Originally Posted by filtherton

I think that the focus on the sheriff here is telling. Who cares what the sheriff said? He's not prosecuting the case. Furthermore, while he did mention Limbaugh by name as an example of a source of vitriolic rhetoric, he didn't explicitly blame Limbaugh for the shooting. He's said multiple times that the shooter was nuts. Scrape away the partisan framing and nothing the sheriff has said is outside the realm of common sense.

The sheriff has become the focus here because he gives folks like Rush an opportunity to paint himself and his fellows as victims. Seriously. Rush Limbaugh has convinced you that he's being oppressed by this mean old sheriff.



I feel like I've read this line elsewhere. Did you know that passing someone else's ideas off as your own is called plagiarism?

Feel free to provide a basis for the idea that Fox News was circumspect about assigning blame prematurely after Ft. Hood.

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I think that it's interesting that we can all assume that this dude is crazy because his actions fit certain patterns of behavior which are associated with insanity but somehow it's totally not okay for use to assume that he's a right wing nutjob even though his actions fit certain patterns of behavior which are associated with right wing nutjobbery.

For the record, I don't care about his motivations. To me this issue here is the complete unwillingness for most folks on the right to be openly critical about the people who speak on their behalf.