Making Palin Happy
by digby
Jon Stewart on poor Palin:
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c The Daily Show on Facebook
It’s funny, but also annoying. The only people who listen to these admonitions not to “politicize” tragic events are liberals. Right wingers don’t care about Jon Stewart’s opinion. Indeed, they organize themselves in direct opposition to it. So basically, this just shames liberals while giving the radical right more reason to double down on both their persecution complex and hate rhetoric — exactly what Stewart was criticizing Palin for doing.
Moreover, condemning those who allegedly “politicized” the shooting in this context is annoying. You don’t have to be a paranoid leftist to suspect that when someone attempts to assassinate a politician by shooting them point blank in the head and then sprays the crowd, that it might just be political. And it’s even more understandable considering the fact that Democratic politicians are constantly being threatened both on the air by rabid talk show hosts and by their gun-toting fanatical followers — particularly in Arizona. Any cop who didn’t immediately suspect a right wing perpetrator in that case would be derelict in his duty.
I’m sure Jon Stewart is unaware of the long list of political violence in this country over the past two years. Everybody in the media is. And apparently, even if you do know about it, it’s taboo to even speculate that there might be a pattern. But it’s damned annoying that the right bears no responsibility for cranking up all this political heat and then being allowed to cry victim when people suspect them of lighting the match when a fire breaks out.
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