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Originally Posted by Alex
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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Well, two things come to mind off the top of my head; the cross-hairs poster and the time during the presidential campaign when she called for Obama's assasination. If you want, I can pull together a longer list later when I have time.
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Originally Posted by Alex
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."
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Sorry. No. Wrong. While there has been some violent rhetoric from the fringe left, it is in no way equal to the constant barrage coming from major players on the right - not just fringe right, mind you, but from their
leaders. Yes, Obama made one ill-advised comment
once, but it in no way makes him as bad as Palin, O'Reilly, Rush, Bachman, et al. There is no equivilency. Period.