I woke up this morning with a spring in my step, a twinkle in my eye, and an odd sort of itching in my boxers. The latter turned out to be a fabric softener sheet which had somehow escaped my notice the day before, but the first two were a bit more obvious. In the wake of the tragedy in Tuscon, and as is our custom as liberals, it was time to point fingers and assign some blame!
Or at least, that's what I thought until this shit-kicking douchebag CNN Senior Political Analyst David Gergen said, "Nuh uh!"
Until we have more definitive information about the shooter, pointing fingers at who might bear responsibility for the Tucson, Arizona, massacre only contributes to what we must end in America: a toxic political environment.
I reflected on that while dealing with a fabric softener sheet-related crisis (not the same one mentioned above), and I arrived at the conclusion that, if the useful idiots in the media have their way, we would never be able to properly assign blame either before or after a tragedy.
Clearly, no one in the media made a fuss about Sharron Angle's "2nd Amendment remedies" comment.
No one called out Palin for her "bull's eye" posters.
No one chastises the Becks, Limbaughs or O'Reillys for their calls to "take back our country."
Nary a fucking peep was heard when Democratic politicians were threatened and harrassed over the healthcare reform.
I could go on, but we've all seen and heard about the violently charged talk in the political landscapes, and anyone with a reasonably functioning brain stem can see that nearly all of the violence, both verbal and physical, comes from the right.
That's not "the left pointing fingers," that's quite simply and clearly a fucking fact. But in this climate when everyone certain people useful idiots clamor for bipartisanship, we can't assign blame to one party over another.
So we have a shithead like Gergen chastising the left for blaming a publically and aggressively violent Tea Party (complete with Moron Grizzly Palin leading the charge) for...public and aggressive violence. Not only that, but he treats the apparent right-wing response to our charges: "... the left was just as guilty of rhetorical excess and through bad governance, had inspired a citizen revolt..." as valid.
To even entertain the notion that, because of the left's "bad governance," the citizens were inspired to revolt is just "a brick hit me in the head and now the words are confusing" stupid.
But what can we expect? The media will pretend to be objective by reporting what the left says and then reporting what the right says, regardless of who is factually correct, teabagger jackasses will continue to get more and more violent, and right-wing pundits and politicians will continue to create a landscape that fosters aggression and hatred towards political opponents.
And when another tragedy happens (count on it, it will), the same fuckheads who created yesterday's atmosphere of hatred that gave us today's victims will decry and denounce the violence, mourn the tragedy....
... and then get right back into the fear and hate mongering, because that's what they do.
Well, I may not be able to stop them, but I can damn well tell the David Gergens of the world that their mealy-mouthed hand-wringing over "Oh please don't blame anyone! It's just making things worse!" to fuck off and to stop fostering an environment where hate-filled people can turn the political landscape into a whipping fury of anger and then shrug their shoulders when the fruits of their labor come to be.
So, fuck off, Gergen. And why don't you tell your buddies at CNN to call out violent rhetoric when they see it? To properly explain who is actually calling for violence? To report on who is really behind this and the other tragedies, both past and yet to come?
Because it sure as hell isn't the left.