Monday, January 17, 2011

I'm blaming Milbank, so there.

Dana Milbank And The Continued Crusade
To Falsely Link Beck And Palin To Violence

Kurtz: “It’s fair to hold a talk show host responsible for what some violent or perhaps unbalanced person does because they like what this person says on the airwaves?”

Milbank: “Yes Howie in the aggregate . . . [they] need to worry about that fraction of 1% who just might be driven over the edge.
Must Find Milbank ... Must Find ...
Milbank's Fault.  Drives.  Me.  Nuts.

Milbank offers the final justification for his assertion by saying “in Glenn Back’s case, I’ve documented a few cases in which it’s led a crazy person to snap.” Therefore Milbank believes even though rhetoric of the right might not be responsible in this case, attacking Beck and Palin now is a legitimate form of “rough justice” for their past sins. Milbank’s argument follows the tortured logic of Media Matters founder David Brock who claimed Beck was responsible for three thwarted assassination attempts either because a psychopath claimed Beck as an influence or some tangential evidence existed to suggest an unstable lunatic may have watched Beck at some point in their life. [Full article and video]

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Nice phrase, "in the aggregate".

Responsibility is taken in the aggregate the same way science is done by consensus.

So they attempt to hand others the "responsibility" for something in a way that deprives them of the means to do anything about it. Nice tactic.
[something they could not possibly have had anything to do with nor could not possibly have changed or 'fixed' - but that's not important, now]

e~C

Murphy(AZ) Barn Army Hanger-on said...

Lemmee see if I get this straight... if I finally reach the point where I go nuclear and start "offing" MFCSSOB leftist-socialists of un-named political affiliation (Nudge! Nudge! Wink! Wink!,) I could get scott-clean off just by saying that I used to watch Glen Beck?

Would I have to pay him a user fee or royalties or something?

TimO said...

Sounds like a good reason to shut down MSNBC first. Every time I go past that channel they are spitting and fuming with more hate and vitriol than FoxNews...

Anonymous said...

So if I go nuts can I blame the leftards?


thoR~
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