Dear Right-Wingers: You Are All Muslims Now (Rude Pundit)

[jefferson_dem]

Dear Right-Wingers: You Are All Muslims Now:

Oh, dear, sweet conservative Americans, how you must have shit yourself on Saturday when you heard that someone had shot up an event with a Democratic member of Congress in, of all goddamned places, Arizona. And, worse, a Representative who had voted in favor of health care reform, which you have demonized as nothing short of a resurrection of the Nazi Party. It must have been awful for so many conservatives, thinking, praying, "Please, please, please, don’t let it be some Tea Party dick who says he did it because Glenn Beck told him to. Don’t let it be someone who wants to fuck Sarah Palin and thinks that if he starts taking out her congressional crosshaired targets, he’ll get into her pants."

How you must have heaved in relief when you saw that it would be quite easy to portray Jared Lee Loughner as a raving psychopath, an effort that’s helped a great deal by the apparent truth, which is that Jared Lee Loughner is a raving psychopath. Yeah, he's a psychopath who’s mad rantings are heavily peppered with an insouciant flavor of Beck or Ron Paul or loony conspiracy theory nutsiness, but a psychopath just the same.

Now, ah, yes, now, lovely right-wingers, you could defend yourself. You could work yourselves into a huff about how unjustly you were accused of driving this obviously disturbed individual into an act of calculated, cold-blooded violence. But that's because you're sitting there in your shit-filled underpants, thinking, "I don't believe in violence. I don't approve this. I hope the government doesn't try to crack down on us."

So, welcome, assholes, because you are Muslim now.

How does it feel to stand in Muslim shoes today? Because, right now, yes, you are being treated like suspects. You are being treated like you are guilty of the crimes that are committed by the deranged in your number. Sure, you may think, you can spout all the blood-filled, gun-toting, war-flogging rhetoric you want against citizens of your own country. But those are just words, you know? You can’t, you know, be held accountable for the actions of a few. And, gosh, it’s just wrong to lump you all together, to stereotype you all as criminals in waiting. Like, you know, you have done with Muslims since September 11, 2001.

Here's the deal, though. The vast, vast, vast majority of Muslims decry not only acts of violence, but the rhetoric of it, too. The vast, vast, vast majority of right-wingers not only stay silent as conservatives shoot at targets with their opponents' names or initials on them, talk about revolution and violence, and accuse Democrats of getting ready to put Americans in forced health care camps. No, you embrace your extremists assholes and anoint them your idiot queen.

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[Zax2me]

1. Won't stick

The shooter has clinically checked out upstairs.
He can no more be tied to right wing nuts than by idiots trying to frame him as a liberal because he is an atheist and smoked pot.
He can't be tied to ideology because he cannot process politics or even sit through a class with any degree of success.

[Puzzler]

2. It's not necessarliy about his politics...

... or what Palin actually intended — it's about how the least rational person takes it. That's what makes it so irresponsible.

[travelingtypist]

3. So many talking points, so little time.

How the hell can you possibly know he can't process politics or be influenced by the hatred spewed by Palin and Angle and Beck? Are you a psychiatrist or in any way qualified to remotely diagnose a la Sen. Frist and Terri Schaivo?

:eyes:

[jefferson_dem]

4. Of course he's a "raving psychopath"...

Rude Pundit says that. We all know that... Does that mean the RWNJ's should not be called out for their extremist-encouraging-enabling rhetorical spew? Nah...

Besides, that's not really the point of the piece. Read it again. Thanks.

[kestrel91316]

5. He may be delusional, but that doesn't mean the voices of hate coming from

from his TV and radio weren't real.

FAIL.