A protester throws back a smoke bomb while clashing with police in Ferguson, Missouri August 13, 2014.
Conservatives love to scream about "tyranny" and "jack-booted thugs" and whatnot. But if last night taught us anything, it's that they really don't mean that. The IRS scrutinizing politicized Tea Party groups before approving their non-profit applications? Why, that's the Death of Freedom. Protesters getting their Constitutional First Amendment rights violated in plain sight by actual real-world jack-booted thugs?
Well, as all hell broke loose last night, there were crickets:
Of the hundreds of RW folks we follow, @toddstarnes is literally the only one tweeting about #Ferguson tonight - all others have been silent
— @RightWingWatch
Now, a whole morning later ... well, it's a combination of crickets and rank dismissiveness.
You have outright racism:
You have
stupidity:
MSNBC resident blowhard Joe Scarborough just couldn't resist bloviating about the arrests of Washington Post's Wesley Lowery and the Huffington Post's Ryan Reilly. Scarborough's idiot opinion? They must have gotten arrested because they just "want to get on TV."
You have efforts to deflect from the real story, like the Breitbart headline "Media Outraged After Ferguson Police Detain Journalists," as if
that's what this shit is really about.
So it's clear–here we have a real world example of people's freedoms being overtly violated by the government, and they can't be bothered to get worked up about it. Proof, as if we needed more of it, that for conservatives, it's all about Black Guy Obama Derangement Syndrome, and not about any real concerns about tyranny.
Update:
BREAKING. Statement by President Obama from Martha's Vineyard around 12:15 PM Eastern.
— @CharlieKayeCBS
NOW conservatives will get outraged.
Update II: On cue:
JUST IN: Obama to throw gasoline on the fire in #Ferguson at 12:15. He'll do this from his 1% enclave at Martha's Vineyard.
— @NolteNC
Poor Nolte, he had been working so hard to cool things down!
Update III: Brooklynbadboy in the comments:
They arent running to defend freedom like Cliven.
I wonder why???
If only there was an answer to that very vexing question!
