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NightWatcher

(39,343 posts) Tue Apr 16, 2013, 03:55 PM Apr 2013

False equivalency from the RW's. Do they think the bomber might be one of them?

I'm loving all the RW's that have called in to Progressive radio today to read from the same script that "the left has nuts on the fringe that commit violent acts too". I even heard two of them go so far as to suggest that it could have been an environmentalist who sits in trees or chains themselves to a bulldozer to prevent clear-cutting of forests. None of them acknowledge that any act of terror has come from a disciple of the Right. OKC- sorry I cant hear you. Olympic Park Bomber- never heard of it. They are suggesting that if someone else did it, they did it because they are a crazy loner.

Are they starting to come to grips with the possibility that one of them (Rush listening, Bekkk reading, Alex Jones believing....) might be at fault here?

Is the cry of an equivalency from the Left the last refuge of the Right?

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False equivalency from the RW's. Do they think the bomber might be one of them? (Original Post) NightWatcher Apr 2013 OP

If it is JustAnotherGen Apr 2013 #1

And don't forget this LOOOONG list of domestic Rightwing terrorists: JaneyVee Apr 2013 #2

My first suspicion was that the bomber is a RW gun nut, trying to back up the argument Zookeeper Apr 2013 #3

Some of the same despots who have spewed anti-government rhetoric and summerschild Apr 2013 #4

Projection, they are masters at it. Rex Apr 2013 #5

JustAnotherGen

(31,828 posts)

1. If it is

Reply to NightWatcher (Original post)

Tue Apr 16, 2013, 03:56 PM

Apr 2013

It's only because we the media allows it.

JaneyVee

(19,877 posts)

2. And don't forget this LOOOONG list of domestic Rightwing terrorists:

Reply to NightWatcher (Original post)

Tue Apr 16, 2013, 04:03 PM

Apr 2013

http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/publications/terror-from-the-right

Seriously LOOOOONG list.

Zookeeper

(6,536 posts)

3. My first suspicion was that the bomber is a RW gun nut, trying to back up the argument

Reply to NightWatcher (Original post)

Tue Apr 16, 2013, 04:30 PM

Apr 2013

that banning assault weapons is useless because people will build bombs. (I've encountered this argument several times.). So, I'm not surprised that they are going on the defense.

BTW, I just saw Shepard Smith mention the OK bombing to Saxby Chambliss, who *immediately* changed the subject.

summerschild

(725 posts)

4. Some of the same despots who have spewed anti-government rhetoric and

Reply to NightWatcher (Original post)

Tue Apr 16, 2013, 06:06 PM

Apr 2013

glorified violence and "revolution" (sometimes veiled, sometimes blatant), are stewing in their own juices right now, afraid one of their own ideologues has committed this heinous crime.

Listen (if you can stand it) to Limbaugh, Beck, etc., and they're not spouting their usual provocative garbage right now. They're on the defensive. Neither of these greedy sob's are stupid, no matter how stupid they talk. Every time they inflame their listeners, they know the possibility of creating a monster exists. If this is one of their fans, they don't want you to remember how many ways they encouraged sick behavior.

Rex

(65,616 posts)

5. Projection, they are masters at it.

Reply to NightWatcher (Original post)

Tue Apr 16, 2013, 06:09 PM

Apr 2013

They are really scared that it IS one of their very own. I guess when your party has the national spotlight and screams hatred for a few decades, somebody eventually listens and believes it.

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