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| Jonah Goldberg: connecting dots that aren't there |
| 2009-06-12 |
| When an abortion provider in Wichita, Kans., was murdered, the predictable chorus pointed fingers at Fox News's Bill O'Reilly. After all, O'Reilly had said that George Tiller was a "baby killer" and had railed against the doctor's late-term abortion practice for years. He must be to blame! No one bothered to ask whether Tiller's accused murderer had ever watched O'Reilly, or to ponder whether a militant pro-life extremist really needed a talk-show host to tell him anything he didn't already know about one of the less than a dozen doctors in the country who still performed third-trimester abortions. But never mind. Such details don't matter when you're trying to delegitimize people. Now we have James von Brunn. He is an 88-year-old loon, considered a dangerous nut even within the dangerous-nut community. He took his gun and shot up the Holocaust Museum and murdered a guard. Reporting suggests that von Brunn wanted to fulfill his revenge fantasies against the Jewish-neocon globalist cabal, which apparently outsources much of its work to the Bush family. A 9/11 truther, convinced that the bagel-snarfing, string-pulling Jooooooooooozzz are behind everything, von Brunn is the kind of fanatic the zombies who talk to themselves at the bus station would give a wide berth. But, of course, we have Sarah Palin to thank for von Brunn. So says some genius at the Daily Kos. A competing braniac at the Huffington Post says, "Thank you very much Karl Rove and your minions." Pretty much the entire media establishment is comfortable labeling von Brunn as a member of the "far right." Putting aside other objections to that nomenclature, if von Brunn is a member of the far right, then it would be helpful and journalistically responsible if the press would start calling Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrich, Sean Hannity, et al., moderates and centrists. That won't happen, because the whole point of these exercises is to paint the Right as an undifferentiated blob of evil.... Go read it all. The last paragraph is a zinger: Maniacs like von Brunn connect dots that aren't there because that's what paranoid anti-Semites do. What's the Left's excuse? |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #3 If the MSM can't fit it in the Left/Right space continuum everything else is color or race based. |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2009-06-12 18:18 |
| #2 Crazy is just plain crazy--it's not right or left. However,the MSM media loves to off-load everything that happens in the world on right wing extremists--its own personal favorite boogeyman. Someone that does something crazy on the left does not get labeled left wing extremist; they simply are "misguided", had a "bad childhood" or get a pass. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2009-06-12 17:27 |
| #1 "After all, for years, mainstream liberalism and other outposts of paranoid Bush hatred have portrayed neoconservatives — usually code for conservative Jews and other supporters of Israel — as an alien, pernicious cabal." There is a little show called Democracy Now. For those not acquainted it is one the favorites of the Marxist/Progressive movement. This Orwellian titled broadcast frequently charges the “corporate media” of white washing over the true Zionist agenda. Commonly with the backdrop of Gaza rubble and white phosphorus, on any given day, one can view a cavalcade of Terrorist sympathizers or Anti-Military activists denouncing “America’s complicity in Israeli aggression”. The insinuations couldn’t be clearer. The day after the Holocaust Museum tragedy they dedicated an entire episode on how the White Nationalist Movement and the Von Brunns of the world are fueled by the “Right Wing Echo Chamber”. The irony was amusing. The hypocrisy was overwhelming. |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2009-06-12 14:14 |