File this under “stupid”. In the only newspaper left in Seattle (after the openly red PI went online only), the Seattle Times, we have this ridiculous article uncritically laundry listing all of the false (or at best unproven) allegations of racism, homophobia, and violence coming from Republicans, Tea Partiers, and the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy in general. Of course, “targeting” someone for defeat next fall with an image in a scope is (Chucky’s rules) a threat of violence for these lunatics. Unless they do it, in which case it’s ok.
In addition to the boilerplate stuff we’ve already heard:
The reports of threats, coming after a tense weekend when protesters hurled racial and homophobic slurs at Democrats and spit on one congressman, left many Democrats shaken.
On Saturday, anti-health-legislation demonstrators outside the Capitol called Rep. John Lewis of Georgia, who is black, a racial epithet and spat on another black lawmaker, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver of Missouri, according to Kristie Greco, a spokeswoman for Majority Whip James Clyburn of South Carolina.
“I heard people saying things today I have not heard since March 15, 1960, when I was marching to try to get off the back of the bus,” Clyburn, who is black, said that day. Clyburn, the highest-ranking black lawmaker in the House, said he received an anonymous fax showing the image of a noose.
Hoyer said some posters carried by demonstrators had lawmakers’ faces in the bull’s-eye target.
We have a new one:
Slaughter said Republican leaders appeared “to be fanning the flames with coded rhetoric.”
She cited a National Review Online article in which Boehner was quoted as saying that Ohio Democrat Steve Driehaus might be a “dead man” politically in his congressional district.
The article, published on March 18, said Boehner predicted political consequences for anti-abortion Democrats who vote to approve the bill.
Referring to Driehaus, Boehner was quoted as saying, “He may be a dead man. He can’t go home to the west side of Cincinnati. The Catholics will run him out of town.”
Boehner spokesman Don Seymour said the Republican leader “does not condone violence and his remark was obviously not meant to be taken literally.”
Protesters have been demonstrating at Driehaus’ Ohio home, said Tim Mulvey, a spokesman for the anti-abortion Democrat who joined Stupak in voting for the health bill. A rock was thrown through the window of Driehaus’ Cincinnati office Sunday, and a death threat was phoned in to his Washington office a day later, Mulvey said.
I’d like to meet the man who did that. Driehaus’ office is on the 30th floor. I also hope he doesn’t start pitching for the Palestinian Intefadas, because that’s one hell of a pitching arm. I sure don’t want to bat against someone who can pitch rocks up 30 floors (and hit the right window, yikes!).
Ultralight dude, maybe?
Somebody give the author of that piece some clean undies.
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