Jackpine Radical
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Mon Jan-10-11 03:32 PM
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Protesting Too Much? Right-Wing Attacks on Sheriff Dupnik Are Tacit Confession |
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By: Phoenix Woman Sunday January 9, 2011 7:10 pm
There’s an old Bill Cosby routine, called “Shop”, on the album Why Is There Air? that is quite apposite to the events of the past two days. In it, Cosby describes how his junior-high-school shop teacher tricked the guilty party into tacitly confessing to having put a bullet in the shop class furnace — and without directly accusing the kid or even so much as saying his name. With the right-wing attacks on Pima County, Arizona Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, we’re seeing something rather similar play out.
Just as Cosby’s shop teacher didn’t directly accuse any of his students of being the one who put the bullet in the furnace, Sheriff Dupnik, without naming persons or ideologies directly, blamed the political climate in Arizona for making possible the shooting of Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and several others. And, just as the kid who put the bullet in the furnace inadvertently revealed himself — “I didn’t put the bullet in the furnace, and stop talking about my mother!” — the attacks by conservatives on Sheriff Dupnik, who never once said the words “conservative”, “Republican”, “Tea Party”, or “right-wing” when discussing the creation and creators of the climate of bigotry and prejudice, stand as a tacit admission that they know full well they are responsible for having created it.
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Mon Jan-10-11 03:35 PM
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1. They Certainly Are, Sir |
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"The guilty fly when none doth pursue."
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Mon Jan-10-11 03:36 PM
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2. Good to see you around |
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with your usual pith and vinegar.
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Mon Jan-10-11 05:28 PM
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8. Lovely to see you Magistrate. Be well! |
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Mon Jan-10-11 03:39 PM
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3. struck a nerve -- and the Media that created the starpower of the RW shockjocks are defensive too |
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Astroturf is more than just a political movement...it is a media movement.
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Mon Jan-10-11 04:02 PM
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4. My mother had a saying.."methinks thou protesteth too much". |
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They sure are pointing the fingers at themselves today by challenging the Sheriff.
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Jackpine Radical
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Mon Jan-10-11 04:33 PM
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6. Shakespeare said something like that too. |
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Mon Jan-10-11 06:39 PM
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10. That's probably where she got it..she was an avid reader. |
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Tue Jan-11-11 08:35 AM
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11. Well, that's more likely |
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than the other way around.
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Mon Jan-10-11 04:28 PM
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5. A wingnut on another forum called him a leftist oppertunist hack. |
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Mon Jan-10-11 05:28 PM
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9. Yup - the ones with the reddest faces |
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are screaming the loudest.
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