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Rachel Maddow on Yet Another Right Wing Fake Outrage

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Killgore Trout3/17/2012 12:46:58 pm PDT

re: #119 Gus

Killgore. I’ve heard more “rapey/staby” stories from you within the political context of OWS then I have fingers on my hands. Suddenly when it’s reported that a Tea Party member has been arrested for rape/kidnapping you turn around and say, in effect, “all you people just bring up these rape stories because of the political side of the perpetrator.”

Yes, because it’s obvious selective outrage. I kept on the OWS thing because security issues and violence in the camps was a serious and endemic problem and a sign that it was an unhealthy and careless political movement. Just like I pounded the Tea Party for violent rhetoric and radicalism.
What became glaringly obvious was that people only cared about the nasty elements of the other movement. When their side had problems they needed to be defended no matter how reprehensible.