The Hair-Tearing False Equivalency of American Political Violence.

[SteppingRazor]

Please, someone, anyone, stop Mika Brzezinski before she kills journalistic integrity again. Ms. Brzezinski if you're reading this, I'm begging you, just google "false equivalency" and read some of the commentaries on the various blogs that pop up. It won't take you that long. And, joy of joys, you'll be able to read examples from the left and the right! That means it's valid, right?

Mika's tendency to posit that an issue is a problem with both liberals and conservatives, seemingly regardless of the issue at hand, is hardly a problem of her own making of course. But the co-host of MSNBC's Morning Joe might just be the most obvious purveyor of this, one of the major reasons why journalists today enjoy public approval ratings somewhere below lawyers and just above pederasts. People like Mika make the rest of her journalistic tribe, of which I am, for better or worse, a member, look more like propagandists than truth seekers. And the truth is, after all, the only reason we do what we do. Or at least, it should be.

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The usual dog-and-pony show was there. The Washington Post's Gene Robinson, one of the few voices of sanity in the padded-room world of cable news, tried to explain that seeing no daylight between a threat on the left and the brick-throwing, loogie-spitting behavior of the right was perhaps not the proper conclusion to draw from all of this. Pat Buchanan -- a Nixon operative who, despite that pedigree, is still seen as a credible commentator for reasons that have never been properly explained -- tried to make the claim that the Black Panthers were the ones plotting to shoot police in the 1960s, so the left is just the same as those Hutaree asshats arrested in Michigan earlier this week.

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When you begin with Jim Adkisson in July 2008, killing people in their own church because of their "liberal values;" carry on through the several right-wing crazies who actually managed to kill police officers before being taken out, unlike the Hutaree; recall the killing of George Tiller and a guard at the Holocaust Museum; and then look at the behavior cited by Robinson, it becomes all too clear that a brick thrown through Rep. Louise Slaughter's office window is only the latest event in a long line of right-wing attacks that have now taken the lives of at least 10 people and wounded just as many.


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[EFerrari]

1. We're now into the third generation of fake journalists.

God help us.

[tom_paine]

2. It is as hair-teraing as if we lived in the Old Confederacy during their 100 year reign of terror

or in Nazi Germany.

The double-standards are amazing but the media control is more subtle and well-beyond anything the Nazis or the KKK ever could have dreamed.

In the American Empire, no one can hear you scream (unless you're RW, in which case your screams are amplified 10 times their power and given all the free publicity you can handle).

[Nite Owl]

3. It's not just her

or the media either. This WH does the same thing, that's why they won't give the left anything and take joy in dissing the liberal base. They don't want to be associated with us except for our time and money. Everything is center, DLC.

[Echo In Light]

5. +1

[chat_noir]

4. I read that as Hair-Teasing and thought of Palin

Palin on a Pole or Sarah on a Stick?

[SteppingRazor]

7. Actually, the first thing I think of when I see that logo is Voyeur West Hollywood.

:toast:

[kestrel91316]

6. Somebody needs to remind these asswipe RWers that TWO WRONGS DON'T MAKE A RIGHT.

I mean, really. My parents taught me that when I was a toddler. Tit-for-tat was never ok in my home.

To suggest that threatening to kill our elected leaders and their families on a large scale in 2010 should be ignored merely because "some dirty hippies protested the war in the 60's" is simply assinine. That's basically what the RW is doing.