--The Arizona shootings were like Kwanzaa come early for America's liberal fascists
By James Delingpole World Last updated: January 9th, 2011
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Sure it's her fault: she believes in toxic stuff like small government and personal responsibility
How sick do you have to be to start making political capital out of the killing of six people including a nine-year old girl, long before anyone has the remotest clue what the murderer's motives were, or his political affiliations, or his state of mind?
Not sick at all, to judge by the response of so many US Tweeters in the immediate aftermath of the Arizona shootings. When you're a liberal, it seems, cloying sanctimoniousness, grotesque moral posturing, double standards, hypocrisy and cynical, malevolent smearing all come as naturally and healthily as breathing.
As Toby Harnden reports, barely were the bodies cold when the liberal fascists started pointing the finger of blame: it was Sarah Palin's fault, of course; Sarah Palin's and Glenn Beck's and, of course, the Tea Party's. Definitely not a crazed killing spree by a deeply confused young man, no, sirree. After all, as Rahm Emmanuel would say, you must "never let a crisis go to waste."
So let us compare and contrast the liberal blogosphere and media's response to the Arizona shootings (ie it was all the Right's fault) and its response to, say, the Fort Hood killings or the 2002 Beltway sniper murders. In the latter two cases, liberals walked on eggshells to avoid admitting these had anything whatsoever to do with the Religion of Peace (TM). And we're not talking about just the first few hours afterwards when a certain amount of circumspection might have been excusable. As I mention in 365 Ways To Drive A Liberal Crazy, once the liberal MSM discovered that the Beltway assassinations were not after all the crime of an "angry white man" but of an embittered, black Muslim convert calling himself John Muhammad, it went into instant denial mode. In news reports he was referred to by his pre-conversion name, John Williams, just in case anyone got any politically incorrect ideas.
It was the same with the Fort Hood killings. As I noted at the time, the liberal blogosphere and MSM simply couldn't bring itself to admit that Major Malik Nadal Hasan's killing spree had anything whatsoever to do with the famously peace-loving religion of Islam. Even after it emerged that he'd been in contact with the notorious Islamist terror guru Anwar al-Awlaki, still liberals sought desperately to make out that Major Hasan was just an ordinary chap who'd been crazified by exposure to one of Amerika's evil, unjust wars.
One of the Tweets I got from one of my nicer, better-meaning liberal friends last night was:
interesting to note the parallel between the dangers to politicians from extremists in Pakistan and United States
But actually, this says more about the dubious moral relativism of the liberal mindset than it does about empirical truth. There is simply no reasonable and fair comparison to be made between the assassination of poor brave Salmaan Taseer, Governor of Punjab province, and the attempted murder of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. And if you want to know why, compare and contrast the local reactions to these respective tragedies.
In Pakistan, Salmaan Taseer's killer was showered with flower petals by his many sympathisers. In the USA, Jared Loughner's actions have attracted universal condemnation from both left and right.
And if anyone is gloating about the suffering and death inflicted on Congresswoman Giffords and her entourage, it most certainly isn't her opponents in the Tea Party. It's all those unprincipled grievance mongers on the liberal-left.
Tags: Arizona shootings, Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, Liberal Fascism, Salmaan Taseer, Sarah Palin
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