Making Daddy Mad
by digby
I can hardly believe it, but apparently America’s wife beaters have actually decided to use the defense that these Democrats are “asking for” death threats from the right wingers because they are “making them mad.” I documented Sere and Cantor’s warnings this morning, but there are more:
Breitbart: Congressional Black Caucus members went “searching for … racism” by walking through Tea Party crowd
Graham tells Beck — Beck! — Tea Partiers “get mad” because they “don’t like being called racist
Michael Graham: Pelosi was “asking for” response by carrying Medicare gavel
Rove warns Dems that discussing threats against them may “inflame emotions”
Beck: You see, what they’ve done is they’ve radicalized The Man. These people are in the center, but who’s down here? They know that these people always lose — because they experienced it. The crazy teabaggers in the streets.
Why would a government continue to poke you, and poke you, and poke you, and poke you? Why would they say these things? Why have these people said these things about good Americans? Because they need to separate these people from these people.
They know that serious violence is very likely. They are simply inoculating themselves against the charge that it was their inflammatory rhetoric that caused it. It will be the Democrats complaining about their inflammatory rhetoric that made the teabaggers snap. If they’d just stayed quiet and not made daddy mad, he wouldn’t have had to hit them.
The only thing these people should be doing is calming down their crazies. Instead they’re ginning them up. Heckuva job.
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