Rinse and repeat, you start to see a trend.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_Genocide#Media_Propaganda

In March 1992, Radio Rwanda was first used in directly promoting the killing of Tutsi in Bugesera, south of the national capital Kigali. Radio Rwanda repeatedly broadcast a communiqué warning that Hutu in Bugesera would be attacked by Tutsi, a message used by local officials to convince Hutu that they needed to protect themselves by attacking first. Led by soldiers, Hutu civilians and members of the Interahamwe, subsequently attacked and killed hundreds of Tutsi.[8] At the end of 1993, the RTLM’s highly sensationalized reporting on the assassination of the Burundi president, a Hutu, was used to underline supposed Tutsi brutality. The RTLM falsely reported that the president had been tortured, including castration of the victim (in pre-colonial times, some Tutsi kings castrated defeated enemy rulers). From late October 1993, the RTLM repeatedly broadcast themes developed by the extremist written press, underlining the inherent differences between Hutu and Tutsi, the foreign origin of Tutsi, the disproportionate share of Tutsi wealth and power, and the horrors of past Tutsi rule. RTLM also repeatedly stressed the need to be alert to Tutsi plots and possible attacks and called upon Hutu to prepare to ‘defend’ themselves against the Tutsi.[8] After 6 April 1994, authorities used RTLM and Radio Rwanda to spur and direct killings, specifically in areas where the killings initially were resisted. Both radio stations were used to incite and mobilize, then to give specific directions for carrying out the killings.

Dennis essentially says it’s “lunacy” for someone to “pretend to understand the psychological make-up of someone so mentally disturbed as to commit mass murder[.]”

Then Dennis pretends “to understand the psychological make-up of someone so mentally disturbed as to commit mass murder[.]”

By Dennis logic, Dennis is a lunatic.

Some Crazy: “Obama is going to take away MY guns.” *BLAM* *BLAM* *BLAM*

GOP: “That’s not our fault. If you say it is, you are against the first amendment.”

That about sums it up.

I know enough about it to see that there is a potential for a very disturbing trend here. First off, the guy lost his job. That’s a crushing experience for anybody. But when you take this and sprinkle in healthy doses of hate and fear (Obama is coming for my guns, personally, just like Glenn Beck said, Obama is a closet-Muslim and hence pro-terrorist, just like Limbaugh said, Obama is a socialist-fascist, which is a complete logical paradox buy hey, it’s Republicans we’re talking about, just like Coulter said) you’re asking for trouble.

I hope this isn’t the start of an ugly, tragic series of spree shootings. I really don’t. But if more of these guys decide to go postal, and we find out they were followers to right-wing philosophy that makes up the base, not the fringe, of modern-day conservatism, then yeah, we have every right to blame the Republican Smear Machine.

See, this is how adults think Dennis — actions have consequences, and you have to take responsibility for your actions. Hate speech is an action. You shouldn’t be arrested for it or censored, since it’s your right to spew ugliness under the First Amendment, but everybody else has a right to consider you to be a hate-filled bigot, and hence ignore you.

Like I said, the KKK never fully disappeared. Neither will the Republican Party. It will just shrivel into irrelevance if and when more Republicans decide to become terrorists.

No, Jaim, the point here is to blame those guys for what happened, as if this poor bastard was driven to it by something Glenn Beck said, which is complete lunacy. Do you pretend to understand the psychological make-up of someone so mentally disturbed as to commit mass murder? If you do, please write a book and help educate the experts who study it and who haven’t been able to figure it out yet, none of which as of yet have blamed any of them on any talk show hosts.

The point isn’t to get them censored, the point is to further shine more light on the hate-filled sewer that is modern-day conservatism. That’s all.

They made their bed, now they’re lying in it. And reality-based Americans want nothing to do with them any longer.

So don’t ignore them, simply register the fact that they are anathema to modern, progressive society.

The KKK never disappeared completely either.

And that’s where you lost J.G.Thayer. If I recall correctly, this is the man who said he preferred to look at the world as black and white.

He can’t handle nuance, because he’s too dumb to handle nuance. Therefore he avoids it at all costs.

This is a problem with a lot of conservatives.

J.G.Thayer: “Gee, I thought that was what you were doing.”

That’s cause you are stupid.

The sooner you learn this, the better.

Right wingers sure have convenient memories. And convenient ethics.

Right wingers moral relativism is like taffy, it can be stretched in any way that’s politically convenient and then stretched back when the opposite is convenient.

As has been pointed out, I hear Somalia’s immigration policy is quite liberal.

That certain conservatives take as gospel.

Well of course not. What you’re getting at (the unconstitutionality of city gun laws) is a fair and defensible legal position – not the only one, but fair and defensible. Obviously (DC v. Heller) the current SCOTUS agrees.

What I was getting at was a politician says something relatively mild – gun control works, cities should have a say – and the con media seems to ramp it up into ‘THEY ARE COMING FOR YOU – GET THE SHOTGUN AND GET BESSIE AND THE KIDS TO THE SHELTER.’

As I’ve said before, I’m pro-gun rights. But I also try to be pro-reality, unlike Crazy Glenn Beck and co.

Doesn’t stop the right from opposing women’s right to have an abortion.

You sound silly worrying about people going Galt. Although if enough did you would be in serious trouble. You don’t strike me as a real sort of hands on type of fellow.

Going Galt only worked in Atlas Shrugged because of a bunch of fictional assumptions, including, but not limited to:

1. Having the very existence of New York be dependent on a single bridge over 1000 miles away.

2. Disobeying the laws of thermodynamics (perpetual motion machine)

3. Inventing a death ray and something called a “sonic blaster”, not even going to touch that one.

Yeah, good luck with that.

Media Matters signs Ollies paycheck.
In the blood of innocents!

Ollie makes fun of half the country for sport.
As others have said, half is a gross exaggeration. At any given time the wingnut faction is only about 25-30% of our blessed population.

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Sorry, Parthenon, but cities (or states) do NOT have the right to rewrite the Constitution. We kinda settled that in the 50′s and 60′s.

J.