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Chimichurri Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-09-11 09:46 PM
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Right Wing Museum Shooter - Republicans/Pundits Warned the Left Back Then Too
Edited on Sun Jan-09-11 09:49 PM by Chimichurri
They used the same tactics and it worked. Don't let them do it again.
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6.11.09
Boehner to Brian Beutler of TPMDC, a harshly-worded warning that “trying to exploit this awful tragedy to score political points — from the right or the left — is simply grotesque.”


Coming only ten days after the murder of Kansas abortion doctor George Tiller and only nine days after the murder of Pvt. William Long, a military recruiter in Arkansas, the Holocaust Museum shooting has propped open a door on the complicated politics of extremism.Republican politicians, who have flirted with the rhetoric of “revolution” and attacks on the president’s “fascism,” are hesitant to push the envelope for fear of the sort of political backlash that hit them in the 1990s. Conservative activists and pundits are taking a more pro-active stance, attempting to debunk any idea of a wave of extremist violence or, failing that, to define extremists like von Brunn as lone wackos or leftists.

http://washingtonindependent.com/46683/right-wing-rhetoric-on-hold-after-museum-shooting
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RainDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-09-11 09:49 PM
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1. a right wing asshole today tried to make the claim the Holocaust shooter was a liberal
because he didn't like Bush.

no matter that the guy was a white supremacist who wrote a book about that very thing.

remember, the reality-based community is not on the right - they simply choose to refuse to accept what they don't like - that their rhetoric supports and encourages political violence.
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Chimichurri Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-09-11 09:50 PM
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3. Like their religion, The Constitution and everything else, they pick
Edited on Sun Jan-09-11 09:54 PM by Chimichurri
and choose what they like - cafeteria style.
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Tom Rinaldo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-09-11 09:50 PM
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2. Yep. And that small Michigan militia that wanted to forment a revolution
...by killing some cops and blaming it on the Left, they too existed in a political vacuum that the political right has no responibility for. Or the guy who flew into the IRS building killing people, or the guy who sent some type of fire bomb packages to the Democratic Governor of MD etc. etc. etc.,
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