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When Lying Right Wing Hacks Attack (or, Patterico the Idiot)

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Talking Point Detective1/21/2011 11:14:31 am PST

Has anyone seen the whole clip?

Beck is accusing certain people of plotting a revolution. Who, exactly, is he leveling that charge against?

Again, I am struck by how completely the right controls the playing field. A few public figures say that Palin’s rhetoric might contribute to an atmosphere of violence; thus far I’ve seen a total of exactly one (alleged) example where someone actually said Palin was responsible for the AZ shootings (a poster here said that Kos supposedly tweeted something on the order of “mission accomplished Sarah Palin” shortly after the shootings) .

And all over the media we hear about how “the left” said that Palin was “complicit” in a murder - which is “blood libel.”

But Beck says that people are plotting a revolution, and not only is it basically a non-issue, the rightwing media circles the wagons to defend him.

I hate people that whine about how “unfair” the media is - but this double-standard is striking, and an indication of just how effectively the righting claims of left-wing media bias has resulted in the media twisting themselves in knots to go in the other direction.

So who is it, exactly, that Beck says is plotting a revolution (without attribution, of course)?