PRE-POST NOTE: I actually wrote this series last week, when the “annoying trickle” of pointless,mindless, baseless slander of conservatives was pretty much background noise.<\/p>\n
Of course, since I wrote the first three parts of the series, Janet Napolitano’s Department of Homeland Security – which would seem to have become completely politicized in the past three months – has essentially declared all conservative thought and dissent (not to mention military service) as probable cause for government suspicion<\/a>.<\/p>\n My friend and radio colleague John Hinderaker at Power Line, <\/em>shreds this report <\/a>in one of the essential fiskings in recent blog history; I’m sure it’s just the beginning.<\/p>\n But the extent of the defamation of all conservative thought <\/em>in this country goes way beyond a witless bureaucrat and her minions, and won’t end in the unlikely event Napolitano is fired in the disgrace she deserves.<\/p>\n My timing, sadly, could not be better.\u00a0 Or worse, depending on your point of view.<\/p>\n ———- Few brooks babble more than local leftyblog icon Mark Gisleson, who wrote last week<\/a>:<\/p>\n On Sunday\u2019s The UpTake<\/a>\u00a0live news show [no archive available], host Tom Elko\u2019s conservative blogger guest Mitch Berg turned to the camera and implored his 2nd Amendment buddies to not get crazy<\/em>. No clue if JammieWearingFool<\/a> listens to Mitch\u2019s radio show or reads his blog.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Now, haven’t seen the video of the Uptake appearance <\/a>– if there’s anything I hate more than listening to my voice, it’s seeing myself on TV – but I’m pretty sure the subject was the nutcase in Pittsburgh who shot the three cops, due to (he and the media claimed) his fear of Obama’s anti-gun proposals.\u00a0 Now, despite that fact that most of us Second Amendment\/Human Rights activists deal with this by joining the NRA (and\u00a0 you’ll note that there have not been four million of these incidents), I was urging fellow human rights activists to not panic; we’ve beaten back worse than this, and done it not only by civil means, but means we can be proud of a civil Americans.<\/p>\n It’s hilarious, of course – this is the same Mark Gisleson who five years ago earned undying infamy for pining for armed revolution<\/a>, in the Twin Cities’ Reader’s late, unlamented “Babelogue” (whose archives have perhaps mercifully gurgled down the memory hole):<\/p>\n In my heart, I still believe in revolution. In my heart, I still think I have the ‘nads to put my life on the line for a cause. In my gut I think this is the only way we’ll ever achieve our goals of economic and social justice. But in my head, I want to win the next election so we don’t have to have a revolution. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n …and who’s boasted about a purported past as a “labor goon”, has suddenly gotten the vapors over the odd bit of (let’s take him at his word, by which I mean “humor the delusion”) borderline-militant rhetoric.<\/p>\n Vapor-y enough to refer us to…:<\/p>\n
\nAs I noted yesterday – the usual annoying trickle of leftybloggers and “alternative” media types grasping onto examples of bad behavior by conservatives or (more usually) inflating off-handed remarks into “evidence” and outright mangling of context has turned into a babbling runoff-swollen brook of cultural defamation.<\/p>\n