What's your take on the shooting of Dr. George Tiller

[Wagner]

Originally Posted by chile1

With regards to Malkin's article, the two deaths happened back to back....one on a day when nothing happened-- a Sunday church shooting, while the other happened on a Monday, when they were discussing other political issues.

I realize Malkin is insisting that these two are somehow comparable but you'll notice she never explains why. You can't tell me that O'Reilly's continued incitement to violence against Dr. Tiller is somehow the same as the guy who shot up the recruiting center? Which person on the left incited him? Which talking head?


There are a few flaws in her observations:

First -- I don't see any fingers pointing at "all Conservatives". Just the ones (on FOX) who have done everything they can to paint a bullseye on Tiller by claiming things like anybody who stands by and does nothing about him has "blood on their hands". Like Bill O'Reilly. And Operation Rescue. And anyone else whose rhetoric inflamed Tiller's murderer.

Second - Where is the evidence that the Little Rock gunman is "left-wing"? She and many other conservatives love to try to attach that label to anybody whose actions they don't agree with, no matter how violent, criminal, psychotic, lunatic, or off-the-wall those actions are. Is this what passes for responsible journalism on the right? I personally think that Muslim extremists have much more in common with their kin on the Christian Right - you know, think our way or we'll shoot your ass.

The "disparate treatment" of the two cases exists only in her mind.

Have you ever watched Bill O'Reilly? A lot of what you infer seems like sound bytes, so I'm curious. Plenty of people, myself included, would view what that doctor did as murder. Now would we all act on it? No. And certainly not at the beck and call of Billy.