Good letter Gail.
The June 15th column by Eugene Robinson is a fairly typical example of how some journalists manipulate an isolated incident to implicate wider and unrelated actions.
The episode that inspired the column: An 88 year-old deranged man, whose mental problems were so serious that his own family had rejected him, was prevented from entering the Holocaust Memorial Museum because he was carrying a rifle. In the ensuing skirmish, the security guard, who happened to be black, was killed and the crazed attacker was wounded. This unbalanced man, with a decades-old history of irrational anti-Semitism, acted alone.
With only these basic facts, Robinson tries to demean conservative commentators (including Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity) who criticized a Department of Homeland Security memo predicting increased threats from "right-wing extremist groups." Robinson ignores the facts that the attacker's anti-Semitism existed decades before Barack Obama was even heard of, that he acted alone and was not a member of any group. Robinson, of course, implies some kind of racial motive to the killing of the security guard, whose race was incidental to the fact that he was the person guarding the entrance.
As we would have expected, Robinson refers to the Southern Poverty Law Center's claim that hate groups have increased more than 50% since 2000. The truth of the matter is that 'actual' hate groups have radically decreased over the past several years. The SPLC's claim of an increase results from it's redefining what constitutes a hate group. Its new definition includes opposition to or criticism of such things as abortion, same-sex marriage, illegal immigration and racial preferences. The Left may frown on those who oppose granting preferences to select groups only, but such opinions cannot be called hate.
Finally, Robinson gets so carried away with his interpretations of the mindset of this lone gunman that he even tries to relate it to opposition to Judge Sonia Sotomayor. We can admire Robinson's wild creativity, but let's hope no one takes his conclusions seriously.
Gail Jarvis
Aiken
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Good letter Gail.
Remember the focus is not to express reality for the left, it is to follow Saul Alinsky's formula of Fix your target,personnalize it, demonize it and destroy it. If the left applied the same standards to Muslims that the applied to the Holocaust Museum shooter we would be at war with islam, (John Lee Mohammed, World Trade center twice, multiple terrorist cells, Marine in Ark. fellow who beheaded his wife in Mew York, the list is long).. No the purpose of the left is to fix, then demonize, then destroy Christians, Pro life folks, and the conservative so the destruction of America can continue at record pace.
What crap, carcraft. Bill O'Reilly personalized, demonized Dr. Tiller and the result was this man's death. Name anyone a liberal has killed.
No grouse..... O'Reilly deionized Tiller, and he was also killed. It's idiocy to conclude that the REASON the guy killed him was because O'Reilly said so. That is a classical cause and effect logical fallacy.
We will start with the police Ayers and his group killed, followed by the people that died when Ayers apratment blew up, then we will go to the group that kidnaped Patty Hearst and killed cops, marching on to to Christien Giler, a mentally disable girl who died during one of Tillers botched abortions, followed by the hundreds of children who lived through botched abortions but put aside to die, followed be the thousands of late term abortions (some during delivery). We will march on to the left getting DDT banned that killed millions in Africa then go on to the twenty million or so killed by Stalin followed by 6 million the communist killed in Cambodia.. where the H*LL do you want me to stop..
Liberals are not mass murders. Mass murders and teachers that are sex offenders all seem to look alike. HELLO! HELLO!
6 million in Cambodia? That's not a mass murder, is it Jack234? OHELL OHELL
JACK234 are you serious? We have males and females that are sex offenders, we had a lisbo teacher here that had an affair with one of her students and got cought so her "partner" comitted suicide, she recently got her conviction over turned, yeh they all look alike Jello jello coffe flavored to wake up mello HELLO
The killings were not about conservative and liberal. They were about many things, religion, race, perceived conspiracies, etc. but neither were about conservative and liberal. Yes, the liberals want to use these killings to say these were conservative sanctioned killings but it just isn't so. I don't remember anything in the reports on these individuals that talked about their beliefs about deficit spending, socialized medicine, taxation or other real issues that conservatives are (or should be) concerned with. And yes, it was not right that O'Reilly singled out and demonized Tiller and it is also not right that the left wing media uses these right wing nutcases to demonize conservatives. What all of us should be watching is the assault on personal freedom, destrution of the Constitution, and seizing of our personal property by taxation that is occurring under this administration. Those are issues that we should be watching instead of finger pointing because of a few fringe nutcases on both sides. While we are screaming at each other because of the actions of a few nutcases the government is laying plans to take most of what you earn, and dictate what you eat, drink and drive.
silly grouse, think Unibomber. Think eco-terrorists. Think welfare bred.
234, liberals aren't mass murderers? Think Dr. Tiller and all of the other mass murders that earn their money the same way.
Remember the focus is not to express reality for the left, it is to follow Saul Alinsky's formula of Fix your target,personnalize it, demonize it and destroy it.
Every time Obama brings forth legislation and presidential mandates that take away more American's freedoms something in the news seems to take our attention away from what Obama is trying to do. How does he make those things happen so we won't pay all our attention to him?
Fox news covers Obama 24/7. Had they given this much coverage to GW his ratings might have went up, or not. HELLO! HELLO! HELLO! Sometime too much coverage has the opposite effect than that intended. Fox - get a clue. Overkill!!! HELLO! HELLO! Hannity still talking about Jeremiah Wright. Hannity needs to fire his writers. HELLO! HELLO! HELLO!
I am sponsoring a special contest on this site. Whoever is the first person to wish me a happy father's day on fathers day will win a special HELLO! HELLO! from me. The contest begins now. Remember I was the first to wish patricia thomas a happy mothers' day. HELLO! HELLO!
I am sponsoring a special contest on this site. Whoever is the first person to list the things that Obama has done to better the country will win a special HELLO! HELLO! from me.
Jack234, do you think Obama's apologizing all over the world might not be due to the influance of J Wright that (AmeriKKK , G.. D...America, we bomped and now our chickens.. etc) America is a problem in the world that we need to apologize for! Obama's pandering lies about Muslim achivement (algabre is Indian, compass chinese, printing , chinese etc), and equating women being beaten, honor killing of women, stoning of women equates to title IX law violations might not be the black liberation theology Wright preached! Obama is appointing Czars so fast we will need an information czar to tell us about the other new czars, where do these folks get their authority, not from the constitution! Free Market over haul, taking over the auto and finnancila sector, the influance on the housing sector, taking over the health care sector. The thing you don't realize is that Obama has ordered a monitoring system of health care out comes and will only pay for effective treatment. Who does the studies and how are they done, no detail. Well Jackfruit, I can tell you now you can design a study to prove anything you want. Look at the second hand smoke studies, global warming "models" etc.
The result of this will be some stupid bureaucrat in DC will tell you how to get your cancer treatment, not your Doctor!! Even Obama's Doctor thinks Obama's health care reform is cr*p
What crap, carcraft. Bill O'Reilly personalized, demonized Dr. Tiller and the result was this man's death. Name anyone a liberal has killed.
Posted by grouse on Sat Jun 20, 2009 9:05 AM....O'Reilly reported the FACTS and the TRUTH about Tiller the baby killer. Murdering viable babies for casual reasons, which hs records showed, is monstrous and Tiller was a monster. I suppose such baby killing factories such as Tiller's should just stay swept under the rug. I certainly hope not.
This just in Fox News managed to mention President Obama 120 times in just 60 minutes?
Would you rather they just ignore the damage that He's doing to the country?
No I love the comedy of their reporting....It is funnier than Comedy Central........They rarely mentioned Bush because they knew he was such a bumpkin.
Just give it a few years, guys, if you're too besotted with Obama and company, or too uninformed about the history of nations to read the warning signs flying in our faces today. When your kid or grandkid gets leukemia and is forced to wait a few months for life-saving treatment, or has it denied altogether, then see how you like what is being pushed through and forced on us by the federales. Or maybe your spouse of 30 years will died waiting 4-6 months for heart bypass surgery, treatment that today is a same-day procedure for acute MI patients in most places here in the US. See what you think not just of our health care but of life in general in five to seven years. I don't have any doubts that it's going to be very bad; I just hope that damage isn't so extensive that it can't be repaired, for many generations if at all. It's all proving to be an object lesson in how important it is to force children to learn the history of civilization and of our nations, and to understand what citizenship is and requires.
Just self medicate....it has worked for centuries
Fiat Lux I agree, the other problem is you will get third world care because "it is just as effective" according to an incompetant study and your medical care is determined by a Washington Bureaucrate telling what care you can get based on the flawed analysis!! Obama is so damn incompetant he will not be able to close Git mo, he has six more months and the people he is "liberating from Git MO don't want to leave HA HA HA.. the uhigers want pass ports, declarations of status in the countries they are going to and want to know the rules they will have to live under. Paying Palau 200 million to take them isn't even enought to make it work, what a Bozo HA HA LOL
Let's get it straight. He held the door open and the 88 yr old man entered with his rifle. The guard did not prevent the man from entering the building. As a matter of fact the guard helped the killer enter.
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