Tuesdays with Claymore; the sick to my stomach edition
It seems that even our Claymore can’t stay on the Democratic Underground discussion boards for long today;
Guys, I was going to send a bunch of DU threads, but frankly, I can’t stomach what they’re discussing today. Here’s one sample:
I’ll just add this from our former friend Charles Johnson at Little Green Footballs to show just far he’s fallen;
Following the mass murder in Tucson, Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik bravely stood up and called for an end to violent political rhetoric — and for this statement he is now being viciously attacked by the right wing, and calls for his resignation are being heard.
Yeah, Dupnik stood like a cowardly politician and dipped his fetid toe in an area where he clearly doesn’t belong. Folks hire law enforcement personnel to enforce the law (which he clearly didn’t in this case) not preach to us.
Category: General Whackos
Seriously…even my generally high tolerance for this shit was tested with just a handful of threads. If they’re not calling for further gun control, they’re calling for the heads of talk radio hosts and right wing politicians.
You’re a good man, Charlie Brown, for even going there at all.
they’re calling for the heads of talk radio hosts and right wing politicians.
But hey, don’t ya know, there is nothing even remotely close on the left as the violence spewed by the right….I know, I just read it on DU…These people have not even their big toe in the ocean called reality…
Chuckles must be hitting the bong again….
Following the mass murder in Tucson, Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik bravely stood up and… made shit up.
There… Fixed it for ya Charlie
Sheriff Dupnik is not the average citizen. He is the Sheriff – the chief law enforcement officer, and chief crime investigator.
By making comments that assign blame, without evidence as he admitted, he undermines due process and provides the defense with a big ole goody bag of comments.
That is gross incompetence.
The Governor should remove the Sheriff from the investigation, send in the Arizona State Police, and start over.
I’ve said elsewhere prior to this: the Sheriff’s early and frequent pointing fingers at the right is just misdirection. Looks like his own department ran interference for the accused murderer.
I used to enjoy debating various members of our local Liberal Left on the local newspapers blog page. It got tiresome, though, when they would always gravitate towards personal attacks, name-calling and, finally, unintelligible garble. What is going on is almost as if it being read out of a playbook.
Blame this person, blame that person, blame the lack of this or the lack of that….
It is getting sickening, quite frankly, and, like the DU postings mentioned, violence is inevitable. Of course, those casting blame all around them will never acknowledge that their viral poisonous anger ever has anything to do with it. The fact that they step up their rhetoric in times like this to feed on the emotions of everyone has nothing to do with the further division of this country. No, not at all….
“There is, demonstrably, no leftist equivalent to Sarah Palin, former veep candidate and presumed future presidential candidate, who uses gun imagery (rifle sights) and language (“Don’t Retreat, RELOAD”) to exhort her followers to action.”
Huh, so that guy who told his followers “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun” was just a nobody, not even at the level of a VP-candidate. Good to know.
#7 Stonewall 116:
“Blame this person, blame that person, blame the lack of this or the lack of that….”
Exactly. This particular way of thinking is not something that manifests itself once someone becomes a politician, or is in the media spotlight. It is a behaviour that is picked up, or learned at a very young age. For the most part, this kind of behaviour was “outgrown” as children stopped blaming others and grew into the understanding of being responsible for their own words and their own actions, and to deal with issues as opposed to assessing blame. You might notice that nowadays children from pre-teen through to their twenties carry on this behaviour. Even as they “mature” into adults, this childish reaction has somehow been ingrained into their mindset, even as they become well-educated members of polite (ahem) society.