9 Replies to “The New Civility, 44 [Darleen]”

1. Joe says:

   March 10, 2011 at 10:32 am

   Most national politicians are going to attract a death threat or two over their careers. Most of them are thankfully pranks or angry stupid people venting. It does not seem limited to any particular party. But you have to take them seriously because a few are in fact serious and dangerous.

   It would be nice if the MSM could pull its partisan head out of its partisan ass and just report this sort of stuff evenly and objectively.

2. JD says:

   March 10, 2011 at 11:44 am

   Remember when a tacky sign by a LaRouchie was indicative of all that is wrong and racist with the teabaggers and conservatives and Team R in general?

   The MFM will not cover the lawless mob action even a tiny fraction of the coverage that they gave to their hatred of conservatives.

   /spit

3. McGehee says:

   March 10, 2011 at 1:52 pm

   Remember when a tacky sign by a LaRouchie was indicative of all that is wrong and racist with the teabaggers and conservatives and Team R in general?

   That was fitting mostly because Lyndon LaRouche always ran as a Democrat. Isn’t it funny how all the hatemongering righties, like LaRouche and Bull Conner and Fred Phelps, are Dems?

4. ironpacker says:

   March 10, 2011 at 2:30 pm

   They can’t let the facts get in the way of “teh narrative”. A thing like that could snowball and soon the MBM would be totally irrevelant. Maybe they should stick to reporting sports scores, celeb news, and TV schedules.

5. geoffb says:

   March 10, 2011 at 2:51 pm

   Just asking a question at Legal Insurrection.

   Why do these people, many of whom are professionals, feel no fear in expressing such death wishes in the open?

6. McGehee says:

   March 10, 2011 at 4:08 pm

   Geoffb, it may be for the same reason other “professionals” whose blogonyms we would all recognize, can get away with googlebombing attempts aimed at smearing people who don’t happen to agree with them that Obama is a “good man.”

7. cranky-d says:

   March 10, 2011 at 4:32 pm

   The feel no fear of expressing death wishes because we know and they know how unserious they truly are. Plus, they also know the MBM will ignore it, just like they always do.

   If it weren’t for the good behavior, or at least restrained behavior, of classical liberals, they would be very afraid of making such threats. There was a time that a death threat was enough justification for the potential victim to kill the one issuing the threat.

8. Pellegri says:

   March 10, 2011 at 5:34 pm

   I posted this to another forum I frequent (though not for the political discourse–I am shamelessly fond of breeding little pixel pets to keep my rage quotient down). A fellow pixel-pet-breeder of high school age was contemplating joining one of the walk-outs because her conviction is just SO STRONG. The following exchange occurred:

   QUOTE (Pellegri @ Mar 10 2011, 05:15 PM)
   Watch out for bombs:

   http://biggovernment.com/publius/2011/03/1…ts-msm-ignores/

   QUOTE
   The Senators expected this kind of response,no big deal,these communist are expected to act this way,it’s like the story of the boy who cried wolf to many times.

   Sigh. (How bloody old are these people to still be ranting on about commies?)

   They train their offspring well.

9. Pellegri says:

   March 10, 2011 at 6:20 pm

   And then:

   Pellegri: Ah, I see. So the big deal is one of the comments mentioned communism, not the fact the senators passing the bill are getting death threats?

   Minidem: No, it was just something that caught my eye. I didn’t really have anything to say about the death threats that didn’t sound dumb. Such as, say, “Death threats are never a good thing”.

   Pellegri: Naturally. I’m just–surprised? Startled?–by the relative mildness of response given the level of emotions already involved in this thread.

   Would it be different if it had been a death threat directed at one of the “fled” Democratic senators?

   Minidem: Quite possibly, though this thread in general seems to be rather lukewarm. Plus, it doesn’t seem like many people are checking in (the thread’s only 2 pages long).

   Pellegri: Got pretty heated re> the parentage of the Koch brothers.

   Why? They (the fled Democrats) did nothing particularly noble. I’m pretty sure they knew it would take a simple majority, not a 3/5ths, to pass the bill they objected to, which means it could be voted on in their absence. All they’ve done by leaving rather than staying and trying to work out a better deal for their constituents is turn themselves into public-relations martyrs and created exactly this kind of “Republicans are such bad, law-breaking people!” storm of public opinion in the media.

   Essentially, by leaving, they don’t have to make any difficult decisions or do any work, but they get hailed as heroes while everyone gets worked up into calling their opposition “evil” for voting on a piece of legislation that even its detractors don’t seem to understand the ramifications of.

   You’re being used by these people. Doesn’t that make you even a little bit angry?

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