Monday, April 6, 2009
Politics / Woods Far Right Goes Off the Deep End: Are Conservatives Inciting Violence?
Posted by Jeff Woods on Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 4:53 PM
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This has nothing to do with "right wing media", and everything to do with the fact that Richard Poplawski is a very disturbed individual. Left wing pundits need to stop trying to blame an external factor for every tragedy, and start holding individuals who commit atrocities entirely accountable.
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You're right, Omegis. But these disturbed individuals listen to megalomaniac windbags like Rush and Beck. And they push them right over the edge. I was astounded back in '04 the amount of people who were convinced that Kerry was going to take their guns and their Bibles because they received emails telling them that. And the level of discourse after that was even more tainted. You take a disturbed individual, who keeps hearing about how the government is taking all of their freedoms, and that is all it takes to spark violence. Rush and Beck, and the countless others in that echo chamber, have first amendment rights to spout their political beliefs. But they need to act responsibly with that right and not push people over the edge.
Poplawski is clearly an unstable individual. Period. If he is concerned about out-of-control government I say he damn well should be, but to say that talk show hosts like Beck, Alex Jones, or Rush somehow contributed to this massacre is patently absurd.
You don't have to go farther than Pith to find comments about "blood in the streets" to fix the Obama problem. It's been scary all along.
"Speaking of kooks and guns, I've been laughing off all the red hot right-wing rhetoric about revolution and socialism and fascism and Second Amendment rights."
And I've been laughing at the spectacle of left wing kooks like Woods and the rest of the motley Scene crew calling right wingers kooks.
As for trying to blame crimes on Rush, that's nothing new. Clinton tried to pin responsibiltiy for the Oklahoman City federal bldg bombing on him. It didn't wash then and it won't wash now.
It's also quite amusing that their alleged "concern" about speech inciting violence never extends to the speech of environmental wackos and any effect it may have had in inspiring the unabomber or the "earth first" domestic terrorists who burn down houses and ski lodges. Or the animal rights wackos who destroy medical research labs. Or the Obama adminstration who used their ACORN pals to whip up hysteria about AIG executives receiving bonuses, generating all sorts of death threats and people staking out their houses.
People tried to blame Columbine on bands like KMFDM. And remember the parental council on 'obscene' rock music lyrics? Conservatives are guilty of the same hysteria-whipping. There's probably a modicum of truth to it, but nothing you could prove.
Listen liberals imagine it
PRESIDENT NEWT GINGRICH
let it soak in, just imagine what that piggly wiggly will do with all the powers you are giving to obama, ITS AN OFFICE stop focusing on the man, if a prez has too much power he will act like a bankerbuttkisser or a rancid alcoholic .
WE ARE A NATION OF LAWS, NOT MEN
I used to be a liberal/progressive
watched democracy now every day
this isnt a democracy, its a constitutional republic
OBAMA IS SELLING US!
all the heck we went through with bush has taught lefties nothing????????
are you kidding???
the banks have been stimulated, backed up and bailed out, what if somebody paid ALL YOUR BILLS then CUT YOU A FAT CHECK
he is a confidence man, a crook, this guy was a marine, MARINES ARE INSANE i love them but those guys are walking talking guns, they were TRAINED to kill. This dude needed some help, his mom didnt know what to do.
