There's a lot of soul searching going on in the USA currently, with the shooting of Democratic politician Gabrielle Giffords and others, including this innocent 9 year old girl Christina Taylor Green, who was 2 days older than my own son and died of her wounds. In Arizona and elsewhere a lot of people on both left and right seem to be advocating that the situation not be politicised.
I think that's the wrong approach.
If I had to take sides I would broadly align myself with the democrats, regardless, I'm regularly appalled at the seeming insularity, primitive superstition, rhetoric and plain ignorance of the tea-baggers and their public faces, particularly from pundits like Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh et al. I would suggest that this is precisely the time to politicise this, as much as possible, throw it in the faces of the Sarah Palin's of the world at every possible opportunity from now on, let everyone in the civilised world know what these imbeciles actually promote, shout at them, ridicule their beliefs, do not respect their ideas and most importantly win all of those millions of moderate and rational Americans to your side.
Left wing cartoon "The Far Left Side" has a nice round up of comments, it's hard to disagree with any of them, the cartoon is spot on too.
Here they are:
- If a Detroit Muslim put a map on the web with crosshairs on 20 pols, then 1 of them got shot, where would he be sitting right now? Just asking. - Michael Moore
- A physician cannot treat an illness s/he willfully refuses to diagnose. Violent political rhetoric is not fault of "both sides." - Tom Tomorrow
- Inspiring that our media pundits are so quick to reach for "everyone's to blame" when no conservative events have been terrorized by gunmen. - Jeffrey Feldman
- Weird: rightwingers say movies, video games affect behavior -- but real world violent rhetoric from leaders & radio talkers have NO impact! - Tom Tomorrow
- Jared Lougnner: drug arrests, too crazy for Army or for college or anything else, but getting a legal gun? No problem. - Tom Tomorrow
- I find it abhorrent that Sarah Palin would stoke the coals of extremism with dangerous messaging, then delete it when something bad happens. - Jason Pollock
- Sure, Sarah Palin didn't pull the trigger. But then, neither did Charles Manson. - auntbeast
- Christina Taylor Green was Born on September 11, 2001, and killed today by terrorist fuckheads in Arizona. Irony much? - geeksofdoom
- Sarah Palin rummages online frantically erasing her rabble-rousing Tweets like a Stalinist trimming non-persons out of photos. - Roger Ebert
- I'll say this, if your first instinct after hearing about a tragedy is to scrub yr websites, you have a problem as a political movement. - digby56
- CNN's Dana Bash says "this could be a wake-up call." THIS ... ? The whole Tea Party, carrying guns to rallies WASN'T?? - hololio2
- Teaparty asses have been asking for this to happen, and how they're pissed off that we're calling them out on it. - TLW3
- STOP SAYING"BOTH PARTIES"!! The Left has not been advocating Violence. @CNN assholes. - YatPundit
No comments:
Post a Comment