Salon Of Fools
Salon used to be a really good site -- long ago, back when they started. Now, it's often absurdly bad -- to simply absurd.
Reason's Nick Gillespie gave an appropriate "WTF?" to this Salon tweet:
@NickGillespie
WTF? MT @Salon Real terror unfolds in Paris Perhaps this will convince the right to done down their violent rhetoric http://slnm.us/ORRmnae
Yes, that's right -- Salon seizes the Paris "Allahu Akbar" mass murder to explain that the problem is "violent rhetoric" by American right.
Yep, this is why free speech is so important - it gives others the right to call them assholes!
charles at November 13, 2015 10:00 PM
I thought he meant the French right
NicoleK at November 14, 2015 3:07 AM
Amazing how many blinders the Left place over their eyes to escape the realities at hand.
Bob in Texas at November 14, 2015 4:09 AM
So, what's new? In 1995, Timothy McVeigh truck-bombed the federal building in Oklahoma City, killing almost 200, on the anniversary of and in revenge for the 1993 massacre at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, TX, in an operation directed by AG Reno. Pres. Clinton blamed the attack on the violent rhetoric of the political right, including a then largely unknown radio talk show host with the laughable name of "Rush." This accusation was repeated uncritically by news media throughout the 1996 Presidential campaign.
Another person named Clinton is now running for President.
Fool me once, shame on you;
Fool me twice, I'm a Democrat.
Wfjag at November 14, 2015 5:28 AM
You forgot Gabby Giffords where a democrat/communist shot her in the head at it was because of rightwing rhetoric and surveyors marks on a map.
Ben at November 14, 2015 6:23 AM
@Bob: Amazing how many blinders the Left place over their eyes to escape the realities at hand.
Which I think pretty well nails it. And I'm pretty sure they're doing it unconsciously. Here's my guess as to why: Assigning blame to someone or something familiar, "right-wing rhetoric" for example, makes the issue comprehensible in a comfortable way. In theory, that makes the problem controllable; stop (or stifle) the rhetoric, and you can control the violence. Accepting the alternative, that the terrorists have their own goals, their own initiatives, and their own moral agency, independent of someone's rhetoric, makes the problem much harder to understand.
Do all leftists do this? Of course not, and it goes without saying that right wingers wear their own blinders sometimes. In any case, they come at a price.
Old RPM Daddy (OldRPMDaddy at GMail dot com) at November 14, 2015 7:18 AM
If all you've got is a hammer the whole world looks like a nail. I think that sums it up better Old RPM.
Ben at November 14, 2015 8:42 AM
If all you've got is a hammer the whole world looks like a nail. I think that sums it up better Old RPM.
And more succinctly, too. And it might apply to the next post as well! :-)
Old RPM Daddy (OldRPMDaddy at GMail dot com) at November 14, 2015 9:34 AM
ISIS is clearly a right-wing operation. They have guns and are very religious.
Andrew_M_Garland at November 14, 2015 10:23 AM
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