More on the faux outrage over alleged threats of violence against various congresscritters that voted for the federal takeover of the U.S. health care system.
First, from Tim Graham at NewsBusters comes this gem from Courtland Milloy of the Washington Compost, nice, tolerant, compassionate speech directed at Tea Party protesters:
I know how the “tea party” people feel, the anger, venom and bile that many of them showed during the recent House vote on health-care reform. I know because I want to spit on them, take one of their “Obama Plan White Slavery” signs and knock every racist and homophobic tooth out of their Cro-Magnon heads.
Can you feel the love? Imagine if a conservative blogger or radio talk show host had said that …
Says Graham:
Can you imagine a man like Milloy demanding the police arrest someone for “allowing saliva to hit my face”? Or knocking their teeth out for “allowing saliva to hit my face”? Milloy’s racial animus is on Red Alert, but no editor at the Post suggested he count to ten. They must have wanted it this angry.
Milloy seems upset that the black congressmen at issue were so calm. But many conservatives don’t think it’s calm to compare their opposition to nationalized health care to membership in the Ku Klux Klan. That’s worse than catching a little saliva in the face. Milloy channeled the race-baiting of Rep. Jim Clyburn, who said these protests weren’t about health care:
“It reminds me of that period in our history right after Reconstruction,” Clyburn said, “when South Carolina had a black governor and the political gains were lost because of vigilantism, the rise of the Ku Klux Klan.”
Earth to Karnak Clyburn: stop mind-reading your smears. Milloy’s headline claimed “congressmen exhibit grace, restraint” — but this charge is disgraceful and shows zero restraint. It’s reckless and unwarranted. You can bash the guy with the “white slavery” sign. But it’s not accurate to tar every caucasian conservative with a brush of Klan white.
The race card, played off the bottom of the deck, to go along with real threats of physical violence right on the pages of the Washington Compost for all to see. Didn’t anyone edit his column? Any editor step up and tell him it might not be such a good idea to publish that overheated rhetoric? Probably not. My guess is the editors at the Washington Compost wanted that to appear.
And, via Moonbattery, we have Democrat Statist drama queens with their panties in a wad over this graphic:
Hey, dummies: all that means is those districts and the congresscritters who represent them have been targeted for defeat. Has absolutely nothing to do with, say, sending out a hit squad to assassinate the flaming dumbasses that helped advance Marxism on Sunday.
Gregory of Yardale sums it up best about the girlie men at TPM:
What a bunch of nelly little schoolgirls.
And flaming dumbasses to boot.
