While Democrats have become very quick to try to hide their own failings behind purported Republican/conservative baseness (remember when Hillary Clinton blamed Rush Limbaugh for the Oklahoma City Bombing?), it’s interesting to notice how selective they are about the subject.

Evan Coyne Maloney on-again, off-again tolerance for violent imagery in activism:

The Obama Administration’s confrontational tone included some violent imagery last August, when one White House official encouraged Obama supporters to “punch back twice as hard” against opponents.

Later that day, at an anti-ObamaCare rally in St. Louis, a black man named Kenneth Gladney was handing out “Don’t Tread on Me” flags when he was approached by pro-ObamaCare SEIU union members. One of the men asked Gladney, “What kind of n*%%er are you to be giving out this kind of stuff?”

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Obama’s supporters got the message. They were getting in people’s faces, and they were punching. And kicking. Repeatedly.

Yet despite the fact that the Kenneth Gladney beating occurred the same day that the Obama Administration recommended supporters “punch back twice as hard,” there was no hyperventilating in the media about political violence or the veiled threats that encouraged it.

Real statements.  Real violence.

Now, unlike Steny Hoyer and Ed Schultz, I’m not going to babble about how these actions – this preponderance of actions – reflects on every liberal.  That’d be stupid.

But in Modern Times, Paul Johnson notes that “the end justifies the means” is a theme connecting all statists, from Mussolini to Alinski.

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