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mgc1961 Donating Member (874 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-06-10 08:42 PM
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Right-wingers admit connection between words and action. Sorta.
Well, at least we're getting somewhere: Up until that nutcase domestic terrorist, James Lee, walked in and threatened to blow up the Discovery Channel, the standard response from folks on the right to acts of domestic terrorism -- which predominantly involve right-wing politics -- was to claim that these were simply the acts of nuts, and that the incendiary political rhetoric that inspired them had no role in their violent behavior whatsoever.

But once Lee went on his rampage, supposedly fueled by environmentalist rhetoric, that all went away: Why of course it was all Al Gore's fault.

Perhaps the amusing permutation of this came from the execrable Glenn Reynolds:


There's more. Go to http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/least-right-wingers-are-now-admittin
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dkf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-06-10 09:09 PM
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1. Are you saying we are responsible for James Lee?
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Moosepoop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-07-10 06:39 AM
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2. Hardly.
The OP quoted and linked to an article. The article says that rightwingers are saying that we're responsible for Lee, when it is in fact they who are responsible for him. Read the article.
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