JOE SCARBOROUGH's Open Letter to Sarah & Glenn, etc

[kpete]

Moving past right-wing rhetoric

By JOE SCARBOROUGH

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Good on ya, buddy. You weren’t personally responsible for the slaughter at the Safeway. Maybe you can put it on a poster at the next “Talkers” convention.

You weren't personally responsible for the slaughter at the Safeway. Maybe you can put it on a poster at the next "Talkers" convention.

But before you and the pack of right-wing polemicists who make big bucks spewing rage on a daily basis congratulate yourselves for not being responsible for Jared Lee Loughner's rampage, I recommend taking a deep breath. Just because the dots between violent rhetoric and violent actions don't connect in this case doesn't mean you can afford to ignore the possibility -- or, as many fear, the inevitability -- that someone else will soon draw the line between them....

Now that the right has proved to the world that it was wronged, this would be a good time to prevent the next tragedy from destroying its political momentum. Despite what we eventually learned about the shooter in Tucson, should the right have really been so shocked that many feared a political connection between the heated rhetoric of 2010 and the shooting of Giffords?

more:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0111/47705.html#ixzz1BQBMVtvO

[hlthe2b]

1. pssst.....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x220760

[elocs]

2. I think that the right was scared shitless in understanding that the Tucson shooter

could very well have been a fanatical teabagger idealogue who drank their kool aide and swallowed all of the hate talk and listened religiously to talk hate radio.

Instead, much to the apparent chagrin of many, the shooter appears to be a mentally ill psychotic mass murderer. If he isn't I don't know who would ever qualify to meet the definition of mentally ill.

[Bandit]

3. So the question now is will they continue to use such rhetoric

Knowing full well how the majority of Americans feel about it. Will Sarah demand that she be able to continue to threaten in an indirect manner no matter what consequences arise.. Will she? Will Beck? We know Rush will not only continue but will revel in it....

[DonCoquixote]

4. what the F

Even Joe Scab can admit there is a connection between rhetoric and action?