In reply: Threats, or not, air unedited video, and let folks decide for themselves

In reply to the following comment at Jimmy Hoffa Threatens GOP At Obama Event: "Let's Take These Son Of Bitches Out" | RealClearPolitics

Any chance you will stop tap dancing and acknowlege that he made the threat?  We all heard him say what he said.  He used a long string of bellicose and threatening language, and you want us to think he actually meant us to take that as an "invitation for debate?"   Clean the wax out of your ears.

You idiots smeared Sarah Palin for using the image of a target, and now you want to pretend that "war, battle, fight, and take out the sobs" really means to throw roses?   Please!
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All I'm saying is air the full video, and let folks think for themselves, Rachel... If you think calls to vote out the sons o bitches on the right (or the left) are threats of violence, than more power to ya... (Lots of folks will think you're a pretty sensitive little flower who prolly ain't suited to taking in anything more harsh than the average Disney flick--and certainly not anything involving US politics--but more power to ya, regardless...)

Look... I think the folks who thought sister Sarah's rhetoric caused the Giffords shooting were nuts. I also think the folks who're getting the vapors because a guy "threatened" his political opponents with being taken out via electoral loss are similarly nuts...

But regardless of who is/isn't nuts, the least folks can do is be fully informed, and to call on those creating such dishonest edits of these kinda things to be more honest... So that nuts or not, folks can know what it is they're being outraged about...

Roundup and Commentary - 6/30/09

“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.” - Anatole France, 1844 - 1924

Blog Post:

Wingnuts & Moonbats: The Ricci riddle and the law's limits - Kermit Roosevelt

Commentary:

Paying attention to--and when necessary, writing and enforcing laws mandating--equality of outcome is necessary to ensure we get what we all want, equality of opportunity.:
American Power: Leftist Reaction to Ricci v. DeStefano

I'm all for equal rights for everyone, including the "physically challenged," but you're never going to see my name on a petition demanding that blind folks be given jobs as lookouts--though I do think they should be afforded their turn at reading the eye chart, just like everybody else. Equality of opportunity, don'cha know...):
RealClearPolitics - Comments - repsac3, Jun 30, 11:59 AM (no permalink, scroll to date/time/name)

Max [Blumenthal] offers an analogy between the situation in these two places, and again the meaning & purpose of an analogy is twisted, as though saying that two things are alike in any way, is saying that they are alike in every way. (Apples and oranges; both fruits, both have a skin, both kinda round, both healthy to eat, and yet so "not identical" as to've spawned a phrase using both of their names, about making comparisons between disparate objects.):
American Power: Despicable: Huffington Post Equates Iran Neda Murderers to Israel

In Reply: Useless Cartoon Notions of the "Other" Side

In reply to Can the Democrats Fight the War on Terror?

At Real Clear Politics, John Leo's got a nice reminder of the Democratic Party's difficulties in confronting the terrorist threat. Leo starts his discussion with "The Good Fight," the new book by pro-American liberal Peter Beinart. He then turns to Henry A. Wallace, and the difficulties the Wallace legacy presents for Democrats today.
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It's interesting that the post author neglected to give the full title of Peter Beinart's book. It was actually: "The Good Fight: Why Liberals---and Only Liberals---Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again". And the notion that mainstream Democrats would have any problem prosecuting a legitimate war is laughable to anyone who doesn't believe that "the Left" consists of communists and terrorist symps. (and yes, that includes Beinart, apparently.) These cartoon notions that this guy and some of his friends on the right are wont to disseminate are fictions that leave their analysis of contemporary politics sorely lacking.