As DavefromQueens writes here, the right is accusing those of us on the left of "supporting", in some way, the attempted assassination of Dick Cheney in Pakistan.
Problem is, it's actually republicans - official party organizations - who literally play games involving the shooting of Democratic leaders, as The New York Times reported yesterday (Hat tip to am at The Albany Project)
From the Times:
It’s almost enough to make us nostalgic for streaking and sitting on flagpoles. College students from Michigan to Florida have found a new way to get attention, offend others and make a right-wing statement all at once. It’s a game with a name that says it all: "Catch the Illegal Immigrant."
The game is a variation on hide and seek: one player poses as the immigrant, and everyone else tries to find that person. There’s a prize, usually $200 or less, which is not much, but enough to celebrate the cheap exploitation of a fellow human.
"Catch the Immigrant" is the brainchild of an intern with the College Republican National Committee, who lost her post after coming up with this and other campus recruitment gimmicks. Another game, called "Fun With Guns," invited young Republicans to fire BB guns or paint balls at cardboard cutouts of Democratic leaders. Republican Party leaders have tried to distance themselves from the games, but seem to have done little to stop them.
So members of an official republican party prganization - that's what the college republicans are - are running around, pretend-chasing illegal immigrants, and then going on to
Shoot.
At.
Cardboard effigies of Democratic leaders.
Charming. And worth a couple of news cycles, if, if, we had any influence on the mainstream media; but alas, we don't. And of course, there's always IOKIYAR; since republicans seem to be calling for the deaths of Progressives and Democrats every other day, this isn't news. It's expected.
So when you see some rightie going on and on about vengeful Democrats, ask them when the last time was they mock-shot Howard Dean.