{"id":9693,"date":"2010-03-29T08:08:35","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T13:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=9693"},"modified":"2010-03-29T11:04:57","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T16:04:57","slug":"9693","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=9693","title":{"rendered":"The Reichstag Phone Call, Part III"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Again, and as always, I reject violence and threats and intimidation in any area of life, to say nothing of politics.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, with last week&#8217;s non-events &#8211; the unexplained severing of a propane line, a &#8220;brick thrown&#8221; through a 30th floor window, the non-intentional lofting of spittle and the non-chanting of a racial slur at Congressmen, and the non-news that some people reacted to Obamacare by sending threatening or (more usually) threatening-sounding or socially inappropriate phone messages to Congresscritters (as if a listen through a week of Michele Bachmann&#8217;s messages wouldn&#8217;t curl their nose hair!) &#8211; the majority Democrats in Washington are trying to seize the mantle of victimhood.<\/p>\n<p>And innocence, of course.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsbusters.org\/blogs\/mithridate-ombud\/2010\/03\/24\/medias-myth-right-wing-violence\">Not so fast<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It was not the fear of conservative violence that caused <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctvbc.ctv.ca\/servlet\/an\/local\/CTVNews\/20100323\/coulter_canada_100323\/20100323?hub=BritishColumbiaHome\">Ann Coulter&#8217;s speech to be cancelled<\/a> this week.<\/li>\n<li>It was a liberal who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktla.com\/news\/landing\/ktla-finger-bitten-rally,0,7135717.story\">bit the finger off a man<\/a> who disagreed with him on healthcare.<\/li>\n<li>It was Obama-loving <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2010_University_of_Alabama_in_Huntsville_shooting\">Amy Bishop who took a gun to work<\/a> and murdered co-workers.<\/li>\n<li>Joseph Stack <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/02\/18\/austin-plane-crash-office_n_467264.html\">flew his plane into the IRS building<\/a> after writing an anti-conservative manifesto.<\/li>\n<li>It was liberals who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newser.com\/story\/68673\/ecoterrorists-topple-seattle-area-radio-towers.html\">destroyed AM radio towers<\/a> outside of Seattle.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s liberals who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hummerguy.net\/hummer-news\/extreme-hummer-hate-ignites-fear-in-denver\">burn down Hummer dealerships<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>It was progressive SEIU union thugs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Wr_4ZWEFOjQ\">who beat a black conservative man<\/a> who spoke his mind.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s doubtful that a conservative <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/politicselections\/nation\/president\/2004-10-05-gop-office-attack_x.htm\">fired shots into a GOP campaign headquarters<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>In fact, Democrats have no <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsmv.com\/politics\/17770884\/detail.html\">monopoly<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/localnews\/2002059735_webbushoffice11.html\">having<\/a> their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.savethegop.com\/?p=5005\">offices vandalized<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t forget it was Obama&#8217;s friend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.academia.org\/left-wing-violence-exposed\/\">Bill Ayers who used terrorism<\/a> as a tool for political change. SDS is still radical, with arrests in 2007 and the storming of the CATO Institute in July 2008.<\/li>\n<li>It was a liberal who was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/pressRelease\/idUS248104+14-May-2009+PRN20090514\">sentenced to two years<\/a> for bringing bombs and riot shields to the Republican National Convention in 2008.<\/li>\n<li>It was a liberal who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/news\/content\/news\/stories\/local\/2009\/08\/24\/0824kibby.html\">threatened to kill a government informant<\/a> who infiltrated her Austin-based group that planned to bomb the RNC.<\/li>\n<li>It was liberals who <a href=\"http:\/\/michellemalkin.com\/2008\/07\/08\/berkeley-tree-sitter-travesty-continues-officer-battered\/\">assaulted police in Berkeley<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>It was liberals who <a href=\"http:\/\/michellemalkin.com\/2008\/06\/11\/animal-rights-thugs-terrorizing-berkeley-researchers\/\">intimidated and threw rocks through the windows<\/a> of researchers.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/michellemalkin.com\/2008\/11\/04\/black-panther-intimidation-at-the-polls\/\">two Black Panthers who stood outside polls intimidating people with nightsticks<\/a> were probably not right-wingers.<\/li>\n<li>Every time the G20 gets together, it&#8217;s not conservatives who <a href=\"http:\/\/cofcc.org\/2009\/09\/actual-political-violence\/\">destroy property and cause chaos<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oh, and it wasn\u2019t conservatives who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.necn.com\/Boston\/Politics\/Conn-delegates-doused-with-bleach-in-RNC-protests-\/1220361735.html\">threw bleach at elderly RNC delegates<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foundingbloggers.com\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/rnc-anarchist-who-attacked-delegates-pleads-guilty\/\">dropped sandbags on delegate buses<\/a> at the RNC.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s not forget the Minnesota union thugs who attack<a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotademocratsexposed.com\/2004\/08\/27\/union-thugs-attack-college-republicans-at-minnesota-state-fair\/\">ed the Young Republicans <\/a>at the 2004 MN State Fair, or burst into the St. Paul Bush Campaign headquarters with clear intent to intimidate.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s be clear, here; Conservatives and Republicans aren&#8217;t &#8220;victims&#8221;.\u00a0 Just, occasionally, targets.<\/p>\n<p>And &#8211; unlike Steny Hoyer and Frank Rich and Ed Schultz &#8211; I&#8217;m not going to use this long, and by no means complete, list of outrages to try to tar all Democrats.\u00a0 Unlike many of the left&#8217;s most &#8220;respected&#8221; talking heads, I&#8217;m not going to slime all of my opponents by association.\u00a0 That&#8217;s the mark of the intellectual bankrupt and the moral coward.<\/p>\n<p>Still &#8211; when you count actual <em>incidents<\/em>, as opposed to the innuendo-via-press-release that Steny Hoyer got splashed in front of the media last week, the balance of idiocy is pretty clear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Again, and as always, I reject violence and threats and intimidation in any area of life, to say nothing of politics. Of course, with last week&#8217;s non-events &#8211; the unexplained severing of a propane line, a &#8220;brick thrown&#8221; through a 30th floor window, the non-intentional lofting of spittle and the non-chanting of a racial slur [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slander-files"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9693","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=9693"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9696,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9693\/revisions\/9696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}