Last March, Giffords told MSNBC that the street corner outside her Tucson office had become a Teabag

[Stinky The Clown]

Party hangout. Lots of rhetoric.

She then mentioned Palin's crosshair post about the 20 she wanted to hit.

Chuck Todd (who should just go fuck himself) made the comment that war rhetoric and political rhetoric are interchangeable.

Wow. Many thoughts come up from this.

How prescient was Giffords?

Why was it only now that the link between politics and guns was made?

Chuck Todd has just descended into whale shit status. There is nothing lower than whale shit.

To those who say there's no link to the teaparty yet: there may NEVER be a defined link. But the kind of things they've been saying since they started has permeated the public consciousness. The first people to be affected by such rhetoric are those least able to process it in a healthy way.

[jberryhill]

1. I am not a biologist...

But I would suspect that whale shit likely is an integral part of a productive marine ecosystem thus rendering it more valuable to the planet than Chuck Todd wasting oxygen.