Shocked that Kos would target those he disagreed with!

It’s been clear for some time now that many disturbed members of the Left — all too many of whom are accepted into the mainstream, be it as members of the media or as commentators — are fully in favor of having conservatives rounded up in the name of freedom, and killed in the name of peace and nonviolence, not because of any pattern of hate or violence on the right, but because they’re sure that deep down, we’re capable of these things, so they need to act preemptively.

It’s a mental disorder, and we’re seeing it on full display here.

Is it me or has the media gotten much more blatantly bias the last 2-3 years. I actually thought the media coverage for both Bush elections were fair. Yes, there was Dan Rather and the New York Times, but otherwise I can’t recall any truely unfair coverage in either election. I am sure there was some, but I can’t remember it, so how bad could it have been. But something began happening after Hurricane Katrina. That in combination with the Iraq war going south changed the coverage in media. Bush-Cheney could do no right. However, it was still gradual and mostly about the administration.

Then came the scandals in the Republican side of congress in 2006 and the media coverage and results that followed and it was like the media had an epiphany sometime between the 2006 elections and 2008. Stop worrying about truth and start propagandizing. I remember Bob Schieffer in a television interview basically admit they were going to do “liberal” coverage and saying if you didn’t like it you could find conservative coverage elswhere. I was shocked at the admission.

First they protected and propped up Obama. Then came the moment on the morning of September 1st 2008, when the entire media came out of the closet and stopped caring whether people even noticed if they were bias or not. That was when, even though a major hurricane was hitting the American coast line, they ALL had to instead talk about what a bad mother Sarah Palin was. And ever since, they haven’t cared about anything accept pushing their agenda. When I say they, I mean everything from Good Morning America to Entertainment Tonight. From the nightly comedy talk shows to network news coverage. From news magazines to news papers. ALL.

The mainstream media has become an overt propaganda machine. How any conservative would ever even go to journalism school is beyond me. Its hopeless. Journalism used to be the fourth branch of government. A watch dog of the powerful. Now it is simply a guard dog of the liberal-socialist agenda and a lap dog to Obama. Its voluntary Pravda. The coverage of this tradegy is just another example of whats going on in the media. Journalism has died.

I don’t hate President Obama. Nor do I hate Nancy Pelosi or any other Democrat. They are simply politicians doing what they can to push their agenda. In some ways, thats their job. However, I despise most in the media. Even likable people like Jay Leno and Jimmy Fallon. And they are the least of the night time propagandists.

All of this coming from someone who watched Hardball with Chris Mathews religiously for nearly 15 years and thought he was fair up until the last few years.

I just posted something similar at my place and here as well. As soon as I hit publish, your piece was at the top of the page.

It was cool to serendipitously find a great article to link to in my piece for the one phrase that I wanted a link and couldn’t find one.

Great diary and great job on the graphics …

Blue

My stomach has been in knots since Saturday and my nerves are shot.

I’m truly fearing what will happen next if the finger-pointing and hateful accusations (mostly from the left) don’t stop.

http://is.gd/kvF7a

C’mon People it’s obvious the right needs to take it down a notch or two.

The terminology used was medical terminology. “Prescribe” and “Diagnose”. The map is more like a CAT scan targeting cancer than anything else. The Democrat map on the other hand explicitly mentions BULLSEYES. Talk about hypocrisy.

Sarah Palin should beef up her security. Maybe that would send the right message to the press. They are, after all, egging on the deranged left.

that talk radio and the rest of right wing media didn’t exist for the entire history of the country. Political discourse was so much more civil in the past. I mean we might have had even more assinations (perhaps as many as 3 national figures, even presidents, within a few years, e.g.), riots, fistfights in the House of Representates, etc. Just glad none of that ever happened.

is liberalism.

Or Markos Moulitsas.

And you need to keep it going, don’t get distracted. The more you look the more be able to demonstrate.

And I disagree deeply with your statement about the Left not caring about the facts.

They DO.

Once it was established as a “fact” in their minds that this incident happened because of Sarah Palin and not some demonstrably insane, confused member of the Yoof with a big lefist streak, those were all the facts that mattered.

What we’re seeing here is that they can’t manage the climbdown, they have to hold on to the delusion after pumping themselves up so much for it. There’s a good case to be made that when someone is confronted with the facts but refuses to accept them, they should be at the very least observe a Moment of Silence. But we’re not seeing that yet among the Left. Maybe they think they’re not responsible for anything they say or do. It’s a convenient way to live, and I know the thought process pretty well.

It could be that they don’t care about that whole idea. In my experience they don’t. It’s larger than them. It’s mind control. It’s….it’s…

Speaks volumes about the quality of person that they are. Who in hell would put such a sick avatar, one that represents the criminal violence against our children, as their own avatar and proudly display it for all to see?

the path toward civility has to start with civility.

I will go first. I am a lefty. I have lots of family and friends that are rightwing. I love them, and they are good people. we disagree about politics

if a house were burning, all my leftwing friends and rightwing friends would together run to put it out. And party together later.

The internet makes us forget the people we know. It makes it easier for “the other” to become something abstract. Not good.

Intemperate language creates a climate where violence is more likely because it gives permission to nutjobs. We don’t need the slurs and reflexive hatred. And it is a bad idea.

Just use your common sense. When you talk about “The Left” think of an uncle you disagree with, but who is your mother’s brother.

Peace

when the principles that make america great and sturdy are used as toilet paper by you and your political brethren, LEFTWING, we must meet you with the same force, albeit, we tend to intellectualize and tolerate. but the gloves are off. its a gun fight and we WONT be caught with a knife. we will see you completely beaten. on the corners, at the cafes, and at the polls. so check your beliefs deeply, and ask yourself honestly, do you want to be counted amoung those who would gladly see the destruction of america? because that is where you are standing right now. open your eyes, before you suffer great regret., and the unending animosity of the caretakers of this great country

That the left wing’s violently spewing of vitriol over the last forever or so has spawned a lunatic fringe killer to go forward and do the sort of actions those so violently rhetorical on the left say should be done.

Markos has been traveling in the Twilight
Zone one too often. Often there are people who get there inspiration from the past as in TV shows or movies. In this case Markos uses the Twilight Zone as his basis for spouting his rhetoric. If not the Twilight Zone it could be the Outer Limits.

Facts, d ____ the facts, man! We have a story to write! We have an opinion to get out there! We have our agenda which must be advanced! Facts…just ignore them!

Leftists ignore facts. If all able bodied sane minded Americans received gun training and owned a gun and hidden carry permits were available everywhere this tragedy could have ended before all this massacre as one did some years ago in Dallas, with a citizen intervening and sacrificing his life to save many others. Leftist college teachers and professors did not do much about this man when they saw his irrationalness. One even said that he was not surprised that he did such a horrid thing.

When you suffer under unrighteous leadership as we are now doing as a nation, these horrible things can and will happen with greater frequency. There are other similar situations happening in other parts of the country. It is a horrible shame. Our prayers and thoughts go out to the families of those who died and to those who were injured, to friends and colleagues who were affected, we are sorry for all. The Word of God declares, “Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to the people.”

How many incidents like this is it going to take to make people realize that the Left has turned into EVIL?

They are not interested in facts.
They are not interested in the truth.
They only care about power and controlling our lives while they rip this country to shreds.

No more shock over their vitriol.
No more anger over their rhetoric.

Instead, their attitude and on–going behavior stokes the fire of our determination to PERMANENTLY remove them from power one position-by-one-position, one-jurisdiction-by-one-jurisdiction at a time!

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that if something, God forbid, were to happen to Sarah Palin or any other conservative, the folks at DailyKos/Media Matters, etc., would be taking full responsibility?

Have you seen black eyed peas video “where is the love?” it has a large poster of Che in it. where is the love indeed?

Their time is up, They have never produced a successful political system. Europe is beginning to see the fallacies of decades of social program blindness, and the right has a strong resurgence in the US. The fight will only get more vicious, because the left has imbedded itself into the educational monopoly, public union power, and the so-called MSM, altho’ that media is seeing itself failing, as the NYTimes supports itself on 14% loans from Mexico. That cannot last forever.

the left vehemently accuses the right of exactly what it itself is doing. Want to know what the left is up to? Listen to their screeches. They project themselves upon their enemies consistently and constantly. If they are screaming about “hate”, it is because they are hateful. If they are screaming about the party of no, it’s because they refuse to compromise. If they scream they won’t shut up this time (really, have they ever shut up?), it’s because they are working so hard to shut down conservative speech. I find this phenomenon quite remarkable since the left screams that they are so smart and we are so stupid. I guess the opposite is the actual truth.

The left-wing hate machine has a very specific goal: to criminalize conservative speech. Their intent is to remove free speech rights in the name of public safety. In order to do this, they have to convince themselves first, and later convince enough non-aligned voters, to take it as necessary when they actually remove the rights through unconstitutional court action, executive orders, or legislation. The fact that it’s bunk is of no consequence; EVERYTHING they say is bunk, but they manage to get a lot of it ensconced in law.

This is also the goal of “hate crimes” language.

A number of the more rabid leftists believe that civil war is inevitable, and are using this imaginary threat to buttress their own rationalization for committing violent acts in the future. When they do begin acting violently, it will be somebody else’s fault.

“Progressive” political activists systematically removed the rights of free people and engaged in public violence everywhere they gained power in the world throughout the 20th century. Anybody who thinks they will behave differently here because “this is America” needs to think again. There is some cultural variation, but the progressives’ goals here are the same as their goals were in Russia, Cuba, Vietnam, Albania, Romania, China, Cambodia, and wherever else the hard left has gained power.

Sitting back and hearing real hate and it is coming from who else, but the left. Sarah will rise above it all and the hatemongers have showed their hand. That is how it is

It seems that most assignations in the USA have been carried out by Left-wing extremist. Just in our life time Oswald was a socialist communist whatever and prior to that John Wilkes booth was a southern Democrat. So the left should keep their mouths shout about right-wingers. There are extremist on both sides of the Political parties. The bottom line is that these assassins are just political whack-o’s. Loughner want to do what is known as Suicide by Cop. The problem was that there were no cops and the rest of the crowd was un-armed. If someone else had been armed tht little girl might still be alive and we wouldn’t have to foot the bill for keeping a whack-o sheltered and fed.

These extremist from the left or the right really shouldn’t be associate with either the Democrat of Republican Parties. They are in a group of their own. Maybe what we need is a Whack-o partyand these extremist be classified with them. The problem is tht the liberals always want ot use any excuse they can to bring up gun control and to paint the right as the whack-o’s. That’s the way socialist work.

After the terrible events of this last weekend and the nation wide fall out. I would definitively describe the Media’s response as bias. In their mad attempt to blame their open enemy (Conservatives & Their Leaders) it just seems to me no one is looking at this troubled mans inspiration to perform this evil deed. Mental illness mixed with drugs and Heavy Metal Music with lyric’s that glorify killing death & more, seem to be a toxic mix. Not to say that Heavy Metal music in and of it’s self caused this event. I am just wondering if anyone knows the killers favorite song or anthem. Given his mental instability, could he have taken a song and pushed it to limits that were designed for entertainment value only (Or at least I hope entertainment purposes only). Does anyone know about his favorite song or anthem, just wondering as I have not heard of anything regarding this angle or lack thereof.

to try and subdue the right from voicing their outrage with the problems emanating from Washington. This incident in Arizona is not the result of the robust political discourse that has been taking place over the last few year, it is the result of a single nut job.. I’ve put some thoughts down about it here.

http://va5thdistrict.blogspot.com/2011/01/stay-strong.html

Also a problem with living in a civilized society, a problem with thought, a severe set of emotional problems, and a problem with self knowledge.

this is DEMS main thrust in any effort, any policy debate.

This is the most dangerous and powerful message to incite violence, period.

you want to see where the “Evil, Dreaded ‘Gun Sight” actually comes from and for what it is used. “Ditto”, telescopic gun sights to see the difference. “Close only counts in horse shoes, hand-grenades and political mud-slinging” by the left, apparently.