Pull the Piggy's Tail, Listen to it Squeal
When you pull a piggy's curly little tail, it squeals in pain and outrage.
So let's pretend we have two piggies. One of them is a conservative piggy. The other is a liberal piggy.
When an Arizona sheriff blamed certain voices on the radio and television for creating the climate of vitriol, he didn't mention any political affiliations. Yet, he was clearly pulling the tail of ONE of the piggies. How will we EVER know which piggy's tail he was pulling.
Keith Olbermann's reaction to the Sheriff's statement?
From his Special Comment on Saturday night's special edition of "Countdown."
"Violence, or the threat of violence, has no place in our Democracy, and I apologize for and repudiate any act or any thing in my past that may have even inadvertently encouraged violence. Because for whatever else each of us may be, we all are Americans."
The general conservative reaction?
"SQUEE!!!!!! SQUEE!!!!! SQUEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!"
Talking Points Memo reports:
Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) said he didn't think the sheriff's words "had any part in a law enforcement briefing." Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) said he was "disappointed" in the sheriff. Conservative talk show host Neal Boortz said Dupnik was looking for political gain, and a Fox News anchor — in an interview with the sheriff — wondered aloud why he would "inject political speculation" into the story.
Rush Limbaugh lifted his head from the slop trough and said this.
The Democratic Party, he said during his nationally syndicated radio program, as aired on the Tucson, Ariz., station 790 KNST, is “a party that seeks to profit out of murder.” He added that the political left “openly wishes for such disaster in order to profit from it.”
Sarah Palin, who quickly scrubbed the crosshair graphics targeting 20 congressional districts from her webby (later, an aide said they weren't crosshairs, they were "surveyor symbols"), e-mailed Glenn Beck her "thoughts" on the subject.
“I hate violence,” Mr. Beck said, quoting from her e-mail. “I hate war. Our children will not have peace if politicos just capitalize on this to succeed in portraying anyone as inciting terror and violence. Thanks for all you do to send the message of truth and love and God as the answer.”
I bet she hates caribou meat and salmon, too!
In his "Plum Line" blog, Greg Sargent gave his view as to why it was only the conservative piggy who squealed when Sheriff Dubnik pulled a non-partisan tail.
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