“There Will be Blood” is a very good, if disturbing movie. It is also the apparent rallying cry to action by Erick Erickson of RedState who, in his spare time is a political commentator at CNN. And what does he think is worth shedding blood over in the US of A version 2.1 Century? I’ll let him tell you in his own words (courtesy Media Matters):
Here at RedState, we too have drawn a line. We will not endorse any candidate who will not reject the judicial usurpation of Roe v. Wade and affirm that the unborn are no less entitled to a right to live simply because of their size or their physical location. Those who wish to write on the front page of RedState must make the same pledge. The reason for this is simple: once before, our nation was forced to repudiate the Supreme Court with mass bloodshed. We remain steadfast in our belief that this will not be necessary again, but only if those committed to justice do not waiver or compromise, and send a clear and unmistakable signal to their elected officials of what must be necessary to earn our support.
Yes, folks, you read that correctly. If Roe v. Wade is not overturned well, let’s just say all options on Mr. Erickson’s table. Not that this is violent, overheated rhetoric meant to incite lunatics to take the law into their own hands. Of course not. As we well know, liberals are the people who are actually guilty of inciting people to kill (or threaten to kill) their fellow Americans. Just ask Sarah Palin.
Why I can’t tell you how many Conservatives and Republicans have been killed because as a result of the violent, inflammatory rhetoric employed by liberal media such as the folks at MsNBC. No really, I can’t tell you because I haven’t been able to find a single incident of a Conservative or Republican political figure who has been shot in the head (or elsewhere) where the shooter claimed he or she was influenced by something Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow or even Chris Matthews said on air, much less what someone said at some liberal blog, big or small.
Gosh, I wonder why that is? Maybe because Fox News “personalities” like Glenn Beck and Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity, and conservative talk show hosts and pundits (Ann Coulter, anyone), and even a few Republican politicos such as say, Sarah Palin, Sharron Angle and Michelle Bachmann to name a few, have cornered the market on that kind of speech, hmmm?
Just ask Jim Adkisson or Byron Williams. As for people who received death threats because of some conservative, just ask Frances Fox Piven or this lady who had the audacity to file a request for Sarah Palin’s official emails while she was Governor of Alaska:
On December 29, the Anchorage Daily News posted an article reporting that four journalists and Andree McLeod, a local citizen activist, were still waiting for the state to release Palin’s emails in response to requests that they had filed two years earlier. (I am one of those journalists.) The Anchorage Daily News noted that the governor’s office had recently asked for and obtained from the state attorney general the 14th delay in processing the request, and it highlighted McLeod’s role in the request. […]
Two days later, an anonymous person posted a death threat targeting McLeod in the “Rants & Raves” section of the Anchorage Craigslist. The posting, which echoed an email sent to the Anchorage Daily News, read in full:
I find it very offensive that Andre Mclead [sic] is asking the state for every e-mail written or received in ANY account maintained by Palin and her husband. Where does this bitch get off thinking the public should shell out for her revenge for the Palin family. I’ve heard enough from this, and I would like to use stronger words to express my feeling for Andre. Well…I think Andre has used up to [sic] much oxygen. So I have my scope cross hair on her head! She better watch out, the request may have been her last!
I know you won’t publish this. ADN relish in bashing the Palin’s too!
Let’s clean up the political garbage.
After gathering emails that this woman—or someone using that email account—had exchanged with a reporter at the Anchorage Daily News, Couturier forwarded all the “pertinent information” to assistant attorney general Marika Athens, according to the police report. Athens, the report notes, “responded that there was nothing [Anchorage Police Department] could do at this point unless [the Anchorage woman], or whoever sent the email, took some act of furtherance toward Ms. McLeod.” Athens, according to the report, told the police that “law enforcement contacting this person might even spiral the situation up rather than make things better.” Athens suggested that the police inform McLeod that she had the option of applying for “a restraining order if she was in fear of [the Anchorage woman].”
The police suspended the case.
You know, those Anchorage police were right to have suspended the case against the woman who allegedly threatened Andree McLeod. Andree McLeod is no Sarah Palin after all. On her Facebook page, she didn’t put cross hairs symbolic of a sniper’s rifle over Gabrielle Giffords’ Congressional District, like Sarah did. Nor did she brag about how successful her “targeting” of Democrats in Congress had been. No, Andree McLeod did something far worse. She questioned Sarah Palin’s honesty and integrity:
McLeod has accused the administrations of Palin and her former lieutenant governor and now successor, Sean Parnell, of abuse of power “with these delay tactics.”
“Who does Sean Parnell protect and defend by keeping these official e-mail documents secret?” McLeod wrote to Sullivan, objecting to the proposed 14th delay. “Who does he serve? Ex-governor Sarah Palin, or the people of Alaska?”
In other words, while Sarah Palin is the real victim of media lies and distortions in the wake of the Tucson Massacre, Andree McLeod is something far worse: a liberal activist. In short, she deserved to receive death threats from an upstanding God-fearing defender of St. Sarah.
This 50-something Anchorage woman does maintain a MySpace page. On the site, she lists her interests as camping, hunting, and praising the Lord. The page is full of references to Jesus. One graphic on the page cites Jesus as her “anti-drug.” She mentions that she has two children with military experience.
In any case, Red Strike Force Commander in Chief, Erick Erickson, you keep keep staying classy. Because I’m sure your Civil War allusion and talk of mass bloodshed if elected officials don’t do what you want them to do on the abortion issue was just a “metaphor” right? I’m sure that you couldn’t possibly have intended anyone to take your use of violent rhetoric literally. Just like Sarah and Glenn.