{"id":18396,"date":"2011-02-28T08:00:21","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T14:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=18396"},"modified":"2011-02-26T08:14:18","modified_gmt":"2011-02-26T14:14:18","slug":"weigel-misses-the-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=18396","title":{"rendered":"Weigel Misses The Point"},"content":{"rendered":"

David “JournoList” Weigel, writing at Slate<\/em>, wonders\u00a0“Where Are the Thugs?<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

Michelle Malkin promises to do “the reporting the Tea Party-bashing national media won\u2019t do on the rabid outbreak of progressive incivility and violence at Big Labor protests across the country.” Sounds promising! But here’s what she delivers.<\/p>\n

– Protesters call Scott Walker a “Koch whore.”<\/p>\n

– Two other protesters made crude sexual references.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I suppose you could call this…:<\/p>\n

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…a “crude sexual reference”.<\/p>\n

I mean, come on – if a Tea Partier had been caught with a sign like this, ever<\/em>, we’d still be hearing about it.<\/p>\n

– Last month a liberal talk show host said GOP Lieutenant Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch had performed “fellatio” on other talkers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And as we discovered during the 2008 campaign, no crudity is beyond the pale…when referring to conservative women.<\/p>\n

– At a rally in Providence, one asshole shoved a cameraman and was arrested and taken away, union members cheering the arrest.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, good.<\/p>\n

What do they want, a cookie?<\/p>\n

– In Denver, a black conservative was insulted in racial terms.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And here, Malkin was right; the media observes a very pronounced double standards. \u00a0Here was the attack on the black tea partier:<\/p>\n