After Urging Restraint After Fort Hood Massacre, Shameless NY Times Blames GOP for AZ
Monday’s lead editorial in the New York Times, “Bloodshed and Invective in Arizona,” unmasked the paper’s blatant hyper-partisanship and shameless willingness to use a tragedy to score political points against its conservative opponents.
It is facile and mistaken to attribute this particular madman’s act directly to Republicans or Tea Party members. But it is legitimate to hold Republicans and particularly their most virulent supporters in the media responsible for the gale of anger that has produced the vast majority of these threats, setting the nation on edge. Many on the right have exploited the arguments of division, reaping political power by demonizing immigrants, or welfare recipients, or bureaucrats. They seem to have persuaded many Americans that the government is not just misguided, but the enemy of the people.
via After Urging Restraint After Fort Hood Massacre, Shameless NY Times Blames GOP for AZ.
