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VioletGray -> RE: Most Americans Reject Rhetoric as Cause (1/16/2011 12:45:08 PM)
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ORIGINAL: TheHeretic
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ORIGINAL: VioletGray
But the truth is the Right has the market cornered on hate-speech.
So I'm guessing you either slept through the Bush II administration, or were in agreement with the tone of the day and didn't notice how disgusting it was. See anybody here referring to our President as a "monkey" as a matter of habit? Got any movies about his assassination playing down at your local art house? A lot more people insisted then that Bush wasn't the legitimate President of our country, than think Barack Obama was born in Africa now.
We do have evidence, Violet. Clear statements from people who knew him that he wasn't watching the news, or listening to talk radio. That was jazz in his ipod, not the podcast from Rush, or even that heavy metal devil music.
Now if ya'll want to keep pushing this, arguing that the heated political rhetoric was general environment, and contributed to the shaping of his madness, then you might want to reconsider. The social climate of political hate-speech that Jared Loughner grew up in was all the filth the left was spouting about Bush. By the time the right cranked it up, he was only tuned in to the broadcasts from Planet Zoogadeep IV.
So... He was so chock-full of liberal vitriol that he shot a democrat?
I still don't think you fully understand what I'm getting at. I personally think that George Bush got more hate than he deserved. But I don't think it's the same thing as what's going on here. We're not talking about foaming at the mouth shock troops out in public who are mad as hell and not going to take it anymore. We specifically mean people in the public eye and being reckless with that opportunity.
I'm not saying that he definitely did this because of conservative hate speech. It's just that it's possible that it was a contributing factor. There have already been cases where people have been murdered likely after pundits have talked about them. Bill O'Reilly and the whole "Tiller the Baby Killer" thing.
All we are saying is be careful. Stuff like this might set people off, we don't need to legislate anything, just ask the professional outrage merchants to PLEASE tone it down.
Also, the Jazz on his ipod thing? Terribly flimsy argument. I have nothing of a political nature on my mp3 player, and still I have political beliefs. Heck, I don't even have those political books he had.
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