Heavily armed blogger applauded Tucson shootings: '1 Down, 534 To Go'

[onehandle]

From C&L:

Call Bill O'Reilly -- he seems to want to be Top Civility Cop these days. There's a case -- wait wait wait, I mean an "isolated incident" -- for him up in Massachusetts he needs to get right on top of: A blog threatening members of Congress in the wake of the Tucson, Arizona shooting has prompted Arlington police to temporarily suspend the firearms license of an Arlington man. It was the headline “1 down and 534 to go” that caught the attention. “One” refers to Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot in the head in the rampage, while 534 refers to the other members of the U.S. House and Senate.

Well, given a chance to apologize or elaborate or just somehow indicate a tiny molecule of decency, our teabagging "libertarian" hero answered thus: “I dislike Representatives and Senators, and I think that each and every one of them is doing grave harm to the United States, and to the freedoms of the citizens of the US.”


I'm sure Bill will be all over this. Or will Fox just pretend this story out of existence, as it always does when right-wingers inflict threats and violence against liberals and the government? Hmmmmmm. Tough one.

Now watch while the Tea Partiers and gun rights nutcases turn Corcoran into a free-speech martyr. Because urging your audience to kill members of Congress and other threats and incitements to violence constitutes protected speech to these loons.

http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/ah-smell-civility-heavily-armed-blog

[Liberal Insights]

1. THIS might get the GOP's attention.

Have you noticed how the Right hasn't been nearly as concerned as the rest of us about the possibility of all the crazy talk ending up causing up in THEM getting shot? That's because they know from experience that we liberals rarely resort to violence against them, and that it's LIBERALS who are usually the victims at the hands of the political extremism of Conservatives, which I document at length at Liberal-Insights.org/LiberalvsConservativemartyrs.html.
I suspect, however that the GOP won't actually be worried because they know that, despite this clown recommending that ALL of the members of Congress be targetted, the only ones likely to take up the challenge will be Conservative Republican nuts targetting Liberal or even moderate Democrats in Congress.