So Much For Toning Down The Inflamatory Rhetoric

By Semperpapa

I believe that the memo from the Obama administration regarding toning down the hateful rhetoric about the Tucson shooting did not reach California Congressman Bob Filner.

Mr. Filner, a Democrat from the 51st district of the Golden State, was on, of course, MSNBC being interviewed by Lawrence O’Donnell. Granted that the statements of Mr. Filner were only witnessed by an abysmal number of viewers, the tone of his statements reflect the departure of the Congressman from the alleged guidelines set by President Obama in his memorial statement of January 12.

The host asked Filner if he, Filner, who is Jewish, felt that the attack against Gabrielle Giffords could have an anti-Semitic tone, mostly because of the information found that the shooter had listed Hitler’s Mein Kampf as one of his favorite books.

Filner responded:

”To me, I thought this was inevitable, Lawrence. And to me, I had been active in the civil rights movements, the ‘50s and ‘60s. I have been in mobs. I’ve been beaten up. These people were intent on violence. You didn’t hear the words about anti-Semitic comments there. But only the intervention of police rescued me at that point. And my son and my granddaughter were scared to death. They were in the audience there just trembling. I went back to my civil rights roots to figure out how I would lay down and curl up.”

What?

He than added:

“The next day, Lawrence, and also right after Gabby’s shooting, there were blogs to say that clearly politics doesn’t work for us because Filner the sneaky Jewish guy obviously defrauded us, and we have to go to violence. And here`s some AK-47s; here`s how you do sniper work. And that was repeated a couple days ago with — when they said this is the start of the revolution, the shooting of Gabby Giffords. So this is not an isolated incident. Everybody who tries to put it off on a deranged individual I think is — that’s a political statement in and of itself, because they are absolving themselves of the responsibility of their words and their actions.”

Again, what!?!?

Congressman Filner really believes the actions of a deranged criminal with a personal ax to grind with Rep. Giffords was the inevitable beginning of a revolution? And who would be at the leadership of this revolution? Oh, let me guess. Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh, right?
The truth is that the Left is not done with their attempt to politicize the tragedy in Arizona, just like the Left tried to capitalize on other national tragedies, from the Oklahoma City bombing to the mass murder at Virginia Tech and Columbine.

The only time the Left did not try to take advantage of other people’s suffering was in the case of Hasan and his massacre at Ft. Hood. In that instance, they were all too willing not to rush to conclusions, even after it had become known that Hasan had acted in the name of radical Islam Jihad.

The continuous beating from the liberal progressives against talk radio, conservatives and anyone who does not subscribe to their Marxist ideology will not subside anytime soon.

I wish someone would remind the congressman that it has been some of his ideological brethrens, Van Jones one of them, who have been calling for the Left to engage in civil violence as a reaction to the conservative victory in November.

I also find it interesting that Lawrence O’Donnell conveniently omitted, in his question, that the other favorite book of the shooter was Marx’s Communist Manifesto.

No, Mr. Filner, the shooting in Arizona was not the beginning of some sort of violent revolution, and even less the beginning of a Right Wing revolution.
Unless the revolution you speak of is the one that Francis Fox Piven has called for just couple of weeks ago all the way from France, the same revolution that regurgitated hippies like you and Hanoi Jane and Bill Ayers have been fomenting for the last 40 years.

Just my thoughts!