No, it ain’t

AIN’T IT FUNNY…how liberals are always so quick to denounce the idea that things like violent or otherwise degrading films, TV shows, video games, and rap music have any cultural influence at all*, and the very idea that they might is so preposterous that to even give it a moment’s consideration is to mark yourself as an unserious person…

BUT an obscure map posted on a pro-Palin website (a near-carbon copy of one used years ago by the DLC), Tea Party protests against big government, and commentary by Limbaugh, Beck, and others created a call to violence that Loughner — who had hated Giffords since at least ’07, well before the Tea Party movement existed, and when nobody outside of Alaska even knew who Palin was — was incapable of resisting?

AIN’T IT FUNNY…that jumping to conclusions regarding the literally thousands of Muslim terrorist attacks against the infidel is unthinkable, because it might lead to a climate of hate and repression…

BUT…jumping to conclusions that fit The Narrative that those awful Teabaggers are loathsome, violent racists — and that this particular lunatic was influenced by people he shows no sign of having the slightest interest in — and smearing people who demonstrably were not even remotely involved is responsible, reasonable discourse.

AIN’T IT FUNNY…that liberal-media hacks routinely wax apoplectic over things like this:

I wonder how Republicans and their media posse would like it if Democrats started referring to ‘genocidal’ deregulation or the ‘murderous’ repeal of health-care reform. Or if Republican economic policies were likened to the infamous neutron bomb – they kill the workers but leave their jobs intact.

Unfair? No doubt. But no more so than portraying as ‘job-killing’ every regulation, every tax and every dollar of government spending.

BUT…never have anything at all to say — beyond cheering on their heroes as “passionate” or “feisty,” of course — about something as vile as this:

Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) warned Americans that “Republicans want you to die quickly” during an after-hours House floor speech Tuesday night.

AIN’T IT FUNNY…that one of those most directly affected by the murderer — the father of poor little Christina Green — would seem to have more reason than most to call for the kind of restrictions on personal liberty and freedom of speech that liberal-fascists are so despicably using this tragedy to demand…

BUT…this is what he says instead, demonstrating a grace, courage, strength of character, and solid perspective forever alien to the ghouls of the Left:

“In a free society,” he said, “we’re going to be subject to people like this. I prefer this to the alternative.”

AIN’T IT FUNNY…that liberals never miss an opportunity — and, as we’ve lately seen, aren’t above manufacturing one when it doesn’t exist — to piously declaim that America is a uniquely sick, violent, and bloodthirsty nation…

BUT…the reality, a far cry from the diseased perception of the “reality”-based community, is this:

I would like to draw your attention to the sound of a dog not barking: Following the slaughter in Tucson, consider what did not happen: no further violence, no retaliation against Loughner’s family or friends. Indeed, the only sentiments I have heard expressed about Loughner’s family have been those of concern and sympathy. The killer was not torn to pieces at the scene. He will receive a trial, with gold-plated legal representation, and, almost certainly, first-rate psychiatric care.

This in a nation suffering under a climate of simmering, barely controlled violence? Where are the riots?

It is a situation of a different magnitude, but I am reminded of what did not happen in the wake of 9/11. I am reminded of what did not happen in the wake of the Ft. Hood shooting and what did not happen after Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad’s attack on the Army recruiting center in Little Rock.

May I point out: This is not normal, if by normal you mean consistent with the experiences of the greater part of mankind over history. When Indira Gandhi was assassinated — not eons ago, but in 1984, and not in some savage corner of the world, but in civilized, pacifistic India — thousands of Sikhs were lynched in retaliation, a pogrom of unbelievable horror. The French have seen more political violence this month while debating rent control than we will see after an assassination attempt. Consider Theodore Dalrymple’s take on Algeria and Tunisia, and their recent unrest, and what  it bodes for the future of Europe.

I expect I’ll find plenty more to add to this post throughout the day.

*Looks like I spoke too soon; there really is no speech at all the Left is unwilling to censor when they’re in the iron grip of one of their more perfervid momentary dementias, I guess.

Update 1: AIN’T IT FUNNY…that “eliminationist rhetoric” must be stopped, even if it means curtailing speech rights guaranteed by the Constitution…

BUT…you’ll never, ever hear so much as a whisper of condemnation from liberal-fascists for deranged, revolting calls to violence and murder like this one: