Enviroterror
by digby
The right wing is in full dudgeon over a rumor that the oil covered judge who lifted the offshore drilling moratorium is getting death threats from environmentalists (fully aired with no proof here, by Fox News. You have to see it to believe it.) It’s amusing that the people who vote for someone who says things like this should be calling for the fainting couch, but there you have it:
I don’t know if there is a cause-and-effect connection but we have seen some recent episodes of courthouse violence in this country. Certainly nothing new, but we seem to have run through a spate of courthouse violence recently that’s been on the news and I wonder whether there may be some connection between the perception in some quarters on some occasions where judges are making political decisions yet are unaccountable to the public, that it builds up and builds up and builds up to the point where some people engage in – engage in violence.
If you watch the Fox video, you’ll notice that they do hedge just a bit by qualifying their horror at judges getting death threats with “judges who make the right decision” so perhaps there’s no hypocrisy here after all. They just think people shouldn’t threaten to kill conservative judges.
What’s more interesting about this from what I read on my short sojourn into wingnut blogs is what appears to be a desperate desire to find some equivalence in cuckoo-land on the left: they are all assuming these alleged death threats are coming from “enviro-terrorists.” Neil Cavuto, being fair and balanced as usual, says that you can’t prove it’s environmentalists” but he helpfully adds that environmentalists have been known to do such things and showed pictures of burning buildings. For context, dontcha know. Limbaugh has previously floated the idea that environmentalists started the spill, so I suppose this isn’t really new. But I’m getting the feeling that the enviro-terrorist meme may be something the wingnuts are very hopeful will take off.
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