It’s the media’s fault.
It’s the Tea Party’s fault.
It’s the Demorat’s fault.
I have spent the last week or so watching the news coverage and Innertoob noodlings that blamed pretty much everyone but the Man in the Moon for the Arizona shootings.
I’m tired of the Blame Game.
Paul “Buster” Door, a now-retired North Puffin car dealer and Democratic party official, has spent the entire time railing at me about the “climate of hate and blame” that set Jared Loughner off on his path of disintegration. “Dupnik proved his case without lifting a finger,” he said about Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik. “And now the Party of Hate and Violence has turned its lie machine loose on him.”
Hello?
Buster doesn’t think the lie machine will get much traction there in southern Arizona where the 75-year old “anti-Sheriff Joe” has been re-elected seven times since 1980.
“The lunatic right-wing conspiracy theorists created the atmosphere that drove Loughner to act,” he said. “Their Dupnik spin comes through loud and clear about how hard they’re working to ‘prove’ their conspiracy theory about Mr. Loughner’s actions.”
Right wing conspiracy theories? Hello?
The NY Times reported that Mr. Loughner’s comments were “strikingly similar in language and tone” to the voices of the Internets more paranoid, extremist, right-wing militia writers. The NY Times.
I did have to correct Buster a few other times on the facts in a conversation he started about the wonderfulness of the sheriff.
Arizona seems to be the national capitol for wack jobs. Sheriff Dupnik comes through loud and clear, alright. Last year he said out loud that he would refuse to enforce his state’s immigration law. This year, when he should have been investigating the shootings, he spent his time building the defense’s “debbil made me do it” case by telling everyone who would listen that it was all the fault of the right wing media.
I can understand why Buster want this guy for his sheriff. I don’t understand why anyone else would.
To set the record straight, over the past week even the MSM news admitted that if Mr. Loughner is political at all, he leans left. Funny thing about jumping to conclusions.
“Since we’re engaging in sophistry,” Buster said “Dupnik’s comment was simply that, should the bill become law, he wouldn’t enforce it.”
No sophistry. Dupnik said he wouldn’t enforce the law.
Period. Paragraph.
“Nice job trying to steer the discussion from the real point,” Buster said “and off into a total non issue.”
We do agree on that. It’s what leftwingnuts do.
See, every single MSM outlet including the NY Times jumped all over Mr. Loughner as driven by “that hateful national political rhetoric” that drove his murderous fantasies. And, in spite of what the ongoing investigation shows, Buster still want to blame “that hateful national [conservative] political rhetoric” for the murders instead of blaming Mr. Loughner.
A. Man. Killed. Six. People.
But Buster keeps pushing “that hateful national [conservative] political rhetoric.”
A. Man. Killed. Six. People.
But Bernie Sanders is fund raising to combat “that hateful national [conservative] political rhetoric.”
A. Man. Killed. Six. People. He killed 9-year-old Christina Green and Federal Judge John Roll and wounded 14 others, including U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords, his apparent target.
But all Buster can talk about is us hateful conservatives and our rhetoric.
It’s what leftwingnuts do when they can’t dispute the facts.
So Buster changed the subject.
“You saw that Sarah Palin got into it, right?” he asked. “She deliberately riled up her gun nuts with that reprehensible comment about the mainstream ‘journalists and pundits [who] manufactured a blood libel to incite hatred and violence against them.”
I know the stories that Jews used human blood and the particularly blood of innocent Christian children to bake the matzos of Passover. I didn’t remember the term “blood libel” nor did I associate it with the Jews when I did.
I’m a pretty fair country wordsmith and I use metaphor and allegory in most teaching and most of my editorial writing. “Blood libel” is not a word pairing I would have dreamt up so I have to believe Ms. Palin’s speech writers knew exactly what it meant.
Blood libel is, frankly, no worse than Mr. Obama calling Congressional Repuglicans “hostage takers” then offering to negotiate with them. Sends terrorists a great message that does. Blood libel is, frankly, no worse than calling a budget bill a “rape of the American people.” There wasn’t a woman in America untouched by that statement. Blood libel is, frankly, no worse than Rep. Paul Kanjorski (D-PA) saying “Instead of running for governor of Florida, they ought to have him and shoot him. Put him against the wall and shoot him” about then candidate and now Governor Rick Scott (R-FL).
Mr. Kanjorski issued a pretty explicit call to violence. And yet. And yet Buster and Jon Stewart ignored it. If Rep. Joe “you lie” Wilson had called for Nancy Pelosi to be put against a wall and shot, the Demorats and the MSM would have eaten his shorts.
This is a bad trend. Next thing you know, we’ll start equating our politicians to Catholic priests.
It’s what leftwingnuts do when they can’t dispute the facts.
This column started out spinning the giant Blame Game wheel. Let’s see where the ball landed.
It’s the media’s fault. Yeppers.
It’s the Tea Party’s fault. Sho ’nuff.
It’s the Demorat’s fault. Exactly.
That’s all true but the real truth is simple. It’s your fault.
You, dear reader, buy the newspapers. You, dear reader, tune to those television stations. You, dear reader, spread these exaggerations and untruths. And the media, the political parties, and your neighbors echo you.
