I’ve never cared much for Michael Savage.<\/p>\n
And so I’ve never gotten one of his “liberalism is a mental disorder” T-shirts.<\/p>\n
But the left seems to want so badly <\/em>to presume that the right in America – especially the obstreporous, color-outside-the-lines right that’s making so much hay these days – represents some sort of depravity that I think some sort of diagnosis – clinical Narcissism? – might just apply.<\/p>\n Back as far as 9\/12 (or maybe 9\/13) I remember liberals chanting “the real <\/em>danger is still home-grown militias”.\u00a0 And every time there’s an incident these days, that wistful hope – that their fellow Americans are really a bunch of murderout animals – comes back to the front.<\/p>\n Over the weekend, before the arrest of the TImes Square bomber, we had Mayor Bloomberg\u00a0\u00a0 fairly hyperventilating <\/a>at the possibility that the suspect would turn out to be a tea partier – a representative of a moment that has never <\/em>had so much as a face slap attributed to it:<\/p>\n New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg appeared on Katie Couric\u2019s show Monday night to discuss the attempted car bombing in Times Square. Between reassuring viewers at home that New York was safe and praising the city\u2019s resilient spirit, Bloomberg wondered aloud if the culprit behind the Times Square car bomb was \u201ca mentally deranged person or somebody with a political agenda that doesn\u2019t like the health-care bill or something.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Hizzoners’s wishful thinking was brutally let down when t Faisal Shahzad <\/a>didn’t turn out to be a Tea Partier at all.<\/p>\n So intense is the left’s lust for this blood libel that left publications from The Nation<\/a> to\u00a0 the Daily Kos<\/a> to tony leftybloggers<\/a> to wannabee journalists citing “anonymous sources” that just knew <\/em>that every liberals fantasy was going to come true<\/a>, the left, fresh off of eight years of demanding that the right stop its (nonexistent) threats to their patriotism, seems to have developed an affirmative need to slander half of this nation.<\/p>\n So when are that tiny film of responsible liberals going to demand better of your leaders?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve never cared much for Michael Savage. And so I’ve never gotten one of his “liberalism is a mental disorder” T-shirts. But the left seems to want so badly to presume that the right in America – especially the obstreporous, color-outside-the-lines right that’s making so much hay these days – represents some sort of depravity […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,51,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc","category-liberal-tyranny","category-slander-files"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10654"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11858,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10654\/revisions\/11858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}