Domestic Terrorism

[omorka]

It's astonishing how many places are going for the mistaken "nuance" on the Tiller assassaination. Amy Sullivan's post on Swampland, for instance, finally comes down in the right place, but if she's trying to take the other quoted individuals to task, she's certainly not clear about it. It comes across as, at best, the usual mainstream press he-said-she-said, as if there were any honest difference of opinion on a domestic terrorist assassaination possible.

Oddly enough, it's the self-identified-conservative, Catholic, gay (and thus not particularly interested in female reproductive rights on multiple levels) Andrew Sullivan who comes out and says "Christianist terrorism" without flinching. I find his insistence that Bill O'Reilly is more connected than any one of a number of different right-wing pundits somewhat odd, but I'm so relieved that he calls a spade a spade right out in front of his god and everyone that I'll let him have that peculiar focus.

Comments

[altamira16.livejournal.com]

Has reality quit existing for so many people? I find it all very strange. There was some troll commenting on Balloon Juice trying to engage people while calling abortion murder and all that? Are these people not familiar with the notion of any of the arguments involving two lives taking up the same set of resources? For people who care about an issue, they don't seem very well studied on the topic.

The Falafel's Fault

[lord-of-entropy.livejournal.com]

I believe his argument would probably run along similar lines to the following:

http://gawker.com/5273612/bill-oreillys-holy-war-against-george-tiller