Welcome, Mr. and Ms. America and all the ships at sea – to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the web… The BitsBlog Nightly Ramble
[1]It’s cold here outside Casa de Bit… 20 degress going to about 15 tonight. But I suppose it’s the last cold of the season.
- GUESS WHO ISN’T COMING TO DINNER? David already mentioned in the Breakfast Scramble [2] Jackson Diehl’s article in the Washington Post, [3] detailing the diplomatic insults being hurled at Israel. Well, Jim Hoft at the Gateway Pundit goes one step farther [4]giving as details of how Obama canceled out on a state dinner . He also goes on to give us a number of examples of the anti Jewish bigotry shown by the people who Obama gladly had dinner with. There comes a level of stupidity 11 must seriously consider the possibility that one is not acting stupidly but intentionally. With a specific purpose in mind. The left has long had serious problems with America’s relationship with Israel. I can come to no other conclusion then Obama is intentionally scuttling that long held relationship. The one I would view it as stupidity. For, so it is. I began, however, to perceive that we’re seeing here is a conscious effort toward the goal of eliminating Israel from our list of friends in the world. Can you see him backing out of a dinner arrangement with the leader of Iran, for example? Does he really think this nonsense will make us more popular among the radical Muslim world? And do we really want them as friends? Obama seems to…. I am open to comments on this one, but frankly it’s going to be a hard sell that this is anything but the intentional snubbing of a long held friend. This is “hope and change”?
- MORE ON MCCAIN AND PALIN: I notice the press paying some attention [5] to Governor Sarah Palin and her stumping for John McCain. As I said the other day [6], I think that Sarah Palin damages her credibility, particularly among conservatives. I have a newsflash for you, Sarah… John McCain is no conservative. The party is going to have to start getting its act together, with regards to what it wants to be. Does it want to be a centrist party, or does it want to be a conservative party ? If it wants to be a centrist party, they had best get used to minority status.
The part that amazes me about this, is that the left still considers Palin enough of a political threat, to issue death threats against her. Courtesy of Patterico: [7] …On Twitter, a fellow calling himself Jason Brown [8] has been posting since May 10, 2009, and has a total of 379 messages posted so far. He is a fan of Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow. Typical of his leftist political beliefs are messages like this [9]:
@maddow doesnt Cheney seem like this weird dark evil prince hmm say like Mr. Burns and i guess ol’ George was Smithers
and this [10]:
goin 2 watch keith olbermann and laugh at the latest heartless basterds of the world
and this [11]:
@carloswatson why does G.O.P. leaders endorse racism,hatred,fearmongering,and falsehoods dont they know the world is witnessing this tactic
and this [12]:
their no racist people in the dem.party they all come from the south and they are republican which is why we still see promotion of hatred
In recent days, Brown has been saying that he is concerned about the violence that he believes Sarah Palin is fostering.
So, he is threatening to kill Sarah Palin and her family.
I had hoped to post about 20 screenshots from this guy’s Twitter account, but with the technical work being done on the site I find myself suddenly unable to upload images. So I will just quote you the messages. He posted most of them tonight, and they include messages like this [13]:
@sEaTtLe_MeTrO Death 2 Palin family them retarded hillbillies take teabaggers w/ you hateful bitch
and this [14]:
We cant expect gov to intervene we must shoot Gen. Palin on site be 4 her troops strike again!
and this [15]:
@interactionswst one word racism choose sides plain and simply that bitch Palin launch an attack, she need 2 b shot on site!
and this [16]:
@Palin360 you need 2 b assassinated soon we ll settle 4 one of the family if not u!
and this [17]:
maybe it takes a murder or 2 2 get the point across take aim at radical TP members
and this [18]:
@BRIANGLAD Palin will b met with gunfire her or her family
and this [19]:
@SarahStormRpt u need 2 be shot on site startin that racist Tp shit, all you all do is promo violence dont cry when some kill u basterds
and this [20]:
IS Sarah Palin still alive, please feel free 2 domecheck that bitch! she will look good in tha box the TP left on someones lawn
and this [21]:
Yeah shorty i know soon as a bitch get killed bout a lie then ppl gone realize how stupid n lack info can get u hurt TP fuckin wit fire
and this [22]:
@Southfive her map w crosshair need to b put on her family she that bitch can die or a TP supporter
and this [23]:
Does Palin really want what she ask 4? we ll see after death strikes i guess no pose 2 see her rhetoric,it can b dangerous. but who cares!
and this [24]:
i got 2 go see how many more targets Gen. Palin got mapped out that bitch gone get or someone i hope its GOP one of them racist fuckers
and this [25]:
THe street gangs of america can take on the teabaggers and Palin. TP is callin 4 war just shoot any TP associates and family MS13 BITCHES!
and this [26]:
I cant wait till someone serious hurt that bitch Palin or one of her children soon she out of control!
and this [27]:
@Oplis the ppl of color have been wait n 4 no one can agree on history so suggest the Palin plan let roll!ms13 will take care of that bitch
and this [28]:
Palin came 2 lower 48 2 start a civil divide this could b the moment of truth 4 americans 2 put her down
and this [29]:
i encourage ppl 2 meet the TP wit the same acts of violence Palin instructs them 2 do we need 2 harass them 2 their racist graves
and this [30]:
#hcr proof that Palin targeted Va. rep. w/ her map and someone followed up we have 2 stop this terrorist name Sarah someone please kill her!
I wonder if we’re going to see arguments forthcoming that the problem here is the rhetoric coming out of the White House?
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OF COURSE IT’S A SMEAR ON THE TEA PARTY
Red state though gets it right:I am forced to largely conclude that the Democrats are running to the nearest microphone in an effort to play the victim and generate sympathy as they try to steer poll numbers back in their direction. (See also Ann Althouse)
Some of it is very bad stuff. I don’t want to underplay the bad. Some of it, however, is not. And some of it is overplayed. Like the press reports about protestors yelling racial epithets at Congressman Lewis, which video shows and reporters I’ve talked to confirm, did not happen, a lot of this is going to be overblown, but the media loves a good story.
Well, yes, particularly when it makes the leftist look good and the right look bad. That’s been the pattern along, and I see nothing in this to convince me that the pattern has been changed.
I must ask again, however, the question I asked over at Outside The Beltway the other day; consider our own American revolution. Within that context , at what point does violence against a sitting government become legit? I notice the usual leftist crowd over there being quite unwilling to address that question. The reason is simple enough; they are unwilling to admit that violent actions against ones government is ever justified. Problem with that statement, is that it makes our own American revolution illegitimate. I ask you to think seriously about this; is there a point at which violence against ones government is the right thing to do? What is that threshold? Certainly, you’re never going to see those answers from anyone inside the government, and justice certainly you are not going to see those answers from someone who supports big government… say, for example, supporters of Obama. But consider, with me, the number of people involved in the current administration, and involves in our Democrat run Congress who have a history of being involved with such organizations as SDS, the Weathermen, and other left leaning groups with a penchant for bombing the crap out of city halls, police stations and the Pentegon. Clearly, these think that threshold exists. So, perhaps the issue is not “violence or not” but, rather, ” violence in support of whom? “ [31] - AN EXAMPLE OF WHERE A VIOLENT OVERTHROW IS NEEDED: Crazy Uncle Hugo’s at it again. [32]It’s going to require an armed uprising to kick that monster to the curb. The problem in saying that, of course, …the frightening thing… is that the delta between Venezuela and what we see going on in these United States is becoming ever smaller.