Go ahead and read this blog post from the Journal Sentinels token “right wing” columnist, if you can stomach it.
Why is he trying to defend and distance conservatives from the white supremacist killer who killed a security guard at the Holocaust Museum earlier this week? The answer is easy, because right-wing “leaders” across the Country, who he cribs 90% of his ideas from are doing the same. Heaven forbid Pat’s cable went out and he couldn’t get to Michelle Malkin’s weblog for a few days, because he’d probably have no clue what to write about.
At any rate, there’s a lot of just ridiculous talk out there from the far right that this white supremacist may in fact have been a liberal!! And if he wasn’t a liberal, he was PUSHED by liberals to the edge of insanity. I don’t know what political leanings the guy had personally, but what does it have to do with the murder he committed or his hatred of anyone who wasn’t a white Christian? Secondly, why are conservatives all the sudden so hell bent on trying to place blame on liberals for what this guy did. It’s an appallingly stupid (a word I use rarely) argument that some are making for no reason other than to take a swing at “liberals”.
But that doesn’t stop McIlheran from picking up where they left off… with ellipses!
He manages to turn this story away from what it really is, a white supremacist anti-government nutjob who murdered an innocent man, and into a pro NRA diatribe that makes the same old tired jabs at liberals (New York Times!) that we all expect from Patrick. And as we’ve also come to expect from Pat, his incoherent rambling fails to land any of them.
There’s a place for constructive, intelligent conservative opinions in every paper, MJS included. McIlherans columns are none of those things however. They are simply a logically disjointed and poorly paraphrased version of what he saw on the Glen Beck show last night.
Wisconsin’s largest newspaper can, and should, do better.
I live in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Milwaukee, WI with my wife Jen, our daughter Emerson, and sons Carter and Colton.
This is so easy.
You asked the question “why are conservatives all the sudden so hell bent on trying to place blame on liberals for what this guy did.”
Answer – we’re starting to take pages out of the liberal play book and using them against liberals. i.e., stretch the point and blame the murder of Dr. Tiller on conservatives rather than the nut job who murdered him.
So, let’s just stretch the point (even though you can’t connect the points) and blame the murder of Stephen Johns on liberals rather than on the nut job that pulled the trigger. It dosen’t really matter that it’s not the liberals fault that Mr. Johns was murdered, all we have to do is throw that accusation out there.
Dosen’t this sound like a ploy used by the left so often?
Your use of “stretch” is about as big of an understatement as there could be.
Awesome reasoning too.
“Wisconsin’s largest newspaper can, and should, do better.”..so apparantly in order for the Journal Sentinel to “do better” for you Dan is if they have a “right wing” opinion writer that you agree with? Perhaps you missed the Homeland Security terrorist alert report that warned to look out for “right wing” extremist groups, never mind the left wing nut jobs who are the ones that often carry out the “terror” acts. And we constantly have to hear about the dangers of the anti-abortion crowd even though 99.99 percent of them are peaceful law abiding people. Why dont you stop plagiarizing the Shepherd Express and think outside your recylcled box some time.
Exactly right. It’s the 0.01% of Operation Life or the kind of terrorists the Homeland Security report warned us about that I’m concerned about.
Amazed that you’re comparing putting a cup of sugar in the gas tank of a bulldozer that’s about to log some trees with a right wing anti-abortion nutjob assassinating someone, but when you don’t have to put your name to what you write, that must be easy to do.
You mentioned Malkin’s blog, so I went there to see what she said on the subject: “…shooter wasn’t ‘left’ or ‘right,’ just plain loony.”
She detailed the position taken by the Kos that this guy was a right-wing extremist and then she pointed out all the “right wing” people this guy hated as well. From my standpoint, it looks like the lefty-blogs hit first and the right answered.
Fact is, this guy is just plain nuts-o, and there’s no accounting for what motivates crazy people. (I was equally indignant over the people saying that VP Gore motivated the Unabomber.)
You are right that the left “struck first”, but how can anyone possibly take that strike seriously? It’s ridiculous to say that this guy has anything in relation to me just because neither of us considers himself a liberal. The right should have just ignored the allegation.