Other supporters argued that Ms. Palin was hardly the first person to use violent metaphors in speaking about politics, pointing to Barack Obama’s statement during the 2008 presidential campaign that said, “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.” None of Ms. Palin’s top aides responded to requests for comment. (NYT, 1/10/11)
After essentially speculating for fifteen paragraphs about whether conservatives were to blame for the Arizona shooting, the New York Times finally lets this slip. Well, thanks for the truth in journalism….we guess.
In this debate (smear campaign?), we particularly like the commentators who have noted that the Left never wants to “jump to conclusions” when there is a Muslim-inspired terrorist act. But when a lone lunatic (McVeigh, Loughner, etc.) comes along, they jump away.
As usual, we turn to George Will for insight:
A characteristic of many contemporary minds is susceptibility to the superstition that all behavior can be traced to some diagnosable frame of mind that is a product of promptings from the social environment. From which flows a political doctrine: Given clever social engineering, society and people can be perfected. This supposedly is the path to progress. It actually is the crux of progressivism. And it is why there is a reflex to blame conservatives first. (George Will, Washington Post, 1/11/11)
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