{"id":694,"date":"2011-01-13T13:05:14","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T11:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.military-history.us\/?p=694"},"modified":"2013-09-04T08:54:41","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T06:54:41","slug":"the-vitriol-in-public-speech-debate-my-two-cents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/2011\/01\/the-vitriol-in-public-speech-debate-my-two-cents\/","title":{"rendered":"The “Vitriol in Public Speech” Debate-My 2\u00a2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ok, I have been reading quite a bit of news and opinion pieces about the uproar over \u201cvitriolic and threatening\u201d speech since the Tucson shootings last Saturday. \u00a0What is killing me about this supposed debate is that it is not so much a debate as it is columnists on both sides throwing barbs at each other. \u00a0It seems to me that the left is trying to play pin the blame on the conservative and conservatives are answering by saying it is not just us the liberals do it too. \u00a0<\/b>(both sides just end up appearing childish to me)<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Wouldn\u2019t it be much better for the conservatives to flat out deny what is a patently false and politically motivated accusation? \u00a0The liberals don\u2019t have a leg to stand on and the conservatives are actually just making it worse by responding because it makes them look like they take the charge seriously. \u00a0Society would be much better served by actually trying to figure out what happened and why before other politicians start throwing stones at each other?<\/p>\n

The whole thing actually highlights how poison the political atmosphere has become. \u00a0The liberals seem to be trying to score points against conservatives on the back of a tragedy. \u00a0Conservatives just seem somewhat shocked that the liberals would do such a thing and are full of righteous anger at the cynical way the tragedy is being used.<\/p>\n

Personally, I think that if it had not been this then it would be something else. \u00a0It is clear that the democrats and liberals in general don\u2019t really accept the verdict of the people we saw in November and since they obviously cannot win in a battle of ideas they are going to pick fights like this where they can use emotion instead of logic. \u00a0Liberals have been better at using emotion than conservatives for a long time anyway. \u00a0I am reminded of Bill \u201che feels my pain\u201d Clinton or Nancy Pelosi\u2019s oft repeated justification for her issue positions and votes that it was for the children.<\/p>\n

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