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Home Front: Politix
Lurid Moonbat Fantasy #54: if Obama is shot, it'll be Hillary's fault!
2008-05-27
Tim Russo @ "Blogger Interrupted"
h/t Instapundit

In the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, hereÂ’s what Bill Clinton had to say.

Such rhetoric seems to vindicate President Bill Clinton’s charge that there are “purveyors of hate and division” on U.S. airwaves who “leave the impression, by their very words, that violence is acceptable.” Clinton was roundly condemned by right-wing talk radio hosts and their allies for “politicizing” the Oklahoma City bombing, but his basic point is undeniable: There is much speech on the radio today that advocates or justifies violence.

No one could predict that Timothy McVeigh would emerge from the environment created by talk radio hatred,
Excuse me?
which IÂ’m quite certain McVeigh surrounded himself with 24/7,
"I don't know, but I'm certain anyway"
and take the kind of action he took in Oklahoma City.
Hold it, hold it, HOLD IT! Time out!
Can you link me to any example of Rush, or any other conservative radio commentator, newspaper columnist, or blogger who stuck up for McVeigh? You probably can't, because there weren't any. OK, look long enough, and you might find one, but whatever you find will be outnumbered by the legions who were happy to see the bastard get his comeuppance. IIRC, the only people protesting McVeigh's execution were the anti-death penalty crowd on the Left.

No one can predict what psychopath is within earshot of whatever manages to make it into the mainstream “discourse”, and what that psychopath will feel vindicated doing by the mere fact that others feel free to escalate the words beyond any definition of decency.
So, if someone tries to kill George W. Bush or Condi Rice or General David Petraeus, you'll immediately condemn the extreme antiwar rhetoric ("Bush=Hitler") that Michael Moore and Rosie O'Donnell and Keith Olberman irresponsibily leaked into the mainstream discourse and inspired the psycho to pull the trigger, right? Right? Isn't that right, Tim?
Why are you looking at me so funny.


Here’s the latest manifestation of the “discourse” which Hillary Clinton has seen fit to create.

The fact that Fox News intentionally wants people to confuse the Illinois Sen and Presidential candidate with the terrorist Osama Bin Ladin (someone whose capture and death many Americans have fantasized about) and then, on public airwaves, openly wish for violence against the Senator - Are they trying to encourage someone to kill Obama? Are they openly inciting violence? IsnÂ’t that against the law - like yelling fire in a crowded theater?

Under no circumstance would anyone make such a statement absent Hillary Clinton deciding to invoke the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy as a reason for staying in this primary. Those who wish to claim there could never be any causal relationship between Hillary’s comments, and the horror that might become some psychopath’s new mission, are missing the point. Certainly there is no proximate cause - just as certainly, there is a “but for” cause. But for Hillary’s rhetoric, a Fox News commentator would never go there. But for a Fox News commentator wishing for someone to kill Obama, some psychopath might never go there. . . .

Approaching June, my prayers for Barack ObamaÂ’s safety have indeed become a daily plea. IÂ’m not a big prayer guy, but I had no idea Hillary Clinton would make that necessary for my own peace of mind. Not in March, and not today. But she has. And she, and her supporters, are complicit in this because of their silence, their apologia, and their utter tone-deafness.

None of us are surprised that a Fox News commentator would be this irresponsible, the surprise is that Hillary Clinton would make such irresponsibility not only possible, but likely, through HillaryÂ’s own actions.

Tim Russo is an Ohio political operative with, shall we say, a checkered past and a lot of grudges. He was linked by the Instapundit, who commented:

BLAMING HILLARY IF OBAMA IS ASSASSINATED: "Approaching June, my prayers for Barack ObamaÂ’s safety have indeed become a daily plea. IÂ’m not a big prayer guy, but I had no idea Hillary Clinton would make that necessary for my own peace of mind." I think that's unfair, as is blaming Rush Limbaugh for Timothy McVeigh.

This prompted Tim to reply with a several-hundred word post entitled "The truth of conservative intellectual thought - they have neither" which included the following:

Getting linked to by Instapundit is always a creepy feeling. You want the traffic - his minions click on whatever he tells them to, like brainless link zombies. The problem is that the minions are, in fact, brainless zombies. . . . I mean, IÂ’d like to engage with a blatant GOP blogger, who says he voted for Bill Clinton twice, on an issue that any self-respecting law professor would have some intellectual thought on, but it appears that Glenn Reynolds has no intellect, or thought, to provide. HeÂ’d rather parrot whatever Fox News tells him to, an example which his readers follow, largely because itÂ’s the only way these people have ever learned how to engage in political discourse. He leads, they follow. Which I guess proves the point of my original post, doesnÂ’t it?

In case you trackback here, Tim, let me state clearly, and for the record:
-- I don't think Obama is the best available candidate for president. I will not vote for him.
-- I also don't want anyone to harm him. I wasn him to lose the election, go on to live a long and happy life, raise his daughters, and have plenty of grandchildren to spoil.
-- If anyone does harm Obama, I want them to meet the same fate as McVeigh.
-- You see, Tim, it's possible to disagree with someone, vote for their opponent, and not descend into seething hatred. You should try it sometime.
Posted by:Mike

#5  "Confuse the Illinois Senator and Presdiential Candidate with the Terrorist Osama Bin Laden...".

LEFTIST-POL DIALECTICISM > "Tis another Story, isn't it Jimbo, and another thingy for PAULA ABDUL to remember in the Naked City.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2008-05-27 19:46  

#4  I love the idea that a link from Instapundit is vile and evil. He might put a snarky comment up but he pretty much lets the readers decide for themselves (thus the link).
Posted by: rjschwarz   2008-05-27 12:28  

#3  Well, anything is possible.
Anything...
Posted by: Big Arugula   2008-05-27 12:19  

#2  The problem is that the minions are, in fact, brainless zombies...

Freudian projection once more validated.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2008-05-27 11:50  

#1  Well, actually, if Obama is shot, it will most likely be either by a Hillary supporter, or an Obama supporter who thinks that Obama has "failed" by not being kooky enough.

I base this on the fact that the overwhelming majority of presidential assassins in past have either been leftists or certifiably insane. And often a combination of the two.

Posted by: Anonymoose   2008-05-27 11:44  

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