Yes, it's been the rationalizing that's been so disturbing to watch -- the way the GOP Noise Machine fervently excused last week's violent behavior and eagerly tried to shift the blame onto the victims of the intimidation, and then demanded to know what the big deal was.
I mean, who hasn't had the line on a propane tank outside his house slashed by vandals? This stuff happens all the time, right? Didn't scores of members of Congress, immediately following the vote in 2002 to authorize the invasion of Iraq, find their office windows shattered by flying bricks hurled under the cover of darkness by nasty anti-war libs? Didn't they receive a steady stream of specific death threats and watch as relatives (and even their children) came under attack? Doesn't this kind of harassment and intimidation come with the territory, and hasn't it always been pushed out and legitimized by mainstream media outlets?
Um, not in America. But that may be changing as Fox News fuels the hate and does its best to provide cover and refuge for those supporting the intimidation campaign, as Fox News and the rest of the right-wing media rationalize the wave of political violence and do their best to shift the blame onto the targets -- onto the victims -- while always avoiding responsibility. (Did anyone on the left suggest Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) was to blame when a YouTube nut job posted a threat against his life?)
Note how so many embraced the frightening notion that because conservatives didn't like health care reform, the violence was expected and nobody should have been surprised because Democrats, by passing the bill (i.e. desecrating the Constitution), pushed people too far. "So why are people angry?" asked Fox News' Steve Doocy last week. "Maybe because they didn't want this bill?"
Talk about the rise of tyranny and the minority-rule mob.
It's a chilling prospect, but one that seems more and more plausible: What if Fox News actually wants mob violence?
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Not once have I heard them do that. Media Matters always twists what the people at FOX say.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_Corporation
CLEARLY they are promoting violence and lies every day.
Now the question is asked, a little late.
As long as the violence is targeting dems fox is happy.
It will come back to haunt them, when the nuts with guns turn on them for all the lies and hatred they have seeded.
Fox has used the angry mobs to counter the government, all because a black man was elected Prez.
What was it your hero Chris Matthews said? "For a moment I forgot he was black?"
I really think you "progressives" need to de-emphasize your "social studies" and start learning how to think. Take some math, physics or logic courses. Your eyes will open in a few years.
But look up "Dale Robertson sign" on Google. Or maybe they'll at least allow this link: http://www.mediaite.com/online/tea-party-founder-admitted-holding-n-word-sign-before-denying-it/
As you were saying? That seems damn racist to me.
Really? Is that what you want? Will you be happy if it does happen so you can crow "I told you so"?
Do you leave your home in daylight?
Get it through your heads that none of us wish anyone to go without healthcare.
Get it through your heads that SS is NOW UNDERFUNDED at the VERY BEGINNING of the retirement of the boomers. Government has failed.
Get it through your your heads that Medicare’s annual spending exceeded revenue brought in from taxes in 2008, forcing Medicare to begin spending its reserve funds. According to the Medicare Trustees, Medicare’s reserve will be empty by 2017.
Get it through your heads that Bush was delinquint in creating HomeLand Security rather than making FBI and CIA work together.
Get it through your heads that no one can come up with a video showing any violence emating from the tea parties. Please show us if you have one.
I think you and your people are living within the walls of a rationalization. No one can contradict these points with any veracity.
Funny how you want to rant and rave about the right but are not willing to listen to any voice of sanity. You are the one trying to creat fear by telling people they are "on the wrong website".
As long as others are allowed to post here maybe someone might be swayed by a rational idea.
Get it through YOUR head that OMB has said and said and said again that there will be cost savings to the American people, and a chance to pay down the debt, when more people are fairly insured.
Get it through YOUR head that violence isn't always about bricks through windows, or snipers on rooftops. Violence at its very least is enough angry voices and purple-ish faces hollering enough horrible, demeaning, violent words to cause damage to one's very soul.
Rationalization is what people who write remarks like yours do when they are afraid that someone having something more means you have something less.
Get it through your head that more families are ruined by the IRS than lack of healthcare.
Get it through your head that OMB was off on medicaid/mediacare/SS by over 4000%
Feeling good about good intentions, honey, is fine. Feeling good about good intentions, honey, when you know they'll fail is quite sick.
Give that hour to O'Donnell or Jack Rice.
In the case of the Republikkkans and the Teabaggers we can only hope this will be the case.
So, it is fine for you to promote violence and threaten others?