{"id":9752,"date":"2010-03-30T07:43:15","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T12:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=9752"},"modified":"2011-09-01T07:49:15","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T12:49:15","slug":"avalanche-of-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=9752","title":{"rendered":"Avalanche Of Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"

The “avalanche of violence” – Steny Hoyer’s “estimated” ten Democrat house representatives who’ve gotten off-color\/picqued messages from constituents – has come home to roost.\u00a0 Rep. Betty McCollum (DFL-MN4) reports<\/a> getting a shredded flag and a condom in the mail, as well as…<\/p>\n

…well, I’m sure there was some violence amid that avalanche.<\/p>\n

But I thought – what’s the larger context, here?\u00a0 Having worked in talk radio, including a stretch as a call screener, I know that threats and ugliness are just part of being in the public eye; some people, regardless of their politics or target, just don’t handle diversity well.<\/p>\n

So I asked Rep. Michele Bachmann’s office “what kind of things to you get from people during an ordinary stretch of sessions?”\u00a0 It may have been an unfair question; Rep. Bachmann is like a red cape in front of insane bulls.<\/p>\n

But the office duly obliged.<\/p>\n

From email:<\/p>\n

Date: Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 3:20 AM
\nSubject: I want to share my opinion with you.<\/p>\n

You are, in my opinion. one ugly fucking human being. I’m so glad I don’t live in Minnesota<\/span>. In Fargo, the Coen brothers<\/span> did a great job of depicting your state as populated by dimwits, and now it’s even easier to believe that that is reality. I’m glad we’re finally closing the door on the amazing stupidity of the Bush assministration, and I will be nearly as happy when you are no longer holding any significant political office<\/span>, you asshole.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wow.\u00a0 If it’d been aimed at a Democrat, I’m sure brows would be getting plenty furrowed!<\/p>\n

Comments from Michele Bachmann’s YouTube channel:<\/p>\n

phish1085<\/span><\/a> has made a comment on The Bill Must Be Repealed!<\/span><\/a>:<\/p>\n

you dont know what the fuck your talkin about bitch<\/p>\n

jim2hal<\/a> has made a comment on Bachmann Reacts to the Health Care Vote.<\/a>wmv:<\/p>\n

If Micheal pulled her hair back I’m sure that you would see her horns and turn heraround and bet there is a tail there…. so hateful<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

plzwakeup<\/a> has made a comment on The President’s Health Care Advisers<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Hope you fucking die. SOON!!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

HateRepublicans<\/a> has posted a comment on your profile:<\/p>\n

you are an evil person, you are the devil, you are a person without a moral conscience
\nI really hope you die, you took part in destroying this once great country
\nyou are one of the most corrupt politicians out there<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Would these have made the news – and caused furrowed brows – if they were aimed at Democrats?<\/p>\n

Oh, well.\u00a0 It’s not like anyone’s shooting at Congresspeoples’ offices<\/a> or anything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The “avalanche of violence” – Steny Hoyer’s “estimated” ten Democrat house representatives who’ve gotten off-color\/picqued messages from constituents – has come home to roost.\u00a0 Rep. Betty McCollum (DFL-MN4) reports getting a shredded flag and a condom in the mail, as well as… …well, I’m sure there was some violence amid that avalanche. But I thought […]<\/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-9752","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\/9752","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=9752"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22320,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9752\/revisions\/22320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}