{"id":10227,"date":"2010-04-20T07:45:43","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T12:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=10227"},"modified":"2011-09-01T07:49:15","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T12:49:15","slug":"stuck-on-offensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=10227","title":{"rendered":"Stuck On Offensive"},"content":{"rendered":"

To:\u00a0 Betty McCollum<\/p>\n

From: Mitch Berg, your unwilling constituent<\/p>\n

Re:\u00a0 You are a tool in the literal sense of the term.<\/p>\n

Rep. McCollum:<\/p>\n

When Members of Congress compare health care protesters and spending dissidents to \u2018mass-murderers,\u2019 \u2018militias,\u2019 or \u2018extremists\u2019 \u2013 in the hopes of scoring political points is like pouring gas on the fire of repression.<\/p>\n

The Members of the House, Democrats and Republicans \u2013 have a duty and an obligation to end the dangerous name-calling that can only inspire the extremist media and your not-very-bright supporters who keep crashing planes into buildings, shooting professors, and beating people up in the streets.
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Put another way, Rep. McCollum – I’m not saying you’re a totalitarian.\u00a0 I’m just saying that real totalitarians need lots of people like you running society to make their job easier.<\/p>\n

That is all.<\/p>\n

Well, no, it’s not.\u00a0 You also said:<\/p>\n

\u201cOnly last month a Fox News commentator, with Members of Congress next to him, rallied a Tea Party crowd by disparaging Congress and calling the crowd \u2018all these Tim McVeigh wannabes here\u2019 to the crowds cheers and applause.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Rep. McCollum:\u00a0 certainly you – a member of a party who’s leading intellectual light is Jon Stewart – can’t tell me you don’t “get” satire and sarcasm?<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen Members of Congress compare health care legislation to \u2018government tyranny,\u2019 \u2018socialism,\u2019 or \u2018totalitarianism\u2019 \u2013 in the hopes of scoring political points is like pouring gas on the fire of extremism.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Members of this House Democrats and Republicans \u2013 have a duty and an obligation to end the dangerous name-calling that can only inspire the extremist militias and phony patriots.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the most free, prosperous and greatest democracy on earth it is time to return to a civil, decent debate of public policy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want another \u2018Oklahoma City\u2019 to ever take place again.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Dear Representative Idiot.\u00a0 You are comparing protesters to mass-murderers.\u00a0 When it comes to civil debate, you are the problem.<\/em><\/p>\n

Civil debate will return to Washington when you are chased from office.<\/p>\n

And lest you and your idiot enablers in the local leftymedia are still trolling looking for more “extremists”, I mean “chased from office this November”.<\/p>\n

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To:\u00a0 Betty McCollum From: Mitch Berg, your unwilling constituent Re:\u00a0 You are a tool in the literal sense of the term. Rep. McCollum: When Members of Congress compare health care protesters and spending dissidents to \u2018mass-murderers,\u2019 \u2018militias,\u2019 or \u2018extremists\u2019 \u2013 in the hopes of scoring political points is like pouring gas on the fire of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-slander-files"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10227"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22317,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10227\/revisions\/22317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}