Climate Of Hatred?

Remember this past sixteen years, when the left stretched mightily to try to tie virtually every crime to “right-wing extremism”, or even just plain ol’ Rush Limbaugh or Rep. Michele Bachmann?

How everything from the Oklahoma City Bombing to the Bill Sparkman “murder” were the fault of “extremist rhetoric” or mythical “climates of hatred” (Until debunked, anyway)?

Do you suppose this bit here

A family source said Bishop, a mother of four children – the youngest a third-grade boy – was a far-left political extremist who was “obsessed” with President Obama to the point of being off-putting.

…will draw a concerned squint from Katie Couric?

Which is not to say that I believe that Bishop’s political beliefs had anything to do with last week’s mass-murder. I don’t want to go down that path where anything anyone says or believes that’s one degree outside whatever “the center” is in this country gets tied to one form of extremism or another.

But I’ve wondered at times if the apocalyptic rhetoric of the far left hasn’t twisted a few weak minds out of spec.  I wondered even more when Janet Napolitano started putting workadaddy, hugamommy conservative groups onto watchlists – given the “end justifies the means” attitude of so many on the left, I wondered if some crazy somewhere wouldn’t use it to justify some kind of ghastliness or another for their own ends.  Great, ghoulish example; Bill Sparkmann – the part-time teacher who killed himself in Kentucky last summer, prompting local bloggers to blame the death on Michele Bachmann’s anti-census rhetoric – chose, as his last act on this earth, to draw a message on his chest to essentially frame conservatives for his death.

7 thoughts on “Climate Of Hatred?

  1. Who do you think would be more likely to walk into work and start shooting people, Swiftee or Peevish Boy?

  2. Now come on……Peev earns a lot of legitimate criticism, we don’t need to make things up….

    (or are you not making things up? yikes?)

    To Mitch’s point, I’m not quite sure whether it’s a liberal climate of hatred as it is a liberal climate of thinking the ends justify the means (we can make up memos about George W. Bush if that’ll help Gore win!), and thinking that nobody out there has the intellectual curiousity to wonder why the obvious story doesn’t quite match the facts–and investigate.

    Or are they counting on a lie running 20 miles before the truth gets its shoes on?

  3. With the Marxist jackass at Virginia Tech, this Bishop whack-job, and now the possibility that the plane-crasher might be a universal health-care guy…

    …we’re really seeing a pattern. The left is really wrong.

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