"... c'mon Tom, that's just insulting to people's intelligence - you write some little post that tries to sound like it's not really engaging in chauvinistic mudslinging and slander and ideological hyperbole - and then tack up an image of SarahPAC? Can you make a more pathetically transparent effort to say what you mean by pretending to not say what you mean? Jesus.
What are you whinging fools gonna do when it's revealed that the shooter was not motivated by politics at all - that he was just a delusional paranoid with mommy issues who has held a grudge against Giffords since 2007, long before the advent of Sarah and Tea Parties? And now all you've managed to do is turn Palin into the victim of a scurrilous left wing attack thereby enhancing her popularity?
Tell me, if after Aaron Sorkin's hysterical, illogical, hate filled rant against Palin regarding her 'Alaska hunting episode' some animal rights wacko had been motivated to do her harm, would y'all have held Sorkin and the Huffington Post responsible? Of course not - in fact I imagine many of you would have privately celebrated such a thing, just as many of you would have let out a little cheer if that flying Iraqi shoe had clubbed Bush in the head and drawn blood or something worse. You're hypocrites.
If some wacko had taken Obama's 'bring a gun to a knife fight' rhetoric seriously and done just that and then squeezed off a few at a republican rally would you immediately have blamed Obama's intemperate language for the damage done? Or would you, shameless creatures that you are, have pleaded for calm and sober reflection as you did with Fort Hood where lefties broke ankles so desperate were they to jump out of the way of even the slightest insinuation of Islamic fanaticism? And that guy actually did kill those people because he was an Islamic fanatic! he screamed it as he was killing them! - but no way you were going to get a democrat to even mention the word 'Muslim', least not until copious amounts of sober reflection had buried all negative thoughts beneath a dunghill of perspective.
But of course Sarah is such a blatantly evil creature that perspective is unnecessary - maybe Paul Krugman can appease his great outrage by stoning her to death live on The View while those insufferable shrews stand around hurling curses at her.
I love how you liberals insist you're not about instituting the nanny state, but some sociopath kills a few poor souls in Phoenix and you simply can't wait to start legislating what does and does not amount to appropriate political discourse - regardless of whether or not the shooting actually had anything at all to do with politics! I guess Tom Friedman's not the only enlightened one suffering from China envy - including, irony of ironies, the shooter - certainly his political views are closer to Friedman's and the Times' than they are to Palin's.
I'm a conservative but not particularly a Palin fan - I retain an interest in her stemming from fact that when she first came on the scene I was one of the few who recognized she had talent and cautioned against perils of under estimating her, but I have no real enthusiasm in seeing her run for president - still, this shooting has so revealed what ignoble little shits liberal ideologues are that I may have to entertain the notion of becoming a proximate fan simply out of spite..."
