A guy walks into the Arkansas Democratic Party office and shoots the party chairman.
This is a ghastly crime; the shooter was killed by police in a shootout later in the day, which is probably what should have happened.
This blog condemns all shooting at people that isn’t in legal self-defense.
Of course, when something like this happens, you can count on the idiot fringe (which is the lower 80%) of the Twin Cities’ leftysphere to try to spin it.
From the Mississippifarian – yet another anonymous, unaccountable Twin Cities leftyblog obviously written by a deranged nutcase – we get this explanation:
Let me make a wild and irresponsible guess: this asshole is a dittohead. Nothing else about him will be noteworthy other than the fact that he’s obviously some kind of loser who takes Rush seriously when Rush jokes about killing liberals.
Oh, obviously!
Except, y’know, it’s pretty likely not true:
Police said they don’t know the motive for the 51-year-old suspect, whose name has not been released. However, they said moments after the shooting, he pointed a handgun at the building manager at the nearby the Arkansas Baptist headquarters. He told the manager “I lost my job,” said Dan Jordan, a Baptist convention official.
I don’t believe Rush Limbaugh has ever joked about killing Baptists, now, has he?
Oh, but since we’re talking about “climates of hate” caused by other people exercising their First Amendment rights, “he” might wanna have a word with some of the genuinely hateful people among or descending upon us. Presuming “Mississippifarian” isn’t more interested in painting those peoples’ toenails.
Twin Cities’ leftysphere: Yeah, ya got another winner. Keep up the great work.
And Mississippifarian, whoever you are? Seek help.
UPDATE: To be fair, it’s not just gutless anonybloggers.
Judging from the bumper sticker collections on the back of cars around here, a lot lf crazy Al Franken’s supporters are anti-Christian bigots, therefore, the killer must be a fan of Al.
The shooter was obviously a pissed off Hillary supporter.
It was Arkansas after all; home of the Clinton’s, but still down south where the yokels cling to their guns & are suspicious of people who don’t look like themselves…
It obvious…
Yhis quote is from the beginning Mississippidiot’s latest post:
Apparently the national outrage industry, like rightwing talk show hosts, needs no actual information to come to a conclusion.
Mississippidiot makes the specious claim that Rush jokes about killing liberals. Having actually listened to him, unlike Mississippidiot, I can say that I have never heard antrhing coming close to joking about killing anyone.
Can we deduce from this hypocritical contradiction that Mississippidiot is an idiot?
We neither know if it’s true, nor, like the 35W Bridge collapse, do we know it’s untrue.
It’s at least curious that someone would walk into a state political party headquarters and shoot its Chair, without some sort of political motive. Pretending that’s not plausible, is in itself, not plausible.
Two weeks ago, some nutjob shot up a church becuase of the ‘liberal movement’ in part, this isn’t such a stretch, and as compared to the stretches you’ve made, and generally make every day, it’s right in the ballpark for smearablogs. It reminds me of this..
CBSNEWS:
Corsi’s “The Obama Nation” lacks major revelations and has been dismissed by Obama’s campaign as a series of lies from a serial liar. Parts of the book have also been disproved by the mainstream media. In 2004, Corsi co-wrote “Unfit for Command,” in which Swift boat veterans criticized Sen. John F. Kerry’s Vietnam War record. That book was also widely disproved.
Now – I know you don’t think Swiftboaters were widely disproved, but the rest of the rational world does.. yet you persist with your smears… smears which are little different than the one you criticize here.
BTW – after the Waco bombing, Rush’s calls to action became far more muted – so I think this guy is wrong – but it does point out that there is a thinly veiled hatred going on in the neo-kook party, hatred of liberals, which much like hatred of jews, is a convenient offset and blamepoint for problems rather than facing culpability, and some of us, some pretty large number of us, recognize it’s not Christianity which is under attack – not when the largest Christian evangelical organizations can get the President on the phone in a phone call or two, no, it’s thought, and it’s liberalism. Some of you choose to attack only with words, but your hatred is still evident – while some others, like the guy who shot up the church, or for that matter Timothy McVeigh – who didn’t like the Government – and with it, anyone who worked for or backed the idea of ‘big government’ – some of you would rather just resort to direct violence.
It’s at least curious that someone would walk into a state political party headquarters and shoot its Chair, without some sort of political motive. Pretending that’s not plausible, is in itself, not plausible.
Uh. . . huh.
Hey, let’s play a Penigma analogy game!
It’s at least curious that someone would take a seat on a Greyhound bus and repeatedly stab and decapitate a fellow passenger, without some sort of political motive. Pretending that’s not plausible, is in itself, not plausible.
See how fun that is?
Oh, and Peev? Go blow yourself.
Oh, and Peev? Was Kerry in Cambodia on Christmas Eve in 1968, in your little mind?
If you answered “yes,” you can once again go blow yourself.
Don Preciado claimed:
or for that matter Timothy McVeigh – who didn’t like the Government –
others assert the Clinton Justice Dept was responsible:
“Nichols contends a high-ranking FBI director, Larry Potts, directed Timothy McVeigh in the plot to blow up a government building and might have changed the original target of the attack, according to a new affidavit filed in U.S. District Court in Utah on February 9th, 2007.”
Pretending that’s not plausible, is in itself, not plausible.
this is great fun!
Gwatney was a super-delegate who had endorsed Hillary Clinton for President.
The shooter was obviously a crazed Obama supporter.
And peev, that quote is not from CBS, it’s from this article in the Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/13/AR2008081303959_pf.html
And notice the term of art “widely disproved” in the quote. A book can’t be ‘widely disproved’. Its claims can be disproved, the book itself can be a fraud, but it can’t be ‘disproved’.
The author, Saslow, probably meant to pass of the word ‘disputed’ as meaning the same thing as ‘disproved’.
I’m going to do a Mitch response to Peev.
We neither know if it’s true, nor, like the 35W Bridge collapse, do we know it’s untrue.
Um, ah, shit, my brain hurts after the first peice of contorted logic. I can’t do it.
Sorry Mitch, you’re on your own with this nut.
We neither know if it’s true, nor, like the 35W Bridge collapse, do we know it’s untrue.
Actually, we know that the insane left’s allegations about the 35W bridge are false.
And huh? You say “we neither know if it’s true…” and then you write:
It’s at least curious that someone would walk into a state political party headquarters and shoot its Chair, without some sort of political motive. Pretending that’s not plausible, is in itself, not plausible.
Plausible? Perhaps.
Acting as if it’s a fact – like that other gutless anonymousblogger did – is a whole ‘nother thing.
Two weeks ago, some nutjob shot up a church becuase of the ‘liberal movement’ in part, this isn’t such a stretch
The guy was also pretty much mentally ill. If it weren’t a “liberal movement”, it would have been “aliens” or “ukrainians” or whatever crossed the shooter’s mind.
Ted Kazynski was a liberal, by your standards; Al Franken is responsible for him!
and as compared to the stretches you’ve made, and generally make every day, it’s right in the ballpark for smearablogs.
Oh, cry me a river. You take your little cheap shots at me on your shittily-written, narcissistic little exercise in remedial writing (so I’m told – I’ve never read it, and doubt I ever will, because I rarely read lousy blogs unless there’s some entertainment value) and talk about “smears?”
Now – I know you don’t think Swiftboaters were widely disproved, but the rest of the rational world does..
For starters – no. They were not, unless by “rational world” you mean the deranged mass of BDS-addled trolls.
You’re calling yourself a spokesman for the “rational world?” You’re the guy who not only stated with unequivocal confidence that Scott Johnson was guilty of legal malpractice for writing about a law outside his area, but also said you had a friend who was a law professor who agreed – and were too much of a pansy to admit you were wrong after several real lawyers (to be charitable) embarassed you.
That’s just one of many incidents like that in which you’ve dealt in not only nothing BUT smears, but illiterate, transparently stupid ones at that.
Get this into your head, Peev. I allow you to comment here strictly for comedic effect. I let you run your mouth off with your little insults (“neo-kook”, “smear-blogger”, “nutsie”, and the rest of your immature little excuse for a vocabulary) in the same way I let schizphrenics at the bus stop yell all they way – because I know that if I give you enough rope, you’ll hang yourself again, and frankly it’s hilarious, and someday you’ll REALLY do a number on yourself.
BTW – after the Waco bombing, Rush’s calls to action became far more muted
Even before Waco, there was NO CALL TO ACTION.
Show me a cite from a real (non-fringe-lunatic) source, or just shut up and try to learn something.
For once.
I rarely read lousy blogs unless there’s some entertainment value
I KNEW you still read me, from time to time.
I bow to a master Peev-fisker. You missed this little gem, though:
but it does point out that there is a thinly veiled hatred going on in the neo-kook party
As opposed to the overt, relish-laden hatred voiced by the Left in this country?
Precious Peev:
“…some of you would rather just resort to direct violence.”
Out of curiosity, who is “some of you” Precious?
who is “some of you” Precious?
The same ones that voted for Nixon in ’75, I presume.
lol… you’re killin’ me, Mitch.
Is there anyone in here who was even able to vote in 76? 😉
Who are these people who hate? How is their Precious-Peev-proclaimed hatred thinly veiled? If those folks are hateful toward liberals, in what way is that hatred like hatred of Jews (using actual specifics, quotes, citations, etc.)?
Is there anyone in here who was even able to vote in 76?
Me. I voted for Carter.
Just barely though, if I remember correctly… right, Kermit?
Is there anyone in here who was even able to vote in 76?
my third opportunity to vote! I was smitten with lust for an ultar-liberal raven-haired beauty who convinced me that voting for any benighted person involved with the Trilateral Commission was tantamount to treason hence her virulent hatred for Carter and my dutiful vote for Ford.
oh and yes I know Ford was also a member of the Trilateral Commission but she saw him as safely ineffectual.
the 1976 election sounds vaguely familiar doesn’t it?
“In December, 1975, seven months before the Democratic National Convention, the Gallup Poll indicated that only 4% of the country’s Democrats wanted Carter. Even the Atlantic Constitution in his own state, ran a headline which said: “Jimmy Carter Running For What?”. However, within six months the nomination was his because of the most elaborate media campaign in history. Carter was glorified as the new hope of America as the media misrepresented his record as Governor in Georgia. This led former Georgia Governor Lester Maddox to say: “Based on false, misleading and deceiving statements and actions … Jimmy Carter in my opinion, neither deserves or should expect one vote from the American people.”
Just barely though
18 years, one month and dumb as Hell.
That pretty much describes most 18-year olds. I certainly qualified.
Is there anyone in here who was even able to vote in 76?
** My first presidential election.
Of course I voted in 1976, despite the fact that I was only in 2nd grade. I grew up around Chicago, and voted seven times for Carter.
I was about a month too young to vote in ’80. My first election was ’82, and my first presidential election was ’84.
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Penguin2- From CBS news about Corsi`s book- “Parts of the book have been disproved by the mainstream media.” There`s about zero credibility there. Is this the same mainsream media that “proved” Bush`s national guard story?
Jimf: never ask Peev details. He comes by, drops his rhetorical turds and scampers away, never defending his ludicrous positions.
Typical anonymous blogger.
I’m kind of worried about the ol’ peevster. A couple of years ago his writing was really bad. It looked like he had written each comment in some florid romance language and used a google service to translate it to English before posting it. Then for a while he got better. His comments were still far too long but the spelling was better and he throttled back on the adjective-piled-on-adjective writing style.
Then a few months ago he began to relapse. His comment on this post is as poorly written and incoherent as anything he’s ever written.
I suspect that what’s happening to peev is that living a double life — compliance officer by day, cross-dressing communist spy by night — is taking a toll on his psyche.
Terry
Don Preciado is attuned to the cycles of the moon – he slips the surly bonds of reason more easily when the moon is nearer full – and its harder to type with all that fur on your paws – he’ll be okay again in a few days, cranky, irritable, and shedding hair but ok.
His time of the month . . .