Friday, March 26, 2010

Dem leaders must immediately denounce the encouraging of violence against Republicans

Yesterday, I spotlighted what appears to me, at least, to be a coordinated attempt to paint conservatives, and the Tea Party movement in particular, as racist violent crazy people next to the saintly Democrats, who have braved heretofore unseen acts and threats of violence.*  Apparently this meme is going to fall apart fairly quickly, based on this latest story I've seen.

Courtesy Patrick S. Adams:  Just like I said yesterday, there are crazies on both sides sending all sorts of hate out.  Today's case in point is this guy (this account was functional as of this writing, but I hope it's suspended soon!) who has expressed the wish, multiple times, in as rude a way as possible (that's code for "this link is NSFW"), that someone will kill Sarah Palin, Eric Cantor, or other Tea Party members. 

Typical tweet from this guy (edited, naturally, though the spelling and grammar is as written):

IS Sarah Palin still alive, please feel free 2 domecheck that b****! she will look good in tha box the TP left on someones lawn

(But Snowed, this guy is an isolated case!  Yeah, so are Mike Vanderboegh and his ilk.)

I hereby call on all state and national Democratic leaders to denounce this irresponsible encouraging of violence by hyper-partisan liberal Democrats immediately, if not sooner.

You can follow Patrick S. Adams (aka ReaganTMan) on Twitter here.

* I stand by my disclaimer of yesterday:  anyone wishing violence on others, or carrying out such acts, does not represent my views and should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.  Plus, they're being real jerks.

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