Don't know if you've seen this yet but it was posted earlier at RedState. Seems that the WaPo reporter Greg Sargent actually sent out a twitter text that reads:
Dear union thugs: Will you please get violent in Wisconsin already? Pretty please?
...and when called on it claimed that he wasn't promoting violence. Uh, yeah...
And as also noted in the RedState post, Sargent actually calls his union buddies "thugs."
I did see it. My comment there...
I'm not willing to cede that he was being sarcastic Look at the dynamic that is being created in the culture re; violence and violent rhetoric.
Nevermind the truth, or the appearance of truth. Something insidious is underway, and it is permeating the culture regardless of which side of the cultural divide one happens to be on.
The media, one of only two viable political parties, the President of the United States, and all their ardent supporters are working to create this dynamic - and it is this:
We will throw our entire effort into portraying the concerns of the American people as radical, and their actions as violent, regardless of truth, and regardless of what anyone can see and hear with their own eyes and ears. Conservatives and everyday Americans will be accused of violent rhetoric and actions even in the total absence of it.
Now they send out phase two of that signal, and it is this:
Leftist thugs can do whatever they wish, and there will be no accountability. The media’s got your back. The Democrat party’s got your back. The President of the United States has got your back. You’ll suffer no consequences, so get out there, and act boldly. In the meanwhile, we’ll keep up with the accusations of violence against your conservative enemies, while you do your dirty work.
They know that we know that they know there is a double standard of accountability, and that they are guilty of exactly that of which they accuse us. That is beside the point now.
The point now is that they are subtly being given the go-ahead.
