A couple of years ago, The Department of Homeland Security released a report entitled Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment, the thrust of which was that the nation faces an internal threat from domestic terrorists with right-wing political ideology. The right blogosphere howled, but, as I discussed here as well as here and here, they simply were … Read More
Joe Scarborough Has Some Words For Palin and Beck
We get it, Sarah Palin. You’re not morally culpable for the tragic shooting in Tucson, Ariz. All of us around the “Morning Joe” table agree, even if we were stunned that you would whine about yourself on Facebook as a shattered family prepared to bury their 9-year-old girl. The same goes for you, Glenn Beck. You’ve attacked your political opponents … Read More
Is There Violent Rhetoric On Both Sides?
Look, let's get something clear. This Jared creep didn't shoot Rep. Giffords and dozens of others because of something that Sarah Palin said, or because of some literature which placed a gun target over Gifford's district. He did it because he was a nut job. I don't think any serious critic on the left is making that assertion that … Read More
Eliminationist Rhetoric
The right wing is very upset that the left is "using" the Tucson shootings to point out the violent rhetoric of the right, and how it leads deranged people to do just what Jared Lee Loughner did. "It's not fair" cries the right. And I say "rubbish". What we have here is an attempted assassination of a politician by an insane crank … Read More
Right Wing Bloggers Angry At Homeland Security For Monitoring Right Wing Extremists
It all started, as these things often do, with Michelle Malkin: Yesterday, Roger Hedgecock and the Liberty Papers posted an unclassified DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis report titled: Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment. Malkin called the DHS report (from “Obama’s” DHS) “a sweeping indictment of conservatives.” She seems to think this … Read More