There isn’t much point in saying it, but I’ll do it anyway: Political commentary in this country is out of control. Predictably it’s almost exclusively from the right (Don’t think I missed or approved of Rep. Cohen’s “Goebbels” rant. Thanks a lot dipshit for making us all look bad.)
What may actually be more reprehensible than what has been said, is the insanely arrogant and combative attitudes from the talking heads on the right when asked to tone down their rhetoric.
The bodies in Tuscon weren’t even cold and there Sarah Palin was, in an unbelievable show of hubris and narcissism, making herself out as the victim, because her PAC was rightly criticized for having gunsights on Giffords’ district. Yeah, it was "blood libel" Sarah, such a saint, such a martyr. Why not save the graphic descriptors for the people who actually ended up covered in blood?
After Glenn Beck’s despicable attack on George Soros, there were calls from the Jewish community to knock off the Nazi tourettes and stop with the holocaust bullshit. Rather than acting reasonable, Beck ramped up the attacks, much as he did after the Tides Foundation led an advertising boycott after Beck painted a target on their back (which Byron Williams tried to act on).
Next up is Beck’s vicious attacks on Francis Fox Piven for something she wrote 45 years ago. Without any proof whatsoever Beck claimed this 78 year old woman was at the heart of a leftist conspiracy to collapse the United States. Surprise, surprise after over a years’ worth of savaging, death threats directed at Piven started showing up at Beck’s online pig trough The Blaze.
Piven went to the press about the threats, and about how now she was living in seclusion in fear of her life. Beck predictably ratcheted up the ugliness along with Fox Nation. Fans of both sites heaped on violent rhetoric and more threats. The moderators must be getting tired of scrubbing that garbage off the web.
Most recently we have Captain Oxycontin sitting atop his shit pile, crassly insulting Chinese people. Congressman Leland Yee spoke out for an advertiser boycott of Limbaugh’s show. In short order, some racist coward asshole faxed Yee’s office a death threat containing the words “Rush Limbaugh will kick your chink ass.” Classy. The fax also had a picture of a pickup truck dragging a noose with a black person’s head in it. Even classier.
