From AP today on the hostage stand-off that took place yesterday at a VA post office [emphasis added]:
Now I wonder where Taylor could have gotten those completely-misinformed ideas?
Of course, as non-disinformed folks know, there have been no moves — zero, not even a peep — by the Democratic-controlled Congress or White House about taking away anybody’s “right to bear arms,” and taxes have been lowered, not raised, since Obama took office, for 95% of working families. Though you’d be hard-pressed to know that if you did nothing more than watch Fox “News” or listen to talk radio on the public airwaves.
In one sadly ironic note, the AP article adds…
Thankfully, though Taylor fired shots, he didn’t kill or injure anybody. All hostages were eventually released peacefully after the eight hour standoff.
Not so lucky, however, were the 3 cops killed by Richard Paplowski, who was led to believe Obama would be taking away his guns; the 2 killed and 7 injured by Jim David Adkisson at a Knoxville, TN, church shooting because he “wanted to kill…every Democrat in the Senate & House, the 100 people in [regular Bill O’Reilly guest] Bernard Goldberg’s book” of 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America (And Al Franken is #37); and Dr. George Tiller, who was shot in the head in church after Bill O’Reilly spent some 29 episodes of his top-rated “news” program describing him as “Tiller the Baby Killer” and someone who would “kill your baby for any reason.”
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How about that! His, Yours, Our taxes at work!
Taylor, who is being represented by a federal public defender, was ordered to be evaluated at a federal prison medical facility to determine whether he is mentally fit for the criminal proceedings.
Should’ve said:
Taylor, who is being represented by a federal public defender, was ordered to be evaluated at a federal prison medical facility to determine whether he watches FOX ‘news’. If he does, he is mentally unfit to stand trial, as are all other FOX ‘news’ viewers, as they are not based in reality.
Here’s the scary part:
In the last few years, the gunman told Oliver and the others, his life had headed south. He said his son had been killed in Afghanistan; the AP could not immediately find any record corroborating that.
“last few years” = Bush/Cheney, not Obama, but that’s how powerful rightwing media is, to convince someone the blame of everything is on Obama. This is a case in point of how it works. People who are disgruntled over the last 8 years of Bush/Cheney: rightwing media has the ability to push the blame on Obama and the Democrats. They’re genius’s at it. They ruin the country for 8 years and blame it on Obama and the Democrats.
This didn’t happen to this guy in the last 365 days, as the article says. It took years. So, rightwing media takes someone with a real grievance, albeit caused most likely by Bush/Cheney years, and directs that real grievance and that real anger this guy has, and directs it not at the culprits but at the enemies of rightwing media and the Republicans. And it works! You see it right here. It works and it’s dangerous, very dangerous.
Rightwing media is doing this with the teabaggers, too. Taking their real grievances and pain and directing it at their enemies, not the teabaggers’ enemies. This tactic really has to be outed, and don’t look for the corporate owned media to out this tactic. They ARE the corporate owned media doing it!
No wonder our taxes are so high, they spend so much time on these right wing terrorists.
They really should bill Fox News and the RNC for this shit.
That would justifiably be the free market at work that the Corporatives so worship.
Big Dan nailed it @ #2. Priceless!
And, of course, would any of these reich-wing talkers ever admit that their hate-speech has ANY effect on the actions of ANYONE? Unless (of course) they’re taking credit for inspiring all the tea-buggery that’s going on these days. Merry effin Christmas.
And in the meantime…Goldman Sachs is “doing god’s work”
Kinda gives you a warm fuzzy huh ?
Countdown’s Year End Palin ‘Whackjob Jamboree’
By Heather Wednesday Dec 23, 2009 7:00pm
From Countdown Dec. 21, 2009, their tribute to Sarah Palin’s “turbulant year”.
http://videocafe.crooksandliars...ackjob-jambore
Floridiot, that’s freaking genius. Bill them for it. They’re going to bill the ‘balloon family’ for the hoax when they’re done serving jail time. How is this really any different? I wonder if we could start a class action lawsuit for all the precious time we’ve wasted at the airport security checkpoints, metal wand detectors at public events, etc… just to give us some impression of security. You think determined people can’t get the job done, no matter what protocols are in place? Please… locks only keep honest people honest.
We all have to react to a threat we can’t do anything about. Lets say this latest ‘Detroit bomber’ had succeeded at blowing the plane up. Do you think we’d even know it was terrorism? We are on alert, passengers are not going to be hijacked with box cutters ever again. Enough already with the stupid ‘security’ and using that to reinforce our ‘fear of what we can’t control’.
Its no secret that the CIA, DOJ/FBI and others are more branches of the GOP than of the executive branch of the US government. As often as not they are actually provocateuring, which is really scary and something the MSM (right or left) never ‘connects the dots for people’ on.
Does it ever occur to these idiots that when you go to prison, they take away your guns? And when you get out, you can’t ever have guns again.
Wow, talk about a dis-information campaign! Did you see the latest?
This Guy was misinformed and I imagine he’d also been listening to Alex Jones who is always raving about guns being taken away. It could happen but there is no evidence to suggest this yet.
However he still has every reason to be very afraid of an administration that wants to enact the Cyber Security Act giving Obama the ability to shut down the internet. This bill was draughted by Jay Rockerfella (even the name inspires conpiracy theories) with the help of Obama and the Whitehouse.
This of course is not a reason to vote for Republicans who I can tell you might promise to repeal it but would probably replace it with something even worse.
I think your only hope as a country is to kick every single Democrat and Republican to the Kerb. Dont donate or vote for any of them. Run your own people for the next election and get them in.
Have you covered this Brad. I would have thought the Cyber security Bill would be ringing your alarm as it certainly is with me. Our government is looking at passing a bill draughted by our previous Labour government which would allow government agencies to bug us without going through legal process etc.
Heres a Link to an article about the Cyber bill.
Does this mean some general will say we should start strip searching white christian males? Thanks goodness I’m an atheist!