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?<\/p>\n
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)?<\/p>\n
Do you suppose this bit here<\/a>…<\/p>\n A family source said Bishop, a mother of four children – the youngest a third-grade boy – was a far-left political extremist who was \u201cobsessed\u201d with President Obama to the point of being off-putting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n …will draw a concerned squint from Katie Couric?<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n But I’ve wondered at times if the apocalyptic rhetoric of the far left hasn’t twisted a few weak minds out of spec.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 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<\/a> – chose, as his last act on this earth, to draw a message on his chest to essentially frame conservatives for his death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8686","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=8686"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8688,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8686\/revisions\/8688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}