And good riddance. Who is Shawna Forde, you may ask? She's a psychotic, racist, teabagger "minutemen" type in Arizona who took the GOP's anti-immigrant rhetoric straight to heart and shot and killed a Hispanic American man and his 9-year-old daughter.
Needless to say, this story, which represents the culmination -- strike that...the nadir, actually -- of the Palin/Beck/O'Reilly call to arms against Mexicans, gays, abortion providers, environmentalists and, of course, liberals, goes largely unreported in the mainstream media, where tortuous reaches for false equivalence compel reporters to speculate whether Jared Loughner may have been a "leftist radical" and David Gregory spends 5 minutes browbeating the president of the AFL-CIO into denouncing the "hateful posters" of the demonstrators in Madison, Wisconsin, when the real story there is that the protesters who spent the night inside the Capitol rotunda got on their hands and knees each morning to scrub the floors and clean the building.
The sad truth remains, it's the right-wing of this country that has gone completely, 100%, murderously crazy.
Needless to say, this story, which represents the culmination -- strike that...the nadir, actually -- of the Palin/Beck/O'Reilly call to arms against Mexicans, gays, abortion providers, environmentalists and, of course, liberals, goes largely unreported in the mainstream media, where tortuous reaches for false equivalence compel reporters to speculate whether Jared Loughner may have been a "leftist radical" and David Gregory spends 5 minutes browbeating the president of the AFL-CIO into denouncing the "hateful posters" of the demonstrators in Madison, Wisconsin, when the real story there is that the protesters who spent the night inside the Capitol rotunda got on their hands and knees each morning to scrub the floors and clean the building.
The sad truth remains, it's the right-wing of this country that has gone completely, 100%, murderously crazy.
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