Media poison…

I am fed up with liberals screaming for civility in political discourse,  then claiming conservatives are responsible for the attack on Rep. Giffords,  joined by their progressive media cabal.   I will give them credit for stretching the rubber-band of creativity well past the breaking point of credulity.   This  has been going on a very long time,  and  also recently.

I am not inclined to be gracious  about the attack  as some of Mark Krikorian ‘s collected advice says.   Nor do I think the answer is as difficult to discern as Heather MacDonald does.

Politico  brings up Giffords “green” votes,  and Keith Olbermann’s hypocrisy in calling for an end to violent rhetoric is exposed by Katrina Trinko.   Paul  Krugman hasn’t done   any better.   Neither man will  heed advice to take a rhetorical cold shower.   Read Victor Davis Hanson on  political vultures,   Jay Nordlinger on  unending hypocrisy,  and be surprised by one source of scolding of the media.

I agree with Roger Kimball that the  Left is wrong to tie metaphorical violence to literal violence.   Unlike John Podhoretz,  I think only some of us  want to know Loughner’s motives.  The Left has no interest in the early surrender of a bloody shirt to wave.    In any event politics didn’t create the shooter’s sickness.    At Slate.com Jack Shafer  defends heated speech.   Glenn Harlan Reynolds calls  it the  politics of  blood libel.

I don’t like Glenn Beck’s challenge letter because it ignores the fact that it is the Left which screams loudest about violence and is quickest to accuse others of it,  but it is most often some element of the Left which employs violence or the threat of  it.   Andrew Klavan  expounds.

It would drive the Left nuts to know that Giffords is being treated by a  Navy doctor who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.