All the rage - Where all this right-wing paranoia is heading - By Tom Tomorrow

[kpete]

http://www.salon.com/entertainment/comics/this_modern_world/2010/04/06/this_modern_world

[Old Codger]

1. I have no

Doubt whatsoever that it will happen....

[MadMaddie]

3. Just a matter of time...

[Chipper Chat]

8. Maybe tomorrow (I hope not)

But it WILL BE April 19th. I cetainly wont be shocked to find that 'someone' blows up a government building. Or another 'abortion doctor' is murdered. Rush would blame it on Obama, of course.

[MadMaddie]

14. Rush has preemptively blamed President Obama already.

[tinrobot]

2. If a right wing domestic terror incident happens...

The right wing will say that Obama is "soft on terror"

[FirstLight]

4. you know, i am not finding the funny in this

Eye rolling and jokes about these nutballs is not going to ease the pain or collective horror when they actually *do* something drastic.

it's just like joking about domestic violence..at some point the reality is not so funny anymore.

[emulatorloo]

10. It isn't supposed to be funny. The cartoonist often does serious cartoons n/t

[whathehell]

12. Me neither...I'm scared...I don't even put my union bumper stickers

on my car anymore...Hell, I drive a PT Cruiser and that's GOT to be a "lefty" car, right?...I'm no coward but I don't want some nut case trying to drive me off the road.

More to the point, though..I'm afraid for the president and for liberals generally....What I want to know is this: WHY do we have to "wait" for something to happen?, assuming that that is the case (I'm not as sure as some of you)....Yeah, I KNOW about the first amendment and such and Yes, I'm all for it...but WHEN does the hate speech become "legally actionable"?...Some of this shit sure seems like "incitement to violence", to me.

Note: The last time I asked this, a self-described First Amendment Absolutist here started treating me like the "enemy"....I'm not the frigging "enemy"...I just don't want to see this country with it's history of RW violence and assassination become a "country in waiting"...for something horrible to happen....I remember ALL of the Sixties assassinations and I would NEVER want our country to go through it again.

[FirstLight]

15. I would never want to experience the sixties

that loss of innocence, thet has continued to ripple through our decades.

I agree, I hate that something awful has to happen to even entertain the notion of stopping the hate rhetoric, etc...and OKC didn't even make a dent in anything it seems, (as far as waking up the govt to the militia threat)...though we all know W. dismantled homeland security more than he supported it....at least for 'his type'...the gun and bible toting nutjobs. the educated and unarmed are always the targets.
ack...can't even go any further, I don't want to feed the hate mongering on *either* side....

:where's the head in the sand icon when you need it:

[Canuckistanian]

5. I don't find this funny

Because it's TOO DAMNED TRUE.

[WeDidIt]

6. YARGLE BARGLE!

BLARGH!

[gratuitous]

7. Didn't Rush issue a pre-emptive blame?

Seems Mr. Limbaugh already anticipated the inevitable, and has already begun blaming liberals for the anticipated terrorist actions of his listeners. But then, I'd have to say nobody knows his audience like Rush does.

[bobburgster]

9. They are never at fault....no matter what.

[DirkGently]

11. Yargle Bargle

:rofl:

[Posteritatis]

13. Sign I saw today:

[DirkGently]

16. Awesome.