We can see why Bernie Goldberg's book was an inspiration to the Knoxville church gunman

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We can see why Bernie Goldberg's book was an inspiration to the Knoxville church gunman
By David Neiwert
Friday Feb 13, 2009 6:30am

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"But it's interesting to me that these left-wingers who didn't say a word when their fellow left-wingers called George Bush a moron, when they called Dick Cheney a fascist, when they called Sarah Palin a racist, and when they threw Oreo cookies at Michael Steele because he had the nerve to be a conservative black man -- they didn't say a word about all of that.*

"So here's my conservative analysis, and feel free to bleep this: Screw them. Screw them. They are unimportant people, they are unimportant people who shouldn't be taken seriously.

"When you made a good-natured joke, I very seriously said that Helen Thomas' 15 minutes were up in the Lincoln administration. And you know what? If they want to take shots at me, and if they want to take shots at you, they need to know one thing: They're throwing spitballs at battleships."

The Go-Cheney-Yourself approach to discourse is no doubt what wins Bernie Goldberg so many fans on the right who snap up his books and hang on his every misbegotten word.

Including, it's quite clear, that fellow who last July walked into that Unitarian church in Knoxville and started shooting: Jim David Adkisson...http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/we-can-see-why-bernie-goldbergs-book

[ShortnFiery]

1. Yet, the surviving family and friends did not demand they execute his hateful ass ...

The forgoing is Christianity in action: the humble and forgiving kind - the VALUES that you can put on a placard or in a soundbyte.

[trotsky]

2. Uh, Unitarians aren't necessarily Christians.

Nor are the ideas of forgiveness and mercy the sole realm of Christianity.

[Buck Laser]

4. Nevertheless, most Unitarians come from a Christian environment.

I would expect Unitarians to be less ferocious in demanding revenge.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

3. Does this filthy waste of worm DNA ever say anything that isn't a lie?

"After a September 26, 2002 gubernatorial debate, which had occurred without reported incident, Paul Schurick, Ehrlich's communications manager, claimed that the Townsend campaign handed out Oreo cookies to the audience.<14> Five days after the debate, Steele said that one or more Oreo cookies had rolled to his feet during the debate suggesting a racist statement against him, that of being black on the outside and white on the inside like an Oreo. "Maybe it was just someone having their snack, but it was there," Steele said. "If it happened, shame on them if they are that immature and that threatened by me." At the time of the debate, Schurick had not mentioned any such incident, but in November 2005 he claimed "It was raining Oreos... They were thick in the air like locusts. I was there. It was very real. It wasn't subtle."<15> In a November 2005 Hannity and Colmes appearance, Steele agreed with Hannity that cookies were thrown at him.<16> Neil Duke of the Baltimore NAACP, who moderated the debate, praised the "passionate audience" and noted their "derisive behavior"<14> but did not see such behavior. "Were there some goofballs sitting in right-hand corner section tossing cookies amongst themselves and acting like sophomores, as the legend has it?" Duke said. "I have no reason to doubt those sources; I just didn't see it."<15><17><18> The operations manager of the building where the debate was held, interviewed three years after the event by The Baltimore Sun, disputed Steele's claim and said "I was in on the cleanup, and we found no cookies or anything else abnormal. There were no Oreo cookies thrown."<15> Some eyewitnesses, including AP reporter Tom Stuckey<19> and Project 21 representative Kevin Martin,<20> have said cookies were handed out and thrown. Other eyewitnesses did not corroborate Steele and Schurick's claim.<21><22>"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_S._Steele#Oreo_cookie_incident