Violent Rhetoric

You’ve probably seen most of these already. I’m just posting this here so I’ll have it handy the next time liberals once again try to claim the moral high ground on violence and calmness.

From Paul Krugman, that person who is so worried about violent rhetoric from Sarah Palin:

A message to progressives: By all means, hang Senator Joe Lieberman in effigy.

Sarah Palin, hung in effigy.

 

Michelle Malkin gives us ‘The progressive “climate of hate”: An illustrated primer, 2000-2010’ which includes:

The progressive climate of hate: A comprehensive illustrated primer in 8 parts:

I. PALIN HATE
II. BUSH HATE
III. MISC. TEA PARTY/GOP/ANTI-TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE HATE
IV. ANTI-CONSERVATIVE FEMALE HATE
V. LEFT-WING MOB HATE — campus, anti-war radicals, ACORN, eco-extremists, & unions
VI. OPEN-BORDERS HATE
VII. ANTI-MILITARY HATE
VIII. HATE: CRIMES — the ever-growing Unhinged Mugshot Collection

Let’s not forget the death threats against President George W. Bush, (R-USA). Too many to excerpt. Follow the links.

How about a movie about the assassination of President Bush?

“Death of a President,” the documentary-style speculative fiction about the assassination of the 43rd President of the United States, is seamless, intelligent and maybe even necessary to an understanding of George W. Bush’s role in the world today[.] — Jim Emerson on RogerEbert.com

And here are some liberal reactions to the AZ shooting (language warning):

 

Flopping Aces has a nice roundup of “tolerance” from the left, including:

• WANDA SYKES HOPES RUSH LIMBAUGH’S KIDNEYS FAIL
• PEOPLE: ‘ASHLEY JUDD TARGETS SARAH PALIN FOR SPORT HUNTING’
• ‘BOONDOCKS’ CREATOR MCGRUDER CALLS CONDI RICE, COLIN POWELL MURDERERS
• EBERT’S SITE PRAISES LEFT-WING BUSH ASSASSINATION FILM
• KATHY GRIFFIN SAYS 2011 IS 16-YEAR-OLD WILLOW PALIN’S ‘YEAR TO GO DOWN’
• JOY BEHAR WANTS THAT ‘BITCH’ SHARRON ANGLE TO GO ‘TO HELL’
• AARON SORKIN HAPPY WHEN HUNTERS SHOOT EACH OTHER
• PLAYBOY MAGAZINE’S HATE-F**K LIST OF CONSERVATIVE WOMEN
• MONTEL WILLIAMS URGES MICHELE BACHMANN TO KILL HERSELF
• PEREZ HILTON CALLS MISS CALIFORNIA A ‘C*NT’
• SEAN PENN CALLS REAGAN’S ALZHEIMER’S ‘JUSTICE’
• ROSIE O’DONNELL CALLS BUSH ‘WAR CRIMINAL’ WHO MUST ‘BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE’
• ARIANNA HUFFINGTON FILMS ROLE IN BUSH ASSASSINATION FANTASY-FILM
• ALEC BALDWIN THREATENS TO STONE HENRY HYDE, KILL CHILDREN
• JEFF WELLS PRAISES METAPHOR OF ‘HOBO’ FILM BLASTING WEALTHY WITH SHOTGUN

Another nice rundown from the Greenroom @ HotAir.

After all, anyone who was awake through the last 10 years — as opposed to just the last 2 — knows that violent and hateful rhetoric has been a recurring theme of the left. But you would never know it from the establishment media. The death threats at anti-Bush rallies? The establishment media must have been out on an eight-year smoke break. Did they wring their hands over The Bush assassination porn in movies, books and art? Not really. When a man — an avowed MSNBC viewer — was convicted of threatening Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite (R-FL) in the aftermath of the healthcare debate, was there a concerted stroking of chins, or wagging of fingers? How about when a man made a bomb threat against a Republican fundraiser featuring Senate candidate Linda McMahon? When fmr. Rep. Paul Kanjorski (D-PA) suggested that Rick Scott, now the Republican Governor of Florida, be shot? How about when Sarah Palin’s church was burned down? (Aside: Imagine the media coverage had Obama’s church had been burned down.) How about when then-candidate Obama bragged that he would bring a gun to a knife fight? That was not condemned, but celebrated as scrappy an pop-culure savvy. The list goes on and on.

New Jersey’s Teachers Union Prays for Governor Chris Christie’s (R-NJ) death.

To wit, a memo sent out by the New Jersey Education Association stupidly contained the following prayer:

"Dear Lord: This year you have taken away my favorite actor, Patrick Swayze, my favorite actress, Farrah Fawcett, my favorite singer, Michael Jackson, and my favorite salesman, Billy Mays ... I just wanted to let you know that Chris Christie is my favorite governor."

Stay classy, liberals.