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therightfangirlThe Subject line says it all, and Allahpundit will guide you in. I'm just not up for the rest, at the moment. Per the memorial service that's currently running, I'll just wait for the talking heads to opine. (If anyone wishes to use the entry to discuss on such, fine by me.)
Link: http://hotair.com/archives/2011/01/12/palin-aide-shes-getting-death-threats-at-unprecedented-levels/
Exit quotation: "Now, let’s see tomorrow how the media and the left react to this story. There’ll be three responses, I assume. One: “Hey, maybe we should tone down the rhetoric on Palin before she gets shot.” If so much as one person offers that, consider it a victory. Two: “I condemn the threats, but we can’t be held responsible for the actions of crazies.” That’s actually the right answer, I think, or at least it would be if they’d been criticizing her for something she’d actually done. Having invented the Loughner connection out of thin air, though? Nope. Three: “She’s lying, either to turn down the heat on herself and earn sympathy or because she enjoys the media spotlight.” Mind you, there’s actual documentary evidence of some of the threats, but this will be the default explanation anyway thanks to the magical civility gene that makes liberals who are mentally ill somehow utterly immune to the worst rhetorical excesses. Demonize Palin all you want — have Paul Krugman and Frank Rich scream in the face of an untreated schizophrenic that she’s the prophesied antichrist — and it won’t motivate him a bit, because even deranged liberals are ultimately too smart and civilized to do anything wingnutty like take a shot at someone. That, as best as I understand it, is the going theory for why the left’s endless casual assertions about the basic malevolence of the right — racist, sexist, fascist, plutocratic, 50 times a day in assertions great and small — can be shrugged off as harmless to even the most diseased sympathetic mind. “Only fruitcakes” would act on stuff like that. Right, Jared?"
Link: http://hotair.com/archives/2011/01/12/palin-aide-shes-getting-death-threats-at-unprecedented-levels/
Exit quotation: "Now, let’s see tomorrow how the media and the left react to this story. There’ll be three responses, I assume. One: “Hey, maybe we should tone down the rhetoric on Palin before she gets shot.” If so much as one person offers that, consider it a victory. Two: “I condemn the threats, but we can’t be held responsible for the actions of crazies.” That’s actually the right answer, I think, or at least it would be if they’d been criticizing her for something she’d actually done. Having invented the Loughner connection out of thin air, though? Nope. Three: “She’s lying, either to turn down the heat on herself and earn sympathy or because she enjoys the media spotlight.” Mind you, there’s actual documentary evidence of some of the threats, but this will be the default explanation anyway thanks to the magical civility gene that makes liberals who are mentally ill somehow utterly immune to the worst rhetorical excesses. Demonize Palin all you want — have Paul Krugman and Frank Rich scream in the face of an untreated schizophrenic that she’s the prophesied antichrist — and it won’t motivate him a bit, because even deranged liberals are ultimately too smart and civilized to do anything wingnutty like take a shot at someone. That, as best as I understand it, is the going theory for why the left’s endless casual assertions about the basic malevolence of the right — racist, sexist, fascist, plutocratic, 50 times a day in assertions great and small — can be shrugged off as harmless to even the most diseased sympathetic mind. “Only fruitcakes” would act on stuff like that. Right, Jared?"
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Date: 2011-01-13 02:35 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-01-13 03:36 am (UTC)These people want her dead. They really and truly do.
And if it happens, hundreds, maybe thousands, of people in this country - maybe even people I personally know - will rejoice.
I can't even grasp this.
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Date: 2011-01-13 06:45 am (UTC)I was a student at Liberty University when Jerry Falwell died. As I was visiting different message boards in the days afterward, I actually saw someone post, "Where does the line to dance on his grave begin?" Thankfully, it's a tight-knit community, and the thread toned down after I spoke up.
It seems that people have been even more vitriolic towards Sarah than they ever were to Rev. Falwell. I don't want to imagine how people will react.
I'm praying for her protection. Not because I think she's got a role to play in fixing this country, but because she's a wife and mother, and no more innocents need to die from this tragedy.
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Date: 2011-01-13 06:57 am (UTC)Quick side note - There was a book written on Liberty U. by an atheist(?) or at least non-Christian young man. He spent some time there to see what it was really like. Wish I recalled the title or the guy's name. I read an interview (again, can't recall where) but he had nice things to say about Rev. Falwell and the people at the school in general. I emailed him to thank him for his openness and he sent me a nice note of thanks.
That's exactly the sort of rabid hatred they have for Sarah Palin. I prayed for her tonight as well.
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