An Ol’ Broad’s Ramblings
Turning Tragedy Into Politics
Shooting raises question: It is safe to be a liberal
National, and even international, coverage of the shootings at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Church turned late this week into a discussion into whether it’s safe in America to be a liberal.
“One of the biggest contemporary ironies is that being liberal in the United States of America, home of history’s greatest democracy, has become dangerous. That danger is particularly acute for religious liberals, as the recent tragedy in Knoxville demonstrated,” Bill Maxwell wrote in the St. Petersburg Times.
I cannot begin to express my sorrow for those who were murdered by this lunatic.
That being said, I cannot express my disgust for such blatant stupidity! Contrary to what the MSM would have you believe, REAL conservative Christians would NEVER consider harming another human being, no matter what his, or her political stand, other than self defense. Sorry, this is just NOT something we do.
Ian Williams, writing in The Guardian in London, said “Jim Adkisson, a Tennessee aficionado of conservative talkshows, took their hosts’ invective all too literally and shot up a ‘liberal’ Unitarian Universalist congregation, killing two and wounding six congregants watching a children’s musical. Caught up in a world of conservative talk radio, he reportedly expected to be able to carry on shooting unimpeded by the spineless, gay-loving pacifists, and was surprised when they tackled him and brought him down.”
Jim Adkisson was obviously a very disturbed individual! Conservative talk radio could no more make him shoot someone than they could make him put his shoes on the wrong feet. Reality snap people! BLAME the shooter! Not the gun. Not what he listened to on the radio. HIM!
The Miami Herald’s Leonard Pitts: “No, conservatives did not cause this bloodbath. Jim Adkisson allegedly did. But in telling him ‘liberals’ were the source of his every disaffection and woe, conservatives certainly validated the hatred and madness that drove him.
Huh? What is this moron talking about? Conservatives are trying to stop the movement towards all out socialism. I’ve never once heard anyone on the radio tell me that liberals were the “source” of all my woes. Actually, I don’t have any “woes”. I have Someone who shares any personal burdens I might have.
“It would be a fitting tribute to those who were lost in Knoxville if this tragedy gave the authors of the ongoing morality play cause for pause — and reflection. Or is accountability yet another lost conservative value?”
No you twit! It’s the liberals who have decided than no one is responsible for their own actions. Kind of like YOU blaming talk radio.
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Politics has NOTHING to do with this, lunacy has EVERYTHING to do with it…
Wait, what?? Politics and lunacy?? What the hell am I thinking?? One in the same…
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