by bartleby the scrivener | Peter Daou at Consider This News:
"I am deeply concerned that the summer of 2009 has set the stage for bloodshed to come. The kind of rage we’re seeing, based on Limbaugh, Coulter and Hannity-style soundbites, is dangerous. It’s like a cancer that grows with time and we need to be vigilant in defending against it."
There is most definitely cause for concern. The right-wing response to extremism, as we've all seen before, is to quietly cheer it on till the moment when somebody snaps, when suddenly even the most unrestrained hate-mongers suddenly deplore the real-world consequences of the hate they've successfully fostered....
I'm sure John Wilkes Booth would agree. In fact, we know for a fact he did.
Conservative Allahpundit commented:
Blackfive ain't happy about it either:
John Cook at Gawker said what we' re all thinking:
Did extremists on the left adopt the same tone against Bush? Yes. And there is an element in this wingnuttery of the same sort of dispossessed rage and periodic venting that many liberals felt under the last administration. But it's different when that rage is being purposefully manipulated to (imagined) political advantage by the GOP. And it's different when there's actually a guy with a gun waiting for the president to show up. (emphasis added)
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