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A Must Read From Michelle Malkin

By on 1.14.11 @ 4:59PM

If you haven’t seen it, take a look at this collection of leftist violence catalogued by the indomitable Michelle Malkin. Leftist violence from 2000-2010.

Wow.

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Frisbee| 1.14.11 @ 8:05PM

You said it Jeffrey: "Wow".

Jimmy| 1.15.11 @ 12:21AM

Alice, have you figured out a way to actually pay for you advertising?

Penny| 1.14.11 @ 8:51PM

Disgusting. You'll need to take a bath after seeing this.

Liberal Reader| 1.14.11 @ 9:21PM

Mr Lord,

I've just read through the link to Malkin's compendium, and it looks to me like a bunch of stuff culled from the internet.

I could do the same thing and fill much more space with racist and completely disgusting trash said about Obama.

But where are the elected officials or PROMINENT liberal commentators on Malkin's site?

I'm sure some are there. But I think what most liberals have been complaining about -- sometimes unfairly, sometimes fairly -- is a wave of extremely PROMINENT figures on the right using not just martial imagery, but language that sounds close to threatening. "Second amendment remedies" is probably the most egregious.

Now this can get old. Both sides can make their lists, and it seems pretty unproductive.

I'd gladly admit, up front, that there are a lot of people on the left who print and say awful things about conservatives.

Personally, I think it was a huge mistake, morally, politically, and just strategically, for people on the left to accuse Bush of lying to get us into the Iraq War. And of course there was all the Nazi talk and so on. You and I and all your readers know that Nazi talk is almost always foolish unless you're talking about actual Nazis.

But at some point I'd really like to hear a dedicated, hard right conservative -- not David Frum or David Brooks, in other words -- just entertain the POSSIBILITY that constantly invoking the armed rebellion against England as a kind of model for our politics, as though Obama were King George III and not elected by the American people, could be harmful to our nation.

I'd like to hear one entertain the POSSIBILITY that the constant, relentless references to guns not just every once in a while (I think Obama has used ONE gun metaphor) but in nearly EVERY public speech on just about ANY topic might be coarsening our public discourse.

And if after entertaining the possibility that honest soul decides things should go right along as they are -- fine. But where's the DOUBT? Where's the humility of which conservatives were once so enamored?

Todd S| 1.14.11 @ 10:40PM

Aren't you from the San Francisco area LR? Well there is sure alot of hatred to be found in that city and it sure is not coming from the right. Show me a gathering of conservatives where dozens of people are carrying around Kill Obama signs like he Kill Bush signs that is displayed so openly is the leftist mecca that is San Francisco? I use Mecca intentionally because those people are about as tolerant as Mecca. You wont find it jerk because we are nothing like you malcontent losers. I also notice that the Jew hating arabs have united in cause with the progressives to propagandize against Israel, strange bedfellows indeed (zombietime.com). They do have one thing in common, that is their hatred of America and Israel and that is good enough to bridge their differences for now.

frosty7530| 1.15.11 @ 11:22AM

Thank you Todd, for your comments re Arabs, Israel & Progressives. I am a Reform Jew w/a liberal past. In recent years, I have drifted to the Right. I am also Pro-Zionist, Pro-Hagee/CUFI. I really enjoy meeting the new people, on the sunnier side of the street. I thank you for your brave words to Am. Spectator. It's been a very dark and scary time, having Obama in the WH. We have had other Presidents who are not comfortable with Jews, to say the least, but none have insulted Israel, like Obama did in his WH "visit" with the Prime Minister. When I hear people like you speak out, I know we have a chance of survival.

Todd S| 1.15.11 @ 4:09PM

If America fails to support Israel's right to exist, then the America we have known will no longer exist as a beacon of hope and freedom. Good to see that you have come to see the light and realize the dark truth about progressives. I am confident that Obama and the progressives will be out of power in 2012 and we will once more have a government that supports Israel and not support the Arab propaganda. God is watching over Israel I am very confident, both Jews and Christians believe this so we have much cause for common ground. Truth will prevail in the end though there will very hard times to come so keep your hope whatever happens.

Occam's Tool| 1.16.11 @ 10:42PM

Thank you for that lovely comment, Todd.

Nick| 1.14.11 @ 11:30PM

Marxist Reader,

"'Second amendment remedies' is probably the most egregious."

Is Sharon Angle's innocuous quip "more egregious" than when, last October, U.S. Representative Paul Kanjorski (democrat-PA) said of GOP Florida gubenatorial candidate, Rick Scott, "'They ought to put him against a wall and shoot him.?"

George S| 1.14.11 @ 11:41PM

You're right, Obama only used ONE gun metaphor. And only ONE pitchfork metaphor. And only ONE punch metaphor. And only ONE get in their faces metaphor. And only ONE hostage taker metaphor.

Don't you think that's ONE too many for a President who easily sets the tone of political discourse more than any other public figure?

Jay Dee| 1.15.11 @ 7:08PM

George S you forgot the ONE enemies metaphor. I proudly call myself his enemy, metaphorically.

wodiej| 1.16.11 @ 4:05PM

How many other presidents have used violent rhetoric similar to Obama? None that I know of.

And if people cannot even distinguish a metaphor without getting their panties in a knot, perhaps counseling is what is needed. Political correctness won't solve the problem you have.

Mara| 1.15.11 @ 12:18AM

U.S. Rep. Paul E. Kanjorski (D): "That Scott down there that's running for governor of Florida," Mr. Kanjorski said. "Instead of running for governor of Florida, they ought to have him and shoot him. Put him against the wall and shoot him." -

Democrat NH House candidate Keith Halloran: Dem NH House Candidate Wishes Gov. Palin Was On Sen. Stevens’ Fatal Plane Crash -

National Public Radio legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg: [I]f there is retributive justice [Sen. Jesse Helms] will get AIDS from a transfusion, or one of his grandchildren will get it.

USA Today syndicated columnist Julianne Malveaux, on Clarence Thomas: I hope his wife feeds him lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease.

Washington Post syndicated columnist Richard Cohen: For hypocrisy, for sheer gall, [Newt] Gingrich should be hanged.

Comedian and (former) talk show host Craig Kilborn [Caption under footage of George W. Bush]: Snipers Wanted

Members of the St. Petersburg Democratic Club: And then there’s Rumsfeld who said of Iraq “We have our good days and our bad days.” We should put this S.O.B. up against a wall and say “This is one of our bad days” and pull the trigger.

Actor Alec Baldwin on Conan O’Brien: [I]f we were in other countries, we would all right now, all of us together, all of us together would go down to Washington and we would stone Henry Hyde to death! We would stone him to death! [crowd cheers] Wait! Shut up! Shut up! No shut up! I’m not finished. We would stone Henry Hyde to death and we would go to their homes and we’d kill their wives and their children. We would kill their families.

Comedian Chris Rock: If President Clinton would pardon me I would whip Starr’s ass right now. I will get a crew from Brooklyn and we will stomp him like, like, we’re Savion Glover. We’ll stomp him like it’s bringing da noise.

Director Spike Lee on Charlton Heston: Shoot him with a .44 caliber Bulldog.

James Carville on Ken Starr: He’s one more mistake away from not having any kneecaps.

Syndicated columnist Alexander Cockburn: There is a sound case to be made for dropping a tactical nuclear weapon on the Cuban section of Miami. The move would be applauded heartily by most Americans. Alas, Operation Good Riddance would require the sort of mature political courage sadly lacking in Washington, D.C., these days.

Columnist, author, media pundit, journalist, and newspaper editor Dan Savage: My plan? Get close enough to Bauer to give him the flu, which, if I am successful, will lay him flat just before the New Hampshire primary. I’ll go to Bauer’s campaign office and cough on everything. Phones and pens. Staplers and staffers. I even hatch a plan to infect the candidate himself; I’ll keep a pen in my mouth until Bauer drops by his offices to rally the troops. And when he does, I’ll approach him and ask for his autograph, handing him the pen from my flu-virus-incubating mouth.

That column also appeared on Salon.com. It was a little more than hate “speech” — the guy actually did try to give Gary Bauer the flu.

http://patterico.com/2007/03/05/leftist-hate-speech/

Nick| 1.15.11 @ 12:53PM

Mara,

Excellent recap of liberals engaging in death speech over the years.

Thank you.

wodiej| 1.16.11 @ 4:08PM

Great job. Isn't the internet great? No rocks for liberals to hide under anymore. The liberal press can't hide it for them.

Pelligrino| 1.16.11 @ 4:14PM

Mara, please let me also thank you for this long list. (I am sure there must be more)

As one who has ZERO interest in many of the so-called media or TV personalities or otherwise self-promoters here, I miss some of these comments in our national fabric/discussion. I either outright miss them or quickly dismiss them.

But it adds up. What does a Chris Rock, Spike Lee, or Alec Baldwin have to say about anything?

James Carville saying that...during that period.

It is amazing that people freely contribute to the stupidity of our nation by financially rewarding these "entertainers" and pundits who do no real work nor contribute to the good of the nation.

Thank you, Mara.

Oldefarte| 1.15.11 @ 1:43PM

You are a typical liberal LIAR ['....I could do the same thing and fill much more space with racist and completely disgusting trash said about Obama....'] since you CANNOT provide comparable [disgusting, filth] material initiated from authenic conservative sources. Of course, that is exactly what you liberals constantly do is LIE, since it is impossible for you to tell the TRUTH [the congressman's shout of YOU LIE applies to all of you]. You cannot tell the truth, since same would expose you to your radical nature of your political positions!!!!!

Occam's Tool| 1.15.11 @ 5:52PM

LR, after getting Casino Royale Style ballwhipped by POTUS, eventually even a Conservative learns he isn't well liked. I'm humble, and have doubts about everything except that The One is a Leftist rapscallion.

Jeremiah| 1.16.11 @ 2:13PM

Quote from Libewal Weader :"I could do the same thing and fill much more space with racist and completely disgusting trash said about Obama."

If it's true, JUST DO IT, schmuck!

Those liberal assholes...

Occam's Tool| 1.16.11 @ 10:54PM

No, Obama doesn't use gun metaphors---he uses "hand to hand combat" metaphors, refers to the Republicans as his "enemy," talkls about "getting in their face."

He's a radical tool.

Jeffrey Lord| 1.14.11 @ 10:26PM

LR....

Respectfully, you seem not to get this.

The Left - in America and certainly around the globe - has an addiction to violence. Forget all those George W. Bush and Palin things. On a routine basis, historically speaking, over the life of this country since it came to life the left has been behind labor violence, racial violence (white, black and Latino - color has not mattered) anti-war violence, student violence and so on. And on.

Conservatives have not done this. Why? The entire conservative rationale is law - the Constitution - order. Violence...riots, shootings, assassinations, bombings etc...are by definition not part of conservative ideology. To the extent that someone violates the principle - say, killing an abortion doctor or bombing an abortion clinic....they are by definition not a conservative. And no conservative that I know supports this kind of thing. All manner of left-wingers are out there over the decades (centuries?) defending violence in the name of this or that leftist cause.

The very fact that you think some rhetorical note somewhere drives someone to murder shows precisely why you are a liberal: you have removed the individual responsibility from the perpetrator and tried to assign it elsewhere.

Sorry. No sale. If you choose to eat a cheeseburger...I'm not responsible for you getting fat. If you shoot someone...as this quite decidedly disturbed guy did ....you ...he in this case...are responsible. Period. The beginning of the matter...and the end.

tonypal| 1.14.11 @ 11:26PM

Jeffrey, I've had a few back and forths with Liberal Reader and I think he makes a genuine attempt to put forth rational arguments. Unfortunately, he too often mistakes assertion for fact.

Part of his response to your post is the classical liberal assertion of racism, in this case towards Obama. He states "I could do the same thing and fill much more space with racist and completely disgusting trash said about Obama." There are two problems with this, the first being he provides no evidence. It would have been fairly simple to google "racist comments about Obama" and simply cut and paste a few. Here's an idea: Why not google "racist comments about Clarence Thomas." That oughta fill up some space.

The second problem is with how Liberal Reader and liberals in general define racism. It's a pretty loose standard. Racial hucksters on the left, both black and white, will ascribe any criticism of prominent black liberals to racism. Rank and file liberal democrats buy into it all and then fan out to spread the poison. It makes it darned near impossible to have one of those "dialogues" on race liberals are always crowing about. Naturally, any criticism of conservative blacks is tolerated, no matter how hateful and racist.

So when I read that a liberal is going to fill up space here at TAS with racist statements about Obama, I was somewhat dubious. Then I recalled that Barack Obama and crew accused Bill Clinton -Bill Clinton! - of racism during one of the democrat primaries. I take a back seat to no one in my contempt for Bill Clinton, but I must say that it never occurred to me that he might be a racist. So maybe that's what Liberal Reader meant when he talked about filling up space here with racist comments about Obama. Now that's something we'd all like to see.

Liberal Reader| 1.14.11 @ 11:38PM

Mr Lord,

You say that "by definition" anyone that commits an act of violence is not a conservative. Presumably in your view anyone who commits an act of violence is a liberal!

I'm afraid that just doesn't cut it, Mr Lord.

No right wing violence? Ever? Give me a break.

Nick| 1.14.11 @ 11:48PM

Marxist Reader,

List them, then.

Here's the list Mrs. Malkin first put out, maybe you missed it. Be sure to read all the way to the end, although, it may take you an hour or two:

http://michellemalkin.com/2011.....2000-2010/

Nick| 1.14.11 @ 11:55PM

Oops! That's the post Mr. Lord linked to. Sorry.

Try reading Mrs. Malkin's column today, here:

http://michellemalkin.com/

Liberal Reader| 1.14.11 @ 11:49PM

Sweet Melinda! I've just reread your post, Mr. Lord.

Are you SERIOUS?

Violence and leftism go hand and hand, and people on the right by DEFINITION do not commit acts of violence!

Do you see how easily I could use the same logic?

Liberals are people who always obey the law, who work for peace, who are selfless, kind, and true in all their dealings. Anyone that does otherwise is by definition not a liberal.

There! Problem solved! No need for a conversation.

If Sarah Palin says "Don't retreat, reload!" to Dr. Laura after Dr. Laura uses the word "nigger" eleven times in two minutes, we're to see Sarah Palin -- and Dr. Laura -- as working to make this country a better, more peaceful place.

A thousand points of light!

It's just the sort of thing Jesus would say, isn't it?

Don't retreat! Reload!

Blood libel and pitbulls, man! Let's get with it!

tjsshowalter@gmail.com| 1.15.11 @ 12:23AM

Where is your evidence like is displayed at Malkin's website? Where are the mobs of crazed conservatives rioting and with dozens of Kill Obama signs? You ever join in one of those "peace protest" in San Francisco LR? Who is it that causes all the problems whenever there are the global economic meetings? They sure aren't conservative Republicans that is for damn sure. All you got is "reload", you are pathetic!

Todd S| 1.15.11 @ 12:25AM

Please scrub that one moderator please. Bit of a rush

Wayne | 1.15.11 @ 12:29AM

LR, you know you are just proving our point. Why can't those of you on the Left just admit that you say this stuff too? That it is not just the right. Why the hypocrisy? It just makes you look like an idiot.

Liberal Reader| 1.15.11 @ 2:04PM

Wayne --

Look again. I did admit that people on the left "say this stuff too."

How many times need I admit it?

Mr Lord seems to be saying that by definition ANY violence or call to violence is liberal, thus stifling any need for conversation. By definition, he claims, conservatives are peace loving and leftists are violent.

Oklahoma City bombing? Accomplished by liberals of course. Why were they liberals? Because they used violence.

For Mr. Lord, all things evil in the world can be attributed to leftism. There is no moral distinctions to between Hitler and Obama, Stalin and Rep. Giffords. Indeed, given this Manichean view of history, I don't see why Mr Lord wouldn't celebrate the assassinations of JFK, RFK, MLK, and Rep. Giffords, since they all were attacks on what he considers the ultimate evil -- leftism!

The moral insanity of this view ought to be plain to see for any rational person.

Nick| 1.15.11 @ 3:04PM

Marxist Reader,

As Mr. Lord stated, you don't get it. It is you who needs to look again.

Mr. Lord listed several organized left-wing movements responsible for numerous violent attacks in recent American history. Where are the reciprocal groups on the right?

The closest you can come to is the Militia Movement, which I will grant, was on the right. But, the Militia wasn't conservative.

As Mr. Lord also stated, those murderers who killed abortionists, Timothy McVeigh, and Terry Nichols were all thoroughly condemned by conservatives.

Can liberals say the same?
No. They cannot.

Patriot| 1.16.11 @ 12:20AM

Sorry, this Conservative only half-heartedly condemned the killing of Tiller the Baby Killer.

wodiej| 1.16.11 @ 4:11PM

Where are the groups on the right? They are working and taking care of their families.

Occam's Tool| 1.15.11 @ 5:56PM

LR,

Please tell me where W, or any significant Conservative commentator (Palin to O'Reilly to Beck to Limbaugh) talked about hand to hand combat with Democrats, supported a film showing Obama getting assassinated, or refused to prosecute an obvious case of voter intimidation (Holder and Philly) by brute force.

Go ahead. I'll wait.

DRed| 1.15.11 @ 6:49PM

How about Glennbeck talking about wanting to beat Charlie Rangel to death with a shovel?

http://www.dailykos.com/tv/w/002095/

Nick| 1.15.11 @ 11:59PM

DRed,

If it's on koskids, it most likely didn't happen.

Patriot| 1.16.11 @ 12:08AM

Glenn? You mean Glenn Beck the tender-hearted puffball who cries at the drop of a hat wanted to beat Rangel to death with a shovel?

Someone's on crack and it ain't Glenn.

Liberal Reader| 1.15.11 @ 7:02PM

Occam --

I think prominent conservatives have used some pretty violent rhetoric. I don't think you can deny it.

I think the film about Bush being assassinated (which I did not and would not watch or support) was awful. I also know not one single person who saw it; I've never been in a conversation with anyone who saw it; I've only EVER heard it referred to by Rush Limbaugh and a few other conservative talkers. It didn't impress many people, liberal or conservative.

As for the "voter intimidation" case .... Sorry. I'm not a dumb ass. Sean Hannity may have fooled you on that one. But not me. I've read enough about history to know what "voter intimidation" is, and two jackasses in an all black voting district that went 95% for Obama just don't stack up.

Had a black police force or highly organized black paramilitary organization guilty of thousands of lynchings and other acts of terrorism intimidated white voters so that a large portion of them stayed home we'd have a case tantamount to what the phrase "voter intimidation" has generally meant in this country.

Now those two aforementioned jackasses were arrested; the authorities wisely saw it as a waste of the people's time to prosecute them further; they've been ordered to stay away from polling places (I believe), and there's an end on it.

As far as I know, not one single person claims to have been intimidated from voting.

Patriot| 1.16.11 @ 12:28AM

One of those Black Panthers is a well-known Philly Democrat operative who has been banned from polling places until 2012. I wonder what he has up his sleeve for that day? It should be interesting...

I hope there are a lot of cameras there to catch his latest bullyfest if he's stupid enough to try it again.

Jay Dee| 1.15.11 @ 7:17PM

"why Mr Lord wouldn't celebrate the assassinations of JFK, RFK, MLK, and Rep. Giffords, since they all were attacks on what he considers the ultimate evil -- leftism"

Conservatives never celebrate assassinations of anyone.

Oldefarte| 1.15.11 @ 1:50PM

Jeffrey, very, very, very well stated [both in your original and followup to LR comments]. You [nor anyone] can or should attempt to debate rationally with these liberal morons, since reason is simply beyond their comprehension. They are mostly idologues whose dogma is their radicalized religion. Just as with Muslim terrorists, it is entirely impossible to debate with these extremists, and to even try to do so is an effort in futility. Please save your sanity and breath by not even responding to their idiocy!!!!!!!!

Liberal Reader| 1.15.11 @ 2:55PM

Right. Debate with "them" is impossible. So shooting "them" is the only answer.

That, Oldefarte, is what you are saying here.

Because there is no discernible difference, in your view, between a Democrat and a terrorist, I cannot see how you can be for anything OTHER than violent reprisals against Democrats.

Jay Dee| 1.15.11 @ 7:20PM

See my above post - still holds - Conservatives don't like killing in any form.

You are trying to equate the inability to have a discussion with a Democrat to wanting violence with a Democrat.

Oldefarte| 1.16.11 @ 10:24AM

'Shooting them' as in the murderers of numerous elected/political officials/politicians throughout my lifetime, and AS IN THE LIBERAL LAWYERS, JUDGES AND DEMOCRAT POLITICIANS who effectively allow them to either receive lenient sentences [or to escape their prison sentences altogether]; as in the liberals who promote the illegality our nations border law enforcement for political purposes; as in the liberal politicians who use their power to negate laws pertaining to energy development due to their political debts to the environmentalists; as in the politicians who use their power to steal under the cover of governmental taxiation in order to support their socialistic causes;etc??? I [nor is anyone, sane person here] AM NOT FOR the violent reprisal against Democrats; but I/we are for the EDUCATION OR PSYCHOLOGICAL REASONING necessary for you idiot liberal to somehow GROW SOME BRAIN CELLS. You are correct in one aspect of your ludicrous argument, in that there is no difference between today's Democrats and terrorists, since both believe in violent protests and in political overthrowing by whatever menas necessary our/any government in order to achieve their asinine socialistic goals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DRed| 1.15.11 @ 3:04PM

Why do you say muslim terrorists? What does it matter that they are muslim? After all "[t]he very fact that you think some rhetorical note somewhere drives someone to murder shows precisely why you are a liberal: you have removed the individual responsibility from the perpetrator and tried to assign it elsewhere." You are one of the numerous unwitting liberals I see on this site, I guess. It's not the muslim propoganda that drives terrorists to kill-it's the fact that they are liberals.

Mike| 1.14.11 @ 10:47PM

Okay, I think Michelle Malkin is often wrong and intellectually dishonest. Stay with me.

She posted a nah nah na nah, you too when she could have posted a reflection on immoral equivalence.

To wit:
Do you on the right think that only you are unhappy with the direction of our country? Has it ever occurred to you that many are unhappy about the direction of the country because of you?

Has it ever occurred to you that the guy next to you who is buying a Glock doesn't see the world the way you do?

Has it ever occurred to you that some on the left know how to lock and load?

Have you ever consider that if Sarah Palin should be elected president, there would be folks who would be discussing "Second Amendment" solutions?

Michelle Malkin talks about violence from the left. I'm talking about violence from the right.

Remember the Civil War? We are capable of slaughtering one another.

Nick| 1.14.11 @ 11:22PM

Has it occurred to you that you are full of crap, Mike?

Mike| 1.15.11 @ 9:08AM

Dazzlingly brilliant rebuttal, Nick. You must have attended the same school as Occam's Tool, you know the guy who thinks with his dick.

Occam's Tool| 1.15.11 @ 5:57PM

I can only think with my dick when it's flaccid, Mike. Otherwise, the massive blood flow to the "Hung Jury" size organ makes me faint.

Mike| 1.15.11 @ 9:08AM

Dazzlingly brilliant rebuttal, Nick. You must have attended the same school as Occam's Tool.

Nick| 1.15.11 @ 12:48PM

So stupid, you had to post it twice, huh Mike?

I don't cast my pearls before swine.
I'm sure you have no idea what that means.
Please, find someone who can explain it to you.

Todd S| 1.14.11 @ 11:48PM

Where are the conservative riots Mike? You sound like the one that wants violence you jerk off

Mike| 1.15.11 @ 9:10AM

I guess the phrase "immoral equivalence" was a little too subtle for your reading skills.

Patriot| 1.15.11 @ 9:14PM

Not too subtle, too stupid.

Clint| 1.14.11 @ 11:57PM

"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it."

Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address, Washington, D.C., March 4, 1861

Pelligrino| 1.16.11 @ 4:29PM

Thank you, Clint. Good stuff.

And that is exactly why good, solid Tea Party patriots will continue to 'dismember' all parts of our government (e.g. the excessive over-reach of executive branch admininstrations, czars, and congressmen who vote massive entitlements & us into massive debt).

There's no vitriol in that; it's pure common sense.

Occam's Tool| 1.16.11 @ 10:51PM

I seem to recall that the "incredibly violent" conservatives at the Glen Beck rally in Wahington, DC even policed their own trash.

Just give me a break, guys. Just as places with less strict gun control laws have less crime, so places that are run with respect for law and order and borders are safer.

Wayne | 1.15.11 @ 12:31AM

Palin doesn't have to be elected. Chris Matthews has already suggested that people should do in Sarah Palin. If she were President Matthews would be arrested.

Wayne | 1.15.11 @ 12:31AM

Palin doesn't have to be elected. Chris Matthews has already suggested that people should do in Sarah Palin. If she were President Matthews would be arrested.

J.C.Eaton| 1.14.11 @ 11:15PM

Mike, congratos. Easily the most amorphous little screed this week. Well done, lad.

Mike| 1.15.11 @ 9:17AM

Sorry you missed the point.

Patriot| 1.15.11 @ 9:15PM

You never had a point to miss.

Mike| 1.14.11 @ 11:21PM

Mike....

Again, as above...forget the Malkin post. Forget the entire last decade. Throughout American history it is the left...not the right...that has repeatedly turned to violence. The left has killed three presidents and turned to violence over labor issues, race issues, war and peace issues and so on. That's the hard and factual legacy. It's opposite doesn't exist. There is no such thing as a conservative riot...by definition not possible. No conservative has killed a president, no conservative has killed a civil rights leader, no conservative has bombed the Pentagon.

There has been no violence from the right. Just the left's fantasy of same.....frequently offered up after yet another leftist commits the latest act of violence. All those riots in Athens and London the other month? That's the left in action. Again.

Mike| 1.15.11 @ 9:12AM

There has been no violence from the right.
Oklahoma City, among other events, doesn't count?

Todd S| 1.15.11 @ 10:49AM

Timothy McVeigh was NOT a conservative. He was an atheist nihilist who wanted revenge against society for rejecting him. We do know what set him off though and that was the Waco incident. Government ineptly kills a group of cultists and a deranged individual like McVeigh decides to exact revenge. If you want to blame anyone for Oklahoma City besides McVeigh, try Janet Reno you clown.

tonypal| 1.15.11 @ 11:20AM

Screw that. Blame Bill Clinton. He was the president, he ordered that attack on the Branch Davidian compound. An American president ordered an attack on American citizens. I don't recall how many died, but it was dozens. The left never had a problem with that because the attack was ordered by a liberal and it was against a nut flying the banner of religion.

Todd S| 1.15.11 @ 11:46AM

Very true tonypal, the buck should stop with Bill Clinton which is why he tried so hard to blame Rush Limbaugh for Timothy McVeigh. Much like this Sheriff Stupnik trying to blame Palin for his own ineptitude. As I recall, the number was in the 80's including 25 small children who burned to death. And yet you have assholes like Mike who blame McVeigh on Republicans or Conservatives when he had nothing to do with us and his real motivation was his desire for revenge for Waco. Of course it was the action of a madman because those people in Oklahoma City were innocent but he surely was not inspired by Rush Limbaugh or anyone in the conservative movement.

DRed| 1.15.11 @ 2:48PM

What about Jim Adkinsson, the guy who murdered two people in a Unitarian Church in 2008 because he wanted to kill liberals? Was he a self loathing liberal?

Todd S| 1.15.11 @ 4:16PM

I don't know his specific motivations but he was a disturbed individual and no one on the right is responsible for his actions. It is not like he was part of a mob that riots through the streets (think G-20 summits) or one of dozens of progressive slimeballs carrying around their Kill Bush signs and other disgusting trash. Can you imagine the outcry if the same thing happened with Obama? That is the double standard liberals like you want to ignore and exploit.

DRed| 1.15.11 @ 4:39PM

No, it wsn't like he was in a mob or carrying a sign. It's like he walked into a church and murdered two innocent people. That's significantly worse. Obviously, the ultimate responsibility is on him-but wouldn't you admit it was an act of right wing violence? This is from a note he wrote explaining his actions:
"The Democrates! The democrates have done everything they can do tie our hands in this War on Terror. They're all a bunch of traitors. They want America to loose this war for reasons I can not understand. It makes me sooo mad!

In a parallel train of thought; it saddens me to think back on all the bad things that Liberalism has done to this Country. The worst problem America faces today is liberalism. They have dumbed down education, they have defined deviancy down. Liberals have attacked every major institution that made America great. From the Boy Scouts to the military; from education to religion. The major news outlets have become the propaganda arm of the Democrat party. Liberals are evil, they embrace the tenets of Kak Marx, they're Marxist, socialist, communists."

Is that left wing rhetoric?

Todd S| 1.15.11 @ 5:27PM

Murder is never justified so I don't excuse it. The point is we dont have groups that support actions like that and carrying around Kill Obama signs like the left did with Bush. There are a number of incidents I can bring up about those murdering for their left wing beliefs and supporting groups that do. See Bill Ayers and company. The only violence that has been at any Tea Party rally is a black supporter getting beat up by SEIU thugs and another guy getting his finger bitten off by a wacko leftist. I will gladly get you the proof if you don't know about it but it is well documented.

DRed| 1.15.11 @ 6:37PM

Todd, of course you don't excuse murder. I'm not interested in getting into a competition over who is more violent. But the idea that politically motivated violence is an exclusively left wing phenomenon is ridiculous both logically and factually. Just answer me this-was Mr. Adisson motivated by right wing rhetoric?

"This was a symbolic killing. Who I wanted to kill was every Democrat in the Senate & House, the 100 people in Bernard Goldberg's book. I'd like to kill everyone in the mainstream media. But I know those people were inaccessible to me. I couldn't get to the generals & high ranking officers of the Marxist movement so I went after the foot soldiers, the chickenshit liberals that vote in these traitorous people. Someone had to get the ball rolling. I volunteered. I hope others do the same. It's the only way we can rid America of this cancerous pestilence."

Todd S| 1.15.11 @ 7:19PM

I didn't say it was exclusively on the left but the majority of incidents show that it happens more on the left and they certainly incite it more at public rallies. This guy was a disturbed lone wolf and wanted to blame his own failures on others. Going after some perishers in a local Church are the actions of a deranged individual, I don't care what his motivation is. It is not like listening to Rush Limbaugh inciting him to such actions as the Daily Kos would have you believe. If you want to see some real hate speech, take a look at the Daily Kos.

Liberal Reader| 1.15.11 @ 4:41PM

So Timothy McVeigh is not responsible for his actions -- Bill Clinton is.

So much for personal responsibility.

Todd S| 1.15.11 @ 5:34PM

I never said he wasn't responsible but it is you guys that tried to make someone else responsible like Bill Clinton tried to do with Rush Limbaugh. But if you want to look at cause and effect, there is no doubt what motivated McVeigh to his murderous act. He is responsible for murdering so many but Waco is what motivated him. You would like to forget about Waco but it is a sad fact of history, dozens of innocent children burned to death among others because of the stupidity and recklessness of Janet Reno with Clinton signing off on it. Tragic accident to be sure but still inexcusable.

Patriot| 1.15.11 @ 9:22PM

President Clinton ordered the strike against the Branch Davidians, and you don't think he bears responsibility for the senseless, horrific slaughter of 96 Americans including many babies and children at Waco?
The coward then tried to lay the blame at Janet Reno's feet.

And you don't hold him responsible? Really?

Todd S| 1.15.11 @ 9:54PM

Looks like Liberal Reader doesn't have a response to it because Waco is truly one of the worst incidents against citizens by the government in American history and Bill Clinton should forever hold his head in shame for it but of course he is shameless and so is the media. The fact that these assholes think they can hold the right as being responsible for McVeigh is due to media negligence of the highest order and explains why they tried in again with the shooting in Tuscon. There is no regard for truth on the left as it always has been since Karl Marx wrote his evil book.

Patriot| 1.15.11 @ 10:25PM

Evil is the word for them. I shall continue my torture of these feckless trolls whenever I can.

Patriot| 1.16.11 @ 12:32AM

Oh, I do believe McVeigh paid the ultimate price for his evil actions, don't you? Even you can't say he wasn't held responsible for his mis-deeds.

Oldefarte| 1.16.11 @ 10:28AM

McVeigh was legally punished for his criminal activity, whereas Clinton was not, DUMBARS!!!

Clint| 1.15.11 @ 12:16AM

This has been more Very Obvious, Very Cheap & Very Plastic Politics by The Liberal Democrats & their Media Flacks to Smear, Slander & Marginalize The Tea Party, One of Our Kingmakers & Our Media Allies.

We Are Smack In The Middle Of A Rebellion.

The Tea Party Rebellion Escalates.

Carpe Diem.

martin j smith| 1.15.11 @ 8:12AM

I appreciate of this but what we should not be diverted from are the following:
The Debt
ObamaCare
Food Prices rising
Fuel Prices Rising
Inflation
Terrorism
With due respect to the Democrat(ic ? ) Party's behavior which is disgusting, do not let this issue distract you. But:
If President Obama goes back to his usualy form of class warfare and demonizing the opposition--which he will. Lets call him out--YOU LIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ken (Old Texican)| 1.15.11 @ 8:53AM

Mr. Lord
Thanks for dropping in.
You will notice that I rarely converse with the Left either here or.......... anywhere else for that matter.

See it is like to converse wih someone with a different language and culture.
For most of us conservatives, facts are simply what we "recognize" them to be.

For the communists, (pardon the shorthand), and their dupes on the Left...facts are what they "demand" them to be.

We (constitutional) conservatives picture the American Experiment...with all its scabs...to be a rather wonderful way to live; and a wonderful gift to offer the rest of the world.

The communists, (pardon the shorthand), and their dupes merely pick at our scabs.

( And you know, we have gotten a lot of those scabs fighting Dictators around the world on behalf of their people.)

Nick| 1.15.11 @ 11:51PM

DRed,

Karen Massey, who lived two houses from Adkisson's home, told the Knoxville News Sentinel of a lengthy conversation she had with Adkisson a couple years ago after she told him her daughter had just graduated from Johnson Bible College. She said she ended up having to explain to him that she was a Christian.

"He almost turned angry," she told the newspaper. "He seemed to get angry at that. He said that everything in the Bible contradicts itself if you read it."

Massey said Adkisson talked frequently about his parents, who "made him go to church all his life. ... He acted like he was forced to do that."

Adkisson must have been one of those anti-Bible thumpin', atheist conservatives, huh?

Patriot| 1.16.11 @ 12:13AM

Violence always comes from the Left. Sorry, boys, facts are inconvenient things.

Oldefarte| 1.16.11 @ 11:11AM

Let me attempt to express my ultimate THANK YOU [and gratitude] to Jeffrey Lord [and especially to Michelle Malkin and her organization] for compiling this information concerning the radical, extremist nature of the left. This simply should be compared with some of the greatest pieces of literature ever produced, as it defines both visually and verbally, the insanity of the liberal movement. Thank you both for bring this material to us conservative readers. I highly recommend everyone's serious reading/viewing of same, and also their forwarding same to everyone on their respective email lists!!!!!!

Dein| 1.16.11 @ 12:14PM

....and let's not forget those staunch pillars of decency,friends of Barack,Bill and Bernadine,the esteemed college professors.

wodiej| 1.16.11 @ 4:14PM

Liberal Reader made enough money trolling today to supplement his allowance for the week.

wodiej| 1.16.11 @ 4:15PM

Conservatives use metaphors, liberals use physical and verbal violence.

Nick| 1.16.11 @ 4:16PM

Even a lefty American terrorist like Mark Rudd, one of the founders of the Weather Underground, knows that political rhetoric had NOTHING to do with the atrocity in Tucson.

Why can't all you bleeding heart liberals be as reasonable as a repentant former terrorist?
(hat tip to HotAir)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....id=topnews

Nick| 1.16.11 @ 4:34PM

Here is a great blog post about the similarity between President Lincoln and Sarah Palin. Again, thanks to HotAir.

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2011/01/028136.php

Yuki no Onna| 1.16.11 @ 6:37PM

Here's the key difference: When we identify violent, hateful behavior and words as coming from the Left, it is indeed from the Left, and we provide the necessary proofs and extensive research to back our claim. When the Left identifies hate and/or violence as coming from the Right, it is based on wishful thinking or pure slander; First, they see the violent act or hear the hateful words, and without any further evidence, declare the offender a right-winger. Then, surprise, the offender turns out to be either someone from their own tribe, sometimes perpetrating a hoax, or someone who is politically unidentifiable or other. Even Fred Phelps and that Militia that was raided last year - all Democrats. If the Left cannot honestly examine their troubling, and infantile behaviors, at least among themselves, without rationalizing it as justified or blaming it on external forces, then they have zero business pointing their pompous J'accuse fingers at anyone else. But that's the problem with Leftism isn't it? Fortified with warehouses of misinformation, an inability to acknowledge reality, a complete absence of introspection, a massive dose of entitlement, and a whopping sense of self righteousness peppered with pseudo-victimhood, each Leftist is, by his nature, a bubbling cauldron of hate.

Blackwatch| 1.16.11 @ 7:52PM

The "answer" to the scourge of Libtard violence?

Aim Small. Miss small.

Liberal Reader| 1.17.11 @ 10:29AM

Mr Lord --

I guess Blackwatch is just another one of your liberal readers ....

Anne| 1.18.11 @ 2:36AM

Jared Loughner is a George W Bush hating Truther.

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