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1. #1
   On January 14th, 2011 at 10:13 am, Socky said:

   Why are we talking about “incendiary rhetoric” when it has been definitively proven not to have been a factor in the shooting? Is it because the real culprit is mental illness and the media don’t want to offend the Democrat base?

2. #2
   On January 14th, 2011 at 10:19 am, ITookTheRedPill said:

   Communist revolutionaries in the government and the media will always project blame upon conservatives.

   ALWAYS.

3. #3
   On January 14th, 2011 at 10:20 am, ITookTheRedPill said:

   And on a related note…

   The roots of the “Together We Thrive” memorial service camapaign rally can be traced to the 2008 Obama campaign and an anti-capitalist (a.k.a. Communist) post that promoted “a revolution”…

   Together We Thrive
   By John Berry IV – Feb 11, 2008 [almost three years ago]

   For too long Americans have been set one against the other, it is a side affect of a free market society. How can profits be maximized, how can I get the work done for the lowest possible costs. This continually sets one group against the other, especially in the blue collar sectors of America. It has become a part of the American Business model, whether it was indentured servants, slaves picking cotton, sharecroppers, the industrious people that built the railroads or todays migrant workers. As long as we remain divided, fighting for the scraps that America has to offer it will be one group against the other.

   What I see in Obama is a chance for a revolution…

   Barack and his fellow Communists used a mass murder memorial service as a platform to hand out T-shirts and promote what is really a revolutionary Communist agenda.

4. #4
   On January 14th, 2011 at 10:20 am, Lockstein13 said:

   I do not consider that the “Spider-In-Chief” had any wise counsel for us “flies.”

   I consider his cynical words merely a veiled attempt to say, “let me show you how reasonable I am by stepping on your throat.”

   To put this another way, “…this call to civility came after the President’s allies spent four days loudly indicting conservatives as accessories to murder, a campaign that led to a frightening surge of death threats against one of their primary targets, Sarah Palin. It’s a little like coming home to find that one of your kids has beaten the other one to a pulp, and sternly instructing them both to knock off the roughhousing.”

   (from http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=41181)

   I think it is more likely than not merely a prelude to a Leftist censorship surge:

   http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/01/we_beg_to_differ.html

5. #5
   On January 14th, 2011 at 10:21 am, pressto said:

   You forgot the guy who crashed the plane into the IRS building.

6. #6
   On January 14th, 2011 at 10:23 am, Michelle Malkin said:

   \You forgot the guy who crashed the plane into the IRS building.

   No, I didn’t.

7. #7
   On January 14th, 2011 at 10:26 am, ACHefty said:

   As always, Michelle, great column. One point of correction. Marines use Drill Instructors, not Drill Sergeants. Nothing to “incite hateful rhetoric” over, but something we Marines and former Marines tend to correct when we get the opportunity.

   Thanks again.

   Andy Hefty, Former Sergeant
   USMC 1982-1990

8. #8
   On January 14th, 2011 at 10:28 am, jamesgreenidge said:

   I see. So it’s only “civil” if we all hold hands and “just get along” and vote the Dem’s way, right?

   James Greenidge
   Queens NY

9. #9
   On January 14th, 2011 at 10:28 am, ACHefty said:

   At least one thing has been somewhat of a relief in the Left’s constant blame game. They’ve stopped blaming Bush — at least for a while.

10. #10
    On January 14th, 2011 at 10:28 am, Ron said:

    Good job, Michelle. That T-shirt and the whole branding was bizarre for a memorial, as has been noted. The older I get, the more suspicious I am of anything that says “Together…” because I suspect that as an individual, I’m about to be submerged in the “global village” it takes to raise a child, tie our shoes, or decide what my kids can eat at school.

11. #11
    On January 14th, 2011 at 10:30 am, Sergeant Tim said:

    All 124 of those indcted the last two years for home-grown terrorism are Muslims. Where is the call from the Liberal media and politicians for American imams to tone down their incedinary speech?

12. #12
    On January 14th, 2011 at 10:30 am, Lindsay said:

    The truth hurts, doesn’t it MSM? A little reminder of past vitriolic behavior in your self-righteous amnesia.

    Uh, oh. Is the word “hurts” still ok due to their rampant metaphoric hypersensitivity? I know the word, “truth” is probably foreign to their vernacular. Just trying to behave and not shout, “Sic ‘em, Michelle!”

    Thank you, Michelle Malkin, for all you do.

13. #13
    On January 14th, 2011 at 10:32 am, ACHefty said:

    Is the word “hurts” still ok

    Yes, but I don’t think “Sic ‘em, Michelle!” is.

    Therefore, I echo your thoughts: “Sic ‘em, Michelle!”

14. #14
    On January 14th, 2011 at 10:33 am, John Deaux said:

    It’s all about silencing dissent so the mindless middle thinks the left is doing a good job and votes incumbent.

    I’d like to see some phototshop a Together We Thieve logo.

15. #15
    On January 14th, 2011 at 10:38 am, cheapseat said:

    Another great article bringing the truth forward. You are correct that the truth doesn’t really seem to be important to these “reporters”. But the truth is important to we mere mortals which is why a majority of people aren’t buying what the MSM is selling. This type of easily documented and even easier refuted BS from these usual suspects will continue their downward spiral into the sewer of journalistic integrity.

16. #16
    On January 14th, 2011 at 10:48 am, flmom said:

    All 124 of those indcted the last two years for home-grown terrorism are Muslims. Where is the call from the Liberal media and politicians for American imams to tone down their incedinary speech?

    Bullseye!! (oops, was that incendiary?)

17. #17
    On January 14th, 2011 at 10:50 am, TigerLady said:

    President Obama wisely counseled the nation this week at the Tucson massacre memorial that “Bad things happen, and we must guard against simple explanations in the aftermath.”

    The Sock Puppet is such a hypocrite: “The police acted stupidly”.

18. #18
    On January 14th, 2011 at 10:50 am, ACHefty said:

    Bullseye!! (oops, was that incendiary?)

    Of course not. The left uses that. You would have to have said “Crosshairs!” for it to be incendiary.

19. #19
    On January 14th, 2011 at 10:53 am, hawkeye54 said:

    So it’s only “civil” if we all hold hands and “just get along” and vote the Dem’s way, right?

    Correct. Just like “bipartisanship” means doing things the Dems way too.

    Another great article bringing the truth forward. You are correct that the truth doesn’t really seem to be important to these “reporters”.

    The only “truth” important to the BLM is the continued rabid and unabated vilification of the Right to enable perpetual power for its socialist political masters.

20. #20
    On January 14th, 2011 at 10:57 am, tre said:

    Rightwing extremists sank the Titanic, blew up the Hindenberg, assassinate Julius Ceaser, kidnapped Helen of Troy, caused Noahs’ Flood, caused the Black Death, ……

21. #21
    On January 14th, 2011 at 11:08 am, granite said:

    …Obama wisely counseled….

    No, he didn’t.

    On January 14th, 2011 at 10:20 am, Lockstein13 said:

    It’s a little like coming home to find that one of your kids [kid A] has beaten the other one [kid B] to a pulp, and after which kid A sternly instructing them sermonizes that they both have to knock off the roughhousing.”

    Good point.
    Just tweaked it a bit.

22. #22
    On January 14th, 2011 at 11:13 am, mchristian said:

    “heated, apocalyptic rhetoric of the anti-Obama forces” (according to mainstream liberal Atlantic Monthly pundit Andrew Sullivan),

    Andi Sullivan commented on rhetoric? I thought his specialty was Ob/Gyn.

23. #23
    On January 14th, 2011 at 11:19 am, happyscrapper said:

    The answer is simple…they want to shut down free speech on the Right because we speak truth and they don’t want horrible stuff like Truth to get out to the masses. The only way they can think of to shut us up is to censor us by vilification. IT.WON’T.WORK. Just try to repeal the First Amendment and see how the American People react. It wouldn’t be pretty. Am I talking about violence here? Yeah, I am…not advocating it, but just predicting what will happen if they try to censor the truth.

24. #24
    On January 14th, 2011 at 11:21 am, Virginia Patriot said:

    The propaganda machine is really exposing itself.

    And it ain’t pretty.

25. #25
    On January 14th, 2011 at 11:25 am, Canadian Mike said:

    At what point do democrats with a conscience (there must be some) start to figure out that so called violence from the right is almost always fabricted? I can’t tell you how thankful I am that the internet, with all of its warts, has evolved. In the past the left could completely control the message and lie to their heart’s content. That is almost impossible now and I believe most people have figured it out. It must have driven the left nuts to see nobody believed their most recent “blame the right” garbage, even for one day. Expect a huge push to control the internet from them as it is destroying their Ministry of Truth.

26. #26
    On January 14th, 2011 at 11:51 am, hawkeye54 said:

    Rightwing extremists sank the Titanic, blew up the Hindenberg, assassinate Julius Ceaser, kidnapped Helen of Troy, caused Noahs’ Flood, caused the Black Death, ……

    And through their devious mind control caused the Germans to bomb Pearl Harbor on Dec 7, 1941, deliberately plunging the US into a senseless war just to enrich the greedy capitalist warmongers.

27. #27
    On January 14th, 2011 at 11:52 am, Mister P said:

    We must remember that it is the Left who loves telling other people how to act. What I can’t understand are all the conservative pundit praising Obamas speech. Not once did he apologize for his speech and never did I hear him criticize the speech of the left. But somehow through it all, he let the far left and the RINO republicans paint him as a moderate.

28. #28
    On January 14th, 2011 at 11:58 am, Teddy Kennedy said:

    Errah, Ahhh yes the faces of tolerance!

29. #29
    On January 14th, 2011 at 11:58 am, babiesgrandma said:

    My immediate thought, upon seeing the Together we Thrive t-shirts, was this was a pre-planned event, just waiting for a venue to come along. And, voila, Tucson becomes the target (for use of a kinder, gentler term).

    That’s why the speech did not match. That’s why the t-shirts were ready to go. That’s why I am getting warning bells going off — ding, ding, ding.

30. #30
    On January 14th, 2011 at 12:07 pm, Dexter Alarius said:

    TOTUS said: “Bad things happen, and we must guard against simple explanations in the aftermath.”

    Um, no. You have it bass-ackwards. You must guard against twisting yourselves into knots to come up with complex conspiracies and 6th degree accessories when the simple truth is a lunatic did something loony.

31. #31
    On January 14th, 2011 at 12:13 pm, Ilovemycountry said:

    This is who you people are:

    http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/01/an-unbelievable-video-of-political-madness/69530/

32. #32
    On January 14th, 2011 at 12:21 pm, Teddy Kennedy said:

    Errah has anyone checked to see what degree seperation any of these folks are from Kevin Bacon?

33. #33
    On January 14th, 2011 at 12:29 pm, beenthere said:

    I confess I find the whole business nauseating. All Obama (the same guy who phoned Sherriff Dupnik to thank him for what a great job he was doing) did at the Tucson Massacre-a-Thon was turn it into an event about himself. The same thing he always does.

    This time the little professor drew upon out the usual civility bromides without once citing a specific example to give a prissy big sermon instead of a “prissy little sermonette,” (h/t Thomas Sowell) and of course it worked. People went nuts over it. The beltway pseudo-con bores, the NR-types and David Brooks/Kathleen Parker wannabes fell in love all over again, delighted to feel in their heart of hearts that at last Obama was one of them and would finally ask them out.
    _______________________________

    Three or four women near me cried, “Alas, good soul!” and forgave him with all their hearts. But never mind them—if Caesar had stabbed their mothers, they would’ve forgiven him. ”

    Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

34. #34
    On January 14th, 2011 at 12:38 pm, DanMan said:

    I’m with y’all. Thanks Michelle.

35. #35
    On January 14th, 2011 at 12:43 pm, Virginia Patriot said:

    Liberalism is a mental disorder.

    You cannot reason with the unreasonable.

36. #36
    On January 14th, 2011 at 12:49 pm, CO2 Producer said:

    …12:13 pm…

    We people are a bunch of Larry O’Donnells? What a horrible thing to say.

37. #37
    On January 14th, 2011 at 12:51 pm, granite said:

    On January 14th, 2011 at 12:07 pm, Dexter Alarius said:

    TOTUS said: “Bad things happen, and we must guard against simple explanations in the aftermath.”

    Um, no. You have it bass-ackwards. You must guard against twisting yourselves into knots to come up with complex….

    Good point.

    The arrogant, elitist, socialitst opposite worldview-holders “twist themselves into knots” trying to come up with counterintuitive “selling points” on issue after issue after issue…in their quest to convince America-lovers that we are bad and should commit national/cultural/societal suicide.
    This is yet one more of those issues.

38. #38
    On January 14th, 2011 at 1:11 pm, locomotivebreath1901 said:

    Facts do not matter all that much to many Progressives. But feelings do.

    Progressives ‘feel’ those mean ol’ conservatives are to blame because, gosh darn it, they’re mean. And need to be punished.

    Progressives, of course, have granted themselves this moral clarity to mete out the punishment.

    It’s like a scene from a bad “B” film, “Round up the usual suspects, and lynch one of ‘em.”

    Except this “B” film plays 24/7 in prime time.

    ‘Scuse me whilst I hurlllll

39. #39
    On January 14th, 2011 at 1:21 pm, Lindsay said:

    An anthropologist needs to track and investigate the common thread (gene?) that binds liberal journalists (and the deaf and blind liberals) who follow their every word.

    Here are common traits I have observed without checking with Krauthammer and those in the know. (Please add to the list, as I am sure there are many more traits).
    Many liberals are:
    1) Narcissistic to the point of always believing they are right in their opinions, go ballistic and defensive if their falsehoods are questioned, and would never dream of either a retraction or apology if proven wrong by truth or facts (see “global warming”). Rumors are spread based on what television pundits say, who are useful tools.

    2) They believe they are the smartest people in the room (see “narcissism”). Are shocked to find some of their friends are conservative Republicans.

    3) Liberals cannot fathom looking at the world from another view: that abortion may be murder, or that socialism may be wrong for our country and the economy. They heard in college, or somewhere, that capitalism is wrong, war is wrong, religion is wrong, and that it was cool to have these beliefs which shows how super intelligent you are. In fact, if you don’t have these beliefs you are in the stupid crowd.

    4)The liberal media know and are complicit in infecting the minds of these people who have no curiosity to question reports, and have no desire to understand the false reporting. The liberal media preaches to the choir while cherry-picking the news they do not want the public to read, and are unapologetic when they are wrong(see “narcissism”). Politicians use this tool effectively to get the message and talking points fixed in liberal-speak.

    5) Hypersensitive to criticism (see “narcissism” above). They blindly claim metaphors such as “target” and “bull’s eye” and “reload” are inciting anger and there should be a national kumbaya. Soon, “seeing red” and “Red Bull” may be words spoken in secret code (cannot use Pig Latin as that would offend Islam).

    6) Amnesia of past history: do not recall images of hanging Palin in effigy, the Chimpy BushHitler years, anything Bush/Cheney and death wishes for both men by pundits,Bill Ayer’s Weather Underground, Rev Wright’s speeches, etc. No recall whatsoever, of of their mantra that “dissent is patriotic.” I cannot recall a single pundit or conservative I read wanting to kill a leader, either in print, on TV, or on that evil talk radio. In just criticising the administration’s policies we are classified as domestic terrorists thinking of man-made disaster. This creates a shrill and hysterical hype echo chamber.

    7) No sense of humor (with the exceptions, finally, of Jon Stewart and SNL, on occasion, making fun of Dear Leader or policy). It is a sacred cow to make fun of The Won. Hypersensitive gene is aroused. Liberal fatwas over slights.

    8)If conservatives fight(oopsie, bad word?)back, with the same rhetoric or satire, the rules don’t apply. You are inciting violence instead of democratic free speech and patriotic dissent.

    You have to think they are very threatened, to be so hypersensitive and dramatic (while at the same time amnesic of the years 2000 to 2008). Threatened by the Tea Party’s ideas and growing popularity, and the majority in the House of Representatives after this last election. Their untruths are spread to dilute the message of conservativism infecting independent voters, and to distract and deflect from the problem of liberalism.

    Please forgive this long post, but I got a little dupeniked-out this week by the MSM’s blatant lies.

40. #40
    On January 14th, 2011 at 1:29 pm, Dexter Alarius said:

    Welcome back, Iloathemycountry. We’ve missed you (not!).

    This is who you people are:

    Yes, that scene was disgraceful, and I’m certain everyone here, including our lovely hostess, would agree. Because that is NOT who we are. We condemn that kind of behavior wherever it presents itself, from Left or Right. Do you?

41. #41
    On January 14th, 2011 at 1:34 pm, rambler said:

    Since the political elites have no clue how to create solutions to the problems the country is facing which resulted from the policies of these same elites. The elites have to deflect the attention on to other things which have nothing to do with the real problems and hope that the public buys it.

42. #42
    On January 14th, 2011 at 1:42 pm, mchristian said:

    Ilovemycountry said:

    This is who you people are:

    Put down the chicken and back away slowly.

43. #43
    On January 14th, 2011 at 1:47 pm, Marc said:

    Actually, there are many more examples. About 15 years ago, Hollywood made a movie called “Falling Down” in which Michael Douglas played a laid off white guy who went on a murder spree against Blacks, Koreans and Hispanics. The screen writers tried to cover their butts and added a 30 second scene in which Douglas’s character fought with a Nazi. But that was window dressing. And many in the MSM assumed that the Douglas character in “Falling Down” was realistic and an exemplar of the angry white male. Newsweek even had a cover story about the Douglas character as the exemplar of the angry, resentful white male.
    Then there is the reaction on the left to 9/11/2001. The whole Andrew Sullivan set immediately blamed Ariel Sharon and Israel for the mass murders. And all susequent Arab acts of terrorism are immediately blamed, not on the killers, but on Israel’s foreign policy. If Israel would only give in to the Arabs, innocent young Arab men would not be compelled to commit acts of terrorism. Notice that lefties like Krugman, Roger Cohen, Amanpour etal. are only willing to excuse acts of terrorism when it is young Muslim men doing it.

44. #44
    On January 14th, 2011 at 1:59 pm, NHMagenta said:

    What I see is over the past 10-20 years the level of political discourse in the USA has gotten nastier and nastier.

    As the differences between the First and Third World continues to narrow I don’t expect things to get any better.

    Alas the probable end game will be the imposition of a Second Republic where the legal concept of separation of powers and rights retained are replaced by unitary governments and privileges extended or withdrawn .

45. #45
    On January 14th, 2011 at 2:00 pm, Regulus said:

    Here are common traits I have observed without checking with Krauthammer and those in the know. (Please add to the list, as I am sure there are many more traits).

    9) They’re cowards. Most of their obnoxious behaviors are, in one form or another, avoidance mechanisms that they employ to keep from having to deal with some unpleasantness that is either intrinsic in themselves (from having surrendered to the Seven Major Negative Emotions) or that arises from their lifestyle choices.

    The odd thing is, if they’d expend the same mental and physical energy that they invest in avoidance mechanisms into confronting their own personal demons instead, they could stop running away from reality and stop projecting their inner ugliness onto others.

    But that requires a tolerance for emotional pain, physical pain, or both, and they’re so afraid of the pain that they prefer retreating into a cartoon world instead.

    Glenn Reynolds over at Instapundit.com has observed that when unemployment is at permanent 9% levels, economic growth is stagnant, foreclosures are hitting record levels, home values are declining at the same rate as in the Great Depression, and the government is running trillion-plus dollar deficits annually as it heads over the financial waterfall, liberals would much rather say, “Look — over there — it’s Sarah Palin! Or Rush Limbaugh! Eeeek!”

    10) They’re pathological liars. Whatever they say they are, the opposite is true. And if you want to know what they’re really thinking or doing, just listen to what they accuse you of thinking or doing.

    11) They have an unerring bent towards totalitarianism. Except for sexual behavior, which they believe should have no restrictions at all, they’re in favor of limiting or banning most all forms of individual-agent-of-will behavior as a means of imposing their writ onto society at large.

    From “The Living, Breathing Constitution”™ to ObamaCare to Eco-Extremism, their supposed urge to “save us from ourselves” is nothing but reflection of a desire to enslave us all.

46. #46
    On January 14th, 2011 at 2:04 pm, rambler said:

    How many colleges and universities have psyc depts and yet don’t seem to have a policy for dealing with wacko students.

    What is the point in having police depts that don’t bother to deal with wacked kids who are either reported by the public to police or the police have had direct contact.

    What has happened that backgound checks for gun permits fail to discover to the truth about dangerous individuals?

    It seems that those who could have dealt with dangerous people decided not to. Guess it is always better to have a scapegoat rather than to own up to what really happened. Blaming others is a sorry excuse for problem solving. Seems the oh so brilliant lefties can’t wrap their brains around that.

    The stupidity just keeps on flowing.

47. #47
    On January 14th, 2011 at 2:05 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    Ilovemycountry said:

    On January 14th, 2011 at 1:42 pm, mchristian said:

    Put down the chicken and back away slowly.

    

48. #48
    On January 14th, 2011 at 2:11 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    On January 14th, 2011 at 1:47 pm, Marc said:

    many in the MSM assumed that the Douglas character in “Falling Down” was realistic and an exemplar of the angry white male. Newsweek even had a cover story about the Douglas character as the exemplar of the angry, resentful white male.

    You know who is kind of hung up on “anger“?

    The guy who used the word 10 times in 5 paragraphs, when he said this…

    But for all those who scratched and clawed their way to get a piece of the American Dream, there were many who didn’t make it – those who were ultimately defeated, in one way or another, by discrimination. That legacy of defeat was passed on to future generations – those young men and increasingly young women who we see standing on street corners or languishing in our prisons, without hope or prospects for the future. Even for those blacks who did make it, questions of race, and racism, continue to define their worldview in fundamental ways. For the men and women of Reverend Wright’s generation, the memories of humiliation and doubt and fear have not gone away; nor has the anger and the bitterness of those years. That anger may not get expressed in public, in front of white co-workers or white friends. But it does find voice in the barbershop or around the kitchen table. At times, that anger is exploited by politicians, to gin up votes along racial lines, or to make up for a politician’s own failings.

    And occasionally it finds voice in the church on Sunday morning, in the pulpit and in the pews. The fact that so many people are surprised to hear that anger in some of Reverend Wright’s sermons simply reminds us of the old truism that the most segregated hour in American life occurs on Sunday morning. That anger is not always productive; indeed, all too often it distracts attention from solving real problems; it keeps us from squarely facing our own complicity in our condition, and prevents the African-American community from forging the alliances it needs to bring about real change. But the anger is real; it is powerful; and to simply wish it away, to condemn it without understanding its roots, only serves to widen the chasm of misunderstanding that exists between the races.

    In fact, a similar anger exists within segments of the white community. Most working- and middle-class white Americans don’t feel that they have been particularly privileged by their race. Their experience is the immigrant experience – as far as they’re concerned, no one’s handed them anything, they’ve built it from scratch. They’ve worked hard all their lives, many times only to see their jobs shipped overseas or their pension dumped after a lifetime of labor. They are anxious about their futures, and feel their dreams slipping away; in an era of stagnant wages and global competition, opportunity comes to be seen as a zero sum game, in which your dreams come at my expense. So when they are told to bus their children to a school across town; when they hear that an African American is getting an advantage in landing a good job or a spot in a good college because of an injustice that they themselves never committed; when they’re told that their fears about crime in urban neighborhoods are somehow prejudiced, resentment builds over time.

    Like the anger within the black community, these resentments aren’t always expressed in polite company. But they have helped shape the political landscape for at least a generation. anger over welfare and affirmative action helped forge the Reagan Coalition. Politicians routinely exploited fears of crime for their own electoral ends. Talk show hosts and conservative commentators built entire careers unmasking bogus claims of racism while dismissing legitimate discussions of racial injustice and inequality as mere political correctness or reverse racism.

    Just as black anger often proved counterproductive, so have these white resentments distracted attention from the real culprits of the middle class squeeze – a corporate culture rife with inside dealing, questionable accounting practices, and short-term greed; a Washington dominated by lobbyists and special interests; economic policies that favor the few over the many.

    When he gave that speech, I saw this guy for what he is:
    A Community Communist Organizer Agitator.

    Pure Alinsky.

    He was not seeking to heal that anger.
    He was looking to rub it raw and blame capitalism in the process.

    It has been noted that multiple times recently Barack Obama has misquoted the Declaration of independence, leaving out the words “by their Creator”.

    Well, back when Obama gave that speech on March 18, 2008, he also misquoted our Constitution, leaving out the words “of the United States” and, in my opinion, implying that U.S. sovereignty doesn’t matter to someone who considers himself a “citizen of the world”.

49. #49
    On January 14th, 2011 at 2:13 pm, Lindsay said:

    mchristian #44: Love it!

50. #50
    On January 14th, 2011 at 2:18 pm, rambler said:

    ITookTheRedPill #50

    Yes, yes, yes, yes!

51. #51
    On January 14th, 2011 at 2:39 pm, Ilovemycountry said:

    This is who you people are – Vol II

    http://gawker.com/5732700/rush-limbaughs-tucson-billboard-is-just-perfect

52. #52
    On January 14th, 2011 at 2:45 pm, Hannibal said:

    #24 On January 14th, 2011 at 11:13 am, mchristian said:

    Andi Sullivan commented on rhetoric? I thought his specialty was Ob/Gyn.

    Nope, his self proclaimed field of interest is more along the line of proctology.

53. #53
    On January 14th, 2011 at 3:26 pm, Papa Louie said:

    What the left is doing right now and what they are so quick to do every time there is a tragedy or a crisis is explained in the leftist bible:

    Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals:
    5. Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.
    6. A good tactic is one your people enjoy. [They do enjoy this, don't they?]
    8. Keep the pressure on, with different tactics and actions, and utilize all events of the period for your purpose. [Even a memorial service?]
    13. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. [Palin?]

    According to Alinsky, the main job of the organizer is to bait an opponent into reacting. “The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength.”

    The media is happy to join the left in baiting the right. When Sarah Palin didn’t respond to their blame game right after the shooting, they began to bait her into responding. “Palin’s silence remains deafening” was one headline. Then when she did respond to them, they acted like sharks at a feeding frenzy drawn to “blood libel” in the water. They not only ridiculed every word she said but complained about why she was speaking out at all: “why would she draw attention to herself on a day when other politicians took a break to mourn.” Thus there was no way for Sarah to avoid ridicule because they were determined to demonize her whether she responded or not.

    The Alinsky rules also does a good job of explaining the Community Organizer in Chief. If you’ve ever wondered why Obama’s values are constantly changing and “evolving”, or why he so easily forgets promises he has made, then just read Alinsky’s view of what an organizer is:

    “An organizer working in and for an open society is in an ideological dilemma to begin with, he does not have a fixed truth — truth to him is relative and changing; everything to him is relative and changing… the end justifies almost any means”

    And, last of all, the following makes you wonder if our economic woes are being prolonged on purpose to prepare the way for a fundamental transformation of America:

    “The first step in community organization is community disorganization. … All change means disorganization of the old and organization of the new.”

54. #54
    On January 14th, 2011 at 3:37 pm, stillontheroad said:

    Ilovemycountry said:
    To say something one must have intelligence and a sence of self – I believe IlovemyHotPocket looses on both counts.

55. #55
    On January 14th, 2011 at 3:54 pm, CO2 Producer said:

    Sticks and stones may break my bones, but figurative language makes you an accessory to mass murder.

56. #56
    On January 14th, 2011 at 3:55 pm, mchristian said:

    Ilovemycountry said:

    This is who you people are – Vol II

    You want to play that game? Compare that to this.

57. #57
    On January 14th, 2011 at 3:59 pm, stillontheroad said:

    For those of you that have read King Rat – IloveMyHotpocket could use a Bore Hole Party.

58. #58
    On January 14th, 2011 at 4:24 pm, babiesgrandma said:

    Great job on the radio just now, Michelle. As always, you have all the facts at your fingertips. Amazing.

59. #59
    On January 14th, 2011 at 4:24 pm, Ilovemycountry said:

    Yp, here you folks go again:

    http://www.examiner.com/religion-culture-in-national/gun-lovers-become-bullies-at-political-rallies

60. #60
    On January 14th, 2011 at 4:28 pm, babiesgrandma said:

    Ilovemycountry said:
    Yp, here you folks go again:

    http://www.examiner.com/religion-culture-in-national/gun-lovers-become-bullies-at-political-rallies

    I would venture to guess that NO ONE would be pulling a “Loughner” on that crowd, what with all those rifles around. A very well protected rally is what I see.

61. #61
    On January 14th, 2011 at 4:45 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    Ilovemycountry said:

    Yp, here you folks go again:

    http://www.examiner.com/religion-culture-in-national/gun-lovers-become-bullies-at-political-rallies

    Hahaha! The writer has Lee Harvey Oswald on a grassy knoll.

    Babiesgrandma has it right.

62. #62
    On January 14th, 2011 at 5:06 pm, BrianNY said:

    Blame Righty: A condensed history

    Compared to the historical actions of the Leftist “anti-war” and “environmental” movements alone…this “hate & violence-soaked” image that’s constantly being thrown at conservatives by the MSM has gained about as much credibility as a Nigerian Scam Letter.

63. #63
    On January 14th, 2011 at 5:10 pm, hawkeye54 said:

    this “hate & violence-soaked” image that’s constantly being thrown at conservatives by the MSM has gained about as much credibility as a Nigerian Scam Letter.

    Actually, a Nigeran Scam Letter has more credibility.

64. #64
    On January 14th, 2011 at 5:11 pm, Virginia Patriot said:

    Don’t feed the trolls…

65. #65
    On January 14th, 2011 at 5:20 pm, huggybear said:

    Ilovemycountry said:
    This is who you people are

    Come on, now. “You people” is a terrible thing to say, and blaming everyone in a given group for the worst among them is lazy and intellectually dishonest.

    Michelle Malkin said:
    I agree with President Obama. When it comes to politicizing random violence, he and his supporters have been “far too eager to lay the blame for all that ails the world at the feet of those who think differently than” they do

    Interesting how you agree with him by doing the same thing you purport to condemn. You’re not “confronting them with facts” that disprove their claims, you’re simply turning the tables and doing the exact same thing in reverse.

    Recognition is the first step toward reconciliation

    Yes, it is. Let us know how that works out for you.

66. #66
    On January 14th, 2011 at 5:52 pm, Ilovemycountry said:

    Why do you people tolerate this stuff?

    It was just a matter of time:

    http://collinreischman.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/tea-party-sign-toter.jpg

67. #67
    On January 14th, 2011 at 6:16 pm, Dandapani said:

    Copyright 2010?

68. #68
    On January 14th, 2011 at 7:20 pm, Speakup said:

    Jared Louphren is a mentally ill person who’s been shown to have abused drugs and has perpetrated a heinous act.

    Drugs are illegal, so, how’s that whole not right in the head doing dope thing working out?

    Not well? Why?

    Because “civil rights” groups have sued over and over to “mainstream” the mentally ill and they’ve also fought hard in the belief you have the right to make yourself be stupid by drug addling your brain, even if you’re mentally ill and you might go off and kill and maim a bunch of people.

    How is it the ACLU isn’t to blame for the Tuscon massacre?
    Private “civil rights” organizations have all the culpability in the world for creating the exact scenario in Tuscon, the trigger finger belonging to Louphner might as well have had ACLU tattooed on it, they actually do have a physical link to what happened there and plenty of other places, they created that link in many different court rooms, they’re to blame much more than an inanimate firearm or political speech he never listened to.

    So where’s the outrage? Why is there not a bill to ban the entities that actually have some blame coming to them?
    After all Louphner stood a much better chance of institutionalization, and a Tuscon massacre that would never have happened, but for an apparently exempt arm of the liberal machine.

69. #69
    On January 14th, 2011 at 7:28 pm, bedje said:

    I’m a you people, he’s a you people, she’s a you people, we’re a you people.
    Wouldn’t you like to be a you people too?

70. #70
    On January 14th, 2011 at 8:01 pm, travlinman said:

    Sadly, the sheeple do not understand this or even care enough to research the latest charges in order to make an informed decision. They get their news in small sound-bites from the MSM. Imagine how bad it will get when the ‘Fairness Doctrine’ is enacted.

71. #71
    On January 14th, 2011 at 8:08 pm, travlinman said:

    On January 14th, 2011 at 5:52 pm, Ilovemycountry said:

    Why do you people tolerate this stuff?

    It was just a matter of time:

    http://collinreischman.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/tea-party-sign-toter.jpg

    What don’t you understand about that sign? It is clear to me because I understand what the conservative movement and the Tea-Partiers are all about. That sign does not mean that he (or the group) will necessarily bring arms to a rally or start a fracas. It means that the first American Revolution against Great Britain was fought with guns and that this one will be fought with ideas and at the ballot box.

72. #72
    On January 14th, 2011 at 8:11 pm, Chief RZ said:

    They are lazy good for nothing “journalists” who are h___ bent on turning this country into a communist state.

73. #73
    On January 14th, 2011 at 8:37 pm, Republicanvet said:

    Just wondering…perhaps I’m not seeing the bigger picture because the left says only vitriolic speech comes from the right, but….

    I see the 9th Circus Court has designated a judge from California to hear the case in Arizona.

    A judge appointed by the EEEEEEEEEEEEEvil BUSH!!

    I’m not sure what to think of this. If only vitriol comes from the right, why risk designating a judge appointed by BUSH? Can the shooter get a fair trial by such a vitriolic judge? Why not designate some raving leftist judge?

    I guess he at least got a lawyer appointed for him. I suppose many others are camped out at Gitmo.

74. #74
    On January 14th, 2011 at 8:54 pm, Republicanvet said:

    On January 14th, 2011 at 10:28 am, ACHefty said:

    They’ve stopped blaming Bush — at least for a while.

    Naw. Give ‘em time. As I noted above, the designated judge was appointed by Bush.

75. #75
    On January 14th, 2011 at 9:13 pm, sbw999 said:

    The majority of modern day liberals are deranged hateful people; who are so used to lying and getting away with it, that they will boldly lie about anything, even blaming the murders of children on conservatives. The difference, we hope, is that enough independents, and the few fair minded semi-sane liberals out there start to realize this, and the far left lunatics are forever marginalized.

76. #76
    On January 14th, 2011 at 9:32 pm, Republicanvet said:

    On January 14th, 2011 at 2:39 pm, Ilovemycountry said:

    Whatever.

    This is who the left (you) have been for years.

77. #77
    On January 15th, 2011 at 12:43 am, Jason L. said:

    Hearing all of this and reading the posts from above, it sounds like Paul Wellstone’s memorial campaign rally Funeral Service form a few years ago. That President Obama “presided” is not surprising, and I agree: all of this came after his leftist goons in the media smeared Sarah Palin, Sharron angle, and all the rest of us Conservatives.

    It’s too bad that the left just can’t help itself when soemthing like this happens. God help the USA….

78. #78
    On January 15th, 2011 at 1:37 am, frontierguy said:

    Not long ago a report came out that 1 in 4 people in the United States have a mental disease. The polls show that 25% identify themselves as liberal. I laughed at people who suggested the correlation, but I am convinced now, not a coincidence. Liberals are either narcissists, who believe they must champion those so “unfortunate” to not be as smart as they are or are those who believe that they are not as advanced because they are being held down (usually extremely lazy and cut off from reality). All identifiably mental.

79. #79
    On January 15th, 2011 at 12:49 pm, ThackerAgency said:

    good piece, I agree, but there’s something inherently wrong (boring) with news articles about news articles.

    mighty mighty green.

    I just like saying that.

80. #80
    On January 15th, 2011 at 6:37 pm, floridaobserver said:

    Anyone remember this by Jimmy Carter?
    http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=32339

    Sometimes crazy is just crazy. Look at the killer of the little Amish girls. And the killer of those kindergarteners in Scotland in 1996. They had a grudge, too, and what horror and devastation they caused in those communities.

81. #81
    On January 15th, 2011 at 6:40 pm, floridaobserver said:

    Oh, I forgot, they DID find a gene.

    http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/10/28/researchers-liberal-gene-genetics-politics/

    Now we know!

82. #82
    On January 16th, 2011 at 12:34 am, corkie said:

    On January 14th, 2011 at 5:20 pm, huggybear said:

    Michelle Malkin said:
    I agree with President Obama. When it comes to politicizing random violence, he and his supporters have been “far too eager to lay the blame for all that ails the world at the feet of those who think differently than” they do

    Interesting how you agree with him by doing the same thing you purport to condemn. You’re not “confronting them with facts” that disprove their claims, you’re simply turning the tables and doing the exact same thing in reverse.

    You have a reading comprehension problem. Michelle isn’t blaming Obama’s side for all the ails of the world. Michelle is criticizing Obama’s side for blaming conservatives for all the ails of the world.

    Maybe this topic is simply too complicated for you.

83. #83
    On January 16th, 2011 at 10:40 am, jbh45 said:

    Good article. I have one point of contention though. Jivelry Voong is not of vietnamese descent. Voong is the phonetic spelling of Wong. He was of ethnically chinese descent who had resided in Vietnam. There is not a single Vietnamese word that has the “oo” in it as in Voong.

    I know it may be splitting hairs, but its a big deal in the vietnamese community.

84. #84
    On January 16th, 2011 at 10:48 am, happy2behere said:

    A little late, but thank you Regulus, that post above was well done. Heading now to the referenced blog.

85. #85
    On January 16th, 2011 at 3:55 pm, spaceycakes said:

    Ilovemycount

    Yes. Say it out loud.

86. #86
    On January 17th, 2011 at 1:59 am, Politicalguano said:

    Looks like most of these domestic mass murders are the work of those who are mentally deranged democrats – or am I repeating myself?
    Why read Arriana’s on line diarrhea spout – Huff-Puff is might as well be edited by Sue D. Monas.
    Time to label reporters who connect violence with conservatism as deranged, dumb, and democRAT. When reporters ask a conservative a question – first words in response are: “Aren’t you the dumb sh1t who libeled Ms. Palin?” And don’t forget to mention that the violent perp was a registered demoncRAT and his favorite book was the commie manifesto.
    Lets face it – the democRATS consider convicts their constituents! TRUTH! Remember how the dems worked furiously in Florida to get felons back the vote. DemocRAT- the party of violence, murder, pathologic liars, and scumbags. Now a democRAT ACLU lawyer is going to defend this latest murderer and argue the shooter is innocent – it was the gun company or Limbaugh or maybe …it…was…PALIN!

87. #87
    On January 17th, 2011 at 11:07 am, Jimmie said:

    One of my favorite MLK quotes…. “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter”…end quote…..Of course the liberals will argue that this is a living statement and Dr. King didn’t know that the TEA organization would speak out against the liberal rule and so this statement only applies to liberal socialists…. Further more if Conservative Christian lives begin to end because of silence….so much the better…

88. #88
    On January 17th, 2011 at 5:24 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    Jimmie,

    Thanks for that comment.

    The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was right about a lot of things. He was was right about judging people by the content of their character and not by the color of their skin. (Sidebar: It would be nice if today’s MSM would stop referring to Obama’s skin color.)

    But Dr. King was also wrong about some things… most notably any belief that Socialism/Communism is a way to improve people’s lives.