On September 24, 2009, New York Magazine implicated WorldNetDaily, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, and Rep. Michele Bachmann in the murder of a Census worker in Kentucky. "Twelve days ago, in a Kentucky cemetery, a the (sic) body of a census worker was found hanging from a tree," the magazine reported. "Scrawled across his chest was the word 'fed.' Though it's too early to conclude that the man, 51-year-old Bill Sparkman, was targeted in an act of anti-government violence, that is an angle that authorities are currently looking into. And if that turns out to be the case, it wouldn't be all that surprising, considering the sheer volume of vitriol directed at the federal government and the Obama administration these days by conservative media personalities, websites, and even members of Congress." Bachmann's pointed comment that she would not participate in what she views as an overly intrusive Census this year is what landed her on the suspect list. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi apparently agrees with the indictment. "In addition to this specific case of [Bachman's] census-related fearmongering, you can add in the conspiracy theories about FEMA internment camps, long a mainstay of the Internet but recently stoked anew by the likes of conservative website World Net Daily and radio host Michael Savage," the New York Magazine article continued. "Then throw in everyone comparing Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and health-care reform to Hitler and Nazi Germany – like Rush Limbaugh, to take but one example. And death panels, and socialism, and birth certificates, and 'trampling on the Constitution.' It's this toxic stew of fear and anger and paranoia that Nancy Pelosi recently worried could compel someone to lash out. 'I saw this myself in the late seventies in San Francisco. This kind of rhetoric was very frightening and it gave — it created a climate in which violence took place,' she warned." My question is, do these people not remember (or do they just choose to forget) all the rhetoric from the left that George W. Bush was a liar, a fascist, a Nazi, worse than Hitler, etc., etc., etc., etc.? |