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Glenn Beck: Golly, Mr. Limbaugh - they're saying we right-wing hate-mongers set the stage for the shootings in Tucson! Rush Limbaugh: Stay cool, Mr. Beck, and deny everything. Sarah Palin: ... and reload, chief! Reload! Punk: Nobody mentions Rupert.
Jade, the topic of this cartoon is Beck, Limbaugh, and Palin are “hate-mongers.” That is a PERCEPTION, not fact. This cartoon only feeds dangerously ignorant notions.
I hear it all the time. I’m always asked “why the hate?” if all I am doing is disagreeing with what president Obama wants to do to, or even that I’m “racist” for doing so. Perception is quelling anything that is TRUE about this story. There is no basis for this suggestion that “hate” is fomented by Beck’s or Limbaugh’s program, other than what pundits on the left have set a template for their listeners to follow, and they ignorantly follow it.
I have debatable reasons (politically and economically) why I oppose the left, and I welcome anyone who wants to engage in a civil discourse about what direction our country ought to take. That said, political discourse has NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with what happened in Tuscon. It HAS to do with a maniacally crazed paranoid schizophrenic, period!