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The Spectacle Blog
Appropos of Robert Stacy McCain’s post below, I like this post on Hot Air. And it reminded me to check on a nagging suspicion I had.
Sure enough, it was in the early 1995 aftermath of the Dems’ 1994 electoral shellacking — mere days after President Bill Clinton felt compelled to insist that he was still relevant — that the establishment media and others in the professional Left seized upon the loon’s violence du jour, Oklahoma City, to claim it was the product of hateful anti-government rhetoric in the airwaves (though that crowd at least stopped at mere feints toward reinstituting the Fairness Doctrine, ‘localism’ or other state control of the media).
Remember that in coming days. This is their move. It’s what they do.
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Granite Sentry | 1.9.11 @ 8:15PM
This tragedy has illustrated the Left’s hypocrisy like nothing in a long time. The same people who idolized people like Abbie Hoffman, the Weathermen, Act Up, even Woody Guthrie, now claim the Right is causing violence not only by their own partisans but by unstable kooks of the Left. It is always about suppressing opposition by pushing them beyond the pale. Looking for comments at http://www.granitesentry.com.
Alan Brooks| 1.10.11 @ 9:49AM
OF COURSE they are biased, the liberal media isn't supposed to be a rubber stamp for Hannity, Beck, Palin, Rush, Gingrich, Boehner...
kingofthenet| 1.9.11 @ 9:32PM
We have got to enact Country-Wide 'Sensible' gun laws, simple as that. people asking, How could this CLEARLY mentally-unstable guy LEGALLY buy a Handgun whose SOLE purpose is to kill people, really should think. Why WOULDN'T he be allowed to buy the gun? Was he a Felon? Had he been declared insane by a court of Law? No They buy as many man killers as you want! Before you buy a man killer, you should have to be interviewed by a police officer, and asked some basic questions about why you want a man killer, if you seem fine you are given a card to bring to the shop and get your man killer.Anyone wanting to buy MANY man killers would have to explain why they need that many.
Mel Torme| 1.9.11 @ 10:08PM
We should make those big SUVs illegal too, as it's just too easy for a mentally unstable leftwing guy (like kingofthenet, for example) to run down a dozen people on the sidewalk or ram the vehicle into a McDonalds.
I think you should be only able to buy one SUV per decade, and, because they last a long time if you change the oil, you should have to get a permit from Motherland Security each time you take it out. It's only right - it's a damn killer weapon, a "man-killer", if you will.
Come to think of it, same thing with Louisville Slugger (TM) baseball bats, wooden or assault-aluminum. Also 2 x 4's. You shouldn't be able to buy a pressure-treated 2 x 4 together with any type of saw (to help you make this man-killer into a 3-footer - ideal for attacking congressmen (or women)).
Also, eggbeaters and sheet-metal brakes. Let's not forget the rocks, too. No rocks bigger than 2 in. maximum dimension should be allowed to exist in any US mountain range.
Fuck yeah! You want ideas - you got 'em!
Moose Hunter| 1.9.11 @ 10:49PM
Good call, Mel. I guess I should get rid on my attack cats too.
Patriot| 1.10.11 @ 4:21AM
Leftists like "Get The Net" won't be happy until only murderers and criminals have "man killers."
Fool.
Eric Cartman| 1.10.11 @ 10:48AM
Wuss of the net has had all this time, a computer, google, and we can assume a TV, and yet he can't find anything out about this guy. And he still says man killer! LOL What a wussy! "Eewww, a man killer! Ewwwwy, ewww! King of the wusses.
Retired Coastie| 1.9.11 @ 10:10PM
Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?
three things on your comments; some areas already do that. In Connecticut, the task for screening citizens who apply for a CCW Pistol Permit (required to have when having a gun outside your home/property) has been delegated to police. I went through this myself, waited almost 4 months before getting mine, noting that the "judgement" resides upon the officer in question, who can make or break your request for permit. Long/short: I disagree with you.
Point #2: Seems like someone is always ready to suggest giving more power to a state authority whenever one of these "gun-kills-human" news items hits the wire. How about trying less regulation, less empowerment of Leviathan?
Which leads me to point #3: This is a tragic attack, with a gun which was legally purchased. Instead of finding more ingenious ways of curbing gun sales to potential whackos - and judging from the way the TSA conducts their airport searches for "potential" suspects, I shudder to think what other ideas might be lurking around - why not focus on the millions of defensive gun uses yearly that save the lives of innocents?
Moose Hunter| 1.9.11 @ 11:12PM
Yo, King, the only "Country-Wide 'Sensible' gun law" is called the 2nd Amendment. Everything else they call "gun laws", like so many other laws, is just more government intrusion. Anyone, whether he be a hard-core criminal, a whacked out nutjob, or a normal person who just suddenly flips, can get his hands on a weapon (ANY weapon). He might get one legally (as many have already done--the VA Tech shooter, for instance), or more commonly by means that no law on the books can prevent--theft, black market, and a hundred other ways. Unfortunately, shit happens, it ain't a perfect world, and apparently, given a global overflow of hate and discontent, humans are doing their level best to prove it. I can't imagine what it must be like to live in an area, or country, where unarmed citizens are totally at the mercy of violent humans or institutions--be they criminals, nutjobs, religious zealots, or governments. Did you know that during the entire 20th Century, that governments across the globe murdered ten times the number of their own people as were killed in all the wars fought in that century. Lock and load, baby. I really don't want to kill anyone, but if some fool forces me to choose, he's going to have a fight on his hands.
Macdaddy| 1.10.11 @ 9:04AM
That is exactly the opposite of what we should do...first of all, the F.B. friggin' I. approved the purchase of the gun used when Loughner bought it back last fall....we don't need MORE gun laws, we need better, more responsible, more ACCOUNTABLE enforcement of the laws we do have. What we need is more people to carry guns and be trained to use them in situations like this. If one armed Arizonan had been in that store, the headline would have read "Would-be assassin killed in AZ grocery store." An armed society is a polite society.
Dixie Pixie| 1.10.11 @ 10:58AM
To: KingOfTheNet
Don't forget to ban fire-axes, crochet needles, icepicks, chainsaws and maniacal magical puppets.
In short all the killing tools used in Horror Movies.
Hollywood must be stopped, lest they film and kill again.
Nick| 1.10.11 @ 11:10AM
Dixie Pixie,
Why stop at killing tools?
What about paper? Paper cuts hurt real baaaaad!
I demand to be safe, and without injury, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Ha-ha!
Dixie Pixie| 1.10.11 @ 3:24PM
Greetings Little Nicky
Why should Liberalism stop there.
Why not coat the world with polyurethane foam so no one will ever suffer blunt-force trauma again.
Congresswoman Giffords should had been wearing a bulletproof Chador as required by the Saudi backers of the Democratic Party. Even better would be if she had been wearing a polyurethane foam pillow-suit underneath the Chador. Granted she would look like the Michelin Man wearing a rug but she would have been safer.
Nick| 1.10.11 @ 3:37PM
Dixie Pixie,
Ha-ha!
That would be too expensive.
Better to wrap everyone in bubble-wrap.
In fact, I always thought that would make a great ad for the GOP against the dems.
Show a typical city street. Then make all the cars disappear because, "They are dangerous," and put everyone on bikes. "Ah, but they are also dangerous." So, now everyone is walking. But, you could trip and fall. Now show everything, and everyone, wrapped in bubble-wrap. With the words, "The liberal vision of the world."
Dixie Pixie| 1.10.11 @ 4:34PM
Sound Capitalistic thinking "Little Nicky".
Bubble-wrap suits would not last as long as polyurethane foam pillow-suits.
This would require a person to buy bubble-wrap suits far more often, creating a greater sales volume.
Looks like it is time to buy stock in 3M, Jiangyin Shengchang Packing Product Co and Ningbo Yinzhou Yushan Industrial Co.
All manufacturers of bubble-wrap.
Dixie Pixie| 1.10.11 @ 4:40PM
A small thought has occurred to me "Little Nicky".
How does a bubble-wrap suit stop maniacal magical puppets armed with miniature chainsaws?
Nick| 1.10.11 @ 7:55PM
Ha-ha!
Good points, Dixie Pixie.
To answer your question, that's easy. As Jocelyn Elders might say, "We need to make a safer chainsaw."
Dewey Beck| 1.10.11 @ 1:50PM
Thank GOD he didn't use a steak knife, we'd be bending forks on the T-bone.
Dixie Pixie| 1.10.11 @ 3:34PM
What? No down-loadable PDF Datasheets or price quote.
What a rip.
kingsmill| 1.9.11 @ 9:58PM
This is a perennial tactic of the Left.
Immediately after the assassination of JFK the media was saturated with unsubstantiated propaganda that dark forces on the "Right" were responsible. The Birchers and others were trotted out as examples of this "Hate".
Oswald turned out to be a pure Leftist. A communist who had defected to the Soviet Union and a champion of Castro's Cuba.
The more things change the more they stay the same.
John Q. Galt| 1.9.11 @ 10:50PM
"If we were killing off useless people, you’d be the first to know.” - Bill Maher (to Sarah Palin)
Patriot| 1.10.11 @ 4:17AM
You silly Leftist Beta-Boys are so afraid of Sarah--it's understandable because she's got bigger balls than you.
Bill Wilson| 1.9.11 @ 10:51PM
I really don't have the words - someone please respond to this idiocy http://allbleedingstops.blogsp.....html#links
vladdy| 1.9.11 @ 11:30PM
Um...the right is perfectly happy with the way Blue Dogs vote.
It is the LEFT who are so furious at the Blue Dogs that HuffPo was errupting with insults threatening to "take names and get rid of them" the day of the "compromise" vote that "gave tax cuts to the wealthy" (Never mind that they were not tax cuts and that they were not just for the wealthy.)
One truly annoying thing about the left is they're not happy with everyone being equally "good," which, it seems, would make their wish for a more perfect world much more possible. Instead, they continually insist that they are "good" and anyone who disagrees is "evil,," "selfish," "hypocritical," etc. So here we go again.
And by the way, I don't recall any soul-searching when the anti-Israeli shooter took out a few people at the Jewish Community Center in your Seattle. Nothing to do with the pro-Palestinian left, of course not.
martin j smith| 1.10.11 @ 8:17AM
kingofthenet is so concerned about sale of guns to nutjobs--oh I am too but what about the "nut job" in uniform say that guy Hasan who shot what 13 people all by himself Where is his concern about this guy--a man who made clear that his motive was Islamic terrorism. Kingeof the net ihas a bloated ego. But yeond this, the Left has shown itself to be incendiary and violent in word in its own right. Kingof the net: Look into the mirror what you see is the real problem in this very sad situation. When your cure yourself, then maybe a conversation can be had till the all Kingsof the net and their ilk--i.e. trolls should be told to fix themselves before casting tones at others. Your glass house on the Left is extremely brittle if not broken
Dean from Ohio| 1.10.11 @ 10:32AM
A couple hundred examples of violence and violent rhetoric on the Left: http://michellemalkin.com/2011.....2000-2010/
Pass it on!
GreginOkinawa| 1.10.11 @ 12:09PM
I posted that link on my Facebook...everybody needs to spread this! Left or Right? Which side of politics inspires hatred and violence?
sad | 1.10.11 @ 1:14PM
All of these comments illustrate the sad state of affairs on the right. No agenda except to be anti-liberal/left. ALL politics, left and right, inspire hate and violence, especially the perpetual bitterness displayed by people who post here. I pity you.
Nick| 1.10.11 @ 1:31PM
It's sad that you have access to the internet.
alex| 1.10.11 @ 3:10PM
I have to agree to a point. One of the reasons I can't commit to either "side" is the fact that there is close mindedness within liberal AND conservative groups. I've read so many hypocritical postings on this site, Huffington Post, The National Review,etc. My conversations with some Tea Partiers have uncovered racism, but no TP will admit that. Just the same some liberals will brand all conservatives as ignorant rednecks. I find it very unsettling that I have a hard time finding people who agree with conservatives on some issues and liberals on others. If I post an educated opinion on this site that leans left, there is hardly a challenge with information. I just get called names and told to get off the site. And the same thing happens on a liberal site if I agree toward the right.
I and I'm sure others read both sides to get a more unbiased look at the issues. Fox News is not "fair and balanced." Nor is Huffington Post. It would be nice to be able to post my thoughts either way without being attacked.
Nick| 1.10.11 @ 3:28PM
Alex,
I fear you are making broad generalizations. I don't know how long you have been posting here, I have been for over 2 years. There are plenty of people here willing to engage in debate. If you are attacked, defend yourself.
You make many assertions in your post, one of which is: "Fox News is not 'fair and balanced.'" Name one network that has as many people from the left and right on its programs. Or, consistantly gives both sides of the issue in their reports.
You don't think liberals can be racist? My late relative was dyed-in-the-wool democrat, through and through. She also couldn't stand blacks and Jews. Didn't stop her from being a liberal democrat, who couldn't stand President Bush and the GOP.
alex| 1.10.11 @ 5:28PM
My point was, there are broad generalizations in the media. Both sides. And I also said I HARDLY get challenged (meaning with an informed argument) not ever. There have been times I had someone point out a source I didn't know about,etc.
And I said SOME Tea Partiers, and SOME liberals.
How does one defend oneself when one is called a "libtard?" Or conversly, a "wingnut?"
Where did I say liberals can't be racist?
Believe it or not, the NPR website has many unbiased new items, if one approaches with an open mind. Bill O'Rielly has (on a regular basis) guests that represent a wide spectrum of views. However, I've noticed, if he doesn't agree, he cuts them short or uses a manner that says, you don't know what you're talking about. I could say that Jon Stewart has done the same thing, but he isn't journalist, so...
News programs are businesses. They exist to make money. So all media tries to top each other and will do close to anything for those ratings.
Nick| 1.10.11 @ 7:49PM
Alex,
I was countering your "hardly" claim. Again, there are plenty of people here interested in honest debate. It is up to you to find them, and ignore the rest. But, you will be challenged.
Your two examples were that SOME of your Tea Party conversations revealed racism, while SOME of your conversations with liberals revealed name calling. Do you not see the implication?
I, also, read both sides, and have, in the past, watched Leher regularly. My mind is always open. If I'm proven wrong, I readily admit it.
You mentioned O'Reilly, but Hannity and Greta Van Susteren also have many points of view on their programs. Fox's straight news shows, like Bret Bair, always show both sides. And, NPR certainly does not have as many conservative voices on their shows as Fox News has liberal ones on theirs.
tonypal| 1.10.11 @ 5:01PM
Since it would take too much time to post all the links, just go to this link for a list of stories dealing with all the nice things liberals say about conservatives. Some really good stuff, if you've got the guts to confront the ugly truth about your own side.
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/