Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Thanks, Conservatives! – “Have you, at long last, no sense of decency?”
- Another datum for our armchair psychoanalyzing – Okay, can we start with (a) the guy is a nutcase, (b) he was interested in Marx, (c) he was also interested in Hitler, (d) he was a pothead liberal back in high school, (e) he’s been espousing all sorts of interesting right/libertarian/nativist anti-immigration pro-gold-standard stuff, (f) he’s a registered Republican, (e) he shot a Democratic congresswoman, (f) he’s a NUTCASE. He’s not a Tea Partier. He’s not a Liberal Anarchist. He’s a Nutcase. (That’s a very different question than whose rhetoric may have inspired, enabled, or encouraged him in his murderous rampage.)
- Tea Party Leaders Strike Back at Left Over Giffords Incident – Um … I never knew that “Mein Kampf” was a favorite of “left-wing anarchists.” Learn something teapartyish every day!
- SSSCat Cat Training Aid – Um … wow. Making a note for when Margie gets home …
- No, Mr. Ailes, both sides don’t do it – Not all on the Right embrace violent rhetoric. Not all on the Left eschew it. But whether it’s a fondness for hunting, or a greater participation in the military, or a higher appreciation for the Second Amendment, or just general derangement, it certainly seems (as lined out here) that the Right engages in a heck of a lot more violent political rhetoric.
- Writer for lead conservative publication suggests government behind Giffords assassination attempt – Wow, that’s … yeah, WorldNutDaily.
- It’s like AdSense for Idiots – It would be funny were it not so tragic.
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3. Perhaps you didn’t read it carefully enough. “Those are not volumes that are popular with the Tea Party so he was obviously a left-wing anarchist…” He had those books, so he was not a Tea Partier. Ergo, he is a left-wing anarchist, as are all non-Tea Partiers. QED.
6. As cynical as it sounds, Erik Rush could have orchestrated it to give himself another reason to make baseless accusations. Aha!