it’s hard to remember we’re all on the same team. That’s why http://mittromneycentral.com/2011/01/12/congressman-pence-introduces-bill-to-defund-planned-parenthood-of-taxpayer-dollars/ was so refreshing and timely. Before the race for 2012 officially starts, we should get as many people to read that wonderful piece as we can. Then, in 2012 we can bring America back!
Sarah Palin is supposed to just shut up while she gets blamed for causing the crazy guy to shoot people. Doesn’t she know her place? Damned chillbilly.
yes the 2010 elections sent a strong message about Life … the abortion issue is what Obama is most afraid of and Team R should hammer it home every chance they get
*It’s like these people have convinced themselves we’re all as incapable of seeing through heavy-handed rhetoric as they ar*
Interesting point Jeff. I think its because 5-10 years ago, we weren’t getting the other side of it because the press was controlling the information. The internet has opened things up and allowed conservatives to both communicate with each other and communicate with the people. Before, people were reading papers and watching network news with just their families, in an echo chamber. Now, everything is out there and even my 75 year old mother can read blogs, ask questions and get involved. Palin’s response is exactly the kind of speech Maobama should be giving- unfortunately, he’s an incompetent douchebag trained in crisis management by Rahm Emmanuel and helping the country deal with this crisis is just not on his agenda.
I’m actually very heartened by the manner in which the internet has helped conservatives connect and get their message out. I firmly believe the message is the strongest part of the conservative platform and the more people who actually hear it coming unfiltered through the lends of the MSM, the more will embrace it.
Did the MFM just criticize Palin for responding to their vicious lies blaming her for the shootings in Arizona? They must have been studying Halperin.
Never should have gone to the note… never should have gone to the note…
Seriously, I’m in total sputtering disbelief.
“You’re a jerk”
“I’m not a jerk”
“Hey, this isn’t all about you“
No it isn’t, at least when we are on the same team. No problem at all really.
Spamming the intertubes, eh?
I heard one clown say that Team R is being too defensive in their reaction, which shows they feel guilt. I guess this is how it should work. Fucking leftists makes dishonest fucking smear against Right, blaming Right for actions of an individual, and individual who is more likely left than right. the Right should not respond, other than to apologize that their mere existence causes the left to go into frothing rage, which is clearly the Right’s fault.
In this incident, we have them asserting, in essence, that right wing violent speech caused a leftist to murder a conservative judge and a 9 year old girl. Apparently when the Right speaks, the Left feels com peeled to kill?! Tat is the standard they are trying to apply.
Pretty sure we’re not on the same team with much of the left. When the citizen next to me not only has the exact opposite goals I do but their goals involve depriving me of my chance to achieve my own goals, we are not on the same team.
Change the tone from what? What it had been under the guidance of Nancy Pelosi? They shouldn’t have to be watching for that, taking it instead as a given.
Or do they mean from what it would otherwise have become in the absence of events now writ into history? And what would that “otherwise” have been? Do they have any idea? No, probably not. So they’ll project fantasies of their imagining? That would be silly.
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Boehner should and will change the tone.
I’m confident he’ll change it to something along the lines of:
“Get your asses in here on time. Get ready to KILL the JOB-KILLING healthcare bill, and then get ready to get the economy-KILLING spending under control. But get here on time or be ready to have a bullseye on your back.”
“Oh, and Nancy? Next time I see you, you’d better not use the makeup shotgun, and I’ll expect you to wipe off some of that perfume. You smell like the tampon disposal at a home for retired streetwalkers.”
Better?
The Pelosi tone: “Are you serious? Are you serious?“
“Sarah Palin, once again, has found a way to become part of the story.”
Oh, it was SARAH who inserted herself into the story, not the liberal media pundits. I’m sure glad ABC explained that to me, because I was thinking it was the other way around. Thanks for clearing it up for me!
speaking of heavy handed rhetoric… for your entertainment:
“Sarah Palin and crew don’t like being blamed for the actions of an extremist, maybe they should ask Muslims for advice on how to deal with that.”
friend o’ mine, I just responded that I wasn’t aware that protestant and or Republican beliefs called for killing the infidel.
maybe they should ask Muslims for advice on how to deal with that.”
Wouldn’t do any good. Muslims have never had to deal with that particular problem, what with all their water-carriers eager to remind us not to make unfounded connections between Islam & Islamic extremism.
Um, maybe because the metaphor was completely wrong. Dude wasn’t one of Sarah’s tribe.
It’s encouraging that this time, there are few calls on the starboard side to “temper our language,” because this time its glaringly obvious that rhetoric did not and could not have provoked the massacre.
Lots more people are aware that we absolutely CANNOT accept the left’s premise that vigorous political rhetoric incites violence, not just that rhetoric did not incite THIS violent event.
Remember that there was tons more political violence in the 1950s-1970s, during the era of the Fairness Doctrine, before Rush, before Fox News, before all of that.
And that since the growth of alternate media through talk radio, cable TV, and the internet, the incidence of political violence has NOT increased at all, especially not on the right.
and yay! we have a slogan! somewhere there’s a nice whit and blue logo as well, but I haven’t been able to find it again.
argh… link http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2011/01/the-schedule-for-together-we-t.html
there it is… http://uanews.org/node/36874
A Native American blessing?
For reals or is this a South Park episode?
hah maggie did you see in your first link? the only R is labeled bright and clear for so you’ll know
omg, that’s sad. but, I’m not sure about Obama…. what was he again?
ABC’s just repeating Halperin’s admonishion that conservatives just SHUT UP!, turn the other cheek, and let the Democrats and Obama ride the Tuscon shooting all the way back into the hearts of the public much like Billy Jeff did the Oklahoma city/McVeigh episode in the 90’s.
Funny how that works, isn’t it? ABC repeating Halperin, regarding Obama repeating Clinton…
Does anyone else sense a “mirrors within mirrors” kind of thing here?
From morons, of course.
Dershowitz:
From the “We wish she hadn’t said it, but it you retards deserve it” file, the ADL:
Yer crapping out, proggies.
Allen Guelzo makes the case brilliantly here:
Right. When she didn’t say much, she was a coward with a guilty conscience. When she does, she’s an attention whore who should just shut up.
Such is the progressive thought process. Objective first, rhetorical backfill later.
Weren’t the same MFM fuckers asking where she was on this just yesterday?
It is foremost a willful and therefore untreated malady, Pablo, and not so much a thought process in the usual definition.
I wonder if they’ll release a set of guidelines so that everyone on the right can be properly informed what is and isn’t acceptable.
Does anyone doubt that it would not have included standard campaign language or “blood libel” a week ago?
And that’s that, for me.
They’ll decide it’s wrong — after the fact — because of the actor, not the action.
Fuck them. As Jeff says, even the stupid party can’t be this stupid.
Actually, that’s as I’d paraphrase what Jeff says.
Speaking of campaign language, Charles the Kraut, oft-time RINO-non-grata here for his criticisms of O’Donnell after the primary had been decided, gets to the heart of the martial metaphors in politi-speak ( http://tiny.cc/DaKraut ):
Oh snap. He goes on to mention that few on the port side got the vapors when Rahm Emmanuel sent dead fish to folks, nor did he get accused of employing mafiosi approved tactics. But the explanation of martial metaphors is pretty good.
I would suggest these jerkoffs on the left (including the MSM) all be bitch slapped, but then I would be accused of hate speech, including but not limited to, misogyny, promoting violence, and promoting animal cruelty. Oh and racial bias, because they say bitch a lot in ethnic music.
Oh no, that ain’t it, at least from my point of view. He stands accused not of being a Republican in name only, but of being a firmly establishment favoring sort, unwilling to see the rabble rock the boat for shits and giggles. ‘Course, what he thinks “shits and giggles”, we rabble think a serious reminder: You fucks work for us! Don’t forget.
Thanks for the correction sdferr, I must have been having a “moment” when I wrote that :)
The Kraut’s a Rethug!, establisment, sell-out shill, but definitely not a RINO; it seems to me that the two would be mutually exclusive.
I like Allen Guelzo. I’ve got one of those DVD history courses taught by him.
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Whatever you do, don’t call that blood libel a blood libel.
Mr. Humphries is merely experiencing the loony left following O!’s long ago instructions to “get in people’s face!”…
How terrible for a President to incite such violence amongst the populace…
Why, I believe I’m getting the vapors over it even as I type.
HTML FAIL!
Effin proggs.
Matt Welch reminds me of what I’d forgotten:
Go. Look at the photo. Remember?
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newrouter,
That link to American Thinker is sweet. Super Sheriff Dickpik should learn about stones and glass houses.
I did a google search for Loughner and Giffords the other day and I think one of the video results is a video of shaggy guy claiming that Loghner’s mother Amy and Giffords belonged to the same Reform Synogogue. Further googling yeilded only hits from websites such as stormfront and the like.
Does anybody know if there is a reputable source confirming this? I think it is at least relevant to show that Loughner and Giffords may well have interacted through their Synogogue where the obsession might have taken root, further exculpating all things right.
Because it is relevant and exculpatory, I don’t think the MSM would be in a rush to present the tidbit to the public, further destroying the narrative, and at the same time the sources presenting the information seem to have their own nefarious objectives and incentive to lie/shade the truth.
Of course, the usual partisan idiots claim he has no idea what he’s talking about…
As is always the case in the shiny new comments section at NRO. Did they only let Kossacks register to comment there? WTF?
I’m shocked! SHOCKED, I SAY!!!
O_O
Not.
That’s Arpaio’s fault. If he hadn’t been such a republican law and order heartless cowboy, all those criminals wouldn’t have moved to Pima County to conduct their crimes. His criminals moved into Sheriff Dopenik’s county and he needs to be held accountable for that.
Ooh, Stephanie has the Democrat talking points nailed.
If that issue ever comes up in the “national discussion” about this issue, you can bet Dupnik or his spokeshole will say much the same thing.
“She should have offered prayers and compassion for the victims and let it go at that,” said GOP strategist Ed Rollins. “This is not about her. A short statement would have been better than a video.”
“She would have done much better if she had just ridden above all the nonsense and the politics of the shooting, including all the references of her map.” said Ari Fleischer. “She could have, and should have, set a different tone entirely.”
I haven’t found the links (quotes were posted at Althouse’s), but evidently the establishment republicans are joining the witch hunt. Bastids.
told you they’d underbus her but no one listened
Ed Rollins. Oy, have we ever missed him.
Guess it’s because he works for CNN, huh?
/sarc off
Ari Fleischer learned good that the proper tone is to beg the liberals for forgiveness by pointing out how wrong, wrong, wrong the actions of the GOP are.
I really want to know what other stalwart members of the party like Andrew Sullivan and David Brooks have to say.
told you they’d underbus her but no one listened
They’ve been trying to underbus her since she was nominated. I mean seriously. She’s just not their kind. Truth is the tea party isn’t really their kind either. That they would rather the soul of the country be lost than to associate with “one of them…”
Sheesh. Some days you wonder who really fought for civil rights.
Bus meet immovable object. I don’t think the bus will survive.
Hey, Ed!
You don’t watch the news, do you, Ed?
Hey, it’s not like Ed Rollins is attached to a politician considered an obvious opponent in ’12.
Wonder if that was mentioned?
How could Rollins go from working for a guy like Reagan to “The incredible Huck”?
As far as he and Fleischer’s pronouncements? Well, opinions are like assholes, and so too, amazingly, are these men acting by joining the Palin pile-on party.
David Brock is challenging Sarah to a debate… a peaceful debate
I bet she doesn’t accept
“Instead of posting videos in the dark of night”
didn’t stop him from finding it
Wasn’t Brooks taken in by a rather famous, PR-obsessed charlatan quite recently? If he feels this way about Palin, fine. Bully for him. But he should at least be cognizant of the fact that we all now know empirically that he’s not smart enough to discern such things.
This transparent conceit of his is rather entertaining though, in its own way.
That was an incredibly dumb comment I just posted.
David Brock is not David Brooks.
(Didn’t click the link obviously.)
… or is he?
David Brock is a steaming pile of cow dung. He is all pissed because someone defended themselves from the smears he and is were telling? Fuck you.
The funny thing about Brock is that when there were relatively few conservative outlets and the internet was in its infancy, a lot of otherwise sensible people were taken in by the cum dribbling off of his chin. Most people wised up. But the left will always welcome a scuzzy whore.
I detect a perjorative tone here. Why should she punch down happyfeet? Especially with an odious propaandist like Brock?
no perjorative tone I just bet she doesn’t take him up on it
Sure happyfeet.
OK, an I agree with you anyway; I don’t think she should elevate his status by doing so anyway.
I bet she doesn’t accept
Well if it’s a peaceful debate, then of course she won’t accept. She can’t. Don’t you know that the Snowbilly is hardwired to the “KILL ‘EM ALL” position? That’s why she couldn’t help but put crosshairs over the districts of all those weak, tree-huggin’, peace-lovin’ Democrats.
I think it’s from all the blood from moose and innocent children that she’s soaked herself in over the years.
also I that’s a big lie what the Brockster says about this being a time of national mourning – that’s just bullshit. National mourning was when Heath Ledger died or Princess Diana or 9/11 or the Space Shuttle or the Free Willy whale. This doesn’t rise to that level. It’s mostly a rubbernecking freak show from what I can tell.
Re: newrouter @ 46, funny you should mention the crime rate in Pima County. We spent a month in Tucson a couple winters ago and thought we might do a little hiking in some of the BLM backcountry areas around town. Seeking further info from the BLM on those areas we were warned not to go there under any circumstances because they were overrun by drug smugglers and human traffickers. They knew they had a problem but rather than do anything the feds and the county sheriff had apparently ceded control of huge swaths of public land around Tucson to criminal activity.
Fixed.
But you already knew that.
The thing that gets me is that Sarah Palin would, in all likelihood, be much less influential in this country if people who didn’t care for her opinions simply ignored her. By making her the focus of attention, they’re making her the focus of attention. Things that have no relevance to Sarah Palin are, with no effort at all on the part of Ms. Palin, rolled in Palin musk.
Stupid fucking idiots. It’s like the coconut monkey trap, only these are the people who are convinced that they’re the smart ones.
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.