Can nothing stop her violent aural hate crimes?
By the way, because of the need to “tone it down,” you’re inciting violence if you say Britney’s hit is Number One “with a bullet.” And really, it’s more like Number Two. IYKWIMAITYD.
Mission Accomplished, Markos Moulitsas
You can’t un-Tweet it, you see. Before the suspect had been identified, before his motive was known, you blamed Sarah Palin for an atrocious crime of which she was utterly innocent. The facts of your cruel defamation are chronicled precisely by Professor Willliam Jacobson:
As far as I can tell, Matthew Yglesias of Think Progress was the first person to spread the so-called Palin target map at 1:45 p.m. The now infamous Markos Moulistas “mission accomplished, Sarah Palin” tweet did not take place until 2:19 p.m. Yglesias’ tweet was retweeted a total of 271 times and the image of the map he posted 883 times as of this writing. . . .The massacre had been hijacked for political purposes not based on facts, but on a desire for retribution against Palin specifically, and the Tea Parties and conservatives in general. A point I have made time and again, is that there was and is no evidence that the shooter ever saw the Palin map.The Palin connection was a complete fabrication created in the minds of Messrs. Yglesias, Moulitsas, and countless others with an axe to grind.
“Now infamous,” what a lovely phrase! The stain of your disgrace could not be darker, Markos, for what can be more heinous than to bear false witness — yea, even blood libel! — against the innocent? Continue reading Mission Accomplished, Markos Moulitsas →
Advice to Boys: Beware of Chicks You Meet Through Online Gaming
Especially if they’re old enough to be your mom:
A California woman flew across the country to have sex with a 13-year-old she met through her Xbox, police said.
Rachel Ann Hicks, 36, was arrested Friday for allegedly bedding the Maryland teen, according to police in Orange County, Calif.
The woman is being charged with two counts of rape, one count of second-degree sex offense and one count of sexual solicitation of a minor, according to WBALTV News in Baltimore.
PREVIOUSLY: ‘Few People Understand the Damage Boys Who Are Abused by Women Can Suffer’
Poll Shows MSM Spin on Tucson Shooting Rejected by Stupid American Majority
Damn it, when are you ignorant people going to wake up and recognize the moral superiority of your liberal overlords?
Nearly six in 10 Americans say the country’s heated political rhetoric is not to blame for the Tucson shooting rampage that left six dead and critically wounded U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, according to a CBS News poll. . . .
Overall, 57 percent of respondents said the harsh political tone had nothing to do with the shooting, compared to 32 percent who felt it did. Republicans were more likely to feel the two were unrelated – 69 percent said rhetoric was not to blame . . .
Isn’t it about time that 57% of you admit you have blood on your hands? Don’t you realize how much more enlightened and tolerant those 32% are? How are we ever going to “tone down the rhetoric” is you refuse to admit that Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh were responsible for this atrocity?
Via Memeorandum, with more commentary from Ed Morrissey at Hot Air, Dave Weigel, NewsBusters, Nick Gillespie at Reason‘s Hit & Run, Weasel Zippers, William Jacobson at Legal Insurrection, JammieWearingFool, and Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit.
Herman Cain on the Iowa Caucuses
Duane Lester interviews the not-yet-official candidate after an event in Council Bluffs, Iowa:
In Iowa, like New Hampshire, candidates really get the chance to be vetted. This meeting that we had here today is a good example. They didn’t hold back. And in Iowa, you can’t just buy enough advertising and you’re going to win the caucuses. And so Iowa is special, not only because it’s an early primary state, but because the process that is used here is so unique that it truly forces candidates to be vetted as they begin to campaign the other states around the country.
This is an important point about the organizational aspect of the presidential campaign. Barack Obama’s defeat of Hillary Clinton in the 2008 Iowa caucuses ultimately proved decisive, and the secret of Obama’s victory in Iowa was a superior ground game: She began the campaign with far more money and vastly greater name recognition, but the Obama campaign simply out-organized her.
“Retail politics” — the candidate shaking hands with individual voters and talking to small gatherings of supporters in people’s living rooms — really makes a difference in Iowa and New Hampshire. Voters there have become accustomed to being actively courted by candidates and Cain’s recognition of that dynamic is important to his grassroots approach to the campaign.
They Only Have to Be Right Once
“Here we go,” says William Jacobson at Legal Insurrection, after a Democrat decides that applying the phrase “job killing” to ObamaCare is an incitement to violence:
A good place to start a more civil dialog would be for my Republican colleagues in the House to change the name of the bill they have introduced to repeal health care reform. The bill, titled the “Repeal the Job Killing Health Care Law Act,” was set to come up for a vote this week, but in the wake of Gabby’s shooting, it has been postponed at least until next week.
Don’t get me wrong — I’m not suggesting that the name of that one piece of legislation somehow led to the horror of this weekend — but is it really necessary to put the word “killing” in the title of a major piece of legislation? I don’t think that word is in there by accident — my Republican friends know as well as anyone the power of words to send a message. But in this environment and at this moment in our nation’s history, it’s not the message we should be sending.
This is yet another example of how liberals routinely claim Republicans are engaging in “dog whistle” rhetoric — supposedly sending coded messages — when only liberals seem able to hear the whistle. How many times have we been told by liberals that various criticisms of the Obama administration’s agenda are inherently racist?
Assuming the pose of high-minded arbiters of civility, liberals arrogate to themselves the ability to decide what are and are not legitimate arguments and — surprise, surprise! — any argument made by conservatives is immediately ruled out of order. The more effective a conservative argument, the more success any particular strategy, tactic or rhetorical method has in defeating liberalism, the more likely it is to be attacked as an expression of “hate.”
Day in and day out for nearly two years, liberals have repeatedly claimed that the Tea Party movement is a hate-filled aggregation of violent bigots. (April will mark the two-year anniversary of the infamous DHS “Rightwing Extremism” report, issued just days before the 2009 Tax Day Tea Party rallies.) Why do they keep saying this, without any credible evidence? Because, as Da Tech Guy says, they only have to be right once:
Simple mathematics suggest that if you bet on a a particular number on a roulette wheel continually sooner or later it will come up, however if it comes up after you have lost over and over again, it is not proof of your gambling prowess.
Having spent some time in Vegas, I can attest to the truth of that. But words are cheaper than casino chips, and liberals had been betting the mortgage on the “Tea Party extremist” meme for so long that, when gunfire erupted in Tucson, they instantly leaped to the conclusion that their lucky number had finally hit.
Alas, they bet wrong again. Continue reading They Only Have to Be Right Once →
LIVE AT FIVE – 1.11.11
TOP NEWS
Commentators Rush To Blame Media For Loughner’s Murders
And pious blathering about “violent rhetoric” focuses only on the Right.
South Sudan goes to the polls
Most observers think secession’s a done deal
Tom DeLay Sentenced To Three Years For Money Laundering, Free On Appeal Bond
“I can’t be remorseful for something I think I didn’t do”
POLITICS
Brown’s Budget For California: “Honest” And “Very Painful”?
Budget cuts $12.5 billion in spending, raises taxes, and cuts state salaries 8-10%
Arrest Made In Threat Against Senator Bennet’s Staff
Limbaugh: Democrats Sought To Profit From Loughner’s Murders
Illinois Governor Quinn: “We Will Pay Our Bills”
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Alcoa Shines As Aluminum Prices Rise
Hef Buys Back The Bunny: Founder Of Playboy To Take Company Private In $207 Million Deal
Merger Of Duke, Progress Energy Would Create U.S. Largest Utility
NASA Ames’ Kepler Mission Finds First Rocky Exoplanet
“World Of Warcraft: Cataclysm” Sells 4.7 Million In First Month
SPORTS
Rockets Still Trying To Trade For Anthony
No deals until the deadline?
Penalties And Scandals Highlight Irregular College Football Season
Penguins Squander Lead, Fall 4-2 To Bruins
Rangers Trade Rozsival To Coyotes For Wolski
Petersen Intrigued By Stanford But Stays At Boise State
Wings Goalie Osgood Out 6-8 Weeks With Injured Groin
FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Owen Wilson’s Going To Be A Dad!
Pregnant GF Jade Duell in Hawaii, where she plans to give birth
Scarlett “Devastated” By Ryan & Sandra’s Rebound Romance
‘Tis best to be off with the old love, before one is on with the new, eh, Scarlett?
Jake Gyllenhall Praises, Teases Pregnant Natalie Portman
Britney’s New Single “Hold It Against Me” Leaks To Internet A Day Early
How Caroline Kennedy And Maria Shriver Shivved “The Kennedys” Miniseries
Giada DeLaurentiis Embraces Traditional Roles Of Wife And Mom
FOREIGNERS
Eight Killed, 72 Missing As Australian Floods Continue
Bhutto Pledges To Defend Pakistan’s Minorities, Condemns Those Who Praised Slain Governor’s Assassin
ROK Rejects Nork Dialogue Offer As Ploy To Get Aid Restarted
Spanish PM Zapatero Says Basque Terrorists’ Offer Of Permanent Truce Doesn’t Go Far Enough
Ouattara Offers Unity Government If Gbagbo Steps Down
BLOGS & STUFF
The Cholla Jumps: Jared Loughner Is A Product Of Sheriff Dupnik’s Office
See also Atlas Shrugs.
Legal Insurrection: What David Frum Needed To Say
Michelle Malkin: The Progressive Climate Of Hate – An Illustrated Primer
Protein Wisdom: Hillary Must Go
— compiled by Wombat-socho
Miley Cyrus: Healing America
After three hours of watching MSNBC hosts lecturing us about the “culture of hate” — by which term they mean, Sarah Palin — they blame for the shootings in Tucson, I was bored out of my skull.
If this crap is boring me senseless, surely it must be boring you. Fortunately, we have celebrities to distract us:
I’m not sure why Miley Cyrus and Emily Osment were playing kissy-face, but thanks. America needed that.