Implicit permission to incite retaliation and violence
glenn greenwald provides the background (as if readers needed any)...
i've refrained from commenting on all the hoo-hah, but i can hold back no longer...
yes, these bloggers and pundits may be vile, over-the-top, and inciting to violence, but look where the implicit permission for that is coming from... pick up the threads and follow them back to their source and you will find none other than karl rove, the individual who has done more than anyone to polarize this country... he has done it and continues to do it unchecked by plumbing the darkest depths of the human soul... he is the field marshal behind the lockstep discipline of the r's and their running dogs... this is not to let the r's or the sock puppets off the hook... they certainly are responsible and accountable for the words that come out of their mouths... hopefully, it will only be words and not something more serious... Submit To Propeller
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As I documented at length this weekend, Michelle Malkin, John Hinderaker, Red State, David Horowitz and many others of that sort spent the weekend engaged in the most vicious and self-evidently misguided attacks on The New York Times based on a puff piece in this weekend's "Escapes" section. Because the article contained a photograph of Don Rumsfeld's vacation home, they insisted that this was reckless and even retaliatory-- i.e., done with the intent to enable Al Qaeda operatives and other assassins to murder Rumsfeld (as well as Dick Cheney), and that it was further evidence of the war being waged by the NYT and its employees on the Bush administration and the U.S.
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The reprehensible lynch mob hysterics - Michelle Malkin, John Hinderaker, Red State, David Horowitz - spent the weekend screaming that the Times was guilty of gross recklessness and/or a deliberate intent to have Rumsfeld killed, by virtue of publication of this article. That bloodthirsty frenzy caused other bloggers to publish the home address and telephone number of Spillers and urged that other NYT editors and reporters be "hunted down." Other followers of Malkin and Hinderaker suggested to their readers that this was yet more evidence of the unpatriotic recklessness of the NYT.
i've refrained from commenting on all the hoo-hah, but i can hold back no longer...
yes, these bloggers and pundits may be vile, over-the-top, and inciting to violence, but look where the implicit permission for that is coming from... pick up the threads and follow them back to their source and you will find none other than karl rove, the individual who has done more than anyone to polarize this country... he has done it and continues to do it unchecked by plumbing the darkest depths of the human soul... he is the field marshal behind the lockstep discipline of the r's and their running dogs... this is not to let the r's or the sock puppets off the hook... they certainly are responsible and accountable for the words that come out of their mouths... hopefully, it will only be words and not something more serious... Submit To Propeller
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posted by profmarcus at
7/03/2006
