Protesting Too Much? Right-Wing Attacks on Sheriff Dupnik Are Tacit Confession

[Jackpine Radical]

By: Phoenix Woman Sunday January 9, 2011 7:10 pm

There’s an old Bill Cosby routine, called “Shop”, on the album Why Is There Air? that is quite apposite to the events of the past two days. In it, Cosby describes how his junior-high-school shop teacher tricked the guilty party into tacitly confessing to having put a bullet in the shop class furnace — and without directly accusing the kid or even so much as saying his name. With the right-wing attacks on Pima County, Arizona Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, we’re seeing something rather similar play out.

Just as Cosby’s shop teacher didn’t directly accuse any of his students of being the one who put the bullet in the furnace, Sheriff Dupnik, without naming persons or ideologies directly, blamed the political climate in Arizona for making possible the shooting of Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and several others. And, just as the kid who put the bullet in the furnace inadvertently revealed himself — “I didn’t put the bullet in the furnace, and stop talking about my mother!” — the attacks by conservatives on Sheriff Dupnik, who never once said the words “conservative”, “Republican”, “Tea Party”, or “right-wing” when discussing the creation and creators of the climate of bigotry and prejudice, stand as a tacit admission that they know full well they are responsible for having created it.

[The Magistrate]

1. They Certainly Are, Sir

"The guilty fly when none doth pursue."

[Jackpine Radical]

2. Good to see you around

with your usual pith and vinegar.

[KittyWampus]

8. Lovely to see you Magistrate. Be well!

[Supersedeas]

3. struck a nerve -- and the Media that created the starpower of the RW shockjocks are defensive too

Astroturf is more than just a political movement...it is a media movement.

[shraby]

4. My mother had a saying.."methinks thou protesteth too much".

They sure are pointing the fingers at themselves today by challenging the Sheriff.

[Jackpine Radical]

6. Shakespeare said something like that too.

Great minds, I guess.

[shraby]

10. That's probably where she got it..she was an avid reader.

[Jackpine Radical]

11. Well, that's more likely

than the other way around.

[Odin2005]

5. A wingnut on another forum called him a leftist oppertunist hack.

:eyes:

[SaveAmerica]

7. Nice!

[progressoid]

9. Yup - the ones with the reddest faces

are screaming the loudest.