I’m confused. If Glenn Beck incites violence (and sedition) and Rush Limbaugh incites violence and Sarah Palin incites violence (on her Facebook page) and the tea parties incite violence, etc. etc….

…..then why can’t I find a single instance in this century of a person committing a violent crime on the basis of of what they heard from Beck, Limbaugh, Palin, the tea party, etc.?

On the other hand, the guy who flew his plane into the building in Austin was spouting off anti-Bush nonsense identical to what you hear from Keith Olbermann every night. And the lady professor who shot those people in Alabama was a huge Obama fan. And the Code Pink protesters, and the Ann Coulter protesters, and the gay protesters at the White House, all were far more violent than anything ever seen at a tea party.

Hate to break the bad news to the folks on the Left, but even though you repeat these charges every day, this dog don’t hunt.

@felixw: President Clinton said that Rush may have contributed to the situation and Mr. Limbaugh says, nuh-uh, it wasn’t me… it was you. Some people say that Beck and Palin may have been harmful to the current environment, while their online supporters are echoing Rush.

Nobody can be proven more right or more wrong and no amount of back and forth arguments are going to settle anything because there’s not some big referee ready with a whistle.

The reality is that having the discussion, both sides have become better at measuring their words and because nobody wants to be the first to blink, I think the overall threat has probably lessened.

All because we had the discussion.

Magister says:
April 23, 2010 at 4:21 pm

Magister, Clinton make the same remarks before the dust had settled at the Murrow Bldg.

It was a despicably self serving divisive comment unworthy of anyone much less POTUS then and his recent foray into his sick comparison today is no better.

What do you expect from those that Clinton slimes? Should they simply bow their heads in silence lest they be accused again of being seditious traitors fermenting violence?

I share many of the sentiments and have expressed them many times that Clinton now so casually links to the worse individual act in our history. I’m happy that their is a Rush Limbaugh with a large megaphone to speak up for me b/c my reach doesn’t go beyond the few people I know and interact with on the net.

If both sides had become more measured Jon Klein, KO, Clinton, Pelosi et al would have monitored themselves at least a bit, don’t you think?

Rush Windbaugh is making Obama to be like Hitler by calling the administration a ‘REGIME.”
All this time i thought it was Beck inciting the riots-nope -its Windbaugh.
By doing so- there are going to be yahoos out there who will ultimately do something stupid: like fly planes into IRS buildings.

Of course, let’s not forget that the long list of liberals who have used the word “regime” to describe a President’s administration includes John Heilemann himself, who has used the phrase “Obama regime” at least twice. Of course, it’s not sedition when a card-carrying liberal says it.

Felix – You ought to be confused; you do listen to at least two of the biggest boobs on the radio – so I see it as a sign of progress that you are confused. Here’s how to fix it. Stop listening – best advice you’ll ever get.

By the way, do you expect a personal notice every time a tea-bagger hurls a racial slur, or carries a sign that advocates violence, albeit, spelled incorrectly, or throws a rock through a window? C’mon, you’re really not that important, none of us are. Best of luck on your march to recovery!!

Ted, show me one example of a tea party attendee committing a violent act. Show me one video of violence at a tea party. And if you can’t do even that — after thousands of tea party events — then please spare us your tired “narrative” of “violent teabaggers.” You can keep on repeating it, but it only looks more pathetic and threadbare with each passing day.

Felix, comparing your reasoned, well-documented post to the gratuitous invective of Ted’s retort only reinforces why evolved thinking will always, necessarily, prevail.

I brush Off Claims Rush’s Denials Of Inciting Violence As “Self-Serving Nonsense”

delete ‘claims’ and read

I brush Off Rush’s Denials Of Inciting Violence As “Self-Serving Nonsense”

Please, Limbaugh. You spend 3 hours each day telling folks that America is being destroyed – on purpose – by liberals and then you claim that you’re shocked! shocked! that anyone may be incited to violence?

No, you’re not to blame for Oklahoma City. But your personal attacks and rhetoric are so extreme that it’s hard to believe that you can’t see how some lone nut or two may not be unintentionally encouraged to take action into their own hands.

How about attacking the ideas of liberals and Democrats and not them personally? Yeah, there’s a novel idea.

But you can’t. Because you’re incapable of doing it.

Ted says:
“By the way, do you expect a personal notice every time a tea-bagger hurls a racial slur”

How about personal notice every time a liberal hurls a sexual slur, you know, like yours?

Hypocrite.

MG:
What about Dems playing the race card for 50 years as a political strategy?

Rev. Wright & Black Liberation Theology;
Naacp ad that “Black Churches will burn”
Al Sharpton: White Interloper; Crown Heights riots; Tawana Brawley
Pick a day & you’ll find another Racist Smear by the Dems & their lapdogs in the media.

Here’s an exercise: In any debate note who’s the 1st to bring RACE into the discussion….it’s the DEMOCRAT!

“Something about Joe Klein’s sedition claim against Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin has struck a very deep chord with conservatives.”

Maybe its the part where he called them seditious.

Norbit – The dems are just pointing out when the tea-baggers bring their core racist beliefs into the discussion; many tea-baggers however, don’t really understand what racism is and so this is to be expected.

Felix – If you can’t find examples of your racist tea-bagging brethren either advocating violence or engaging in actual acts of violence, then you’re just plain lazy. The first step to recovery is admitting you’ve got a tea-bagging problem – so get off your duff and get to work!! No one said recovery was going to be easy.

Ted, talk is cheap. I repeat. Show me a single instance of violence by a tea party attendee. If you can’t do it, stop this tired jawboning and groundless smearing.

Pearls before swine….

You’re not going to get an answer because they know that there hasn’t been one arrest, one injury, or any property damage as a result of a Tea Party Protest.

They oh so want it to happen, and will do anything to incite violence, but those darn “Teabaggers” won’t cooperate.

Trotting out Slick Willy to scare people with the ghost of Timothy McVeigh was their ace in the hole, and it went over like a lead balloon.

Henniger got it right, and I would like to see any leftist dispute what he says here:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704133804575198290459062592.html

drex94 says:
April 23, 2010 at 5:52 pm

Rush Windbaugh is making Obama to be like Hitler by calling the administration a ‘REGIME.”

As has been posted SO many times… there were quite a few public figures on the left, who saw the Bush Administration the same way.

I’d like to know what you think about that. Can you explain?

Ted says:
April 23, 2010 at 9:07 pm

Felix – If you can’t find examples of your racist tea-bagging brethren either advocating violence or engaging in actual acts of violence, then you’re just plain lazy.

Remember Felix… Ted only made (and supported) the claim. It’s your job to prove that he’s wrong… not his job to prove that he’s true. Asking Ted to support his claim… well, that’s just unfair. He’s got things to do. If he did some actual research, he’d have no time for other things. After all, “teabagger” doesn’t write itself over and over and over and over again. We need Ted to do that!

Ugh.

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Ted – You might establish some credibility if your posits were supported by substantive facts.

Dems Gratuitously Play the Race Card; here are some factual examples of that statement, that Democrats have used:

Support Bush…RACIST!
Vote GOP…RACIST!
Watch FOX….RACIST!
Police…RACIST!
Gun Owners…RACIST!
Southerners…RACIST!
Christians…RACIST!
Want lower taxes…RACIST!
Enforce immigration laws…RACIST!
Elderly @ town halls…RACIST!
Support family values…RACIST!
Personal Responsibility…RACIST!
White & disagree with liberals…RACIST!
Black & disagree (Clarence Thomas)…UNCLE TOM!
—————————————————————
Now take a good look around at who the real RACISTS are! – THE INTOLERANT LEFT!
Just pay attention at who’s first to bring RACE into a debate – THE INTOLERANT LEFT!
Who promotes the primitive concept of “GROUP-IDENTITY” – THE INTOLERANT LEFT!
Who uses accusations of ‘RACISM’ to smear political opponents -THE INTOLERANT LEFT!
Who feigns outrage over Limbaugh & Beck, yet lauds the likes of Olbermann, Sharpton, Shultz, and my personal favorite, the Rev. Wright – THE INTOLERANT LEFT!

Newt Gingrich, like Bill Clinton, recognizes Tea Party violence and that the Tea Party is “”more likely to end up as the militant wing of the Republican Party” than a third party.”

http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0423/gingrich-tea-party-militant-wing-gop/

And there goes Norbit, playing the race card yet again. You have no credibility, Norbit, and even less when you play the race card. You’re laughable and laughably out of touch.

Adkins, you state that Newt Gingrich recognizes tea party violence, and then you post a link to an article in which Gingrich doesn’t even talk about violence. Don’t you lefties see how you destroy your credibility when keep on making accusations based on obvious lies? In your next post, why don’t you tell us that 2+2=3, and include a link to an arithmetic web site.

Well, when it comes to self-serving nonsense, big fat deaf drug addict Rush Limbaugh would know, given the raw tonnage of it he produces. You’d expect him to be something a conoisseur, in fact.

Hey, what is he still doing here? He promised he’d move to Costa Rica if health care legislation passed. When can we expect his departure?

felix, 2+2 does = 3 in this instance if English is difficult for you – and apparently English is difficult for you. Break out that dictionary I know you have and translate the below English term into dumbass, that language for people like you. See ‘militant’ – the antonym is ‘pacifist.’ Got a clue yet? Get one below.

Main Entry: mil·i·tant
Pronunciation: \-tənt\
Function: adjective
Date: 15th century
1 : engaged in warfare or combat : fighting
2 : aggressively active (as in a cause) : combative

— mil·i·tant·ness noun

Aw. Cute!

Rush is jealous of Beck. He wishes Joe Klein mentioned him so he went a wrote an op-ed to get the attention back on his crazy instead of Beck’s crazy,.

Rush is a certified egomaniac.

Mentions of him in the “liberal” media is his Oxycontin now. He craves it like a drug.

It all pretty much boils down to this: THE MORE LIBERALS FEAR SOMEONE, THE HARDER THEY TRY TO DISCREDIT OR DEFAME THEM. (see above post.)

Oh, Yeah, and the more they tell them to STFU.

We sure are scared of that Sarah Palin!

(wrong, we PRAY EVERYDAY that the GOP chooses her as its candidate in 2012, it all but assures another Obama victory)

And gosh we really fear Rush!

(So much so that Rahm Emmaneul said this of Rush: “He is the voice and the intellectual force and energy behind the Republican Party. He has been up front about what he views and hasn’t stepped back from that, which is he hopes for failure. He said it and I compliment him for his honesty.”)

You don’t get it–we WANT Palin and Rush as the faces of the GOP.

It all but assures the Democrats victory after victory.

Rush and Palin only move bones with the fringe GOP base. Most Americans, as poll after poll have shown, find both Palin and Rush revolting.

Hey Bill Adkins, still waiting for some SUBSTANCE to any of your uninformed invective!

The biggest challenge to Progressive Democrats is not Rush Limbaugh, talk radio, or even FOZ…it’s the ability to REASON!

JJ: Limbaugh didn’t say he’d move to Costa Rica if the health care legislation passed – he said he’d go there to purchase health care (not sure if he or someone else he was just referencing was talking about some clinic the insurance industry was planning to build there).

It is CLINTON who is self-serving (or serving his pupppetmasters) in how he “warns” us of some terrorist attack coming. His puppetmasters are GET RICH off every war and thus LOVE to keep Americans frightened so much that we have to keep fighting all the bogeymen everywhere.

How about we spend a fraction of that money “fighting” the crooks/mafia in the USA? (Oh yeah, it is the crooks/mafia that now run Washington).