The Right Scoop- Anonymous
Strange this hasn’t shown when i go to RS site, but hot here from breaking news.
- http://www.therightscoop.com/ therightscoop
That is weird. I fixed it though so it shows up now.
- Anonymous
Thanks
- Tyler
Sorry…but I’m afraid Levin is just plain wrong on this. While I agree that Obama should have called his own party out (and it’s not too late by the way)…the freakin memorial service is not the place to specifically blame any individual or group of people.
I think the last thing people at the funeral service want to hear is anyone (whether joe schmuck or the commander in chief) saying “Hey…MSNBC…cut it out,” or “Alright, fellow Dems. Let’s cool it.”
- Santina35
A “freakin” memorial isn’t a place to hand out souvenir t-shirts or have a crowd scream cat-calls and applaud as if it’s a football game, that didn’t stop them from doing it.
If Obama was honest or sincere, yes he would have called out the New York Times and others who turned the slaughter of 6 Americans into a partisan political witch hunt with no facts or evidence to back them up…. just like Obama goes out of his way to preemptively defend Islam against Americans , insulting Americans before they even commit any offenses, when they themselves or having crimes committed against them or being insulted, Fort Hood killing of 13 Americans and a massive Mosque built next to Ground Zero, come to mind.
- Tyler
It may not have been a proper memorial service and I didn’t say those who did the cheering and jestering were any better than those in the media who turned it into a game before all the facts were even laid out.
I completely agree with you about the double standards as well. My point is simply that the right played right into the game by attempting to go so much out of its way to defend itself from the rhetoric and now…they’re going too far on the offense. It doesn’t matter which side is doing it and whether it’s the president or the people who attended the memorial service…it’s still wrong to treat this as some “opportunity.”
- Anonymous
Sorry there’s a difference between using something as an opportunity and defending oneself from baseless attacks. We aren’t using this as an opportunity to attack.
I don’t know what your political leanings are but you seem to forget that the right would like nothing more than to be able to be adults about this and grieve as a nation over this tragedy. We want to be able to quietly say prayers for those effected and their families.
We don’t want to have to have an ideological debate about anything involving this tragedy. We want to be able to wait and get the facts. In case you haven’t been paying attention we were blamed for it explicitly. This site has had nothing but TV persona after TV persona blaming Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, Levin, Savage and the Tea Party. We’ve had every aspersion known to man thrown at us and taken it.
In years gone by we’ve sat idly by and ignored the trouble makers in moments of crisis. The problem is that ignoring them doesn’t mean that others don’t hear the story they weave. Which gets the narrative ball rolling. The only story out is that Palin and the right are responsible and that’s what the media is pushing that’s what people will hear and that’s what people will believe.
Sorry anyone who calls on the right to rein it in is refusing to understand why we’re speaking out. You say you understand why we’re outraged but you seem to disagree that we have any right to respond. Why is that?
- Anonymous
The problem with the Right is that they refuse to play the game. Conservatives have this really stupid notion that if they are reasonable and thoughtful and coherent then they will somehow get the Left to come to it’s senses and be human. They continually make this mistake time and time again. Just visit any so-called conservative blog and you’ll see exactly how castrated conservatives have become. Go find one, just ONE, conservative blogger who has stood up for Sarah Palin in the last week.
So the Right went “so much out of its way to defend itself” and is now “going too far on the offense”? Did you LISTEN to Rush’s monologue that RS posted yesterday? Mark did an entire rif last night on what “civil” means.
How dare you criticize people for defending themselves against accusations of complicity in mass murder. How dare you play the concern card against people who have done nothing but put up with the most vile and baseless insults for simply existing.
- Anonymous
It amazes me that Tyler, who is usually reasonable with his comments, is siding with the lefties that started all this. Palin wouldn’t have to defend herself if the lefties hadn’t accused her when all the evidence shows she had nothing to do with the shootings. I too am offended by Tyler’s comments.
- Anonymous
Tyler is the equivalent of a concern troll. He’s the type of poster who loves to tell both sides they’re wrong by telling them what they’re doing wrong. It makes them feel above it all.
- Anonymous
This wasn’t a memorial or funeral service. I’ve never seen a memorial service that had clapping and cheering. Those two things indicate that it was another political rally and a chance to play politics with a tragedy moby.
- Tyler
Completely agree…please read my reply to Santina for more details.
- Magicdixieranch
Levin is right, civility begins at ‘home,’ President included. There were no mea culpas in this speech (that was supposed to be a memorial) just another venue to be ‘I, the one’…another ‘BTDT & got the t-shirt’ moment for the sheep, courtesy of U of AZ, at the victims expense.
- moonbatsquatter
there was no need for the POTUS to be there. at this rate he’ll be fully booked every weekend.
- moonbatsquatter
there was no need for the POTUS to be there. at this rate he’ll be fully booked every weekend.
Levin says that he was a little offended that after four days of people in Obama’s own party libeling innocent Americans, that instead of encouraging his own party to be more civil and to stop laying blame for this, Obama lectured all Americans on civility even though they didn’t have anything to do with it. He went on:
To broadly lay blame at the feet of all is not courageous. It’s not presidential. And it’s not right.
Levin does a masterful job of pointing out why he says this speech was as predictable as he expected it to be.
Enjoy!
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