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Originally Posted by CaptainHaplo

However, at least in this case, the hatemongering and politicizing is coming from one side.

Bull.

From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, Domenico Montanaro, and Ali Weinberg
*** The right pushes back: Well, that didn’t take long. After we wrote yesterday that the horrific shootings in Arizona offered the possibility of ushering in a more civil and responsible tone in American politics, activists and commentators on both sides refused to back down. In fact, Monday was all about trying to define the other side as out of their minds. Sad. On the right, Rush Limbaugh accused Democrats of politicizing the tragedy. “The desperate hope that the losers in November of 2010 had was that they could revitalize their political fortunes because of this unfortunate shooting of a congresswoman in Arizona,” Limbaugh said, per Roll Call. “But the left is depraved, empty and without any political substance whatsoever.” Glenn Beck added, “They are using every opportunity to convince you that Sarah Palin is dangerous.” The Tea Party Express, meanwhile, sent a fundraising solicitation entitled, “Tea Party won’t be silenced after shooting.” And the Media Research Center’s Brent Bozell argued that the media was trying to “criminalize conservatism.”

*** So does the left: On the left, the New York Times’ Bob Herbert today writes, “The vitriol that has become an integral part of our political rhetoric, most egregiously from the right, is just one of the myriad contributing factors in a society saturated in blood.” And Paul Krugman asked yesterday, “So will the Arizona massacre make our discourse less toxic? It’s really up to G.O.P. leaders. Will they accept the reality of what’s happening to America, and take a stand against eliminationist rhetoric? Or will they try to dismiss the massacre as the mere act of a deranged individual, and go on as before?”

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