Re: Shooting Victim Threatens Tea Partier
No one told Sarah Palin that a killing was going to happen ahead of time, how did she randomly know to put crosshairs on this congresswoman?
Uh, well, in Palin's case, the crosshairs were before the shooting, not in response to it. I'm not sure what you're getting at here.
Seriously...could it possibly be that this guy...like many in the media, in politics, and on this forum...on his own volition came to that asinine idea on his own? Are you saying that's impossible?
No, of course I'm not. As the saying goes, anything's possible. I'm looking at what's most likely.
And if its not impossible, then what proof do you have that his opinion came due to the "rhetoric" from people on the left in the aftermath of this and not due to his own thoughts and opinions?
His own thoughts and opinions? How does one even get from point A (the shooting) to point B (T party's fault) if there's no direct line, except that provided by the sheriff and others on the left? Ok, no I can't get in his head but I'm not looking at this in a vacuum either.
Really? You've been consistent?
I must've missed your condemnation of individuals baselessly using this for political gain such as the following post which, when people made similar regarding the tea party you were all over them pointing out their ridiculousness:
I understood Grim's point. Look at it this way, if I knew some guy was pissed about something, then I tell that guy it was you who did it, whether it was true or not, am I responsible for what the guy does? No, but that does not change that I pointed him in your direction in the first place.
And really, you are CONSISTENT with comments like this?
I stand by that. You wanna talk about consistency, let's see it from all those folks that
still blame Palin and the T party. They're the ones who say that the volatile rhetoric can be the cause of violence.
I thought in the all the threads that were blaming the tea party you were saying how there's no proof that the tea party in any way influenced this man through their "atmosphere".
Because there wasn't.
Yet somehow you're amking a claim that the "left wing pundits" DID create the "Very atmosphere" that you were saying they were wrong about with regards to the Tea Party.
Details do matter. Left wing pundits
did blame the T party. Some still do. Laughner, however, was not a T party supporter, contrary to what was reported. In essence the "allegation" against the T party was false but the allegation that I'm making against the left wing pundits is, unfortunately, true.
It seems you're not even consistent in this thread, let alone with your stance over the past week.
For further evidence, how about this post
Sure seems like you're making a claim that this guy WAS motivated by "the left's rhetoric". So again, I ask you...where's your proof on this? Are are you just capitalizing on coincidences and assumptions with absolutely no proof in hopes of pushing a political agenda and taking advantage of death threats for your own partisan reasons?
I don't think that I am. I'm just looking for some parity.
Seriously, you're not consistent save for in your attempts to act like you are with hollow words here or there that are betrayed when someone looks at your other posts in the thread.
I've said in other threads that, even if there is a connection between some violent action, and the media of whichever slant, the fault will always lie with the nut who commits the act.