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Originally Posted by JWBear
If it was used in the same way, yes. The problem is that Palin and the others have made careers out of inciting violence and hatred.
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Really? Could you provide me the list of violence that Palin has incited? Ideally something that doesn't just rely on
post hoc ergo proptor hoc reasoning.
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The right would have you think that this makes him just as bad as they are. Sorry, I don't buy it.
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So, can we say something else? That without equating all examples of needlessly violent speech, Obama's use of that quote also contributed to a needlessly violent rhetorical tone and, as with all of them, it would have been better had he not said it?
"Yeah, but when we do it it isn't as bad so it isn't worth commenting on" is just as lame (and here I am creating an equivalency) as "But you do it do so us doing it isn't worth commenting on."