Troublemane
Well-Known Member
Pathetic? I think it's pathetic no conservatives can cope with the fact it is conservatives, and not liberals, who are showing up at political rallies armed to the teeth with pistols and assault riffles.
What is the thing Liberals have done that is morally equivalent to the guy who set out with his guns to murder people at the Tide Foundation after listening to Glenn Beck? Please tell me. You who have such a fine moral sense that you think the two sides are equivalent.
Time after time the liberal media rushes to judgement whenever there is a madman with a gun, screaming that he is reacting to right wing "hate speech". (Hate speech being defined as anything from right wing talk radio they do not agree with, yet fail to provide any examples of.) And time after time, they turn out to be wrong.
Loughner (for example) is a registered independent. He is an atheist. He did not vote in the last election. He was reading Mein Kampf and the Communist Manifesto, and loved marijuana so much he thought it should be used as the currency of the USA. This was not a guy who identified with the Tea Party.
However, if you are asking for a liberal equivalent to the Tide guy? How bout this?
ThinkProgress » Last year there was a story about a guy who knifed a NYC cab driver, and it was widely reported to have been a hate crime by a conservative. Turns out the guy who did the crime was an interfaith filmmaker and blogger who was a NY Mosque supporter, named Enright. The fact he was not a right wing crazy has not been widely reported, and no apologies or retractions have been issued.
Then there is this guy, Chris Powers who firebombed a democrat politician's office. The media blamed the Tea Party, then found out it was one of the politican's own workers. Suddenly the media shut up.
Maggie's Notebook: Russ Carnahan's Office Firebombed by Employee - Blamed on Tea Parties