(W)e don’t know the motivation but regardless something like this tends to be… tends to be a wake up call and we’ve already heard from some members of Congress who have been on our air earlier today saying that they do hope that this is a wake up call, a wake up call for both parties to try to get out… get the word out their to their supporters, to constituents, to maybe even the blogosphere, which is not easy, to tone it down a little bit.
“Both parties” don’t bring guns to town halls. “Both parties” don’t have a Glenn Beck. “Both parties” aren’t equipped with hate radio. There is only one party amping up the rhetoric, and it is the tea party. At the NYT, Matt Bai stretches even farther in a vain stab at what the MSM calls “objectivity”:
WASHINGTON — Within minutes of the first reports Saturday that Representative Gabrielle Giffords, an Arizona Democrat, and a score of people with her had been shot in Tucson, pages began disappearing from the Web. One was Sarah Palin’s infamous “cross hairs” map from last year, which showed a series of contested Congressional districts, including Ms. Giffords’s, with gun targets trained on them. Another was from Daily Kos, the liberal blog, where one of the congresswoman’s apparently liberal constituents declared her “dead to me” after Ms. Giffords voted against Nancy Pelosi in House leadership elections last week.
An unfortunate choice of phrase about a Democrat by a Democrat is exactly the same as Sarah Palin putting targets on Democrats. See how that works?
An objective view would be that one party has enabled the insanity because it didn’t care about the consequences, only the return to power. You can see proof of that in the way House Republicans act as though they hadn’t really thought about the actual responsibilities of governing all that much — because they hadn’t.
There will be more of this, and worse. They’ve sown a whirlwind.
