The week begin with the right wing republicans and their media enablers scrambling to distance themselves from their words in the aftermath of the tragedy in Tucson,Arizona.
Can you be rabidly anti-government and not be political?
Apparently the answer is yes, according to the mainstream media, and even some of the progressive press.
It is a bit shocking to read news analysis variations on the Tucson shooter that are phrased along the lines of "Jared L. Loughner was not considered political, although he did express anti-government feelings."
Excuse me, but we don't know if the press has slept through what has been going on in the right-wing world of media and politics - particularly during the Obama administration - but the No. 1 political target of the radical right is the government! One doesn't need to be an active booster of the Republican Party to be a part of this dangerous political mindset.
But, but liberals do it too, they whined.
Liberals are so uncivilized. And intolerant. And they hate America, too. How dare they exercise their own free speech rights to condemn the free speech rights of Real Americans? Jeez, talk about your overreaction to some "lone nut" (like so many lone nuts before him) using his god-given second amendment rights to remedy the problem of liberal tyranny.
Terrorism in black, brown, red and white.
When a “crazy” White guy with a gun, wound up on polarized talking points and manifestos, indiscriminately kills innocent Americans in broad daylight, it takes several days in the aftermath before the larger public will even accept a hint of pre-meditation. Typically, the collective American psyche will initially trivialize the event by calling the perpetrator “deranged” or “mentally unstable.” The social response script is fashioned to fake us into a false sense of security. It’s isolated, they say. Just one crazed nut with a gun.
That dude who flew his plane into an IRS building? Isolated. Or the cat who waited for, scoped, then killed three Pittsburgh police officers? Crazy. What about the man who shot at the Panama City school board then shot himself? Off the edge.
Brown skin man with bombs strapped to his torso? Oh, that’s a terrorist.
It wasn't the speech I would have given but President Obama reached out to those who hate him with a great Kumbya speech. And how did they respond?
They are claiming that it was nothing more than a political rally for you and that your peeps were responsible for the pep rally type atmosphere in that arena last night. It was your peeps who printed all those "together we thrive" t-shirts in blue. ("Why not red? I thought you wanted unity, Obama?") You were responsible for some folks in the crowd booing the republi-clown governor. (She potentially caused the death of at least two people in her state. Her ass deserved to be booed.) You were responsible for all those dumbocratic stage managers running things. You were responsible for Eric Holder and Janet Napolitano being there. (BTW, where was the crying tan man?). It was you who allowed that Indi.....I mean Native American to give his "peculiar" prayer. It's all on you, Obama.
Did President Obama and us voters help set the stage for what happened in Arizona?
There is irony in Obama's speech because, in our view, he helped set the stage for the tragedy in Tucson. The president undoubtedly did not intend for blood to be shed at a political event. But his limp response to Republican lawlessness during the George W. Bush administration--plus voters' endorsement of a right-wing agenda in the 2010 midterm elections--helped create the toxic environment that led to the Giffords shooting.
The underlying causes of Jared Loughner's shooting spree go beyond ugly right-wing rhetoric. They also include ugly right-wing actions during the previous administration. Obama essentially has excused those actions, and many voters have more or less approved them by putting one house of Congress back in GOP hands. In our view, that means the president and large chunks of the voting public share in the blame for Saturday's bloodshed.
Is Blood Libel the beginning of the end of the mainstream media's obsession Sarah Palin?
Has Palin finally tarnished her luster with her thoughtless remarks about the Giffords shooting, or will she turn this into yet another opportunity to play the victim?
I vote for another opportunity to play the victim.
In the wake of President Obama's call for civility and unity are the republicans and their media enablers going to change? Are they going to be kinder, gentler republicans?
He who is bitten by a snake fears a lizard~African Proverb Ask gop token, I mean Chairman Michael Steele who is being rewarded for returning the Speakers Gavel to the gop by fighting for his job. *Snicker*
Steele, the brash former lieutenant governor of Maryland whose tenure has been marked by financial woes and verbal missteps, argues that he should be elected because of the GOP's record of coast-to-coast victories last fall, including winning control of the House, while he was chairman.
He doesn't mention that Republican operatives formed a network of outside groups that adopted traditional national party functions out of a concern about the RNC's ability under Steele to raise money and deploy resources to key races.
So let me get this straight, Michael Steele has served his purpose now it's time for him to GO? Now where have I heard that before?
Stay tuned for Redeye's Alabama Week in Review.
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