Great article Cold Water! This guy, James Delingpole summed up my thoughts and feelings better than I could have said it myself.
Thanks for sharing! KeithInKöln On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Cold Water <[email protected]> wrote: > The Arizona shootings were like Kwanzaa come early for America's liberal > fascists > > By James Delingpole<http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/author/jamesdelingpole/> > World <http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/category/world/> Last updated: > January 9th, 2011 > > 736 > Comments<http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100071019/the-arizona-shootings-were-like-kwanzaa-come-early-for-americas-liberal-fascists/#disqus_thread> > Comment > on this > article<http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100071019/the-arizona-shootings-were-like-kwanzaa-come-early-for-americas-liberal-fascists/#dPostComment> > > [image: Sure it's her fault: she believes in toxic, radical stuff like > small government and personal responsibility] > > Sure it's her fault: she believes in toxic stuff like small government and > personal responsibility > > How sick do you have to be to start making political capital out of the > killing of six people including a nine-year old girl, long before anyone has > the remotest clue what the murderer’s motives were, or his political > affiliations, or his state of mind? > > Not sick at all, to judge by the response of so many US > Tweeters<http://twitter.com/#!/search/Gabrielle%20Giffords>in the immediate > aftermath of the Arizona shootings. When you’re a liberal, > it seems, cloying sanctimoniousness, grotesque moral posturing, double > standards, hypocrisy and cynical, malevolent smearing all come as naturally > and healthily as breathing. > > As Toby Harnden > reports,<http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tobyharnden/100071004/the-unseemly-rush-to-blame-sarah-palin-the-tea-party-and-republicans-for-murder-in-arizona/>barely > were the bodies cold when the liberal fascists started pointing the > finger of blame: it was Sarah Palin’s fault, of course; Sarah Palin’s and > Glenn Beck’s and, of course, the Tea Party’s. Definitely not a crazed > killing spree by a deeply confused young man, no, sirree. After all, as Rahm > Emmanuel would say, you must “never let a crisis go to waste.” > > So let us compare and contrast the liberal blogosphere and media’s response > to the Arizona shootings (ie it was all the Right’s fault) and its response > to, say, the Fort Hood killings or the 2002 Beltway sniper murders. In the > latter two cases, liberals walked on eggshells to avoid admitting these had > anything whatsoever to do with the Religion of Peace (TM). And we’re not > talking about just the first few hours afterwards when a certain amount of > circumspection might have been excusable. As I mention in 365 Ways To > Drive A Liberal > Crazy<http://www.amazon.com/365-Ways-Drive-Liberal-Crazy/dp/1596986425>, > once the liberal MSM discovered that the Beltway assassinations were not > after all the crime of an “angry white man” but of an embittered, black > Muslim convert calling himself John Muhammad, it went into instant denial > mode. In news reports he was referred to by his pre-conversion name, John > Williams, just in case anyone got any politically incorrect ideas. > > It was the same with the Fort Hood killings. As I noted at the > time<http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100015948/hmm-cant-imagine-what-major-malik-nadal-hasans-motivation-could-have-been/>, > the liberal blogosphere and MSM simply couldn’t bring itself to admit that > Major Malik Nadal Hasan’s killing spree had anything whatsoever to do with > the famously peace-loving religion of Islam. Even after it emerged that he’d > been in contact with the notorious Islamist terror guru Anwar al-Awlaki, > still liberals sought desperately to make out that Major Hasan was just an > ordinary chap who’d been crazified by exposure to one of Amerika’s evil, > unjust wars. > > One of the Tweets I got from one of my nicer, better-meaning liberal > friends last night was: > > interesting to note the parallel between the dangers to politicians from > extremists in Pakistan and United States > > But actually, this says more about the dubious moral relativism of the > liberal mindset than it does about empirical truth. There is simply no > reasonable and fair comparison to be made between the assassination of poor > brave Salmaan Taseer, Governor of Punjab > province<http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/06/pakistan-salman-taseer-assassination>, > and the attempted murder of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. And if > you want to know why, compare and contrast the local reactions to these > respective tragedies. > > In Pakistan, Salmaan Taseer’s killer was showered with flower petals by his > many sympathisers. In the USA, Jared Loughner’s actions have attracted > universal condemnation from both left and right. > > And if anyone is gloating about the suffering and death inflicted on > Congresswoman Giffords and her entourage, it most certainly isn’t her > opponents in the Tea Party. It’s all those unprincipled grievance mongers on > the liberal-left. > > *Tags:* Arizona > shootings<http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tag/arizona-shootings/>, > Congresswoman Gabrielle > Giffords<http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tag/congresswoman-gabrielle-giffords/>, > Liberal Fascism <http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tag/liberal-fascism/>, > Salmaan > Taseer <http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tag/salmaan-taseer/>, Sarah > Palin <http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tag/sarah-palin/> > > > http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100071019/the-arizona-shootings-were-like-kwanzaa-come-early-for-americas-liberal-fascists/ > > -- > Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. > For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum > > * Visit our other community at > http://www.PoliticalForum.com/<http://www.politicalforum.com/> > * It's active and moderated. 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