Classical Values has a post up that touches on aspects of two of my recent posts- Who's Inciting Who(m)? aand The Mensa Murderer and The Bigot in the Pulpit.
Here's a quote:
Why people don't focus on the individuals themselves, I don't know. It would be one thing if a killer were acting on behalf of (or with the approval of) someone else, or an actual identifiable organization. But when a murder is committed by a single individual, it makes about as much sense to blame "the right" or "the left" (much less a "climate" created by either) as it would to blame the Republican or Democratic Party if he happened to belong to one of them. (In that regard, it wouldn't matter if the sum total of the man's political views consisted of an exact laundry list ticking off every last item in the GOP platform; that still wouldn't make the Republicans in any way responsible for his outrageous crime.)
It makes even less sense to blame a man talking on the radio, but quite predictably, a climate allegedly created by Rush Limbaugh is being blamed for the actions of the suspect in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting.
And also:
Sure, any nutcase can turn on the radio and plug what he hears into his schizophrenic stream of consciousness, but does that make Rush Limbaugh responsible?
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Anyway, I'm not impressed with her argument. This doesn't even rise to the level of guilt by association.
Go have a look!
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