Short Take

The politicizing of the tragedy in Tucson began almost immediately with the irresponsible remarks of Pima County, Arizona, Sheriff Clarence Dupnik. He has continued to make use of his bully pulpit in the days since, but when pressed in an interview he had to admit there was not yet evidence to support a political motive for the shooting.

For anybody to stand over the bodies of the dead and wage political war is reprehensible. This is not the time. They are adding to the rhetoric they claim to want to diminish, and their personal attacks against conservatives have led to predictable and justified responses from the right only adding fuel to the fire. Adding to my own frustration is the hypocrisy of the argument. All sides are guilt of incendiary rhetoric, but have the liberals forgotten the Bush years when comments in support of killing President Bush were considered in vogue? Much fuss has been made about Palin’s map with crosshairs over the congressional incumbents’ she targeted, but has anybody heard the The Daily Kos had a similar map that has been conveniently scrubbed from their site? If Palin’s map was a clear call to violence than what would one call this image of Palin that has been since removed from Getty Images?

Or Sandra Bernhard’s warning that if Palin came to New York she would be “gang raped by my big black brothers”?

The list of violent insinuations and threats from the left is long, and more vulgar than anything the right has come up with. Was it not President Obama who recently urged Latino’s to punish their enemies? The press would never allow this language from a conservative. The left, with Sheriff Dupnik leading the charge, was the first to politicize this tragedy, but I would suggest they keep quiet and look at their own tactics before pointing fingers.

The above image was taken from Michelle Malkin’s website http://michellemalkin.com/ I would recommend everybody visit this site and read her column “The progressive “climate of hate:” An illustrated primer, 2000-2010”