What's Mallard raving about today?
Unions, Protesters, The Media.
Give mallard credit, after being chastised on this very blog for using non-citations with his asterisks, he managed to find a citation source even less believable than just telling the user to look things up for themselves: the Media Research Center.
I won't link to MRC, but suffice it to say that if you "look it up for yourself" you'll find two articles on the MRC website which are absolutely laughable in their lack of actual evidence for their claims.
In one, for example, they decry the use of "Dead Man Walker" as violent imagery, conveniently ignoring the actual meaning of the phrase Dead Man Walking.
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Showing posts with label Violent Rhetoric. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Violent Rhetoric. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Monday, March 07, 2011
Those damned signs
What's Mallard raving about today?
Protestors, Violent Rhetoric
Thanks to the power of the Internet, we can look at Mallard's claim. The Wisconsin GOP very helpfully put together a video montage of offensive signs to make much the same point.
So, there you go, some signs comparing Walker to Hitler. One sign (shown twice, presumably because it was the only one they could find) quoting the now infamous "Don't Retreat, Reload" slogan and showing a crosshairs over Governor Walker's face.
Most of the signs, of course, are amazingly tame, comparing him to Hosni Mubarak, with whom Governor Walker shares some actual parallels (such as shutting off Internet access).
One chilling sign says (in comparing Walker and Mubarak) "One Down; One to Go" and shows the terrifying specter of an airplane to take Walker away! Heaven forfend! (Seriously, this is the worst the Republicans could find?)
Now, of course, let's ask what's prominently missing from the video? And that would be anyone of the prominence of Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrich, or Sarah Palin spewing such rhetoric.
The point, Mallard, is that no credible person claimed that not one soul on the Left utilizes violent rhetoric. The fact is that it is not an inherent feature of the Democratic Party's discourse, unlike the Republican Party and their Fox Propaganda network which make use of violent and eliminationist rhetoric virtually every day of the week. And in that lies all the difference.
Shorter version: Mallard Fillmore: swing and a miss!
Protestors, Violent Rhetoric
Thanks to the power of the Internet, we can look at Mallard's claim. The Wisconsin GOP very helpfully put together a video montage of offensive signs to make much the same point.
So, there you go, some signs comparing Walker to Hitler. One sign (shown twice, presumably because it was the only one they could find) quoting the now infamous "Don't Retreat, Reload" slogan and showing a crosshairs over Governor Walker's face.
Most of the signs, of course, are amazingly tame, comparing him to Hosni Mubarak, with whom Governor Walker shares some actual parallels (such as shutting off Internet access).
One chilling sign says (in comparing Walker and Mubarak) "One Down; One to Go" and shows the terrifying specter of an airplane to take Walker away! Heaven forfend! (Seriously, this is the worst the Republicans could find?)
Now, of course, let's ask what's prominently missing from the video? And that would be anyone of the prominence of Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrich, or Sarah Palin spewing such rhetoric.
The point, Mallard, is that no credible person claimed that not one soul on the Left utilizes violent rhetoric. The fact is that it is not an inherent feature of the Democratic Party's discourse, unlike the Republican Party and their Fox Propaganda network which make use of violent and eliminationist rhetoric virtually every day of the week. And in that lies all the difference.
Shorter version: Mallard Fillmore: swing and a miss!
Monday, February 07, 2011
Those damned Crosshairs
What's Mallard raving about today?
CNN, Crosshairs.
The point has been well-made in the comments that violent metaphors and gun references are immaterial. What's material is portraying people with different opinions as enemies, sub-human, and worthy of elimination.
Of course, Mallard and other Right Wing water-carriers know this. But, like with Death Panels, they cling to the Big Lie because it is all they have.
On another note, actual people died from actual gunshot wounds. Stay classy, Mallard.
CNN, Crosshairs.
The point has been well-made in the comments that violent metaphors and gun references are immaterial. What's material is portraying people with different opinions as enemies, sub-human, and worthy of elimination.
Of course, Mallard and other Right Wing water-carriers know this. But, like with Death Panels, they cling to the Big Lie because it is all they have.
On another note, actual people died from actual gunshot wounds. Stay classy, Mallard.
Saturday, February 05, 2011
That damned Rhetoric
What's Mallard raving about today?
Moby Dick, Incendiary Rhetoric.
Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Moby Dick! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
People died.
Moby Dick, Incendiary Rhetoric.
Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Moby Dick! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
People died.
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