Many of us have waited a long time for this day, and now it is finally here. Sarah Palin - Mrs. "Don't Retreat, Reload" - has come forward and joined those of us who feel that we can vehemently disagree on public policy, but we don't have to be disagreeable.
Just read this.
(CNN) – Sarah Palin once again sounded off on the Wisconsin budget debate, calling on union supporters to tone down the rhetoric.
The former Alaska governor told Fox News' Sean Hannity union bosses are "acting like thugs" and it is their responsibility to "turn down the rhetoric and start getting truth out there so that nobody gets hurt."
"They are leading some of their good members down a road that will result in, unfortunately, somebody getting hurt if you believe the death threats that are being received by those who just happen to support amending some collective bargaining privileges of state unions," Palin said Thursday.
Amazing isn't it?
And what specifically made her speak out about this?
Wisconsin Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald received two death threats via e-mail, according to a spokesman for the senator.
You see this has to be the fault of the Thug Union Bosses, because noone would ever come up with the idea to do such a thing all on their own. It's not like you can hold the persons who made those despicable phone calls responsible for their own actions.
It's not we've ever seen people at large rallies go overboard and start threatening people's live or suggest that they're criminals who deserve to be put to death as anti-American traitors.
And certainly we should hold their Leaders responsible when on of his flock curb stomps one of their political opponents into the ground - or attempts not a murderous shooting spree.
Of course if asked Sarah Palin would condemn all of this...
Where an Acolyte of Glenn Beck launched an attack on the ACLU & Tides which wounded 2 CHP officers, where a fan of Bernie Goldberg killed 2 people. wounding 5 at a Unitarian Church in Knoxville Tennessee and where Bill O'Reilly unending attacks on George Tiller ended when he was Murdered by Right-Wing Fundamentlaist/Soverentist Scott Reoder, where James Von Brunn killed a guard at the Holocause Museum as part of an intended spree that included murdering Obama advisor David Axelrod, and where Richard Poplowski who bought into right-wing rhetoric that "Obama is going to take all our guns" and killed 3 Pittsburgh Police Officers before being taken down.
By my count that's 7 dead and at least 7 wounded as a direct result of Right Wing Violence in the last 2 years. So far.
And put the blame where it belongs - right here:
If it was wrong for Bill O'Reilly to suggest Dana Milbank should be Beaten and Decapited (particularly when Milbank was a friend of murdered journalist Daniel Pearl), wrong for Bernard Goldberg to threaten the New York Times with a Baseball Bat, wrong for Beck to fantasize about strangling Michael Moore or poisoning Nancy Pelosi, wrong of Michele Bachmann to suggest Republicans should be "Armed and Dangerous", wrong of Sharon Angle to call for "Second Amendment Remedies" if Harry Reid won, wrong for Col Alan West to support "Bullets over Ballots"...
Of course she would speak out about this, if someone asked her too, right? If someone put of a sign targeting a bunch of their political opponents and 11 out of 20 of those received Death Threats or had their homes and offices vandalized Sarah Palin of course would be against it.
Unless it was these people.
Vic Snyder (retired, Arkansas-2) received a death threat in the mail in March 2010.
Ann Kirkpatrick (Arizona-1) - her office was attacked in March 2010.
Harry Mitchell (Arizona-5) received several death threats in March 2010.
Betsy Markey (Colorado-4) received several death threats in March 2010.
Suzanne Kosmas (Florida-24) was threatened in March 2010.
Baron Hill (Indiana-9) received several telephone threats in March 2010.
Earl Pomeroy (North Dakota-AL) was threatened in March 2010.
John Boccieri (Ohio-16) received numerous telephone death threats in March 2010.
Kathy Dahlkemper (Pennsylvania-3) was threatened by mail in March 2010.
Tom Perriello (Virginia-5) was threatened in March 2010, including the infamous incident when the gas line was cut at his brother's house; the attacker erroneously thought it was Rep Perriello's house.
Gabrielle Giffords (D-Arizona) had the front window of her office shot out in March.
Yeah, right - well - this is what she said just befor Gabrielle Gifford's was shot in response to David Brock of Media Matters. - "I stand with you Glenn"...
BROCK: Basically Beck, Beck's erratic. He either won't or can't control himself even after he loses a hundred advertisers. So you can't go there. Murdoch was asked at a shareholders conference a couple of weeks ago about Beck, shareholder concerns about Beck. He said he doesn't agree with everything that goes on the Fox News Channel, but he's standing with Beck. Ailes recruited Beck to do this. So he's standing with Beck. That leaves you with sponsors. So People Four has backed up a Tides Foundation call with Media Matters called Drop Fox to ask for advertisers to take responsibility for this rhetoric. I was recently told by a member of the Murdoch family that if you could affect the bottom line, you might get attention by the NewsCorp board. But the truth is we can't wait for that. So Sarah Palin right now in our view needs to step up. She needs to step up because she's a leader of the Republican Party, of the conservative movement.
Now Glenn, and his faithful sidekick, Pat, will interject with what they think are rational, clever witticisms.
GLENN: Congratulations, by the way.
BROCK: She is a Tea Party favorite. She is the one person in this country right now today who in the national interest, just in the moment to put partisanship aside.
GLENN: Do it, Sarah.
BROCK: Could pull this country back from the precipice of another Oklahoma City. And that's what a real leader does.
GLENN: Okay.
BROCK: That's what we're asking.
GLENN: Sarah?
PAT: Time to...
GLENN: As the leader now, of the GOP, as a Tea Party favorite, as somebody that they don't always agree with but they respect, as a real leader, it's time. It's time to make a choice.
SARAH PALIN: Well, these silly and ironic men, this is this is ironic. Them insisting that, you know, I should just be ignored because I am the irrelevant (inaudible) mom in Wasilla.
GLENN: No, no, no. No, you are as an American citizen for national, for the national interests, you are the only one that can do this.
PAT: That can stop him. You've got to stop him, Sarah.
SARAH PALIN: Okay. Okay, so Glenn, from my kitchen table in Wasilla, here's the deal.
Sarah, who believes in Creationism, is about to expose the identity of... drum roll... Satan.
GLENN: Yeah.
SARAH PALIN: Now, we know, Glenn, you're up against one of the richest and self suggested, most powerful men in the world. In George Soros, right?
GLENN: Spooky dude.
SARAH PALIN: Yeah. The extreme leftwing king is with many, many minions, that's what he is.
Only a moron would get orgasmic over that statement.
GLENN: Yes. Oh, yes.
SARAH PALIN: So, you know, when I speak of your love of our Founding Fathers and how you are helping to educate Americans about respecting our nation's history so that we don't lose what makes America exceptional and the far, far left mouthpieces, they're twisting and spinning and perverting that message, no, what I do, I go back to what Abraham Lincoln said about standing with anybody that stands right. You stand with him when he's right and you part with him when he goes wrong. I stand with you, Glenn, and I stand with . . .
GLENN: No, no. In the national interest you've got to stop. You're the only one! You're like Obi Wan Kenobi. Sarah Palin, you're our only hope.
SARAH PALIN: Yeah, Glenn
HALF-WIT: Did you ever think you'd see the day, Sarah, when Media Matters would be calling you the only hope?
GLENN: For America?
VOICE: For America.
GLENN: I mean, that's incredible.
PAT: Amazing.
GLENN: It's sad. We were deciding we were trying to decide if it was laughable or kind of sad, pathetic kind of like that smelly kid in third grade that everybody looked around and looked at and went, that's kind of sad.
SARAH PALIN: Yeah, it's a little bit of both. I see more humor in it, though.
GLENN: Yes.
SARAH PALIN: And it shows, though, how pathetic their argument is that they would be that desperate as to reach out to me to say, you know, you need to stop Glenn Beck, you need to stop his what they perceive as inciting the violence. Glenn, you know I abhor violence. I know you do. Hating war, hating Civil War and praying for peace and wanting peace and freedom for our kids in a civil society, that is the mission here is explaining to Americans what the threats are to our peace and to our opportunities and to our freedom in America.
GLENN: Yeah.
SARAH PALIN: That is what I see you doing and that is why I support what you are doing.
So David Brock is the smelly kid from third grade whose "Kind of Sad"? That's how she responded - and after that Gabrielle Giffords was shot.
And a White Supremacist left a Bomb at the MLK Parade in Spokane.
And now, today, Five Members of an Alaska Militia were arrested for plotting to Kill State Police and a Judge.
Five members and associates of a Fairbanks, Alaska, right-wing militia group were arrested yesterday for allegedly plotting to kidnap or kill Alaska State Troopers and a Fairbanks judge.
The five include Francis "Schaeffer" Cox, the founder and leader of the Alaska Peacemakers Militia. Cox also founded a pro-gun group and advocates armed resistance to gun control.
Cox and the other defendants face charges of conspiracy to commit murder, conspiracy to commit kidnapping and conspiracy to commit arson, in addition to gun charges and other crimes.
Cox is a self-declared "sovereign citizen," a movement that preaches violent resistance to the federal and Alaska state government.
In a major report covering the rise of the sovereign citizen movement in recent years and the corresponding violence against law enforcement officers, the Southern Poverty Law Center last fall characterized it as a "sprawling subculture" of "hundreds of thousands of far-right extremists who believe that they -- not judges, juries, law enforcement or elected officials -- get to decide which laws to obey and which to ignore, and who don't think they should have to pay taxes."
Cox is also the founder of the Alaska-based Second Amendment Task Force, a "pro-gun rights" group. Its website details a supposed United Nations-orchestrated conspiracy to deprive Americans of theirs constitutional right to bear arms.
Wow those theories sound a lot like someone elses I know of - someone whose initials are "G.B."
But clearly we shouldn't blame Cox and his pals - we should blame the Thug Leaders of the Pro-Gun Movement shouldn't we Sarah?
And just what persons in Alaska might that include...?
Vyan