Taking the extra step and getting the gun out.
The pearl-clutching professionals at Hot Air weigh in:
The bonus nuance here is that this vid was cut by TPM, which is suddenly shocked, shocked to find incendiary rhetoric online notwithstanding the notoriety their fellow travelers have for trafficking in it. Doubtless the point is to prove how unhinged Fox viewers are, but surf around on CNN or MSNBC or any other news website and compare the comments there. Jake Tapper’s mentioned more than once on Twitter how even his scrupulously balanced posts at ABC attract nutjobs by the dozen from both sides. Trolls are an Internet fact of life, alas. It’s time to stop being surprised.
Yes, doubtless. Or perhaps, as he stated, he was commenting on the mail that he personally receives as an employee at Fox. I don’t know why Smith should feel compelled to add a qualifier to his statements on right-wing extremism just so that Allahpundit doesn’t have to feel put upon but apparently Jake Tapper needs to come on to assure the viewers that he too receives email from crazies. And considering that Smith’s commentary was in regards to a recent shooting involving yet another right-wing fanatic I hardly see how doing so would be relevant or appropriate.
In light of today’s events I think the above is one of the worst “but the librulz do it too!!!” screeds I’ve ever read.
-mg
June 11th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
Shep’s point is that he sees a pattern of increasing animosity, paranoia, desperation, and delusion. These things were there before, but they’re getting worse. The infection of idiocy on the right is enflaming, turning pus-y and gangrenous. Hotair evidently isn’t interested in fighting that.
June 11th, 2009 at 9:08 pm
will righty bloggers ever get the memo that using “shocked, shocked” doesn’t actually make them clever or do they all go “brilliant Casablanca ref, think I’ll use it in my next post” ad infinitum?