Wash Post Columnist Who Wanted to Bash Tea Partiers' Teeth In Trashes Boehner, Conservatives for Harsh Rhetoric
"I know how the "tea party' people feel, the anger, venom and bile that many of them showed during the recent House vote on health-care reform. I know because I want to spit on them, take one of their 'Obama Plan White Slavery' signs and knock every racist and homophobic tooth out of their Cro-Magnon heads."
That's how leftist Washington Post columnist Courtland Milloy calmly and civilly registered his measured disagreement with conservatives in a March 2010 column.
Now that there's a tragedy to be exploited, Milloy today jumped aboard the media's bash-conservatives-for-coarsening-American-political-discussion bandwagon.
In doing so, Milloy didn't disappoint, turning up the nuttiness knob to 11 with his anti-conservative screed, comparing House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and other conservative Republicans to bloodthirsty gangbangers who inspire violence without having to explicitly authorize it:
Where are John Boehner's tears now?
You'd expect a man who cries at the drop of a hat to at least show some emotion over the mass shootings in Arizona. But while addressing the tragedy at a news conference Sunday, the newly elected House speaker was as dry as tumbleweed.
[...]
[C]ould it be that some emotional circuit breaker had cut off the speakers' tears to protect him from a surge of guilt over his role in helping to create such a charged political climate - his support for nearly unfettered access to handguns?
[...]
Just last year, Boehner declared that then-Rep. Steve Dreihaus (D-Ohio) "may be a dead man" because he voted for President Obama's health-care law. "He can't go home to the west side of Cincinnati," Boehner told the National Review.
That's how thugs talk, and from the way Boehner and other elected officials have sounded lately, you'd think the only oath they'd taken was to uphold the code of the streets.
Just as gangsters use symbols to send intimidating messages to their rivals - say, pointing a finger, thumb cocked like the hammer on a pistol - Boehner's political gang has taken to drawing crosshairs on opponents, posting inciting images on the Internet and calling for "Second Amendment solutions" to the nation's problems.
Trading in ambiguity and veiled threats, thugs, whether on the streets or in the political suites, can always deny they meant any harm.
But no one is surprised when a street kid picks up on the gangland signal and carries out a hit. Nor should anyone be surprised when misguided ideologues start showing up at town meetings armed with assault rifles - or at supermarkets with handguns.
Later in his column, Milloy threw in the obligatory disclaimer, conceding that "[t]he shooter's motive in this case could have nothing at all to do with the statements of people such as [Tea Party leader Stephen] Broden and [Rep. Michele] Bachmann."
Of course, at time of the publication of today's paper, the media were well aware that suspect Jared Loughner is a mentally unstable individual with incoherent political beliefs who has admitted to counting The Communist Manifesto and Mein Kampf as among his favorite books.
But why let the facts get in the way of a good screed?
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Just another opportunistic rant
Submitted by Galvanic on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 1:49pm.
I expect that we'll see this kind of nonsense from hypocrites for days, maybe weeks, as people like Milloy seek to distance themselves from the 'vitriolic discussions."
not a tragedy -- an evil act
Submitted by frosties on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 2:22pm.
Forget Rush and Fox News, get the best take anywhere on the Tucson shooting at: www.cashbeechcroft.podomatic.com
frosties, are you one of them.... Borderline, Spammers?
Submitted by upcountrywater on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 3:17pm.
FYI. Most people on this planet, consider it an Evil Act.
Did you catch Rush @ 12:00 to 2:00 PM...01-10-11?
Is that you in the photos?
You Didn't Build That.
Rush
Submitted by grammajane on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 2:55pm.
If you get a chance tune in Rush today. He is so right on and has numerous clips, past and present, of hate talk from Libs. He has specifics to the the fact that the media is blaming many great American's for what happened in AZ. Rush is on a roll with truth!!!!
Man, it's a real jungle over
Submitted by Barack_must_go..... on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 7:19pm.
Man, it's a real jungle over there at WaPo. I had no idea......
Banana anyone?
Barack_Must_Go.....
Sheesh.
Submitted by bkeyser on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 7:21pm.
Sheesh.
Another Idiot Sauvant
Submitted by nalaexsci on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 3:19pm.
Another journalist smart enough to get a job but to dumb to deliver a coherent article.
Affirative action's a never a
Submitted by Barack_must_go..... on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 7:22pm.
Affirative action's a never a good thing......
Barack_Must_Go.....
The lefties are losing it
Submitted by Blonde on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 3:27pm.
I just read an article linked on Drudge, and found this beauty of a comment.
Try not to laugh as you read it....
There are already laws against threatening people. What we need to do is pass a law against republican members of congress calling our President every name in the book and inciting violence. People like zombie eyed Bachmann should be charged with treason for trying to get the tea people to overthrow the government using second amendment remedies!
As mb would say:
<Chris Matthews voice> HAH!
Actually, I think that probably was Chrissy. Definitely dumb enough.
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Milloy is a racist idio t.
Submitted by johnsonl on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 4:35pm.
Milloy is a racist idio t. Always has been, always will be.
"Courtland"???
Submitted by SickofLibs on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 4:43pm.
What, was Pops a judge?
Courtland, lest we forget. Eric Holder has.
Submitted by Hunter12 on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 5:17pm.
Miloy comment : Just as gangsters use symbols to send intimidating messages to their rivals - say, pointing a finger, thumb cocked like the hammer on a pistol...
Kind of like, say, a nightstick in front of a polling place.
Those danged ole Black Panther conservatives are everywhere.
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." - Sir Winston Churchill
time for lefties to look in the mirror
Submitted by Zilla of the Re... on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 5:37pm.
We are owed retractions, apologies and resignations tendered by every single politician, government employee and media agent who launched their hateful vile smear attack on innocent people which had absolutely no basis in fact whatsoever - starting with that AZ Senator who claimed that the killer was an Afghanistan war veteran, and Sherrif Upinko on down the line. Demand this by writing to the tv networks, elected officials, newspapers and advertising sponsors of every media entity which allowed those vicious memes this past weekend and are still continuing to do so despite the mountain of evidence proving them wrong and despite the years of violent disgusting remarks that have been proffered by the LEFT publicly and prolificly, starting with Barry O.
Call, fax, write, email, blog it hand out fliers, whatever. Blitz these creeps with INFORMATION because although WE are far more numerous than they, the American people mostly get their 'news' from tv and print papers which are controlled by the left. We have a right and a duty to defend ourselves and our very strongest weapon is the TRUTH.
I run a political information page at facebook where I have posted dozens of links since this weekend illustrating the nastiness from the left and also their LIES against us (and thousands of links since we opened the page this ppast summer). Feel free to go there and use anything you want on that page to help you fight back:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/ANTI-CRAPTASTIC/127576023926747
I've also got a screenshot posted that I took of that violent rant against Congresswoman Giffords posted two days before she was shot at the daily Kos before KOS scrubbed it from the site in an effort to bury the story.
Repeating a comment I made earlier
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 6:10pm.
However, a school chum of this sicko, named Parker, knew him in high school and in college.
Guess what, he was a left wing liberal.
So what should we conclude?
Cricket time.