Tuesday, April 27, 2010

The "Violence Card" Turns Up in the Left's Deck of Desperation

Rush Limbaugh wrote an editorial for the Wall Street Journal last week that really tells it like it is. 

You may remember back during the time of the Oklahoma City bombing when then-President Bill Clinton blamed talk radio (Rush) for inciting the violence of that day.  Blaming the right was easy for President Clinton and helped to demonize conservatives for the "hate-mongers" that liberals want to portray them as.  Turns out that the bomber, Timothy McVeigh, was actually motivated by President Clinton's siege on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, but don't let the truth get in the way of Clinton's attack on the Right. 

If you were paying attention to the news last week (which I'm sure you were), you know former-Presendent Clinton is back at it, blaming the tea party rallys along with the conservative media for fueling the unrest in America that is happening now.  In other words, Clinton is playing the "violence card".

In his article, Rush claims that, "...The Obama/Clinton/media left are comfortable with the unrest in our society today".  I definitely think he's right about this.  The "unrest" gives the Left fuel to use against their opponents.  Let's hope this tactic of using the "violence card" backfires on them.  There has been no violence from the Tea Party protesters that would prove the Left correct in their assertions.  Let's keep it that way.  The Left may continue to play the "violence card" and try to persuade people that we are the "bad guys" with their constant assault and lies, but in the end, we'll play the "trump card"...the TRUTH.

It's a terrific article and one I think you will enjoy.


Former President Bill Clinton broadened his warning that Tea Party protesters could fuel violence reminiscent of the Oklahoma City bombing. Video courtesy of Fox News

Liberals and the Violence Card

Conservative protest is motivated by a love of what America stands for.
By RUSH LIMBAUGH

The latest liberal meme is to equate skepticism of the Obama administration with a tendency toward violence. That takes me back 15 years ago to the time President Bill Clinton accused "loud and angry voices" on the airwaves (i.e., radio talk-show hosts like me) of having incited Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. What self-serving nonsense. Liberals are perfectly comfortable with antigovernment protest when they're not in power.

From the halls of the Ivy League to the halls of Congress, from the antiwar protests during the Vietnam War and the war in Iraq to the anticapitalist protests during International Monetary Fund and World Bank meetings, we're used to seeing leftist malcontents take to the streets. Sometimes they're violent, breaking shop windows with bricks and throwing rocks at police. Sometimes there are arrests. Not all leftists are violent, of course. But most are angry. It's in their DNA. They view the culture as corrupt and capitalism as unjust.

Now the liberals run the government and they're using their power to implement their radical agenda. Mr. Obama and his party believe that the election of November 2008 entitled them to make permanent, "transformational" changes to our society. In just 16 months they've added more than $2 trillion to the national debt, essentially nationalized the health-care system, the student-loan industry, and have their sights set on draconian cap-and-trade regulations on carbon emissions and amnesty for illegal aliens.

Had President Obama campaigned on this agenda, he wouldn't have garnered 30% of the popular vote.

Like the millions of citizens who've peacefully risen up and attended thousands of rallies in protest, I seek nothing more than the preservation of the social contract that undergirds our society. I do not hate the government, as the left does when it is not running it. I love this country. And because I do, I insist that the temporary inhabitants of high political office comply with the Constitution, honor our God-given unalienable rights, and respect our hard-earned private property. For this I am called seditious, among other things, by some of the very people who've condemned this society?

I reject the notion that America is in a well-deserved decline, that she and her citizens are unexceptional. I do not believe America is the problem in the world. I believe America is the solution to the world's problems. I reject a foreign policy that treats our allies like our enemies and our enemies like our allies. I condemn the president traveling the world apologizing for America's great contributions to mankind. And I condemn his soft-pedaling the dangers we face from terrorism. For this I am inciting violence?

Few presidents have sunk so low as Mr. Clinton did with his accusations about Oklahoma City. Last week—on the very day I was contributing to and raising more than $3 million to fight leukemia and lymphoma on my radio program—Mr. Clinton used the 15th anniversary of that horrific day to regurgitate his claims about talk radio.

At a speech delivered last Friday at the Center for American Progress in Washington, D.C., the former president said: [T]here were a lot of people who were in the business back then of saying that the biggest threat to our liberty and the cause of our domestic economic problem was the federal government itself. And we have to realize that there were others who fueled this both because they agreed with it and because it was in their advantage to do so. . . . We didn't have blog sites back then so the instrument of carrying this forward was basically the right-wing radio talk show hosts and they understand clearly that emotion was more powerful than reason most of the time."

Timothy McVeigh was incensed by the Clinton administration's 1993 siege on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas. It's no coincidence that the bombing took place two years to the day of the Waco siege. McVeigh was not inspired by anything I said or believe and to say otherwise is outright slander. In the aftermath of the bombing, I raised millions of dollars for the children of federal employees killed in that cowardly attack through my association with the Marine Corp Law Enforcement Foundation.

Let me just say it. The Obama/Clinton/media left are comfortable with the unrest in our society today. It allows them to blame and demonize their opponents (doctors, insurance companies, Wall Street, talk radio, Fox News) in order to portray their regime as the great healer of all our ills, thus expanding their power and control over our society.

A clear majority of the American people want no part of this. They instinctively know that the Obama way is not how things get done in this country. They are motivated by love. Not hate, not sedition. They love their country and want to save it from those who do not.

Mr. Limbaugh is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host.

Via: The Wall Street Journal

4 comments:

  1. ...and I thought my opinion of Bill Clinton could absolutely go no lower.

    Boy, was I wrong.

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  2. The more the right gets accused of being violent the more peaceful I want to be. No matter how angry I am - I'll be damned if I don't get practically zen-like in the face of those accusations.

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  3. Hi Janie Lynn:
    I know what you mean. We will not give the Left any satisfaction by being violent. Anyway, the people involved in the Tea Party movement are not a violent group...not like the Lefty loons who protest, use foul language (have you seen those videos going around?) and throw bricks through windows.

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