Very Good Advice From The Guardian: Gabrielle Giffords BS Alert

[Turborama]

First of all, of course, all great wishes for Gabrielle Giffords. I have followed her career reasonably closely since she was elected in 2006, because she has been a pretty courageous Democrat from a district that's historically Republican.

But let's forget all that now. Let's now just do two things. One, pray/hope for her survival and recovery. Two, I would encourage all of you to keep an eye out for any signs of coverage that deplores the shooting but says something like, "Of course, there IS a lot of anger out there, so..." You won't hear that today. But keep an ear out for it Sunday, and Monday. As if there's a rationale for something like this. Just keep an ear out.

It might turn out that the shooter is just a nut. If so, so be it. But I implore you, just keep your ear to the ground. You can just hear it, can't you? "Of course, no one defends something like this, but..." Listen for that part after the but.

Finally, I see that Republicans are expressing the requisite horrified reaction. Good for them, today. But Giffords' office windows were broken during the 2009 healthcare summer of madness. And she cancelled an event just last week. Just keep an eye out.

From: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/michaeltomasky/2011/jan/08/usa-arizona-gabrielle-giffords-coverage

I've been watching Faux news' coverage and there have been a lot of "buts" on there already.

[Turborama]

1. Thanks for all the recs

:kick: for more visibility.

On edit. I've just come back and noticed the misspelling of her name in the title and it's too late for me to edit it. It seems very disrespectful not to have her name spelled properly but I have to say that it was copied and pasted from The Guardian's site and they have since corrected it.

Apologetically,

T

[highplainsdem]

2. K&R

[Truth2Tell]

3. Here's a K, to accompany my R.

Thanks Turbo.

[bullwinkle428]

4. Guarantee you'll see a tsunami of "buts" on the Sunday morning talk shows.

[beac]

5. K&R n/t

[xiamiam]

6. k and r..nt

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. Why I am afraid I will rake one for the team

and listing to... Rush on Monday.

[Turborama]

9. My thoughts will be with you while I keep my eye on Faux

That's the maximum strength of Reich wing disinformation I can cope with.

There's no way I can handle listening to Limbaugh other than if it's a clip being played mid slam by someone like Cenk or Mike Malloy. :fistbump:

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. I haven't done that in years

I promise not to go crazee...

[Turborama]

13. Please remember to take regular breaks

Maybe pop in here every so often so we know you're OK?

[Turborama]

19. How's the Rush thing going? I caught this on Faux earlier.

A "Tea Party Leader" saying that the mass murderer was "obviously a far left anarchist". The disgusting filth was full of projection and denial: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x542222

[butterfly77]

8. Kicked&Recommended!

[Lex]

10. They will say he is mentally unbalanced; they won't say he was incited

by the hate rhetoric and that's who the hate rhetoric is meant to incite.

[Turborama]

12. I've already seen it happening

Here.

You make a very valid point in response to it, too.

[AspenRose]

14. Damn straight.

And it'll probably be the foreign media that will keep things honest. God knows we can't rely on our bought-and-paid-for, conscience-lacking, blow-dried assholes over here.

And FUCK the false equivalency argument that's coming as well. FUCK that noise.

[sabrina 1]

15. Only one thing he was wrong about, they started already.

The news was barely broadcast when they went on the offensive.

Another thing to watch out for is this: 'Well, you know, both sides need to calm down'. When they are caught red-handed in yet another crime that they cannot lie about or deny, they resort to the 'moral equivalency' argument.

Even Jon Stewart tried that. I will take the blame for some things they 'left' is quilty of. But the Right has control of hate radio and most of the media is controlled by Big Business, never known to be 'left' leaning. So by sheer numbers of the media they control, rightwing hate speech is pervasive in this society.

[Turborama]

16. 'Well, you know, both sides need to calm down' AAAARRRGH!

That is the worst. I haven't caught up with what's being said today yet, but I'm sure they must have been shoveling that one out by the truck load already.

[lunatica]

17. They'll blame her for her 'extreme' politics driving people into insane rage

They've done it so many times that I can almost hear it already. They're probably already saying it.

[Doctor_J]

18. Unfortunately, here in the US every fucking media outlet is on the GOP payroll

They are complicit in the terrorism perpetrated by the teabaggers.