re: #1224 Obdicut

Please read my above comments and those of SFZ. They answer your question.

No you didn’t. Not even a little. It took freaking forever to backtrack to all those comments. But you really haven’t addressed the basic facts. Yes, the right is crazy. Yes, they might eventually lead to people doing crazy shit. This may not be such a case. And immediately labeling it so just adds fuel to the fire. Sorry. I am NOT giving this an automatic pass. Just because this is a favorite subject of LGF, that doesn’t mean everything is proof of concept. It MIGHT be. But jumping on the Right Wingers are nutso bandwagon before we have any real evidence is wrong. In the end, I would like it if everyone cooled the rhetoric. I don’t think the biggest problem is with the leadership though. These days, every person with a keyboard has a national audience. The bloggers, commentators, and pundits spew hateful bile from both sides in the worst possible terms. There is absolutely as much hatred on the left as on the right, it’s just not (yet) coming from the leadership so openly. But I don’t think kids like this are really tuned into the MSM or politicians as much as they are YouTube and MySpace and Yahoo, etc. Check out the comments there. (Yes, I know, it’s painful to slog through.) But there is where these kids live and there is where the worst of both parties comes through. No conspiracy theory is too wild, no hateful speech too extreme, and death threats are a dime a dozen. You don’t change that kind of culture by saying, “But, but, the Conservatives are the worst!” In the end, crazy people do crazy shit. There was no Sarah Palin when Presidents Kennedy, Ford, Carter, or Reagan were attacked. Who should we blame for their loonies? Nope. You did not answer my questions.