Tuesday - January 11, 2011

America’s elite hijacked a massacre to take revenge on Sarah Palin.

Drew is the only other one posting here at this time, so that makes him the only one with any self discipline.

I don’t want to harp on this subject, really I do not.  But I think I’ve become a bit thin skinned or too sensitive or something.  I’m so damn PO’d at what the left is doing and feel so bad for what happened in AZ. I think too often I take some things personally. Or it feels that way.  And of course I can’t help seeing the comments and headlines with regard to gun mad America. I won’t rehash all that. Some of you have seen what I’m referring to.  It’s bad enough we have to hear it from foreigners, but when it also comes from our own people, smoke starts streaming out my ears and my eyes bleed.

When the news first broke over here, the husband was quoted as blaming the TP and the right. And then ... the damn sheriff weighed in with his two cents worth and set the stage for all that followed.  Suddenly it’s my fault, and BMEWS and Sarah Palin and all of us on the right are blood thirsty, gun happy extremist loons drinking blood.  Mrs. Plain has blood on her hands screams the ignorant half baked anti-American trolls over here.  Yes answers the idiot left in the USA.
See?  Kinda hard to to keep things on the rails verbally without coming off like some bloodthirsty right wing gun nut. Someone actually wrote that the TP was a greater danger to the USA then muslim extremists.  How can I see that crazy kind of thing and not be damned angry?

Which brings me to a few things. Like this piece by Tom Leonard.

How America’s elite hijacked a massacre to take revenge on Sarah Palin

By Tom Leonard
Daily Mail

The rush to make political capital out of a mass shooting shows just how nasty U.S. politics has become. Under Barack Obama, America is more polarised than it has been for 40 years.

Conservatives have come to despise liberals, and vice versa, with an intensity the like of which few can recall. Right-wing anger with the high-spending Obama administration’s handling of the financial crisis, a weak economy and high unemployment has prompted thousands of ordinary Americans to break away from conventional two-party politics to support the Tea Party movement with its call for small government.

Rahm Emanuel, Mr Obama’s former chief of staff and a figure compared to Labour’s Alastair Campbell, once said: ‘You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.’

And those on his side of the political divide have clearly seen the Tucson tragedy as an opportunity to score points and settle scores.
None more so than with Sarah Palin, a politician who is almost as divisive as the President. The former Republican vice-presidential contender has become a spiritual figurehead for many Tea Party supporters, but is loathed by many on the Left.

So it was that within minutes of the Tucson shooting, anti-Palin internet bloggers and Twitter users were highlighting a so-called ‘target map’ Mrs Palin had posted on her Facebook page last March.
Controversially, it used gunstyle crosshair targets to flag up Democrat politicians whom Palin felt could be vulnerable at the polls: Miss Giffords was one.
Despite the lack of any evidence that the Tucson gunman had supported Mrs Palin, let alone seen the graphic, critics — including senior Democrats in Congress — have decreed she is somehow culpable.

Yet her critics choose to forget the crosshairs could be all a part of her image as a hunter of big game. (It is worth noting, too, that Miss Giffords had been photographed handling a semi-automatic weapon — no doubt aware it would appeal to a certain voting constituency.)
Palin’s favourite maxim — inherited from her father — is ‘Don’t Retreat, Reload’, a typically bullish phrase she’s been trotting out for months as an injunction on the faithful to stick to their political principles.

Since the Tucson shooting, Left-wing critics have leapt on the words as some kind of proof that she was encouraging supporters to use real weapons.
Other far more loaded Republican comments are being quoted by those keen to make a connection between the Tucson shooting and inflammatory political rhetoric.

Liberals have made much of the words of the Tucson sheriff, Clarence Dupnik, who yesterday launched into a diatribe about the ‘vitriol that comes out of certain mouths about tearing down the government’.

Even the actress and activist Jane Fonda waded into the row with a succession of internet tweets blaming Mrs Palin, the Tea Party and Glenn Beck, a rabble-rousing broadcaster on Fox News, for the shooting.

The Tea Party leaders have been rushing to condemn the shooting and distance themselves from the gunman.
Whether they should really have to do so is another matter. The reality is that there is as yet no evidence that the political Right, and the Tea Party in particular, has — as its opponents say — ‘blood on its hands’ over the Tucson murders.

While some liberals have slyly implied that Loughner was a Tea Party supporter, former classmates remember him as being ‘Left-wing’ and ‘liberal’.

Please note, I have done some chopping on this editorial, UNEDITED VERSION IS HERE

Posted by peiper     on 01/11/2011 at 11:09 AM   
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